Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training with generative reward models (GenRM) has become a central recipe for improving large language models (LLMs), and it is also increasingly resource-intensive: policy rollout, GenRM-based reward evaluation, and policy training all compete for GPU resources. However, existing colo...
Yan-Feng Zhao, Hao-Yang Li, Sheng Lin et al.· 0 citations
This paper presents GpFlash, a Gaussian process library that is focused on fast training and posterior evaluations, minimal memory usage, and scalability to high-dimensional problems. GpFlash was compared to the popular GP libraries scikit-learn, GPy, GPflow, GPyTorch, and SMT on a MacBook Pro and the supercomputer Tri...
Diffusion and flow-matching models may struggle to accurately represent distributional tails, especially for heavy-tailed data. Existing approaches often use heavy-tailed noise or modify the generative dynamics, requiring dedicated retraining and more difficult estimation. We take a simpler approach: rather than relear...
Hamza Cherkaoui, Hélène Halconruy, Antonio Ocello· 0 citations
When does a shared representation become insufficient for jointly supporting multiple tasks? This question lies at the heart of multi-task learning models. Although task interference in shared representations has been widely observed, its onset, measurable form, and capacity boundary remain poorly understood. In this p...
Yang Wu, Hanyu Zhao, Yazhou Zhang et al.· 0 citations
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A release decision about a fine-tuned model is an operational commitment about the \emph{next} rerun of its training recipe. Yet standard benchmark reporting gives only the mean accuracy of past seeds. These target fundamentally different questions: release decisions depend on catastrophic tail risk, whereas standard e...
Symbolic regression (SR) aims to discover interpretable mathematical expressions from data and plays a key role in scientific discovery. However, existing methods face a common bottleneck: the enormous search space and severe combinatorial explosion make it difficult to achieve a favorable trade-off between accuracy an...
Yu-Xiao Hu, Qian Li, Ding Wang et al.· 3 citations
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) enables transformers to solve complex reasoning tasks by generating intermediate reasoning steps. Despite strong empirical success, the mechanisms by which such reasoning abilities emerge during training remain poorly understood, particularly from a theoretical perspective. In this work, we study...
Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is widely used in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards for language-model reasoning. While \emph{value evolution along trajectory} characterizes relative token-level credit, yet standard critics often fail to track it under sparse terminal rewards. To model this evolution, w...
Futing Wang, Chenxi Li, Jianhao Yan et al.· 0 citations
Adaptive optimization methods have received considerable attention in recent years due to their strong empirical performance. However, they generally require maintaining a preconditioning matrix, which incurs prohibitive computational overhead in large-scale applications. To address these limitations, we investigate th...
Si-Fan Yang, Yuanyu Wan, Yi-Bo Wang et al.· 0 citations
Comparing machine-labelled sentiment across social media platforms is now routine: differences in classifier scores between platforms are read as differences in public opinion. These comparisons rest on an assumption that the classifier measures the same construct, on the same scale, on every platform. Some studies che...
We present NFMap, a dimensionality reduction method for 2D visualisation that extends Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM) with a bijective normalizing flow. Like GTM, NFMap places a fixed mixture grid prior over a 2D latent map, giving a parametric embedding, an explicit likelihood, and the ability to project new poin...
Existing benchmarks for GUI agents primarily focus on increasing task difficulty by extending task horizons. Besides, enabling agents to explore unfamiliar environments and successfully complete tasks within them is also a critical yet challenging problem. We introduce LatentGUIWorld, a benchmark of six tasks in three...
Jia-Hao Lu, Yi-Ze Shen, Chuan-Yuan Tan et al.· 0 citations
A machine-learning approach called CheMeleon provides a practical way to develop new drugs or other molecules with much less detailed, expensive experimentation.
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