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most citedLanguage Generation with Recurrent Generative Adversarial Networks without Pre-training

90 citations · 342 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.SE2026

ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs From Scratch?

John Yang, Kilian Lieret, Jeffrey Ma +9

Turning ideas into full software projects from scratch has become a popular use case for language models. Agents are being deployed to seed, maintain, and grow codebases over exten…

cs.SE2025

SWE-fficiency: Can Language Models Optimize Real-World Repositories on Real Workloads?

Jeffrey Jian Ma, Milad Hashemi, Amir Yazdanbakhsh +5

Optimizing the performance of large-scale software repositories demands expertise in code reasoning and software engineering (SWE) to reduce runtime while preserving program correc…

cs.SE2025

CodeClash: Benchmarking Goal-Oriented Software Engineering

John Yang, Kilian Lieret, Joyce Yang +6

Current benchmarks for coding evaluate language models (LMs) on concrete, well-specified tasks such as fixing specific bugs or writing targeted tests. However, human programmers do…

cs.AI2025

Probing the Critical Point (CritPt) of AI Reasoning: a Frontier Physics Research Benchmark

Minhui Zhu, Minyang Tian, Xiaocheng Yang +61

While large language models (LLMs) with reasoning capabilities are progressing rapidly on high-school math competitions and coding, can they reason effectively through complex, ope…

cs.SE2025

AlgoTune: Can Language Models Speed Up General-Purpose Numerical Programs?

Ori Press, Brandon Amos, Haoyu Zhao +21

Despite progress in language model (LM) capabilities, evaluations have thus far focused on models' performance on tasks that humans have previously solved, including in programming…

cs.SE2025

SWE-smith: Scaling Data for Software Engineering Agents

John Yang, Kilian Lieret, Carlos E. Jimenez +7

Despite recent progress in Language Models (LMs) for software engineering, collecting training data remains a significant pain point. Existing datasets are small, with at most 1,00…

cs.AI2025

VideoGameBench: Can Vision-Language Models complete popular video games?

Alex L. Zhang, Thomas L. Griffiths, Karthik R. Narasimhan +1

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong results on coding and math benchmarks that are challenging for humans, yet their ability to perform tasks that come naturally to…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

SWE-bench Multimodal: Do AI Systems Generalize to Visual Software Domains?

John Yang, Carlos E. Jimenez, Alex L. Zhang +10

Autonomous systems for software engineering are now capable of fixing bugs and developing features. These systems are commonly evaluated on SWE-bench (Jimenez et al., 2024a), which…

cs.AI2024

EnIGMA: Interactive Tools Substantially Assist LM Agents in Finding Security Vulnerabilities

Talor Abramovich, Meet Udeshi, Minghao Shao +13

Although language model (LM) agents have demonstrated increased performance in multiple domains, including coding and web-browsing, their success in cybersecurity has been limited.…

cs.AI2024★ 3 cited

SciCode: A Research Coding Benchmark Curated by Scientists

Minyang Tian, Luyu Gao, Shizhuo Dylan Zhang +27

Since language models (LMs) now outperform average humans on many challenging tasks, it has become increasingly difficult to develop challenging, high-quality, and realistic evalua…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

AssistantBench: Can Web Agents Solve Realistic and Time-Consuming Tasks?

Ori Yoran, Samuel Joseph Amouyal, Chaitanya Malaviya +3

Language agents, built on top of language models (LMs), are systems that can interact with complex environments, such as the open web. In this work, we examine whether such agents…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

CiteME: Can Language Models Accurately Cite Scientific Claims?

Ori Press, Andreas Hochlehnert, Ameya Prabhu +3

Thousands of new scientific papers are published each month. Such information overload complicates researcher efforts to stay current with the state-of-the-art as well as to verify…

cs.SE2024★ 30 cited

SWE-agent: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering

John Yang, Carlos E. Jimenez, Alexander Wettig +4

Language model (LM) agents are increasingly being used to automate complicated tasks in digital environments. Just as humans benefit from powerful software applications, such as in…

cs.CL2023★ 53 cited

SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?

Carlos E. Jimenez, John Yang, Alexander Wettig +4

Language models have outpaced our ability to evaluate them effectively, but for their future development it is essential to study the frontier of their capabilities. We find real-w…

cs.CL2023★ 73 cited

How Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball

Muru Zhang, Ofir Press, William Merrill +2

A major risk of using language models in practical applications is their tendency to hallucinate incorrect statements. Hallucinations are often attributed to knowledge gaps in LMs,…

cs.CL2022★ 6 cited

What Language Model to Train if You Have One Million GPU Hours?

Teven Le Scao, Thomas Wang, Daniel Hesslow +16

The crystallization of modeling methods around the Transformer architecture has been a boon for practitioners. Simple, well-motivated architectural variations can transfer across t…

cs.CL2022

BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…

cs.CL2022★ 24 cited

Measuring and Narrowing the Compositionality Gap in Language Models

Ofir Press, Muru Zhang, Sewon Min +3

We investigate the ability of language models to perform compositional reasoning tasks where the overall solution depends on correctly composing the answers to sub-problems. We mea…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Transformer Language Models without Positional Encodings Still Learn Positional Information

Adi Haviv, Ori Ram, Ofir Press +2

Causal transformer language models (LMs), such as GPT-3, typically require some form of positional encoding, such as positional embeddings. However, we show that LMs without any ex…

cs.CL2021★ 31 cited

Train Short, Test Long: Attention with Linear Biases Enables Input Length Extrapolation

Ofir Press, Noah A. Smith, Mike Lewis

Since the introduction of the transformer model by Vaswani et al. (2017), a fundamental question has yet to be answered: how does a model achieve extrapolation at inference time fo…

cs.CL2020

Shortformer: Better Language Modeling using Shorter Inputs

Ofir Press, Noah A. Smith, Mike Lewis

Increasing the input length has been a driver of progress in language modeling with transformers. We identify conditions where shorter inputs are not harmful, and achieve perplexit…

cs.CL2019

Improving Transformer Models by Reordering their Sublayers

Ofir Press, Noah A. Smith, Omer Levy

Multilayer transformer networks consist of interleaved self-attention and feedforward sublayers. Could ordering the sublayers in a different pattern lead to better performance? We…

cs.CL2018★ 22 cited

You May Not Need Attention

Ofir Press, Noah A. Smith

In NMT, how far can we get without attention and without separate encoding and decoding? To answer that question, we introduce a recurrent neural translation model that does not us…

cs.CL2017★ 90 cited

Language Generation with Recurrent Generative Adversarial Networks without Pre-training

Ofir Press, Amir Bar, Ben Bogin +2

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great promise recently in image generation. Training GANs for language generation has proven to be more difficult, because of the…