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Sparse linear algebra is central to many scientific programs, yet compilers fail to optimize it well. High-performance libraries are available, but adoption costs are significant. Moreover, libraries tie programs into vendor-specific…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Philip Ginsbach , Bruce Collie , Michael F. P. O'Boyle

Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced rapidly as tools for automating code generation in scientific research, yet their ability to interpret and use unfamiliar Python APIs for complex computational experiments remains poorly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Nuno Fachada , Daniel Fernandes , Carlos M. Fernandes , Bruno D. Ferreira-Saraiva , João P. Matos-Carvalho

Ranking has always been one of the top concerns in information retrieval research. For decades, lexical matching signal has dominated the ad-hoc retrieval process, but it also has inherent defects, such as the vocabulary mismatch problem.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jingtao Zhan , Jiaxin Mao , Yiqun Liu , Min Zhang , Shaoping Ma

A logic program is an executable specification. For example, merge sort in pure Prolog is a logical formula, yet shows creditable performance on long linked lists. But such executable specifications are a compromise: the logic is distorted…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-09-29 M. H. van Emden

Unstructured sparsity is now natively accelerated by recent GPU kernels and dataflow hardware, shifting the bottleneck from inference execution to the pruning algorithm. State-of-the-art methods for unstructured LLM pruning are layer-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mohammad Mozaffari , Younes Hourri , Mohammad Rastegari , Mahyar Najibi

This paper presents PFLP, a library for probabilistic programming in the functional logic programming language Curry. It demonstrates how the concepts of a functional logic programming language support the implementation of a library for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Sandra Dylus , Jan Christiansen , Finn Teegen

Classical models for supervised machine learning, such as decision trees, are efficient and interpretable predictors, but their quality is highly dependent on the particular choice of input features. Although neural networks can learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Gabriel Poesia , Georgia Gabriela Sampaio

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating a program consistent with a specification. Recent years have seen proposal of a number of neural approaches for program synthesis, many of which adopt a sequence generation paradigm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Rudy Bunel , Matthew Hausknecht , Jacob Devlin , Rishabh Singh , Pushmeet Kohli

One hallmark of human language is its combinatoriality -- reusing a relatively small inventory of building blocks to create a far larger inventory of increasingly complex structures. In this paper, we explore the idea that combinatoriality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Guangyuan Jiang , Matthias Hofer , Jiayuan Mao , Lionel Wong , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Roger P. Levy

Pruning is an effective method for compressing Large Language Models, but finding an optimal, non-uniform layer-wise sparsity allocation remains a key challenge. While heuristic methods are fast but yield suboptimal performance, more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xin Yuan , Siqi Li , Jiateng Wei , Chengrui Zhu , Yanming Wu , Qingpeng Li , Jiajun Lv , Xiaoke Lan , Jun Chen , Yong Liu

In this paper, we propose several dictionary learning algorithms for sparse representations that also impose specific structures on the learned dictionaries such that they are numerically efficient to use: reduced number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Cristian Rusu

The capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly evolved, extending from natural language processing to complex tasks like code understanding and generation. We expand the scope of LLMs' capabilities to a broader context,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Chenyang Lyu , Lecheng Yan , Rui Xing , Wenxi Li , Younes Samih , Tianbo Ji , Longyue Wang

In software development, it is common for programmers to copy-paste or port code snippets and then adapt them to their use case. This scenario motivates the code adaptation task -- a variant of program repair which aims to adapt variable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Xiaoyu Liu , Jinu Jang , Neel Sundaresan , Miltiadis Allamanis , Alexey Svyatkovskiy

The object oriented programming paradigm is widely used in science and engineering. Many open and commercial libraries are written in C++ and increasingly provide bindings to Python, which is much easier to learn, but still partly…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Markus Kloimwieder , Christoph Gadermaier

\emph{Literate programming}, introduced by Knurth, interleaves code and prose so that a program can be read as both executable and explanatory text. We propose \emph{literate execution}, which inverts this relationship: rather than…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Joe Bond , Jacob Pake , Cristina David , Andrew McNutt , Trevor Sseguya Muwonge , Dominic Orchard , Roly Perera

Tool learning has emerged as a crucial capability for large language models (LLMs) to solve complex real-world tasks through interaction with external tools. Existing approaches face significant challenges, including reliance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hanxing Ding , Shuchang Tao , Liang Pang , Zihao Wei , Jinyang Gao , Bolin Ding , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

We present an approach for recursively splitting and rephrasing complex English sentences into a novel semantic hierarchy of simplified sentences, with each of them presenting a more regular structure that may facilitate a wide variety of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Christina Niklaus , Matthias Cetto , Andre Freitas , Siegfried Handschuh

Pretraining language models directly on web-scale corpora is the de facto paradigm. We study an alternative where the model is initially exposed to abstract structured data to ease the subsequent acquisition of rich semantic knowledge, much…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Liangze Jiang , Zachary Shinnick , Anton van den Hengel , Hemanth Saratchandran , Damien Teney

To enhance developer productivity, all modern integrated development environments (IDEs) include code suggestion functionality that proposes likely next tokens at the cursor. While current IDEs work well for statically-typed languages,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Avishkar Bhoopchand , Tim Rocktäschel , Earl Barr , Sebastian Riedel

This work presents In-Context Policy Iteration, an algorithm for performing Reinforcement Learning (RL), in-context, using foundation models. While the application of foundation models to RL has received considerable attention, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ethan Brooks , Logan Walls , Richard L. Lewis , Satinder Singh