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Aligning language models (LMs) with user intent is becoming increasingly relevant to enhance user experience. This calls for designing methods that can allow users to control the properties of the language that LMs generate, for example,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Vinay Samuel , Harshita Diddee , Yiming Zhang , Daphne Ippolito

Although pre-trained language models encode generic knowledge beneficial for planning and control, they may fail to generate appropriate control policies for domain-specific tasks. Existing fine-tuning methods use human feedback to address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yunhao Yang , Neel P. Bhatt , Tyler Ingebrand , William Ward , Steven Carr , Zhangyang Wang , Ufuk Topcu

Energy consumption analysis of IT-controlled systems can play a major role in minimising the overall energy consumption of such IT systems, during the development phase, or for optimisation in the field. Recently, a precise energy analysis…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Bernard van Gastel , Marko van Eekelen

The AgentSpeak type of languages are considered for decision making in autonomous control systems. To reduce the complexity and increase the verifiability of decision making, a limited instruction set agent (LISA) is introduced. The new…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Paolo Izzo , Hongyang Qu , Sandor M. Veres

Controllable text generation has taken a gigantic step forward these days. Yet existing methods are either constrained in a one-off pattern or not efficient enough for receiving multiple conditions at every generation stage. We propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Haoqin Tu , Zhongliang Yang , Jinshuai Yang , Siyu Zhang , Yongfeng Huang

The conversational recommender systems (CRSs) have received extensive attention in recent years. However, most of the existing works focus on various deep learning models, which are largely limited by the requirement of large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jun Quan , Ze Wei , Qiang Gan , Jingqi Yao , Jingyi Lu , Yuchen Dong , Yiming Liu , Yi Zeng , Chao Zhang , Yongzhi Li , Huang Hu , Yingying He , Yang Yang , Daxin Jiang

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) has lead to the development of agents capable of complex reasoning and interaction with external tools. In enterprise contexts, the effective use of such tools that are often enabled by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Prerna Agarwal , Himanshu Gupta , Soujanya Soni , Rohith Vallam , Renuka Sindhgatta , Sameep Mehta

Logic programming provides a very high-level view of programming, which comes at the cost of some execution efficiency. Improving performance of logic programs is thus one of the holy grails of Prolog system implementations and a wide range…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-09-21 Paulo André , Salvador Abreu

What is here called controlled natural language (CNL) has traditionally been given many different names. Especially during the last four decades, a wide variety of such languages have been designed. They are applied to improve communication…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Tobias Kuhn

In this paper, we propose an actor ensemble algorithm, named ACE, for continuous control with a deterministic policy in reinforcement learning. In ACE, we use actor ensemble (i.e., multiple actors) to search the global maxima of the critic.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Shangtong Zhang , Hao Chen , Hengshuai Yao

The success of several constraint-based modeling languages such as OPL, ZINC, or COMET, appeals for better software engineering practices, particularly in the testing phase. This paper introduces a testing framework enabling automated test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Nadjib Lazaar , Arnaud Gotlieb , Lebbah Yahia

ELAN is a powerful language and environment for specifying and prototyping deduction systems in a language based on rewrite rules controlled by strategies. Timed automata is a class of continuous real-time models of reactive systems for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Emmanuel Beffara , Olivier Bournez , Hassen Kacem , Claude Kirchner

ELAN is a powerful language and environment for specifying and prototyping deduction systems in a language based on rewrite rules controlled by strategies. Timed automata is a class of continuous real-time models of reactive systems for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-07-20 Emmanuel Beffara , Olivier Bournez , Hassen Kacem , Claude Kirchner

We describe an architecture for implementing spoken natural language dialogue interfaces to semi-autonomous systems, in which the central idea is to transform the input speech signal through successive levels of representation corresponding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Manny Rayner , Beth Ann Hockey , Frankie James

Large language models are moving scientific research from text assistance toward agentic workflows, yet biological research requires strong object validation, methodological suitability, reproducibility, and auditability. Prompt…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-25 Zhenyu Ma , Yuyang Song , Chunyi Yang , Jingyi Zhu , Limei Xu , Min Xiao , Xukai Jiang

English language requirements are often used to specify the behavior of complex cyber-physical systems. The process of transforming these requirements to a formal specification language is often challenging, especially if the specification…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-04-28 John D. Backes , Michael W. Whalen , Andrew Gacek , John Komp

Commit messages in a version control system provide valuable information for developers regarding code changes in software systems. Commit messages can be the only source of information left for future developers describing what was changed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yousab Grees , Polina Iaremchuk , Ramtin Ehsani , Esteban Parra , Preetha Chatterjee , Sonia Haiduc

Current communication technologies face limitations in terms of theoretical capacity, spectrum availability, and power resources. Pragmatic communication, leveraging terminal intelligence for selective data transmission, offers resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jiaxuan Li , Minxi Yang , Dahua Gao , Wenlong Xu , Guangming Shi

We introduce CGA, a conditional VAE architecture, to control, generate, and augment text. CGA is able to generate natural English sentences controlling multiple semantic and syntactic attributes by combining adversarial learning with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Giuseppe Russo , Nora Hollenstein , Claudiu Musat , Ce Zhang

Constraint automata (CA) constitute a coordination model based on finite automata on infinite words. Originally introduced for modeling of coordinators, an interesting new application of CAs is implementing coordinators (i.e., compiling CAs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Sung-Shik T. Q. Jongmans , Farhad Arbab