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We present MLRG Deep Curvature suite, a PyTorch-based, open-source package for analysis and visualisation of neural network curvature and loss landscape. Despite of providing rich information into properties of neural network and useful for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-26 Diego Granziol , Xingchen Wan , Timur Garipov

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing, but their reliable deployment requires effective uncertainty quantification (UQ). Existing UQ methods are often heuristic and lack a probabilistic interpretation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Haoyi Song , Ruihan Ji , Naichen Shi , Fan Lai , Raed Al Kontar

We propose a framework for modeling uncertainty where both belief and doubt can be given independent, first-class status. We adopt probability theory as the mathematical formalism for manipulating uncertainty. An agent can express the…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Fereidoon Sadri

The lack of transparency of Deep Neural Networks continues to be a limitation that severely undermines their reliability and usage in high-stakes applications. Promising approaches to overcome such limitations are Prototype-Based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Jon Vadillo , Roberto Santana , Jose A. Lozano , Marta Kwiatkowska

From FORTRAN to NumPy, tensors have revolutionized how we express computation. However, tensors in these, and almost all prominent systems, can only handle dense rectilinear integer grids. Real world tensors often contain underlying…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Willow Ahrens , Teodoro Fields Collin , Radha Patel , Kyle Deeds , Changwan Hong , Saman Amarasinghe

This paper describes AllenNLP, a platform for research on deep learning methods in natural language understanding. AllenNLP is designed to support researchers who want to build novel language understanding models quickly and easily. It is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Matt Gardner , Joel Grus , Mark Neumann , Oyvind Tafjord , Pradeep Dasigi , Nelson Liu , Matthew Peters , Michael Schmitz , Luke Zettlemoyer

Low-precision training reduces computational cost and produces efficient models. Recent research in developing new low-precision training algorithms often relies on simulation to empirically evaluate the statistical effects of quantization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Tianyi Zhang , Zhiqiu Lin , Guandao Yang , Christopher De Sa

In recent years, there has been extensive research on how to extend general-purpose programming language semantics with domain-specific modeling constructs. Two areas of particular interest are (i) universal probabilistic programming where…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Oscar Eriksson , Anders Ågren Thuné , Johannes Borgström , David Broman

When we work with information from multiple sources, the formalism each employs to handle uncertainty may not be uniform. In order to be able to combine these knowledge bases of different formats, we need to first establish a common basis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Choh Man Teng

This paper presents a deep learning based model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for systems with unmatched and bounded state-action dependent uncertainties of unknown structure. We utilize a deep neural network (DNN) as an oracle in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Mateus V. Gasparino , Prabhat K. Mishra , Girish Chowdhary

Universal probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) make it relatively easy to encode and automatically solve statistical inference problems. To solve inference problems, PPL implementations often apply Monte Carlo inference algorithms…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Daniel Lundén , Lars Hummelgren , Jan Kudlicka , Oscar Eriksson , David Broman

Motivated by algorithmic information theory, the problem of program discovery can help find candidates of underlying generative mechanisms of natural and artificial phenomena. The uncomputability of such inverse problem, however,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-29 Vladimir Lemusa , Eduardo Acuña , Víctor Zamora , Francisco Hernandez-Quiroz , Hector Zenil

Visual abstract reasoning problems pose significant challenges to the perception and cognition abilities of artificial intelligence algorithms, demanding deeper pattern recognition and inductive reasoning beyond mere identification of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ruizhuo Song , Beiming Yuan

We give an adequate denotational semantics for languages with recursive higher-order types, continuous probability distributions, and soft constraints. These are expressive languages for building Bayesian models of the kinds used in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Matthijs Vákár , Ohad Kammar , Sam Staton

Probabilistic programming languages are valuable because they allow domain experts to express probabilistic models and inference algorithms without worrying about irrelevant details. However, for decades there remained an important and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Rajan Walia , Praveen Narayanan , Jacques Carette , Sam Tobin-Hochstadt , Chung-chieh Shan

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have become fundamental to a broad spectrum of artificial intelligence applications. As the use of LLMs expands, precisely estimating the uncertainty in their predictions has become crucial.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Mohammad Beigi , Sijia Wang , Ying Shen , Zihao Lin , Adithya Kulkarni , Jianfeng He , Feng Chen , Ming Jin , Jin-Hee Cho , Dawei Zhou , Chang-Tien Lu , Lifu Huang

Statistical models of real world data typically involve continuous probability distributions such as normal, Laplace, or exponential distributions. Such distributions are supported by many probabilistic modelling formalisms, including…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Martin Grohe , Benjamin Lucien Kaminski , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Peter Lindner

In spite of showing unreasonable effectiveness in modalities like Text and Image, Deep Learning has always lagged Gradient Boosting in tabular data - both in popularity and performance. But recently there have been newer models created…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Manu Joseph

Building robust, interpretable, and secure AI system requires quantifying and representing uncertainty under a probabilistic perspective to mimic human cognitive abilities. However, probabilistic computation presents significant challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Hengyuan Ma , Yang Qi , Li Zhang , Wenlian Lu , Jianfeng Feng

Large language models (LLMs) are a promising venue for natural language understanding and generation tasks. However, current LLMs are far from reliable: they are prone to generate non-factual information and, more crucially, to contradict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Diego Calanzone , Stefano Teso , Antonio Vergari