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A large number of heuristics have been proposed to optimize the reinforcement fine-tuning of LLMs. However, inconsistent claims are made from time to time, making this area elusive. Reflecting on this situation, two fundamental questions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Xiao Hu , Hong Xie , Tao Tan , Defu Lian , Jianyu Han

We describe a prototype theorem prover, UTP2, developed to match the style of hand-written proof work in the Unifying Theories of Programming semantical framework. This is based on alphabetised predicates in a 2nd-order logic, with a strong…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Andrew Butterfield

Preference optimization methods such as DPO and KTO are widely used for aligning language models, yet little is understood about what properties of preference data drive downstream reasoning gains. We ask: what aspects of a preference pair…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Chia-Hsuan Lee , Mingyang Zhou , Renkun Ni , Zelei Cheng , Sihui Dai , Supriyo Chakraborty , Shixiong Zhang , Sambit Sahu , William Campbell

We study the theoretical aspects of Reinforced Language Models (RLMs) from a bi-objective optimization perspective. Specifically, we consider the RLMs as a Pareto optimization problem that maximizes the two conflicting objectives, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Changhun Lee , Chiehyeon Lim

Despite of the recent progress in agents that learn through interaction, there are several challenges in terms of sample efficiency and generalization across unseen behaviors during training. To mitigate these problems, we propose and apply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Luckeciano C. Melo , Marcos R. O. A. Maximo , Adilson Marques da Cunha

Interactive Theorem Provers (ITPs) are an indispensable tool in the arsenal of formal method experts as a platform for construction and (formal) verification of proofs. The complexity of the proofs in conjunction with the level of expertise…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Eric Yeh , Briland Hitaj , Sam Owre , Maena Quemener , Natarajan Shankar

Low-rank matrix recovery problems arise naturally as mathematical formulations of various inverse problems, such as matrix completion, blind deconvolution, and phase retrieval. Over the last two decades, a number of works have rigorously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Tim Fuchs , David Gross , Peter Jung , Felix Krahmer , Richard Kueng , Dominik Stöger

This paper examines efficient predictive broad-coverage parsing without dynamic programming. In contrast to bottom-up methods, depth-first top-down parsing produces partial parses that are fully connected trees spanning the entire left…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Brian Roark , Mark Johnson

We introduce a top-down approach to discourse parsing that is conceptually simpler than its predecessors (Kobayashi et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020). By framing the task as a sequence labelling problem where the goal is to iteratively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Fajri Koto , Jey Han Lau , Timothy Baldwin

Automated theorem proving has long been a key task of artificial intelligence. Proofs form the bedrock of rigorous scientific inquiry. Many tools for both partially and fully automating their derivations have been developed over the last…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Brian Groenke

We address generating theorems from a given set of axioms, without proof goal, aiming at value from a mathematical point of view or as lemmas for automated proving. As benchmark, we convert a fragment of the Metamath database set.mm. Our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Christoph Wernhard

Large language models~(LLMs) present an intriguing avenue of exploration in the domain of formal theorem proving. Nonetheless, the full utilization of these models, particularly in terms of demonstration formatting and organization, remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xueliang Zhao , Wenda Li , Lingpeng Kong

The problem of large-scale simultaneous hypothesis testing is re-visited. Bagging and subagging procedures are put forth with the purpose of improving the discovery power of the tests. The procedures are implemented in both simulated and…

Methodology · Statistics 2007-05-23 Dimitris N. Politis

This paper describes a probabilistic top-down parser for minimalist grammars. Top-down parsers have the great advantage of having a certain predictive power during the parsing, which takes place in a left-to-right reading of the sentence.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-10-12 Thomas Mainguy

Both transduction and rejection have emerged as important techniques for defending against adversarial perturbations. A recent work by Goldwasser et al. showed that rejection combined with transduction can give provable guarantees (for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Nils Palumbo , Yang Guo , Xi Wu , Jiefeng Chen , Yingyu Liang , Somesh Jha

Recent works on the parallel complexity of Boosting have established strong lower bounds on the tradeoff between the number of training rounds $p$ and the total parallel work per round $t$. These works have also presented highly non-trivial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Arthur da Cunha , Mikael Møller Høgsgaard , Kasper Green Larsen

We describe an efficient bottom-up parser that interleaves syntactic and semantic structure building. Two techniques are presented for reducing search by reducing local ambiguity: Limited left-context constraints are used to reduce local…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 John Dowding , Robert Moore , Francois Andry , Douglas Moran

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in formal theorem proving, yet state-of-the-art performance often necessitates prohibitive test-time compute via massive roll-outs or extended context windows. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Guchan Li , Rui Tian , Hongning Wang

Despite the success of large language models (LLMs), the task of theorem proving still remains one of the hardest reasoning tasks that is far from being fully solved. Prior methods using language models have demonstrated promising results,…

We introduce a proof recommender system for the HOL4 theorem prover. Our tool is built upon a transformer-based model [2] designed specifically to provide proof assistance in HOL4. The model is trained to discern theorem proving patterns…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Nour Dekhil , Adnan Rashid , Sofiene Tahar