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Cloze task is a widely used task to evaluate an NLP system's language understanding ability. However, most of the existing cloze tasks only require NLP systems to give the relative best prediction for each input data sample, rather than the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Zizhao Hu , Ravikiran Chanumolu , Xingyu Lin , Nayela Ayaz , Vincent Chi

The crossword-like patterns of tiles in Scrabble form connected graphs of occupied sites on a square lattice. We find the most structureless description that reproduces means and covariances observed in real Scrabble games by adapting a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Olivier Witteveen , Marianne Bauer

It has been shown that any 9 by 9 Sudoku puzzle must contain at least 17 clues to have a unique solution. This paper investigates the more specific question: given a particular completed Sudoku grid, what is the minimum number of clues in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Gennesaret Tjusila , Mathieu Besançon , Mark Turner , Thorsten Koch

We propose Knowledge Crosswords, a geometric knowledge reasoning benchmark consisting of incomplete knowledge networks bounded by structured factual constraints, where LLMs are tasked with inferring the missing facts to meet all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Wenxuan Ding , Shangbin Feng , Yuhan Liu , Zhaoxuan Tan , Vidhisha Balachandran , Tianxing He , Yulia Tsvetkov

In the Story Cloze Test, a system is presented with a 4-sentence prompt to a story, and must determine which one of two potential endings is the 'right' ending to the story. Previous work has shown that ignoring the training set and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Siddarth Srinivasan , Richa Arora , Mark Riedl

Cross-lingual plagiarism (CLP) occurs when texts written in one language are translated into a different language and used without acknowledging the original sources. One of the most common methods for detecting CLP requires online machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Victor Thompson

The Connections puzzle is a word association game published daily by The New York Times (NYT). In this game, players are asked to find groups of four words that are connected by a common theme. While solving a given Connections puzzle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Tim Merino , Sam Earle , Ryan Sudhakaran , Shyam Sudhakaran , Julian Togelius

In this work, we explore a genre of puzzles ("image riddles") which involves a set of images and a question. Answering these puzzles require both capabilities involving visual detection (including object, activity recognition) and,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Somak Aditya , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral , Yiannis Aloimonos

People say, "A picture is worth a thousand words". Then how can we get the rich information out of the image? We argue that by using visual clues to bridge large pretrained vision foundation models and language models, we can do so without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Yujia Xie , Luowei Zhou , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Nguyen Bach , Ce Liu , Michael Zeng

Answer set programming is a prominent declarative programming paradigm used in formulating combinatorial search problems and implementing different knowledge representation formalisms. Frequently, several related and yet substantially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yuliya Lierler

Probabilistic coupling is a powerful tool for analyzing pairs of probabilistic processes. Roughly, coupling two processes requires finding an appropriate witness process that models both processes in the same probability space. Couplings…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Gilles Barthe , Thomas Espitau , Benjamin Grégoire , Justin Hsu , Léo Stefanesco , Pierre-Yves Strub

Both uncertainty estimation and interpretability are important factors for trustworthy machine learning systems. However, there is little work at the intersection of these two areas. We address this gap by proposing a novel method for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-19 Javier Antorán , Umang Bhatt , Tameem Adel , Adrian Weller , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

In this paper, we present a novel approach for conformal prediction (CP), in which we aim to identify a set of promising prediction candidates -- in place of a single prediction. This set is guaranteed to contain a correct answer with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Adam Fisch , Tal Schuster , Tommi Jaakkola , Regina Barzilay

Wordle is a single-player word-guessing game where the goal is to discover a secret word $w$ that has been chosen from a dictionary $D$. In order to discover $w$, the player can make at most $\ell$ guesses, which must also be words from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Daniel Lokshtanov , Bernardo Subercaseaux

Text-based misinformation permeates online discourses, yet evidence of people's ability to discern truth from such deceptive textual content is scarce. We analyze a novel TV game show data where conversations in a high-stake environment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sanchaita Hazra , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder

Counterfactual explanations are widely used to communicate how inputs must change for a model to alter its prediction. For a single instance, many valid counterfactuals can exist, which leaves open the possibility for an explanation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 James Hinns , Sofie Goethals , Stephan Van der Veeken , Theodoros Evgeniou , David Martens

The traditional methods for data compression are typically based on the symbol-level statistics, with the information source modeled as a long sequence of i.i.d. random variables or a stochastic process, thus establishing the fundamental…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Mingxiao Li , Rui Jin , Liyao Xiang , Kaiming Shen , Shuguang Cui

Clustering algorithms rely on complex optimisation processes that may be difficult to comprehend, especially for individuals who lack technical expertise. While many explainable artificial intelligence techniques exist for supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Aurora Spagnol , Kacper Sokol , Pietro Barbiero , Marc Langheinrich , Martin Gjoreski

Providing plausible responses to why questions is a challenging but critical goal for language based human-machine interaction. Explanations are challenging in that they require many different forms of abstract knowledge and reasoning.…

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