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Synthetic data generation has emerged as an invaluable solution in scenarios where real-world data collection and usage are limited by cost and scarcity. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in producing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Anh Nguyen , Sam Schafft , Nicholas Hale , John Alfaro

Token filtering has been proposed to enhance the utility of large language models (LLMs) by eliminating inconsequential tokens during training. While usingfewer tokens is expected to reduce computational workloads, existing methods have not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Di Chai , Pengbo Li , Feiyuan Zhang , Yilun Jin , Han Tian , Kaiqiang Xu , Binhang Yuan , Dian Shen , Junxue Zhang , Kai Chen

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) is critically dependent on the availability of high-quality datasets for Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), alignment tasks like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), etc. In this work, we present…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Bidyapati Pradhan , Surajit Dasgupta , Amit Kumar Saha , Omkar Anustoop , Sriram Puttagunta , Vipul Mittal , Gopal Sarda

Training models on synthetic data has emerged as an increasingly important strategy for improving the performance of generative AI. This approach is particularly helpful for large multimodal models (LMMs) due to the relative scarcity of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Estelle Aflalo , Avinash Madasu , Vasudev Lal , Phillip Howard

This survey reviews how large language models (LLMs) are transforming synthetic training data generation in both natural language and code domains. By producing artificial but task-relevant examples, these models can significantly augment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Mihai Nadas , Laura Diosan , Andreea Tomescu

Reinforcement learning has been shown to improve the performance of large language models. However, traditional approaches like RLHF or RLAIF treat the problem as single-step. As focus shifts toward more complex reasoning and agentic tasks,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Anna Goldie , Azalia Mirhoseini , Hao Zhou , Irene Cai , Christopher D. Manning

Meeting stringent Time-To-First-Token (TTFT) requirements is crucial for LLM applications. To improve efficiency, modern LLM serving systems adopt disaggregated architectures with diverse parallelisms, introducing complex multi-stage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yijun Sun , Xudong Liao , Songrun Xie , Hao Chen , Han Tian , Wenxue Li , Yiming Zhang , Kai Chen

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines are central to applying large language models (LLMs) to proprietary or dynamic data. However, building effective RAG flows is complex, requiring careful selection among vector databases,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alexander Conway , Debadeepta Dey , Stefan Hackmann , Matthew Hausknecht , Michael Schmidt , Mark Steadman , Nick Volynets

Recent smaller language models such Phi-3.5 and Phi-4 rely on synthetic data generated using larger Language models. Questions remain about leveraging synthetic data for other use cases, such as adapting LLMs to specific domains. A key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Haris Riaz , Sourav Bhabesh , Vinayak Arannil , Miguel Ballesteros , Graham Horwood

Large Language Models (LLMs) often expend significant computational resources generating boilerplate responses, such as refusals, simple acknowledgements and casual greetings, which adds unnecessary cost and latency. To address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuval Kainan , Shaked Zychlinski

We introduce Model Feedback Learning (MFL), a novel test-time optimization framework for optimizing inputs to pre-trained AI models or deployed hardware systems without requiring any retraining of the models or modifications to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Shangding Gu , Donghao Ying , Ming Jin , Yu Joe Lu , Jun Wang , Javad Lavaei , Costas Spanos

The success of large language models (LLMs) depends heavily on large-scale, high-quality instruction-following and reinforcement datasets. However, generating such data through human annotation is prohibitively time-consuming particularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chenhua Shi , Gregor Macdonald , Bhavika Jalli , Wanlu Lei , John Zou , Mridul Jain , Joji Philip

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in handling long context inputs, but this comes at the cost of increased computational resources and latency. Our research introduces a novel approach for the long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zhenmei Shi , Yifei Ming , Xuan-Phi Nguyen , Yingyu Liang , Shafiq Joty

Automatic detection of depression is a rapidly growing field of research at the intersection of psychology and machine learning. However, with its exponential interest comes a growing concern for data privacy and scarcity due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Andrea Kang , Jun Yu Chen , Zoe Lee-Youngzie , Shuhao Fu

Machine unlearning without access to real data distribution is challenging. The existing method based on data-free distillation achieved unlearning by filtering out synthetic samples containing forgetting information but struggled to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Chenhao Zhang , Shaofei Shen , Weitong Chen , Miao Xu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multilingual capabilities, making them promising tools in both high- and low-resource languages. One particularly valuable use case is generating synthetic samples that can be used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Branislav Pecher , Jan Cegin , Robert Belanec , Ivan Srba , Jakub Simko , Maria Bielikova

The dominant approach to generating from language models subject to some constraint is locally constrained decoding (LCD), incrementally sampling tokens at each time step such that the constraint is never violated. Typically, this is…

Synthetic tabular data generation is increasingly essential in data management, supporting downstream applications when real-world and high-quality tabular data is insufficient. Existing tabular generation approaches, such as generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Mingxuan Jiang , Yongxin Wang , Ziyue Dai , Yicun Liu , Hongyi Nie , Sen Liu , Hongfeng Chai

Code generation aims to automatically generate code snippets that meet given natural language requirements and plays an important role in software development. Although Code LLMs have shown excellent performance in this domain, their long…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Lianghong Guo , Yanlin Wang , Ensheng Shi , Wanjun Zhong , Hongyu Zhang , Jiachi Chen , Ruikai Zhang , Yuchi Ma , Zibin Zheng

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in code generation tasks. However, there remains a performance gap between open-source and closed-source models. To address this gap, existing approaches typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Weijie Lv , Xuan Xia , Sheng-Jun Huang
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