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Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-09 Tom Schierenbeck , Vladimir Vutov , Thorsten Dickhaus , Michael Beetz

Large language models (LLMs) have attracted great attention given their strong performance on a wide range of NLP tasks. In practice, users often expect generated texts to fall within a specific length range, making length controlled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Renlong Jie , Xiaojun Meng , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

The dominant approach to sequence generation is to produce a sequence in some predefined order, e.g. left to right. In contrast, we propose a more general model that can generate the output sequence by inserting tokens in any arbitrary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Dmitrii Emelianenko , Elena Voita , Pavel Serdyukov

Two novel views are presented on the trapdoor channel. First, by deriving the underlying iterated function system (IFS), it is shown that the trapdoor channel with input blocks of length $n$ can be regarded as the $n$th element of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Tobias Lutz

We develop a new metric for quantifying end-to-end throughput in multihop wireless networks, which we term random access transport capacity, since the interference model presumes uncoordinated transmissions. The metric quantifies the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jeffrey G. Andrews , Steven Weber , Marios Kountouris , Martin Haenggi

Sequence modeling has important applications in natural language processing and computer vision. Recently, the transformer-based models have shown strong performance on various sequence modeling tasks, which rely on attention to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zhen Qin , Xiaodong Han , Weixuan Sun , Bowen He , Dong Li , Dongxu Li , Yuchao Dai , Lingpeng Kong , Yiran Zhong

This article describes our experiments in neural machine translation using the recent Tensor2Tensor framework and the Transformer sequence-to-sequence model (Vaswani et al., 2017). We examine some of the critical parameters that affect the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Martin Popel , Ondřej Bojar

With the exponentially faster computation for certain problems, quantum computing has garnered significant attention in recent years. Variational quantum algorithms are crucial methods to implement quantum computing, and an appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Fei Zhang , Jie Li , Zhimin He , Haozhen Situ

The transformer has been shown to outperform recurrent neural network-based sequence-to-sequence models in various word-level NLP tasks. Yet for character-level transduction tasks, e.g. morphological inflection generation and historical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Shijie Wu , Ryan Cotterell , Mans Hulden

It is a widely known issue that Transformers, when trained on shorter sequences, fail to generalize robustly to longer ones at test time. This raises the question of whether Transformer models are real reasoning engines, despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Ruining Li , Gabrijel Boduljak , Jensen , Zhou

Natural language processing (NLP) made an impressive jump with the introduction of Transformers. ChatGPT is one of the most famous examples, changing the perception of the possibilities of AI even outside the research community. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Silas Alberti , Niclas Dern , Laura Thesing , Gitta Kutyniok

Pretrained using large amount of data, autoregressive language models are able to generate high quality sequences. However, these models do not perform well under hard lexical constraints as they lack fine control of content generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Lee-Hsun Hsieh , Yang-Yin Lee , Ee-Peng Lim

Large language models often struggle with length generalization and solving complex problem instances beyond their training distribution. We present a self-improvement approach where models iteratively generate and learn from their own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Nayoung Lee , Ziyang Cai , Avi Schwarzschild , Kangwook Lee , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

We investigate transformer prediction of long Collatz steps, a complex arithmetic function that maps odd integers to their distant successors in the Collatz sequence ( $u_{n+1}=u_n/2$ if $u_n$ is even, $u_{n+1}=(3u_n+1)/2$ if $u_n$ is odd).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 François Charton , Ashvni Narayanan

The Transformer and its variants have been proven to be efficient sequence learners in many different domains. Despite their staggering success, a critical issue has been the enormous number of parameters that must be trained (ranging from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Subhabrata Dutta , Tanya Gautam , Soumen Chakrabarti , Tanmoy Chakraborty

In the context of mining for frequent patterns using the standard levelwise algorithm, the following question arises: given the current level and the current set of frequent patterns, what is the maximal number of candidate patterns that…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Floris Geerts , Bart Goethals , Jan Van den Bussche

Large language models can produce creative and diverse responses. However, to integrate them into current developer workflows, it is essential to constrain their outputs to follow specific formats or standards. In this work, we surveyed 51…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Michael Xieyang Liu , Frederick Liu , Alexander J. Fiannaca , Terry Koo , Lucas Dixon , Michael Terry , Carrie J. Cai

We study the problem of optimizing Large Language Model (LLM) inference scheduling to minimize total latency. LLM inference is an online and multi-task service process and also heavily energy consuming by which a pre-trained LLM processes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zixi Chen , Yinyu Ye , Zijie Zhou

Large Language Models (LLMs) are nowadays extensively used for various types of software engineering tasks, primarily code generation. Previous research has shown how suitable prompt engineering could help developers in improving their code…

Pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) are high-nonlinear processes, and they are key blocks in optimization of Large language models. Transformers excel at processing complex nonlinear relationships. Thus it is reasonable to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ran Li , Lingshu Zeng