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Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive promise in code generation, yet their progress remains limited by the shortage of large-scale datasets that are both diverse and well-aligned with human reasoning. Most existing resources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Amal Abed , Ivan Lukic , Jörg K. H. Franke , Frank Hutter

The boom of DL technology leads to massive DL models built and shared, which facilitates the acquisition and reuse of DL models. For a given task, we encounter multiple DL models available with the same functionality, which are considered…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Linghan Meng , Yanhui Li , Lin Chen , Zhi Wang , Di Wu , Yuming Zhou , Baowen Xu

Dataset diversity plays a pivotal role for the successful training of many machine learning models, particularly in the supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage of large language model (LLM) development. Despite increasing recognition of its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Haoyu Li , Xuhong Li , Yiming Dong , Kun Liu

Synthetic Data Generation (SDG), leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), has recently been recognized and broadly adopted as an effective approach to improve the performance of smaller but more resource and compute efficient LLMs through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Srideepika Jayaraman , Achille Fokoue , Dhaval Patel , Jayant Kalagnanam

Machine learning (ML) datasets, often perceived as neutral, inherently encapsulate abstract and disputed social constructs. Dataset curators frequently employ value-laden terms such as diversity, bias, and quality to characterize datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Dora Zhao , Jerone T. A. Andrews , Orestis Papakyriakopoulos , Alice Xiang

Synthetic data generation is a promising technique to facilitate the use of sensitive data while mitigating the risk of privacy breaches. However, for synthetic data to be useful in downstream analysis tasks, it needs to be of sufficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-26 Thom Benjamin Volker , Peter-Paul de Wolf , Erik-Jan van Kesteren

Distilling advanced Large Language Models' instruction-following capabilities into smaller models using a selected subset has become a mainstream approach in model training. While existing synthetic instruction data selection strategies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yisen Li , Lingfeng Yang , Wenxuan Shen , Pan Zhou , Yao Wan , Weiwei Lin , Dongping Chen

Instruction tuning is critical for adapting large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks, and recent studies have demonstrated that small amounts of human-curated data can outperform larger datasets, challenging traditional data scaling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Jinlong Pang , Jiaheng Wei , Ankit Parag Shah , Zhaowei Zhu , Yaxuan Wang , Chen Qian , Yang Liu , Yujia Bao , Wei Wei

Calculating semantic textual similarity is a foundational task in natural language processing. Current large language models (LLMs) based methods typically rely on extracting last-layer hidden states with fixed dimensions to compute…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Kaijie Zheng , Weiqin Wang , Yile Wang , Hui Huang

Automating the decision of whether a code change requires manual review is vital for maintaining software quality in modern development workflows. However, the emergence of new programming languages and frameworks creates a critical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Yogev Cohen , Dudi Ohayon , Romy Somkin , Yehudit Aperstein , Alexander Apartsin

We aim to select data subsets for the fine-tuning of large language models to more effectively follow instructions. Prior work has emphasized the importance of diversity in dataset curation but relied on heuristics such as the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Peiqi Wang , Yikang Shen , Zhen Guo , Matthew Stallone , Yoon Kim , Polina Golland , Rameswar Panda

High-quality labeled datasets are fundamental for training and evaluating machine learning models, yet domains such as healthcare and Requirements Engineering (RE) face persistent barriers due to data scarcity, privacy constraints, or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Abdelkarim El-Hajjami , Camille Salinesi

Subsampling from a large data set is useful in many supervised learning contexts to provide a global view of the data based on only a fraction of the observations. Diverse (or space-filling) subsampling is an appealing subsampling approach…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-27 Boyang Shang , Daniel W. Apley , Sanjay Mehrotra

This paper introduces a new fundamental characteristic, \ie, the dynamic range, from real-world metric tools to deep visual recognition. In metrology, the dynamic range is a basic quality of a metric tool, indicating its flexibility to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yifan Sun , Yuke Zhu , Yuhan Zhang , Pengkun Zheng , Xi Qiu , Chi Zhang , Yichen Wei

Despite growing interest in natural language generation (NLG) models that produce diverse outputs, there is currently no principled method for evaluating the diversity of an NLG system. In this work, we propose a framework for evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Guy Tevet , Jonathan Berant

In recent years, the use of large language models (LLMs) for text classification has attracted widespread attention. Despite this, the classification accuracy of LLMs has not yet universally surpassed that of smaller models. LLMs can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Min Zeng , Caiquan Liu , Shiqi Zhang , Li Xie , Chen Sang , Xiaoxin Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 and Llama3 have significantly impacted various fields by enabling high-quality synthetic data generation and reducing dependence on expensive human-generated datasets. Despite this, challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yue Huang , Siyuan Wu , Chujie Gao , Dongping Chen , Qihui Zhang , Yao Wan , Tianyi Zhou , Jianfeng Gao , Chaowei Xiao , Lichao Sun , Xiangliang Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) are demonstrating significant promise as an alternate strategy to facilitate analyses and optimizations of high-performance computing programs, circumventing the need for resource-intensive manual tool creation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Le Chen , Xianzhong Ding , Murali Emani , Tristan Vanderbruggen , Pei-hung Lin , Chuanhua Liao

Diversity is an important property of datasets and sampling data for diversity is useful in dataset creation. Finding the optimally diverse sample is expensive, we therefore present a heuristic significantly increasing diversity relative to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Louis Estève , Manon Scholivet , Agata Savary

Measuring dataset similarity is fundamental in machine learning, particularly for transfer learning and domain adaptation. In the context of supervised learning, most existing approaches quantify similarity of two data sets based on their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-22 Shudong Sun , Hao Helen Zhang , Joseph C Watkins