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Prior work inspired by compression algorithms has described how the Burrows Wheeler Transform can be used to create a distance measure for bioinformatics problems. We describe issues with this approach that were not widely known, and…

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One of the major problems in natural language processing (NLP) is the word sense disambiguation (WSD) problem. It is the task of computationally identifying the right sense of a polysemous word based on its context. Resolving the WSD…

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In this paper, we consider the following query problem: given two weighted point sets $A$ and $B$ in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, we want to quickly determine that whether their earth mover's distance (EMD) is larger or smaller than…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Hu Ding , Tan Chen , Fan Yang , Mingyue Wang

A novel neural architecture was recently developed that enforces an exact upper bound on the Lipschitz constant of the model by constraining the norm of its weights in a minimal way, resulting in higher expressiveness compared to other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-03 Ouail Kitouni , Niklas Nolte , Mike Williams

We present a method to calculate the similarity between words based on their phonetic transcription (their pronunciation) using the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm. We implement this algorithm in Rust and parallelize it on both CPU and GPU to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Dominic Plein

Understanding the meaning of words is crucial for many tasks that involve human-machine interaction. This has been tackled by research in Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field. Recently, WSD and many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-26 María G. Buey , Carlos Bobed , Jorge Gracia , Eduardo Mena

Given a metric space $(X,d_X)$, the earth mover distance between two distributions over $X$ is defined as the minimum cost of a bipartite matching between the two distributions. The doubling dimension of a metric $(X, d_X)$ is the smallest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-23 Shi Li

In this work, we propose a novel and efficient minimum word error rate (MWER) training method for RNN-Transducer (RNN-T). Unlike previous work on this topic, which performs on-the-fly limited-size beam-search decoding and generates…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Jinxi Guo , Gautam Tiwari , Jasha Droppo , Maarten Van Segbroeck , Che-Wei Huang , Andreas Stolcke , Roland Maas

Tree-of-Thought (ToT) reasoning boosts the problem-solving abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) but is computationally expensive due to semantic redundancy, where distinct branches explore equivalent reasoning paths. We introduce…

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The distance of a stabilizer quantum code is a very important feature since it determines the number of errors that can be detected and corrected. We present three new fast algorithms and implementations for computing the symplectic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Fernando Hernando , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí , Markus Grassl

Embedding models are a cornerstone of modern AI. Driven by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), they have made great progress in architecture and data curation, while the holistic paradigm is still limited to SSC, i.e., single input,…

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Various mobile devices have been used to collect, store and transmit tremendous trajectory data, and it is known that raw trajectory data seriously wastes the storage, network band and computing resource. To attack this issue, one-pass line…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Xuelian Lin , Jiahao Jiang , Shuai Ma , Yimeng Zuo , Chunming Hu

Distance metric learning (DML) is an important task that has found applications in many domains. The high computational cost of DML arises from the large number of variables to be determined and the constraint that a distance metric has to…

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Molecular Dynamics (MD) codes predict the fundamental properties of matter by following the trajectories of a collection of interacting model particles. To exploit diverse modern manycore hardware, efficient codes must use all available…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 William R. Saunders , James Grant , Eike H. Müller

The auto-regressive decoding of Large Language Models (LLMs) results in significant overheads in their hardware performance. While recent research has investigated various speculative decoding techniques for multi-token generation, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hao Mark Chen , Wayne Luk , Ka Fai Cedric Yiu , Rui Li , Konstantin Mishchenko , Stylianos I. Venieris , Hongxiang Fan

In this paper we derive sufficient conditions for the convergence of two popular alternating minimisation algorithms for dictionary learning - the Method of Optimal Directions (MOD) and Online Dictionary Learning (ODL), which can also be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Simon Ruetz , Karin Schnass

In a way similar to the string-to-string correction problem we address time series similarity in the light of a time-series-to-time-series-correction problem for which the similarity between two time series is measured as the minimum cost…

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In natural language processing, word-sense disambiguation (WSD) is an open problem concerned with identifying the correct sense of words in a particular context. To address this problem, we introduce a novel knowledge-based WSD system. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Sunjae Kwon , Dongsuk Oh , Youngjoong Ko

Prevailing LLM serving engines employ expert parallelism (EP) to implement multi-device inference of massive MoE models. However, the efficiency of expert parallel inference is largely bounded by inter-device communication, as EP embraces…

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