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Data pruning, selecting small but impactful subsets, offers a promising way to efficiently scale NLP model training. However, existing methods often involve many different design choices, which have not been systematically studied. This…
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We study the computational complexity of two hard problems on determinantal point processes (DPPs). One is maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference, i.e., to find a principal submatrix having the maximum determinant. The other is probabilistic…
We give a simple algebraic derivation of a useful determinantal identity for multilevel systems such as random matrix chains and finite determinantal point processes, with applications to the calculation of point correlators, gap…
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