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Recent work utilizes Large Language Models (LLMs) for topic modeling, generating comprehensible topic labels for given documents. However, their performance has mainly been evaluated qualitatively, and there remains room for quantitative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Tomoki Doi , Masaru Isonuma , Hitomi Yanaka

We show that large language models (LLMs) are remarkably good at working with interpretable models that decompose complex outcomes into univariate graph-represented components. By adopting a hierarchical approach to reasoning, LLMs can…

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly widespread, understanding how specific training data shapes their outputs is crucial for transparency, accountability, privacy, and fairness. To explore how LLMs leverage and replicate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Arthur Wuhrmann , Anastasiia Kucherenko , Andrei Kucharavy

A common use of NLP is to facilitate the understanding of large document collections, with a shift from using traditional topic models to Large Language Models. Yet the effectiveness of using LLM for large corpus understanding in real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zongxia Li , Lorena Calvo-Bartolomé , Alexander Hoyle , Paiheng Xu , Alden Dima , Juan Francisco Fung , Jordan Boyd-Graber

We introduce a novel method to compute a rank $m$ approximation of the inverse of the Hessian matrix in the distributed regime. By leveraging the differences in gradients and parameters of multiple Workers, we are able to efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Sébastien M. R. Arnold , Chunming Wang

We show for invertible problems that transform data from a source domain (for example, Logic Condition Tables (LCTs)) to a destination domain (for example, Hardware Description Language (HDL) code), an approach of using Large Language…

The Hessian of a neural network captures parameter interactions through second-order derivatives of the loss. It is a fundamental object of study, closely tied to various problems in deep learning, including model design, optimization, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Sidak Pal Singh , Gregor Bachmann , Thomas Hofmann

This paper explores the use of large language models (LLMs) as research tools in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS). LLMs are remarkably effective at processing unstructured text and inferring meaning from context,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Arno Simons , Michael Zichert , Adrian Wüthrich

The formal reasoning capabilities of LLMs are crucial for advancing automated software engineering. However, existing benchmarks for LLMs lack systematic evaluation based on computation and complexity, leaving a critical gap in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yihong Dong , Jianha Xiao , Xue Jiang , Xuyuan Guo , Zhiyuan Fan , Jiaru Qian , Kechi Zhang , Jia Li , Zhi Jin , Ge Li

Differentiable optimization layers enable learning systems to make decisions by solving embedded optimization problems. However, computing gradients via implicit differentiation requires solving a linear system with Hessian terms, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Zihao Zhao , Kai-Chia Mo , Shing-Hei Ho , Brandon Amos , Kai Wang

Large language models (LLMs) process and predict sequences containing text to answer questions, and address tasks including document summarization, providing recommendations, writing software and solving quantitative problems. We provide a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Ricardo Baptista , Andrew Stuart , Son Tran

Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly large role in domains such as code generation, including hardware code generation, where Verilog is the key language. However, the amount of publicly available Verilog code pales in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Charles Hong , Brendan Roberts , Huijae An , Alex Um , Advay Ratan , Yakun Sophia Shao

Efficiently approximating local curvature information of the loss function is a key tool for optimization and compression of deep neural networks. Yet, most existing methods to approximate second-order information have high computational or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Elias Frantar , Eldar Kurtic , Dan Alistarh

The ubiquity and value of tables as semi-structured data across various domains necessitate advanced methods for understanding their complexity and vast amounts of information. Despite the impressive capabilities of large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Deyi Ji , Lanyun Zhu , Siqi Gao , Peng Xu , Hongtao Lu , Jieping Ye , Feng Zhao

The study of modern machine learning models often necessitates storing vast quantities of gradients or Hessian vector products (HVPs). Traditional sketching methods struggle to scale under these memory constraints. We present a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Andrea Schioppa

The problem of approximating the Pareto front of a multiobjective optimization problem can be reformulated as the problem of finding a set that maximizes the hypervolume indicator. This paper establishes the analytical expression of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-03 André H. Deutz , Michael T. M. Emmerich , Hao Wang

We consider enhancing large language models (LLMs) for complex planning tasks. While existing methods allow LLMs to explore intermediate steps to make plans, they either depend on unreliable self-verification or external verifiers to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Hongyi Ling , Shubham Parashar , Sambhav Khurana , Blake Olson , Anwesha Basu , Gaurangi Sinha , Zhengzhong Tu , James Caverlee , Shuiwang Ji

Recent regulatory initiatives like the European AI Act and relevant voices in the Machine Learning (ML) community stress the need to describe datasets along several key dimensions for trustworthy AI, such as the provenance processes and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Joan Giner-Miguelez , Abel Gómez , Jordi Cabot

Generated texts from large language models (LLMs) are remarkably close to high-quality human-authored text, raising concerns about their potential misuse in spreading false information and academic misconduct. Consequently, there is an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Kangxi Wu , Liang Pang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng , Tat-Seng Chua

Large language models(LLMs) containing tens of billions of parameters (or even more) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in various NLP tasks. However, substantial model size poses challenges to training, inference, and deployment so…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yupeng Ji , Yibo Cao , Jiucai Liu