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Measuring the in-context computational effort of language models is a key challenge, as metrics like next-token loss fail to capture reasoning complexity. Prior methods based on latent state compressibility can be invasive and unstable. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Vincent Herrmann , Eric Alcaide , Michael Wand , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Recent neural models for data-to-document generation have achieved remarkable progress in producing fluent and informative texts. However, large proportions of generated texts do not actually conform to the input data. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Feng Nie , Hailin Chen , Jinpeng Wang , Jin-Ge Yao , Chin-Yew Lin , Rong Pan

Testing has become an indispensable activity of software development, yet writing good and relevant tests remains a quite challenging task. One well-known problem is that it often is impossible or unrealistic to test for every outcome, as…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Dimitri Racordon , Didier Buchs

Developing reliable methods to discriminate different transient brain states that change over time is a key neuroscientific challenge in brain imaging studies. Topological data analysis (TDA), a novel framework based on algebraic topology,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-19 Moo K. Chung , Soumya Das , Hernando Ombao

This paper introduces advanced techniques of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) for unsupervised anomaly detection and customer segmentation in banking data. Using the Mapper algorithm and persistent homology, we develop unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Leonardo Aldo Alejandro Barberi , Linda Maria De Cave

Unsupervised domain adaptation generalizes neural retrievers to an unseen domain by generating pseudo queries on target domain documents. The quality and efficiency of this adaptation critically depend on which documents are selected for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jongyoon Kim , Minseong Hwang , Seung-won Hwang

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is an approach to handle with big data by studying its shape. A main tool of TDA is the persistence diagram, and one can use it to compare data sets. One approach to learn on the similarity between two…

Applications · Statistics 2020-03-04 Sarit Agami

In semiconductor manufacturing, wafer map defect pattern provides critical information for facility maintenance and yield management, so the classification of defect patterns is one of the most important tasks in the manufacturing process.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Seungchan Ko , Dowan Koo

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) gives practioners the ability to analyse the global structure of cybersecurity data. We use TDA for anomaly detection in host-based logs collected with the open-source Logging Made Easy (LME) project. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Thomas Davies

Diversity is an essential metric for evaluating the creativity of outputs generated by language models. Temperature-based sampling is a common strategy to increase diversity. However, for tasks that require high precision, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Sergey Troshin , Wafaa Mohammed , Yan Meng , Christof Monz , Antske Fokkens , Vlad Niculae

Methods from computational topology are becoming more and more popular in computer vision and have shown to improve the state-of-the-art in several tasks. In this paper, we investigate the applicability of topological descriptors in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Matthias Zeppelzauer , Bartosz Zielinski , Mateusz Juda , Markus Seidl

When modeling an application of practical relevance as an instance of a combinatorial problem X, we are often interested not merely in finding one optimal solution for that instance, but in finding a sufficiently diverse collection of good…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Julien Baste , Michael R. Fellows , Lars Jaffke , Tomáš Masařík , Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Geevarghese Philip , Frances A. Rosamond

In this work, we revisit the problem of uniformity testing of discrete probability distributions. A fundamental problem in distribution testing, testing uniformity over a known domain has been addressed over a significant line of works, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Tuğkan Batu , Clément L. Canonne

Model-based testing (MBT) provides an automated approach for finding discrepancies between software models and their implementation. If we want to incorporate MBT into the fast and iterative software development process that is Continuous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-02 P. H. M. van Spaendonck

Typical software has a huge input space. The number of inputs may be astronomical or even infinite. Thus, the task of validating that the software is correct seems hopeless. To deal with this difficult task, Combinatorial Test Design (CTD)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Eitan Farchi , Debbie Furman

This paper investigates Distributed Hypothesis testing (DHT), in which a source $\mathbf{X}$ is encoded given that side information $\mathbf{Y}$ is available at the decoder only. Based on the received coded data, the receiver aims to decide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Ismaila Salihou Adamou , Elsa Dupraz , Tad Matsumoto

Detecting concept drift in high-speed data streams remains challenging, particularly when models must operate on unlabeled data and avoid false alarms caused by benign shifts. While disagreement-based uncertainty has shown promise in neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Lara Sá Neves , Afonso Lourenço , Lizy K. John , Goreti Marreiros

Thompson sampling (TS) is a Bayesian randomized exploration strategy that samples options (e.g., system parameters or control laws) from the current posterior and then applies the selected option that is optimal for a task, thereby…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Kaikai Zheng , Dawei Shi , Yang Shi , Long Wang

Dense Retrieval (DR) reaches state-of-the-art results in first-stage retrieval, but little is known about the mechanisms that contribute to its success. Therefore, in this work, we conduct an interpretation study of recently proposed DR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jingtao Zhan , Jiaxin Mao , Yiqun Liu , Jiafeng Guo , Min Zhang , Shaoping Ma

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a tool from data science and mathematics that is beginning to make waves in environmental science. In this work, we seek to provide an intuitive and understandable introduction to a tool from TDA that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lander Ver Hoef , Henry Adams , Emily J. King , Imme Ebert-Uphoff