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Given a sequence of tokens, such as words, the task of next-token prediction is to predict the next-token conditional probability distribution. Decoder-only transformers have become effective models for this task, but their properties are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Liam Madden , Curtis Fox , Christos Thrampoulidis

It is clear that the current attempts at using algorithms to create artificial neural networks have had mixed success at best when it comes to creating large networks and/or complex behavior. This should not be unexpected, as creating an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Sebastian Risi , Jinhong Zhang , Rasmus Taarnby , Peter Greve , Jan Piskur , Antonios Liapis , Julian Togelius

This study explores the concept of creativity and artificial intelligence (AI) and their recent integration. While AI has traditionally been perceived as incapable of generating new ideas or creating art, the development of more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Fabio Crimaldi , Manuele Leonelli

State-of-the-art poetry generation systems are often complex. They either consist of task-specific model pipelines, incorporate prior knowledge in the form of manually created constraints, or both. In contrast, end-to-end models would not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jonas Belouadi , Steffen Eger

Large Language Models often achieve strong performance by generating long intermediate chain-of-thought reasoning. However, it remains unclear when a model's final answer is actually determined during generation. If the answer is already…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ayan Datta , Zhixue Zhao , Bhuvanesh Verma , Radhika Mamidi , Mounika Marreddy , Alexander Mehler

The history of AI has included several "waves" of ideas. The first wave, from the mid-1950s to the 1980s, focused on logic and symbolic hand-encoded representations of knowledge, the foundations of so-called "expert systems". The second…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Odest Chadwicke Jenkins , Daniel Lopresti , Melanie Mitchell

Predictive process monitoring aims to predict future characteristics of an ongoing process case, such as case outcome or remaining timestamp. Recently, several predictive process monitoring methods based on deep learning such as Long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Farbod Taymouri , Marcello La Rosa , Sarah Erfani , Zahra Dasht Bozorgi , Ilya Verenich

Subword tokenization is a commonly used input pre-processing step in most recent NLP models. However, it limits the models' ability to leverage end-to-end task learning. Its frequency-based vocabulary creation compromises tokenization in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Md Mofijul Islam , Gustavo Aguilar , Pragaash Ponnusamy , Clint Solomon Mathialagan , Chengyuan Ma , Chenlei Guo

Standard decoding strategies for text generation, including top-k, nucleus sampling, and contrastive search, select tokens based on likelihood, restricting selection to high-probability regions. Human language production operates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Esteban Garces Arias , Nurzhan Sapargali , Christian Heumann , Matthias Aßenmacher

Generative deep learning systems offer powerful tools for artefact generation, given their ability to model distributions of data and generate high-fidelity results. In the context of computational creativity, however, a major shortcoming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Terence Broad , Sebastian Berns , Simon Colton , Mick Grierson

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and Large Language Models (LLMs) in particular, are increasingly employed for creative tasks like scientific idea generation, constituting a form of generalization from training data unaddressed by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Samuel Schapiro , Sumuk Shashidhar , Alexi Gladstone , Jonah Black , Royce Moon , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Lav R. Varshney

AI writing tools have been shown to dramatically change the way people write, yet the effects of AI text presentation are not well understood nor always intentionally designed. Although text presentation in existing large language model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-30 David Zhou , John R. Gallagher , Sarah Sterman

In addition to traditional tasks such as prediction, classification and translation, deep learning is receiving growing attention as an approach for music generation, as witnessed by recent research groups such as Magenta at Google and CTRL…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Jean-Pierre Briot , François Pachet

The main power of artificial intelligence is not in modeling what we already know, but in creating solutions that are new. Such solutions exist in extremely large, high-dimensional, and complex search spaces. Population-based search…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Risto Miikkulainen

Being able to predict what may happen in the future requires an in-depth understanding of the physical and causal rules that govern the world. A model that is able to do so has a number of appealing applications, from robotic planning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Alex X. Lee , Richard Zhang , Frederik Ebert , Pieter Abbeel , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

Most applications of generative AI involve a sequential interaction in which a person inputs a prompt and waits for a response, and where reaction time and adaptivity are not important factors. In contrast, live jamming is a collaborative…

In this short report, we introduce joint multi-token prediction (JTP), a lightweight modification of standard next-token prediction designed to enrich hidden state representations by jointly predicting multiple future tokens. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Kwangjun Ahn , Alex Lamb , John Langford

Evaluating the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models is increasingly challenging as models improve. Human curation of hard questions is highly expensive, especially in recent benchmarks using PhD-level domain knowledge to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Simon Henniger , Gabriel Poesia

This pictorial aims to critically consider the nature of text-to-audio and text-to-music generative tools in the context of explainable AI. As a group of experimental musicians and researchers, we are enthusiastic about the creative…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Jesse Allison , Drew Farrar , Treya Nash , Carlos Román , Morgan Weeks , Fiona Xue Ju

Recent findings in multi-agent deep learning systems point towards the emergence of compositional languages. These claims are often made without exact analysis or testing of the language. In this work, we analyze the emergent language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Bence Keresztury , Elia Bruni