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Source code representation with deep learning techniques is an important research field. There have been many studies that learn sequential or structural information for code representation. But sequence-based models and non-sequence-models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Kechi Zhang , Zhuo Li , Zhi Jin , Ge Li

Language model representations often contain linear directions that correspond to high-level concepts. Here, we study the dynamics of these representations: how representations evolve along these dimensions within the context of (simulated)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Andrew Kyle Lampinen , Yuxuan Li , Eghbal Hosseini , Sangnie Bhardwaj , Murray Shanahan

The remarkable success of large language models has been driven by dense models trained on massive unlabeled, unstructured corpora. These corpora typically contain text from diverse, heterogeneous sources, but information about the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Alexandra Chronopoulou , Matthew E. Peters , Jesse Dodge

We demonstrate the utility of a new methodological tool, neural-network word embedding models, for large-scale text analysis, revealing how these models produce richer insights into cultural associations and categories than possible with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Austin C. Kozlowski , Matt Taddy , James A. Evans

Understanding, reasoning, and manipulating semantic concepts of images have been a fundamental research problem for decades. Previous work mainly focused on direct manipulation on natural image manifold through color strokes, key-points,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Seunghoon Hong , Xinchen Yan , Thomas Huang , Honglak Lee

Understanding what knowledge is implicitly encoded in deep learning models is essential for improving the interpretability of AI systems. This paper examines common methods to explain the knowledge encoded in word embeddings, which are core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Hanna Herasimchyk , Alhassan Abdelhalim , Sören Laue , Michaela Regneri

The ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to encode syntactic and semantic structures of language is well examined in NLP. Additionally, analogy identification, in the form of word analogies are extensively studied in the last decade of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Thilini Wijesiriwardene , Ruwan Wickramarachchi , Aishwarya Naresh Reganti , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha , Amit Sheth , Amitava Das

In this paper we present a novel method for learning hierarchical representations of Markov decision processes. Our method works by partitioning the state space into subsets, and defines subtasks for performing transitions between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Lorenzo Steccanella , Simone Totaro , Anders Jonsson

Recent works have argued that high-level semantic concepts are encoded "linearly" in the representation space of large language models. In this work, we study the origins of such linear representations. To that end, we introduce a simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yibo Jiang , Goutham Rajendran , Pradeep Ravikumar , Bryon Aragam , Victor Veitch

Translating a program written in one programming language to another can be useful for software development tasks that need functionality implementations in different languages. Although past studies have considered this problem, they may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Nghi D. Q. Bui , Lingxiao Jiang

Different from the traditional classification tasks which assume mutual exclusion of labels, hierarchical multi-label classification (HMLC) aims to assign multiple labels to every instance with the labels organized under hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Boli Chen , Xin Huang , Lin Xiao , Zixin Cai , Liping Jing

Large language models (LLMs) show remarkable capabilities across a variety of tasks. Despite the models only seeing text in training, several recent studies suggest that LLM representations implicitly capture aspects of the underlying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yutaro Yamada , Yihan Bao , Andrew K. Lampinen , Jungo Kasai , Ilker Yildirim

Interpretable-by-design models are gaining traction in computer vision because they provide faithful explanations for their predictions. In image classification, these models typically recover human-interpretable concepts from an image and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nghia Nguyen , Tianjiao Ding , René Vidal

In this paper, we develop a neural summarization model which can effectively process multiple input documents and distill Transformer architecture with the ability to encode documents in a hierarchical manner. We represent cross-document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Yang Liu , Mirella Lapata

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success and demonstrated superior performance across various tasks, including natural language processing (NLP), weather forecasting, biological protein folding, text generation, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sarang Patil , Zeyong Zhang , Yiran Huang , Tengfei Ma , Mengjia Xu

Although behavioral studies have documented numerical reasoning errors in large language models (LLMs), the underlying representational mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesize that numerical attributes occupy shared latent subspaces and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hirohane Takagi , Gouki Minegishi , Shota Kizawa , Issey Sukeda , Hitomi Yanaka

Despite the abundance of multi-modal data, such as image-text pairs, there has been little effort in understanding the individual entities and their different roles in the construction of these data instances. In this work, we endeavour to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Hai X. Pham , Ricardo Guerrero , Jiatong Li , Vladimir Pavlovic

Establishing semantic correspondence across images when the objects in the images have undergone complex deformations remains a challenging task in the field of computer vision. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical method to tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Akila Pemasiri , Kien Nguyen , Sridha Sridhara , and Clinton Fookes

Hierarchical Multiscale LSTM (Chung et al., 2016a) is a state-of-the-art language model that learns interpretable structure from character-level input. Such models can provide fertile ground for (cognitive) computational linguistics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Ákos Kádár , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Grzegorz Chrupała , Afra Alishahi

Despite the recent success of deep neural networks in natural language processing (NLP), their interpretability remains a challenge. We analyze the representations learned by neural machine translation models at various levels of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Yonatan Belinkov , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , Hassan Sajjad , James Glass