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For a given base class of sequence-to-next-token generators, we consider learning prompt-to-answer mappings obtained by iterating a fixed, time-invariant generator for multiple steps, thus generating a chain-of-thought, and then taking the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-12 Nirmit Joshi , Gal Vardi , Adam Block , Surbhi Goel , Zhiyuan Li , Theodor Misiakiewicz , Nathan Srebro

We give a general framework for approximations to combinatorial assemblies, especially suitable to the situation where the number $k$ of components is specified, in addition to the overall size $n$. This involves a Poisson process, which,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Richard Arratia , Stephen DeSalvo

In nonadaptive group testing, the main research objective is to design an efficient algorithm to identify a set of up to $t$ positive elements among $n$ samples with as few tests as possible. Disjunct matrices and separable matrices are two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Bingchen Qian , Xin Wang , Gennian Ge

Consider a class of decomposable combinatorial structures, using different types of atoms $\Atoms = \{\At_1,\ldots ,\At_{|{\Atoms}|}\}$. We address the random generation of such structures with respect to a size $n$ and a targeted…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-12-01 Alain Denise , Yann Ponty , Michel Termier

The present work analyzes the redundancy of sets of combinatorial objects produced by a weighted random generation algorithm proposed by Denise et al. This scheme associates weights to the terminals symbols of a weighted context-free…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-07 Danièle Gardy , Yann Ponty

Given a non-empty genus in $n$ dimensions with determinant $d$, we give a randomized algorithm that outputs a quadratic form from this genus. The time complexity of the algorithm is poly$(n,\log d)$; assuming Generalized Riemann Hypothesis…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-27 Chandan Dubey , Thomas Holenstein

This paper proposes a nonparametric Bayesian method for exploratory data analysis and feature construction in continuous time series. Our method focuses on understanding shared features in a set of time series that exhibit significant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-08-13 Suchi Saria , Daphne Koller , Anna Penn

We introduce an expander-sketching framework for list-decodable linear regression that achieves sample complexity $\tilde{O}((d+\log(1/\delta))/\alpha)$, list size $O(1/\alpha)$, and near input-sparsity running time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Herbod Pourali , Sajjad Hashemian , Ebrahim Ardeshir-Larijani

Generative semantic hashing is a promising technique for large-scale information retrieval thanks to its fast retrieval speed and small memory footprint. For the tractability of training, existing generative-hashing methods mostly assume a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Lin Zheng , Qinliang Su , Dinghan Shen , Changyou Chen

Fitting generative models to sequential data typically involves two recursive computations through time, one forward and one backward. The latter could be a computation of the loss gradient (as in backpropagation through time), or an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Azwar Abdulsalam , Joseph G. Makin

In this paper, we give a general framework for the Boltzmann generation of colored objects belonging to combinatorial constructible classes. We propose an intuitive notion called profiled objects which allows the sampling of size-colored…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-11-17 Olivier Bodini , Alice Jacquot

Predicative analysis of recursion schema is a method to characterize complexity classes like the class FPTIME of polynomial time computable functions. This analysis comes from the works of Bellantoni and Cook, and Leivant by data tiering.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Jean-Yves Marion

This work studies the average complexity of solving structured polynomial systems that are characterized by a low evaluation cost, as opposed to the dense random model previously used. Firstly, we design a continuation algorithm that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Peter Bürgisser , Felipe Cucker , Pierre Lairez

Boltzmann sampling is commonly used to uniformly sample objects of a particular size from large combinatorial sets. For this technique to be effective, one needs to prove that (1) the sampling procedure is efficient and (2) objects of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Megan Bernstein , Matthew Fahrbach , Dana Randall

This article presents a validation of a recently proposed strongly polynomial-time algorithm for the general linear programming problem. The proposed algorithm is an implicit reduction procedure that combines primal and dual linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Samuel Awoniyi

We provide guarantees for learning latent variable models emphasizing on the overcomplete regime, where the dimensionality of the latent space can exceed the observed dimensionality. In particular, we consider multiview mixtures, spherical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Animashree Anandkumar , Rong Ge , Majid Janzamin

In this paper, we consider ordered set partitions obtained by imposing conditions on the size of the lists, and such that the first $r$ elements are in distinct blocks, respectively. We introduce a generalization of the Lah numbers. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Beáta Bényi , Miguel Méndez , José L. Ramirez

Randomized iterative algorithms have attracted much attention in recent years because they can approximately solve large-scale linear systems of equations without accessing the entire coefficient matrix. In this paper, we propose two novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Kui Du , Xiao-Hui Sun

We address the non-redundant random generation of $k$ words of length $n$ in a context-free language. Additionally, we want to avoid a predefined set of words. We study a rejection-based approach, whose worst-case time complexity is shown…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-05 Andy Lorenz , Yann Ponty

Many random combinatorial objects have a component structure whose joint distribution is equal to that of a process of mutually independent random variables, conditioned on the value of a weighted sum of the variables. It is interesting to…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-16 Richard Arratia , Simon Tavare