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20222025
most citedHigh-dimensional Asymptotics of Feature Learning: How One Gradient Step Improves the Representation

11 citations · 11 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

math.OC2025

Hessian-guided Perturbed Wasserstein Gradient Flows for Escaping Saddle Points

Naoya Yamamoto, Juno Kim, Taiji Suzuki

Wasserstein gradient flow (WGF) is a common method to perform optimization over the space of probability measures. While WGF is guaranteed to converge to a first-order stationary p…

cs.CL2025

When Does Metadata Conditioning (NOT) Work for Language Model Pre-Training? A Study with Context-Free Grammars

Rei Higuchi, Ryotaro Kawata, Naoki Nishikawa +7

The ability to acquire latent semantics is one of the key properties that determines the performance of language models. One convenient approach to invoke this ability is to prepen…

cs.AI2025

Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation

Juno Kim, Denny Wu, Jason Lee +1

A key paradigm to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) is to allocate more inference-time compute to search against a verifier or reward model. This p…

stat.ML2025

Optimality and Adaptivity of Deep Neural Features for Instrumental Variable Regression

Juno Kim, Dimitri Meunier, Arthur Gretton +2

We provide a convergence analysis of deep feature instrumental variable (DFIV) regression (Xu et al., 2021), a nonparametric approach to IV regression using data-adaptive features…

cs.LG2024

Pretrained transformer efficiently learns low-dimensional target functions in-context

Kazusato Oko, Yujin Song, Taiji Suzuki +1

Transformers can efficiently learn in-context from example demonstrations. Most existing theoretical analyses studied the in-context learning (ICL) ability of transformers for line…

stat.ML2024

Transformers are Minimax Optimal Nonparametric In-Context Learners

Juno Kim, Tai Nakamaki, Taiji Suzuki

In-context learning (ICL) of large language models has proven to be a surprisingly effective method of learning a new task from only a few demonstrative examples. In this paper, we…