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In this paper, we present Neural Phrase-based Machine Translation (NPMT). Our method explicitly models the phrase structures in output sequences using Sleep-WAke Networks (SWAN), a recently proposed segmentation-based sequence modeling…

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State Space Models (SSMs), particularly recent selective variants like Mamba, have emerged as a leading architecture for sequence modeling, challenging the dominance of Transformers. However, the success of these state-of-the-art models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yiyi Wang , Jian'an Zhang , Hongyi Duan , Haoyang Liu , Qingyang Li

Language models (LMs) are statistical models that calculate probabilities over sequences of words or other discrete symbols. Currently two major paradigms for language modeling exist: count-based n-gram models, which have advantages of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Graham Neubig , Chris Dyer

We conduct a large-scale study of language models for chord prediction. Specifically, we compare N-gram models to various flavours of recurrent neural networks on a comprehensive dataset comprising all publicly available datasets of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Filip Korzeniowski , David R. W. Sears , Gerhard Widmer

Structured state space models' (SSMs) development in recent studies, such as Mamba and Mamba2, outperformed and solved the computational inefficiency of transformers and large language models at small to medium scale. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Emadeldeen Hamdan , Hongyi Pan , Ahmet Enis Cetin

Recent work by Hewitt et al. (2020) provides an interpretation of the empirical success of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) as language models (LMs). It shows that RNNs can efficiently represent bounded hierarchical structures that are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Anej Svete , Robin Shing Moon Chan , Ryan Cotterell

State Space Models (SSMs) like Mamba2 are a promising alternative to Transformers, with faster theoretical training and inference times -- especially for long context lengths. Recent work on Matryoshka Representation Learning -- and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Abhinav Shukla , Sai Vemprala , Aditya Kusupati , Ashish Kapoor

Neural language models (LMs) based on recurrent neural networks (RNN) are some of the most successful word and character-level LMs. Why do they work so well, in particular better than linear neural LMs? Possible explanations are that RNNs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-06-21 Marius Pachitariu , Maneesh Sahani

In this paper, we investigate the long-term memory learning capabilities of state-space models (SSMs) from the perspective of parameterization. We prove that state-space models without any reparameterization exhibit a memory limitation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Shida Wang , Qianxiao Li

Language models are widely used in chemistry for molecular property prediction and small-molecule generation, yet Natural Products (NPs) remain underexplored despite their importance in drug discovery. To address this gap, we develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ho-Hsuan Wang , Afnan Sultan , Andrea Volkamer , Dietrich Klakow

The field of spoken language processing is undergoing a shift from training custom-built, task-specific models toward using and optimizing spoken language models (SLMs) which act as universal speech processing systems. This trend is similar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Siddhant Arora , Kai-Wei Chang , Chung-Ming Chien , Yifan Peng , Haibin Wu , Yossi Adi , Emmanuel Dupoux , Hung-Yi Lee , Karen Livescu , Shinji Watanabe

Sequence modeling plays a vital role across various domains, with recurrent neural networks being historically the predominant method of performing these tasks. However, the emergence of transformers has altered this paradigm due to their…

A State Space Model (SSM) is a foundation model in time series analysis, which has recently been shown as an alternative to transformers in sequence modeling. In this paper, we theoretically study the generalization of SSMs and propose…

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Classical medium access control (MAC) protocols are interpretable, yet their task-agnostic control signaling messages (CMs) are ill-suited for emerging mission-critical applications. By contrast, neural network (NN) based protocol models…

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We propose a novel tensor network language model based on the simplest tensor network (i.e., tensor trains), called `Tensor Train Language Model' (TTLM). TTLM represents sentences in an exponential space constructed by the tensor product of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Zhan Su , Yuqin Zhou , Fengran Mo , Jakob Grue Simonsen

Recurrent neural network grammars (RNNG) are generative models of language which jointly model syntax and surface structure by incrementally generating a syntax tree and sentence in a top-down, left-to-right order. Supervised RNNGs achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Yoon Kim , Alexander M. Rush , Lei Yu , Adhiguna Kuncoro , Chris Dyer , Gábor Melis

This study explores replacing Transformers in Visual Language Models (VLMs) with Mamba, a recent structured state space model (SSM) that demonstrates promising performance in sequence modeling. We test models up to 3B parameters under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Georgios Pantazopoulos , Malvina Nikandrou , Alessandro Suglia , Oliver Lemon , Arash Eshghi

Current language models have a significant limitation in the ability to encode and decode factual knowledge. This is mainly because they acquire such knowledge from statistical co-occurrences although most of the knowledge words are rarely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Sungjin Ahn , Heeyoul Choi , Tanel Pärnamaa , Yoshua Bengio

One of the fundamental principles of contemporary linguistics states that language processing requires the ability to extract recursively nested tree structures. However, it remains unclear whether and how this code could be implemented in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yair Lakretz , Théo Desbordes , Jean-Rémi King , Benoît Crabbé , Maxime Oquab , Stanislas Dehaene

Transformers have been the most successful architecture for various speech modeling tasks, including speech separation. However, the self-attention mechanism in transformers with quadratic complexity is inefficient in computation and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Xilin Jiang , Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani