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Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM) is an extremely powerful supervised learning algorithm that is widely used in practice. GBM routinely features as a leading algorithm in machine learning competitions such as Kaggle and the KDDCup. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Haihao Lu , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Natalia Ponomareva , Vahab Mirrokni

Explainable boosting machines (EBMs) are popular "glass-box" models that learn a set of univariate functions using boosting trees. These achieve explainability through visualizations of each feature's effect. However, unlike linear model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-31 Haimo Fang , Kevin Tan , Jonathan Pipping-Gamon , Giles Hooker

Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) is one of the most used iterative algorithms for solving large sparse linear equations $Ax=b$. In AMG, the coarse grid is a key component that affects the efficiency of the algorithm, the construction of which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Haifeng Zou , Xiaowen Xu , Chen-Song Zhang , Zeyao Mo

Existing works are dedicated to untangling atomized numerical components (features) from the hidden states of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, they typically rely on autoencoders constrained by some training-time regularization on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hakaze Cho , Haolin Yang , Yanshu Li , Brian M. Kurkoski , Naoya Inoue

A general formulation of optimization problems in which various candidate solutions may use different feature-sets is presented, encompassing supervised classification, automated program learning and other cases. A novel characterization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Ben Goertzel , Nil Geisweiller , Chris Poulin

Representation learning is a fundamental aspect of modern artificial intelligence, driving substantial improvements across diverse applications. While selfsupervised contrastive learning has led to significant advancements in fields like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Suiyao Chen , Jing Wu , Yunxiao Wang , Cheng Ji , Tianpei Xie , Daniel Cociorva , Michael Sharps , Cecile Levasseur , Hakan Brunzell

Mixed-precision quantization improves the budget--accuracy trade-off for large language models (LLMs) by allocating more bits to sensitive modules. However, automating this allocation at LLM scale faces a unique combination of constraints:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhangyang Yao , Haiyan Zhao , Haoyu Wang , Tianbo Huang , Lihua Zhang , Xu Han

Goal-conditioned policies enable decision-making models to execute diverse behaviors based on specified goals, yet their downstream performance is often highly sensitive to the choice of instructions or prompts. To bypass the limitations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Guangyu Zhao , Kewei Lian , Haoxuan Ru , Borong Zhang , Haowei Lin , Zhancun Mu , Haobo Fu , Qiang Fu , Shaofei Cai , Zihao Wang , Yitao Liang

Fine-tuning pre-trained transformers is a powerful technique for enhancing the performance of base models on specific tasks. From early applications in models like BERT to fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs), this approach has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Suneel Nadipalli

Deep neural networks usually benefit from unsupervised pre-training, e.g. auto-encoders. However, the classifier further needs supervised fine-tuning methods for good discrimination. Besides, due to the limits of full-connection, the…

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Quantum-enhanced machine learning is a rapidly evolving field that aims to leverage the unique properties of quantum mechanics to enhance classical machine learning. However, the practical applicability of these methods remains an open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Diego Alvarez-Estevez

Neural natural language generation (NLG) and understanding (NLU) models are data-hungry and require massive amounts of annotated data to be competitive. Recent frameworks address this bottleneck with generative models that synthesize weak…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ernie Chang , Vera Demberg , Alex Marin

The field of imbalanced self-supervised learning, especially in the context of tabular data, has not been extensively studied. Existing research has predominantly focused on image datasets. This paper aims to fill this gap by examining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Samuel Stocksieker , Denys Pommeret , Arthur Charpentier

This work improves the quality of automated machine learning (AutoML) systems by using dataset and function descriptions while significantly decreasing computation time from minutes to milliseconds by using a zero-shot approach. Given a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Nikhil Singh , Brandon Kates , Jeff Mentch , Anant Kharkar , Madeleine Udell , Iddo Drori

The point of this paper is to question typical assumptions in deep learning and suggest alternatives. A particular contribution is to prove that even if a Stacked Convolutional Auto-Encoder is good at reconstructing pictures, it is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Michele Alberti , Mathias Seuret , Rolf Ingold , Marcus Liwicki

The point of this paper is to question typical assumptions in deep learning and suggest alternatives. A particular contribution is to prove that even if a Stacked Convolutional Auto-Encoder is good at reconstructing pictures, it is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Michele Alberti , Mathias Seuret , Rolf Ingold , Marcus Liwicki

Performance models are essential for automatic code optimization, enabling compilers to predict the effects of code transformations on performance and guide search for optimal transformations. Building state-of-the-art performance models…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Chunting Liu , Riyadh Baghdadi

State-of-the-art language models are autoregressive and operate on subword units known as tokens. Specifically, one must encode the conditioning string into a list of tokens before passing to the language models for next-token prediction.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Buu Phan , Marton Havasi , Matthew Muckley , Karen Ullrich

Subword tokenization introduces a computational layer in language models where many distinct token sequences decode to the same surface form and preserve meaning, yet induce different internal computations. Despite this non-uniqueness,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Adrian Cosma , Stefan Ruseti , Emilian Radoi , Mihai Dascalu

Identifying computational mechanisms for memorization and retrieval of data is a long-standing problem at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience. Our main finding is that standard overparameterized deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Mikhail Belkin , Caroline Uhler