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20172026
most citedAlphaX: eXploring Neural Architectures with Deep Neural Networks and Monte Carlo Tree Search

54 citations · 90 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.RO2026

Orienteering Problem with Uncertain Time-Varying Rewards: Framework and Benchmark for Everyday Service Robotics

Masafumi Endo, Kohei Honda, Yuu Jinnai +1

We present the orienteering problem with uncertain time-varying rewards (OP-UTVR), a novel variant of the orienteering problem (OP). While most existing OP formulations assume rewa…

cs.CL2026

JOR-Bench: Japanese Operations Research Benchmarks for Large Language Models

Yuu Jinnai

We present JOR-Bench, a collection of five Japanese-language benchmarks for evaluating the ability of large language models (LLMs) to formulate and solve operations research (OR) p…

cs.CL2026

Cost of Reasoning in non-English Languages: A Case Study on Japanese

Yuu Jinnai

Reasoning Language Models (RLMs) achieve their strongest performance when they reason in English, the language for which reasoning-oriented training data is most abundant. However,…

cs.CL2026

CAT-Translate: Building Compact Open-Source Models for Japanese-English Translation

Yuu Jinnai

Nowadays, large multilingual translation models demonstrate impressive translation capabilities in the machine translation benchmarks. This raises a practical question to the devel…

cs.LG2026

Consensus Group Relative Policy Optimization for Text Generation

Yuki Ichihara, Yuu Jinnai, Kaito Ariu +1

Many strong decoding methods for text generation follow a sample-and-rerank paradigm: they draw multiple candidates, score each under a utility (reward) function using consensus ac…

cs.CL2025

Re-evaluating Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Automatic Speech Recognition

Yuu Jinnai

Recent work has shown that sample-based Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoding outperforms beam search in text-to-text generation tasks, such as machine translation, text summarization,…

cs.LG2025

MO-GRPO: Mitigating Reward Hacking of Group Relative Policy Optimization on Multi-Objective Problems

Yuki Ichihara, Yuu Jinnai, Tetsuro Morimura +3

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has been shown to be an effective algorithm when an accurate reward model is available. However, such a highly reliable reward model is no…

cs.CL2025

Do Large Language Models Know Folktales? A Case Study of Yokai in Japanese Folktales

Ayuto Tsutsumi, Yuu Jinnai

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong language understanding and generation abilities across various languages, their cultural knowledge is often limited t…

cs.CL2025

Document-Level Text Generation with Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding using Optimal Transport

Yuu Jinnai

Document-level text generation tasks are known to be more difficult than sentence-level text generation tasks as they require the understanding of longer context to generate high-q…

cs.CL2025

Evaluation of Best-of-N Sampling Strategies for Language Model Alignment

Yuki Ichihara, Yuu Jinnai, Tetsuro Morimura +4

Best-of-N (BoN) sampling with a reward model has been shown to be an effective strategy for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences at the time of decoding. Bo…

cs.CL2025

Theoretical Guarantees for Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding

Yuki Ichihara, Yuu Jinnai, Kaito Ariu +2

Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoding optimizes output selection by maximizing the expected utility value of an underlying human distribution. While prior work has shown the effectiven…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Does Cross-Cultural Alignment Change the Commonsense Morality of Language Models?

Yuu Jinnai

Alignment of the language model with human preferences is a common approach to making a language model useful to end users. However, most alignment work is done in English, and hum…

cs.CL2024

Annotation-Efficient Language Model Alignment via Diverse and Representative Response Texts

Yuu Jinnai, Ukyo Honda

Preference optimization is a standard approach to fine-tuning large language models to align with human preferences. The quantity, diversity, and representativeness of the preferen…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Filtered Direct Preference Optimization

Tetsuro Morimura, Mitsuki Sakamoto, Yuu Jinnai +2

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) plays a crucial role in aligning language models with human preferences. While the significance of dataset quality is generally re…

cs.CL2024

Regularized Best-of-N Sampling with Minimum Bayes Risk Objective for Language Model Alignment

Yuu Jinnai, Tetsuro Morimura, Kaito Ariu +1

Best-of-N (BoN) sampling with a reward model has been shown to be an effective strategy for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) to human preferences at the time of decoding. BoN…

cs.CL2024

On the True Distribution Approximation of Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding

Atsumoto Ohashi, Ukyo Honda, Tetsuro Morimura +1

Minimum Bayes-risk (MBR) decoding has recently gained renewed attention in text generation. MBR decoding considers texts sampled from a model as pseudo-references and selects the t…

cs.CL2024

Generating Diverse and High-Quality Texts by Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding

Yuu Jinnai, Ukyo Honda, Tetsuro Morimura +1

One of the most important challenges in text generation systems is to produce outputs that are not only correct but also diverse. Recently, Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding has ga…

cs.AI2024

Hyperparameter-Free Approach for Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding

Yuu Jinnai, Kaito Ariu

Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding is shown to be a powerful alternative to beam search decoding for a wide range of text generation tasks. However, MBR requires a huge amount of ti…

cs.AI2023

Model-Based Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Text Generation

Yuu Jinnai, Tetsuro Morimura, Ukyo Honda +2

Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoding has been shown to be a powerful alternative to beam search decoding in a variety of text generation tasks. MBR decoding selects a hypothesis from…

cs.CL2023

On the Depth between Beam Search and Exhaustive Search for Text Generation

Yuu Jinnai, Tetsuro Morimura, Ukyo Honda

Beam search and exhaustive search are two extreme ends of text decoding algorithms with respect to the search depth. Beam search is limited in both search width and depth, whereas…

cs.LG2020

Lipschitz Lifelong Reinforcement Learning

Erwan Lecarpentier, David Abel, Kavosh Asadi +3

We consider the problem of knowledge transfer when an agent is facing a series of Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks. We introduce a novel metric between Markov Decision Processes (…

cs.AI2019★ 11 cited

Discovering Options for Exploration by Minimizing Cover Time

Yuu Jinnai, Jee Won Park, David Abel +1

One of the main challenges in reinforcement learning is solving tasks with sparse reward. We show that the difficulty of discovering a distant rewarding state in an MDP is bounded…

cs.CV2019★ 54 cited

AlphaX: eXploring Neural Architectures with Deep Neural Networks and Monte Carlo Tree Search

Linnan Wang, Yiyang Zhao, Yuu Jinnai +2

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great success in automating the design of neural networks, but the prohibitive amount of computations behind current NAS methods requires…

cs.AI2018★ 7 cited

Finding Options that Minimize Planning Time

Yuu Jinnai, David Abel, D Ellis Hershkowitz +2

We formalize the problem of selecting the optimal set of options for planning as that of computing the smallest set of options so that planning converges in less than a given maxim…