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9 papers

cs.LG2026

Evolutionary Feature Engineering for Structured Data

Ege Onur Taga, Yilin Zhuang, M. Emrullah Ildiz +4

Large language models are increasingly used as open-ended search operators in evolutionary optimization. We introduce Evolutionary Feature Engineering (EFE), a framework for using…

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Evolutionary Multi-Task Optimization for LLM-Guided Program Discovery

Halil Alperen Gozeten, Xuechen Zhang, Emrullah Ildiz +3

Recent LLM-guided evolutionary search methods have shown that iterative program mutation can discover strong algorithms, but they typically optimize each task independently, even w…

eess.SY2026

On the Generalization Properties of Selective State-Space Models for Filtering Tasks for Unknown Systems

Alex Tang, M. Emrullah Ildiz, Batin Kurt +2

Selective State-Space Models (SSMs) such as Mamba have emerged as an alternative architecture to self-attention based transformers in sequence modeling tasks. Recent works have dem…

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Learning to Correct: Calibrated Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Attempt Chain-of-Thought

Muhammed Emrullah Ildiz, Halil Alperen Gozeten, Ege Onur Taga +1

State-of-the-art reasoning models utilize long chain-of-thought (CoT) to solve increasingly complex problems using more test-time computation. In this work, we explore a long CoT s…

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Retrieval Augmented Time Series Forecasting

Kutay Tire, Ege Onur Taga, Muhammed Emrullah Ildiz +1

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a central component of modern LLM systems, particularly in scenarios where up-to-date information is crucial for accurately responding to us…

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Continuous Chain of Thought Enables Parallel Exploration and Reasoning

Halil Alperen Gozeten, M. Emrullah Ildiz, Xuechen Zhang +3

Modern language models generate chain-of-thought traces by autoregressively sampling tokens from a finite vocabulary. While this discrete sampling has achieved remarkable success,…