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We study the problem of learning differentiable functions expressed as programs in a domain-specific language. Such programmatic models can offer benefits such as composability and interpretability; however, learning them requires…

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Layout designs are encountered in a variety of fields. For problems with many design degrees of freedom, efficiency of design methods becomes a major concern. In recent years, machine learning methods such as artificial neural networks have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Chao Qian , Renkai Tan , Wenjing Ye

The traditional approach of hand-crafting priors (such as sparsity) for solving inverse problems is slowly being replaced by the use of richer learned priors (such as those modeled by generative adversarial networks, or GANs). In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Chinmay Hegde

Can reproduction alone in the context of survival produce intelligence in our machines? In this work, self-replication is explored as a mechanism for the emergence of intelligent behavior in modern learning environments. By focusing purely…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Samuel Schmidgall , Joseph Hays

The automatic design of robots has existed for 30 years but has been constricted by serial non-differentiable design evaluations, premature convergence to simple bodies or clumsy behaviors, and a lack of sim2real transfer to physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Luke Strgar , David Matthews , Tyler Hummer , Sam Kriegman

Prompting is a mainstream paradigm for adapting large language models to specific natural language processing tasks without modifying internal parameters. Therefore, detailed supplementary knowledge needs to be integrated into external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Kaiyan Chang , Songcheng Xu , Chenglong Wang , Yingfeng Luo , Xiaoqian Liu , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

The interest in explainability in artificial intelligence (AI) is growing vastly due to the near ubiquitous state of AI in our lives and the increasing complexity of AI systems. Answer-set Programming (ASP) is used in many areas, among them…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Tobias Geibinger

NeuroEvolution (NE) methods are known for applying Evolutionary Computation to the optimisation of Artificial Neural Networks(ANNs). Despite aiding non-expert users to design and train ANNs, the vast majority of NE approaches disregard the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Filipe Assunção , Nuno Lourenço , Bernardete Ribeiro , Penousal Machado

In this paper we consider a problem of searching a space of predictive models for a given training data set. We propose an iterative procedure for deriving a sequence of improving models and a corresponding sequence of sets of non-linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Michael Tetelman

The representation of feature space is a crucial environment where data points get vectorized and embedded for subsequent modeling. Thus the efficacy of machine learning (ML) algorithms is closely related to the quality of feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Xinhao Zhang , Jinghan Zhang , Banafsheh Rekabdar , Yuanchun Zhou , Pengfei Wang , Kunpeng Liu

We live in a world brimming with uncertainty, where we constantly have to make a lot of decisions under incomplete information. We are firm believers that our subjective belief cannot be computed by rigorous mathematical formula; instead…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-02-08 Lizhi Xin , Kevin Xin , Houwen Xin

Human beings are considered as the most intelligent species on Earth. The ability to think, to create, to innovate, are the key elements which make humans superior over other existing species on Earth. Machines lack all those elements,…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Ravin Kumar

How do sequence models represent their decision-making process? Prior work suggests that Othello-playing neural network learned nonlinear models of the board state (Li et al., 2023). In this work, we provide evidence of a closely related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Neel Nanda , Andrew Lee , Martin Wattenberg

With the growth of natural language processing techniques and demand for improved software engineering efficiency, there is an emerging interest in translating intention from human languages to programming languages. In this survey paper,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Celine Lee , Justin Gottschlich , Dan Roth

Generative methods (Gen-AI) are reviewed with a particular goal of solving tasks in machine learning and Bayesian inference. Generative models require one to simulate a large training dataset and to use deep neural networks to solve a…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-20 Maria Nareklishvili , Nick Polson , Vadim Sokolov

AI tasks encompass a wide range of domains and fields. While numerous AI models have been designed for specific tasks and applications, they often require considerable human efforts in finding the right model architecture, optimization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Shujian Zhang , Chengyue Gong , Lemeng Wu , Xingchao Liu , Mingyuan Zhou

The human brain is a complex system that is fascinating scientists since a long time. Its remarkable capabilities include categorization of concepts, retrieval of memories and creative generation of new examples. At the same time, modern…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-10-10 Enrico Ventura

Recently, it has been proven that evolutionary algorithms produce good results for a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. Some of the considered problems are tackled by evolutionary algorithms that use a representation which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Benjamin Doerr , Anton Eremeev , Frank Neumann , Madeleine Theile , Christian Thyssen

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

Artificial neural networks learn how to solve new problems through a computationally intense and time consuming process. One way to reduce the amount of time required is to inject preexisting knowledge into the network. To make use of past…

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