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Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as an effective approach for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, its performance is highly dependent on the quality of the underlying human preference data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zixuan Huang , Yikun Ban , Lean Fu , Xiaojie Li , Zhongxiang Dai , Jianxin Li , Deqing Wang

We consider the online vector packing problem in which we have a $d$ dimensional knapsack and items $u$ with weight vectors $\mathbf{w}_u \in \mathbb{R}_+^d$ arrive online in an arbitrary order. Upon the arrival of an item, the algorithm…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-22 T-H. Hubert Chan , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Xiaowei Wu

In this work, we investigate the sampling and reconstruction of spectrally $s$-sparse bandlimited graph signals governed by heat diffusion processes. We propose a random space-time sampling regime, referred to as {randomized} dynamical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Longxiu Huang , Dongyang Li , Sui Tang , Qing Yao

Despite some empirical success at correcting exposure bias in machine translation, scheduled sampling algorithms suffer from a major drawback: they incorrectly assume that words in the reference translations and in sampled sequences are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Weijia Xu , Xing Niu , Marine Carpuat

A determinantal point process (DPP) on a collection of $M$ items is a model, parameterized by a symmetric kernel matrix, that assigns a probability to every subset of those items. Recent work shows that removing the kernel symmetry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Insu Han , Mike Gartrell , Jennifer Gillenwater , Elvis Dohmatob , Amin Karbasi

In many modern data sets, High dimension low sample size (HDLSS) data is prevalent in many fields of studies. There has been an increased focus recently on using machine learning and statistical methods to mine valuable information out of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Srivathsan Amruth , Xin Yee Lam

In this paper, we introduce the concept of Density-Balanced Subset in a matroid, in which independent sets can be sampled so as to guarantee that (i) each element has the same probability to be sampled, and (ii) those events are negatively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-15 François Sellier

Catastrophic forgetting is a challenge issue in continual learning when a deep neural network forgets the knowledge acquired from the former task after learning on subsequent tasks. However, existing methods try to find the joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Jian Peng , Jiang Hao , Zhuo Li , Enqiang Guo , Xiaohong Wan , Deng Min , Qing Zhu , Haifeng Li

The Unbounded Subset-Sum Problem (USSP) is defined as: given sum $s$ and a set of integers $W\leftarrow \{p_1,\dots,p_n\}$ output a set of non-negative integers $\{y_1,\dots,y_n\}$ such that $p_1y_1+\dots+p_ny_n=s$. The USSP is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Majid Salimi , Hamid Mala

Starting with a set of weighted items, we want to create a generic sample of a certain size that we can later use to estimate the total weight of arbitrary subsets. For this purpose, we propose priority sampling which tested on Internet…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nick Duffield , Carsten Lund , Mikkel Thorup

Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) are probabilistic models that arise in quantum physics and random matrix theory and have recently found numerous applications in computer science. DPPs define distributions over subsets of a given ground…

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In this paper we introduce Sampling with a Black Box, a generic technique for the design of parameterized approximation algorithms for vertex deletion problems (e.g., Vertex Cover, Feedback Vertex Set, etc.). The technique relies on two…

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We study the problem of optimal subset selection from a set of correlated random variables. In particular, we consider the associated combinatorial optimization problem of maximizing the determinant of a symmetric positive definite matrix…

Computation · Statistics 2019-07-12 Yu Wang , Nhu D. Le , James V. Zidek

Given a large set $U$ where each item $a\in U$ has weight $w(a)$, we want to estimate the total weight $W=\sum_{a\in U} w(a)$ to within factor of $1\pm\varepsilon$ with some constant probability $>1/2$. Since $n=|U|$ is large, we want to do…

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In this paper we consider distributed allocation problems with memory constraint limits. Firstly, we propose a tractable relaxation to the problem of optimal symmetric allocations from [1]. The approximated problem is based on the Q-error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Iryna Andriyanova , Pablo M. Olmos

Speculative sampling reduces the latency of autoregressive decoding for target model LLMs without sacrificing inference quality, by using a cheap draft model to suggest a candidate token and a verification criterion to accept or resample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Rahul Krishna Thomas , Arka Pal

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have shown dominant performance in the task of super-resolution (SR). However, their heavy memory cost and computation overhead significantly restrict their practical deployments on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Huixia Li , Chenqian Yan , Shaohui Lin , Xiawu Zheng , Yuchao Li , Baochang Zhang , Fan Yang , Rongrong Ji

Given a set $W = \{w_1,\ldots, w_n\}$ of non-negative integer weights and an integer $C$, the #Knapsack problem asks to count the number of distinct subsets of $W$ whose total weight is at most $C$. In the more general integer version of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Paweł Gawrychowski , Liran Markin , Oren Weimann

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem, as well as its related problems such as Minimum Weight Vertex Cover, are fundamental NP-hard problems with numerous practical applications. Due to their computational complexity, a variety…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ernestine Großmann , Kenneth Langedal , Christian Schulz

Subset Sum is a classical optimization problem taught to undergraduates as an example of an NP-hard problem, which is amenable to dynamic programming, yielding polynomial running time if the input numbers are relatively small. Formally,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Konstantinos Koiliaris , Chao Xu