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In this study, the effects of eight representation regularization methods are investigated, including two newly developed rank regularizers (RR). The investigation shows that the statistical characteristics of representations such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Daeyoung Choi , Kyungeun Lee , Duhun Hwang , Wonjong Rhee

Large language model (LLM) evaluation is increasingly costly, prompting interest in methods that speed up evaluation by shrinking benchmark datasets. Benchmark prediction (also called efficient LLM evaluation) aims to select a small subset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Guanhua Zhang , Florian E. Dorner , Moritz Hardt

Interior design is all about creating spaces that look and feel good. However, the subjective nature of aesthetic preferences presents a significant challenge in defining and quantifying what makes an interior design visually appealing. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Ayana Adilova , Pakizar Shamoi

This article highlights how small modifications to either the source code of a benchmark program or the compilation options may impact its behavior on a specific machine. It argues that for evaluating machines, benchmark providers and users…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-09-04 Raphael 'kena' Poss

This paper studies decision theoretic properties of benchmarked estimators which are of some importance in small area estimation problems. Benchmarking is intended to improve certain aggregate properties (such as study-wide averages) when…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-17 Tatsuya Kubokawa , William E. Strawderman

As researchers, we already understand how to make testing more effective and efficient at finding bugs. However, as fuzzing (i.e., automated testing) becomes more widely adopted in practice, practitioners are asking: Which assurances does a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Marcel Böhme

Fuzzing is a popular vulnerability automated testing method utilized by professionals and broader community alike. However, despite its abilities, fuzzing is a time-consuming, computationally expensive process. This is problematic for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Michael Wang , Michael Robinson

Among the most popular and well studied quantum characterization, verification and validation techniques is randomized benchmarking (RB), an important statistical tool used to characterize the performance of physical logic operations useful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Harrison Ball , Thomas M. Stace , Steven T. Flammia , Michael J. Biercuk

The problem of parameterization is often central to the effective deployment of nature-inspired algorithms. However, finding the optimal set of parameter values for a combination of problem instance and solution method is highly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Matthew Crossley , Andy Nisbet , Martyn Amos

Security vulnerabilities play a vital role in network security system. Fuzzing technology is widely used as a vulnerability discovery technology to reduce damage in advance. However, traditional fuzzing techniques have many challenges, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Yan Wang , Peng Jia , Luping Liu , Jiayong Liu

Benchmarks have emerged as the central approach for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs). The research community often relies on a model's average performance across the test prompts of a benchmark to evaluate the model's performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Melissa Ailem , Katerina Marazopoulou , Charlotte Siska , James Bono

The stochastic nature of iterative optimization heuristics leads to inherently noisy performance measurements. Since these measurements are often gathered once and then used repeatedly, the number of collected samples will have a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Diederick Vermetten , Hao Wang , Manuel López-Ibañez , Carola Doerr , Thomas Bäck

Language model (LM) benchmarking faces several challenges: comprehensive evaluations are costly, benchmarks often fail to measure the intended capabilities, and evaluation quality can degrade due to labeling errors and benchmark saturation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Valentin Hofmann , David Heineman , Ian Magnusson , Kyle Lo , Jesse Dodge , Maarten Sap , Pang Wei Koh , Chun Wang , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Noah A. Smith

I would like to share recommendations on how to do performance benchmarks for the purpose of computer science research evaluation. Research in my field (programming language research) often involves performance considerations, but it is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Gabriel Scherer

Programming errors that degrade the performance of systems are widespread, yet there is little tool support for analyzing these bugs. We present a method based on differential performance analysis---we find inputs for which the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Pavol Cerný , Ashutosh Trivedi

Benchmark hacking refers to tuning a machine learning model to score highly on certain evaluation criteria without improving true generalization or faithfully solving the intended problem. We study this phenomenon in a generic machine…

General Economics · Economics 2026-04-27 Xiaoyun Qiu , Yang Yu , Haifeng Xu

Customer Satisfaction is the most important factors in the industry irrespective of domain. Key Driver Analysis is a common practice in data science to help the business to evaluate the same. Understanding key features, which influence the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-29 Kumarjit Pathak , Jitin Kapila , Aasheesh Barvey

Ranking and scoring are ubiquitous. We consider the setting in which an institution, called a ranker, evaluates a set of individuals based on demographic, behavioral or other characteristics. The final output is a ranking that represents…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Ke Yang , Julia Stoyanovich

Background: Fuzzers are often guided by coverage, making the estimation of maximum achievable coverage a key concern in fuzzing. However, achieving 100% coverage is infeasible for most real-world software systems, regardless of effort.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Danushka Liyanage , Nelum Attanayake , Zijian Luo , Rahul Gopinath

Context: The usability software quality attribute aims to improve system user performance. In a previous study, we found evidence of the impact of a set of usability characteristics from the viewpoint of users in terms of efficiency,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Juan M. Ferreira , Francy Rodríguez , Adrián Santos , Silvia T. Acuña , Natalia Juristo