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Let f_1,f_2,..., be functions chosen independently and uniformly from the set of all functions from a set of cardinality n into itself. Let g_t be the composition of the first t functions, and let T be the smallest t for which g_t is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. M. Y. Goh , P. Hitczenko , E. Schmutz

Generative Pretrained Transformers (GPTs) are foundational Large Language Models (LLMs) for text generation. However, individual LLMs often produce inconsistent outputs and exhibit biases, limiting their representation of diverse language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Mari Ashiga , Wei Jie , Fan Wu , Vardan Voskanyan , Fateme Dinmohammadi , Paul Brookes , Jingzhi Gong , Zheng Wang

In this paper, we discuss the generation of symbols (and alphabets) based on specific user requirements (medium, priorities, type of information that needs to be conveyed). A framework for the generation of alphabets is proposed, and its…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Serhii Hamotskyi , Anis Rojbi , Sergii Stirenko , Yuri Gordienko

In order to properly test software, test data of a certain quality is needed. However, useful test data is often unavailable: Existing or hand-crafted data might not be diverse enough to enable desired test cases. Furthermore, using…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Sebastian Krings , Joshua Schmidt , Patrick Skowronek , Jannik Dunkelau , Dierk Ehmke

Java Code Generation consists in generating automatically Java code from a Natural Language Text. This NLP task helps in increasing programmers' productivity by providing them with immediate solutions to the simplest and most repetitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jessica López Espejel , Mahaman Sanoussi Yahaya Alassan , El Mehdi Chouham , Walid Dahhane , El Hassane Ettifouri

We are entering a new era in which software systems are becoming more and more complex and larger. So, the composition of such systems is becoming infeasible by manual means. To address this challenge, self-organising software models…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Damian Arellanes

We present a system for generating parsers based directly on the metaphor of parsing as deduction. Parsing algorithms can be represented directly as deduction systems, and a single deduction engine can interpret such deduction systems so as…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Stuart M. Shieber , Yves Schabes , Fernando C. N. Pereira

This work presents an analytical framework for the design and analysis of LLM-based algorithms, i.e., algorithms that contain one or multiple calls of large language models (LLMs) as sub-routines and critically rely on the capabilities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yanxi Chen , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Jingren Zhou

In recent years, data has emerged as the new gold, serving as a powerful tool for creating intelligent systems. However, procuring high-quality data remains challenging, especially for code. To address this, we developed TinyPy Generator, a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Kamel Yamani , Marwa Naïr , Riyadh Baghdadi

Computational models of human language often involve combinatorial problems. For instance, a probabilistic parser may marginalize over exponentially many trees to make predictions. Algorithms for such problems often employ dynamic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Tim Vieira , Ryan Cotterell , Jason Eisner

Creating functions is at the center of writing computer programs. But there has been little empirical research on how this is done and what are the considerations that developers use. We design an experiment in which we can compare the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Alexey Braver , Dror G. Feitelson

This paper investigates the usage of generating functions (GFs) encoding measures over the program variables for reasoning about discrete probabilistic programs. To that end, we define a denotational GF-transformer semantics for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Lutz Klinkenberg , Kevin Batz , Benjamin Lucien Kaminski , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Joshua Moerman , Tobias Winkler

Large Language Models (LLM) show strong abilities in code generation, but their skill in creating efficient parallel programs is less studied. This paper explores how LLMs generate task-based parallel code from three kinds of input prompts:…

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Languages are not created randomly but rather to communicate information. There is a strong association between languages and their underlying meanings, resulting in a sparse joint distribution that is heavily peaked according to their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Hui Jiang

Over the last few decades, researchers have made considerable efforts to make decision support more accessible for small and medium enterprises by reducing the cost of designing, developing and maintaining automated decision support…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Daniel Karapetyan

While test-time reasoning enables language models (LMs) to tackle complex tasks, searching or planning in natural language can be slow, costly, and error-prone. But even when LMs struggle to emulate the precise reasoning steps needed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Gabriel Grand , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Vikash K. Mansinghka , Alexander K. Lew , Jacob Andreas

Many of the core disciplines of artificial intelligence have sets of standard benchmark problems well known and widely used by the community when developing new algorithms. Constraint programming and automated planning are examples of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Özgür Akgün , Nguyen Dang , Joan Espasa , Ian Miguel , András Z. Salamon , Christopher Stone

In this article, we present a new algorithm for computing a generating set of a lattice ideal. This algorithm is based on a project-and-lift approach and is implemented in 4ti2. We also include a computational comparison of several existing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Raymond Hemmecke , Peter Malkin

Controlling the syntactic structure of text generated by language models is valuable for applications requiring clarity, stylistic consistency, or interpretability, yet it remains a challenging task. In this paper, we argue that sampling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Vicky Xefteri , Tim Vieira , Ryan Cotterell , Afra Amini

Instances generation is crucial for linear programming algorithms, which is necessary either to find the optimal pivot rules by training learning method or to evaluate and verify corresponding algorithms. This study proposes a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Anqi Li , Congying Han , Tiande Guo