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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Max Torop , Aria Masoomi , Masih Eskandar , Jennifer Dy

Directed fuzzing performs best for targeted program testing via estimating the impact of each input in reaching predefined program points. But due to insufficient analysis of the program structure and lack of flexibility and configurability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Darya Parygina , Timofey Mezhuev , Daniil Kuts

Inference-time scaling has proven effective in boosting large language model (LLM) performance through increased test-time computation. Yet, its practical application is often hindered by reliance on external verifiers or a lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Fei Wang , Xingchen Wan , Ruoxi Sun , Jiefeng Chen , Sercan Ö. Arık

We present srlearn, a Python library for boosted statistical relational models. We adapt the scikit-learn interface to this setting and provide examples for how this can be used to express learning and inference problems.

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Alexander L. Hayes

Discrete tokenizers have emerged as indispensable components in modern machine learning systems, particularly within the context of autoregressive modeling and large language models (LLMs). These tokenizers serve as the critical interface…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jian Jia , Jingtong Gao , Ben Xue , Junhao Wang , Qingpeng Cai , Quan Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Exploring and understanding language data is a fundamental stage in all areas dealing with human language. It allows NLP practitioners to uncover quality concerns and harmful biases in data before training, and helps linguists and social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Alan Ramponi , Camilla Casula , Stefano Menini

Intelligent tutoring agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly explored to deliver personalized knowledge in areas such as language learning and science education. However, their capabilities in guiding users to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jian Wang , Yinpei Dai , Yichi Zhang , Ziqiao Ma , Wenjie Li , Joyce Chai

Steering vectors are a lightweight method for controlling language model behavior by adding a learned bias to the activations at inference time. Although effective on average, steering effect sizes vary across samples and are unreliable for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Joschka Braun

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong reasoning capabilities beyond traditional language tasks, motivating their use for numerical optimization. This paper presents LLMize, an open-source Python framework that enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 M. Rizki Oktavian

Healthcare professionals need effective ways to use, understand, and validate AI-driven clinical decision support systems. Existing systems face two key limitations: complex visualizations and a lack of grounding in scientific evidence. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Reza Samimi , Aditya Bhattacharya , Lucija Gosak , Gregor Stiglic , Katrien Verbert

We introduce pyannote.audio, an open-source toolkit written in Python for speaker diarization. Based on PyTorch machine learning framework, it provides a set of trainable end-to-end neural building blocks that can be combined and jointly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Hervé Bredin , Ruiqing Yin , Juan Manuel Coria , Gregory Gelly , Pavel Korshunov , Marvin Lavechin , Diego Fustes , Hadrien Titeux , Wassim Bouaziz , Marie-Philippe Gill

Steering vectors (SVs) offer a lightweight way to control large language models (LLMs) at inference time by shifting hidden activations, providing a practical middle ground between prompting and fine-tuning. Yet SVs can be unreliable in…

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Controlling the behaviors of large language models (LLM) is fundamental to their safety alignment and reliable deployment. However, existing steering methods are primarily driven by empirical insights and lack theoretical performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Dung V. Nguyen , Hieu M. Vu , Nhi Y. Pham , Lei Zhang , Tan M. Nguyen

Conducting data analysis typically involves authoring code to transform, visualize, analyze, and interpret data. Large language models (LLMs) are now capable of generating such code for simple, routine analyses. LLMs promise to democratize…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Stephen N. Freund , Brooke Simon , Emery D. Berger , Eunice Jun

This paper describes the design and functionality of ConvoKit, an open-source toolkit for analyzing conversations and the social interactions embedded within. ConvoKit provides an unified framework for representing and manipulating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jonathan P. Chang , Caleb Chiam , Liye Fu , Andrew Z. Wang , Justine Zhang , Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Multi-agent debate has been shown to improve reasoning in large language models (LLMs). However, it is compute-intensive, requiring generation of long transcripts before answering questions. To address this inefficiency, we develop a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 John Seon Keun Yi , Aaron Mueller , Dokyun Lee

Mathematical models allow us to gain a deeper understanding of real-world dynamical systems. One of the most powerful mathematical frameworks for modeling real-world phenomena are systems of differential equations. In the majority of fields…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-02 Richard Gast , Thomas R. Knösche , Ann Kennedy

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities across various tasks, yet guiding them to follow desired behaviours during inference remains a significant challenge. Activation steering offers a promising method to control the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Weixuan Wang , Minghao Wu , Barry Haddow , Alexandra Birch

This paper presents lpviz, a browser-based visualization tool for linear programming. lpviz is deeply interactive, offering an intuitive interface where users can directly draw and edit the feasible region and objective vector, without…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Evan Grand , Michael Klamkin

LensKit is an open-source toolkit for building, researching, and learning about recommender systems. First released in 2010 as a Java framework, it has supported diverse published research, small-scale production deployments, and education…

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