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In-Context Learning (ICL) in transformers acts as an online associative memory and is believed to underpin their high performance on complex sequence processing tasks. However, in gated linear attention models, this memory has a fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Djohan Bonnet , Jamie Lohoff , Jan Finkbeiner , Elidona Skhikerujah , Emre Neftci

The surprising ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform well on complex reasoning with only few-shot chain-of-thought prompts is believed to emerge only in very large-scale models (100+ billion parameters). We show that such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yao Fu , Hao Peng , Litu Ou , Ashish Sabharwal , Tushar Khot

This paper introduces a novel approach to enhance the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in processing and understanding extensive text sequences, a critical aspect in applications requiring deep comprehension and synthesis of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Kaiqiang Song , Xiaoyang Wang , Sangwoo Cho , Xiaoman Pan , Dong Yu

Structured state space models' (SSMs) development in recent studies, such as Mamba and Mamba2, outperformed and solved the computational inefficiency of transformers and large language models at small to medium scale. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Emadeldeen Hamdan , Hongyi Pan , Ahmet Enis Cetin

We present the first comprehensive study of latent multi-head attention (MLA) for small language models, revealing interesting efficiency-quality trade-offs. Training 30M-parameter GPT models on 100,000 synthetic stories, we benchmark three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Sushant Mehta , Raj Dandekar , Rajat Dandekar , Sreedath Panat

The machine learning community has witnessed impressive advancements since large language models (LLMs) first appeared. Yet, their massive memory consumption has become a significant roadblock to large-scale training. For instance, a 7B…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Rui Pan , Xiang Liu , Shizhe Diao , Renjie Pi , Jipeng Zhang , Chi Han , Tong Zhang

With the growing demand for deploying large language models (LLMs) across diverse applications, improving their inference efficiency is crucial for sustainable and democratized access. However, retraining LLMs to meet new user-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mingyu Yang , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Guihong Li , Vikram Appia , Emad Barsoum

Large language models have become central to many AI applications, but their growing energy consumption raises serious sustainability concerns. A key limitation in current AI deployments is the reliance on a one-size-fits-all inference…

Existing CNN-based speech separation models face local receptive field limitations and cannot effectively capture long time dependencies. Although LSTM and Transformer-based speech separation models can avoid this problem, their high…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Kai Li , Guo Chen , Runxuan Yang , Xiaolin Hu

While Long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning significantly improves Large Language Models (LLMs) performance on complex reasoning tasks, the substantial computational and memory costs of generating long CoT sequences limit their efficiency…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Liang Zhang , Yu Zhao , Longyue Wang , Tianqi Shi , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang , Jinsong Su

This study evaluates the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) on SemEval-2020 Task 4 dataset, focusing on commonsense validation and explanation. Our methodology involves evaluating multiple LLMs, including LLaMA3-70B, Gemma2-9B, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Rawand Alfugaha , Mohammad AL-Smadi

State space models (SSMs) have been shown to possess the theoretical capacity to model both star-free sequential tasks and bounded hierarchical structures Sarrof et al. (2024). However, formal expressivity results do not guarantee that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Hongxu Zhou

Mathematical reasoning is a cornerstone of artificial general intelligence and a primary benchmark for evaluating the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). While state-of-the-art models show promise, they often falter when faced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yifan Hao , Fangning Chao , Yaqian Hao , Zhaojun Cui , Huan Bai , Haiyu Zhang , Yankai Liu , Chao Deng , Junlan Feng

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted as automated judges in benchmarking and reward modeling, ensuring their reliability, efficiency, and robustness has become critical. In this work, we present a systematic comparison…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Pratik Jayarao , Himanshu Gupta , Neeraj Varshney , Chaitanya Dwivedi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved excellent performances in various tasks. However, fine-tuning an LLM requires extensive supervision. Human, on the other hand, may improve their reasoning abilities by self-thinking without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Jiaxin Huang , Shixiang Shane Gu , Le Hou , Yuexin Wu , Xuezhi Wang , Hongkun Yu , Jiawei Han

Inference-time scaling has attracted much attention which significantly enhance the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in complex reasoning tasks by increasing the length of Chain-of-Thought. These longer intermediate reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Hongru Wang , Deng Cai , Wanjun Zhong , Shijue Huang , Jeff Z. Pan , Zeming Liu , Kam-Fai Wong

Robust selective auditory attention under multilingual interference is critical for reliable deployment of Large Audio Language Models (LALMs). We introduce MUSA, a cocktail party-inspired multilingual benchmark for source-grounded…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Heejoon Koo

Improving the mathematical reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) is critical for advancing artificial intelligence. However, access to extensive, diverse, and high-quality reasoning datasets remains a significant challenge,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yuyang Ding , Xinyu Shi , Xiaobo Liang , Juntao Li , Zhaopeng Tu , Qiaoming Zhu , Min Zhang

Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve strong performance through extended reasoning traces, but they often exhibit overthinking behavior for low-complexity queries. Existing efforts to mitigate this issue are fundamentally limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zihang Xu , Haozhi Xie , Ziqi Miao , Wuxuan Gong , Chen Qian , Lijun Li

State space models (SSMs) have recently shown promising results on small-scale sequence and language modelling tasks, rivalling and outperforming many attention-based approaches. In this paper, we propose a multi-head state space (MH-SSM)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-29 Yassir Fathullah , Chunyang Wu , Yuan Shangguan , Junteng Jia , Wenhan Xiong , Jay Mahadeokar , Chunxi Liu , Yangyang Shi , Ozlem Kalinli , Mike Seltzer , Mark J. F. Gales