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20202026
most citedLarge Language Models as Data Preprocessors

10 citations · 32 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.CL2026

Evaluating the Impact of Reviewer Guideline Design on LLM-Based Automated Peer Review

Haowen Li, Yoichi Ishibashi, Masafumi Oyamada

Peer review is an essential process in scientific research, yet the growing workload has made its automation increasingly necessary. In this study, we analyze how different types o…

stat.ML2025

Best-of- -- Asymptotic Performance of Test-Time LLM Ensembling

Junpei Komiyama, Daisuke Oba, Masafumi Oyamada

We study best-of- for large language models (LLMs) where the selection is based on majority voting. In particular, we analyze the limit , which we denote as \boinf…

cs.CV2025

Learning Deliberately, Acting Intuitively: Unlocking Test-Time Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs

Yahan Yu, Yuyang Dong, Masafumi Oyamada

Reasoning is essential for large language models (LLMs), especially in complex tasks such as mathematical problem solving. However, multimodal reasoning still faces challenges in m…

cs.CL2025

An Empirical Study of LLM-as-a-Judge: How Design Choices Impact Evaluation Reliability

Yusuke Yamauchi, Taro Yano, Masafumi Oyamada

As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, reliable evaluation methods are essential particularly for open-ended, instruction-following tasks. LLM-as-a-Judge enables auto…

cs.CL2025

LaMDAgent: An Autonomous Framework for Post-Training Pipeline Optimization via LLM Agents

Taro Yano, Yoichi Ishibashi, Masafumi Oyamada

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across a wide range of tasks. To further tailor LLMs to specific domains or applications, post-training techn…

cs.IR2025

LLM-based Query Expansion Fails for Unfamiliar and Ambiguous Queries

Kenya Abe, Kunihiro Takeoka, Makoto P. Kato +1

Query expansion (QE) enhances retrieval by incorporating relevant terms, with large language models (LLMs) offering an effective alternative to traditional rule-based and statistic…

cs.CL2025

Mining Hidden Thoughts from Texts: Evaluating Continual Pretraining with Synthetic Data for LLM Reasoning

Yoichi Ishibashi, Taro Yano, Masafumi Oyamada

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant improvements in reasoning capabilities through supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. However, when training…

cs.AI2025

SCAN: Semantic Document Layout Analysis for Textual and Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Nobuhiro Ueda, Yuyang Dong, Krisztián Boros +3

With the increasing adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs), rich document analysis technologies for applications like Retrieval-Augmented Genera…

cs.CL2025

Can a Crow Hatch a Falcon? Lineage Matters in Predicting Large Language Model Performance

Takuya Tamura, Taro Yano, Masafumi Enomoto +1

Accurately forecasting the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) before extensive fine-tuning or merging can substantially reduce both computational expense and development t…

cs.IR2025

On Synthesizing Data for Context Attribution in Question Answering

Gorjan Radevski, Kiril Gashteovski, Shahbaz Syed +11

Question Answering (QA) accounts for a significant portion of LLM usage "in the wild". However, LLMs sometimes produce false or misleading responses, also known as "hallucinations"…

cs.CL2024

Can Large Language Models Invent Algorithms to Improve Themselves?: Algorithm Discovery for Recursive Self-Improvement through Reinforcement Learning

Yoichi Ishibashi, Taro Yano, Masafumi Oyamada

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable capabilities, yet their improvement methods remain fundamentally constrained by human design. We present Self-Developing, a fr…

cs.CL2024

Scaling Law: Optimizing Multi-Epoch, Multi-Lingual, and Multi-Stage Training for Low-Resource Language Models

Kosuke Akimoto, Taiki Miyagawa, Masafumi Oyamada

In this paper, we study a fundamental design problem in pretraining Large Language Models (LLMs) for low-resource language regimes. Existing works adopt multi-epoch, multi-lingual,…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

LightPAL: Lightweight Passage Retrieval for Open Domain Multi-Document Summarization

Masafumi Enomoto, Kunihiro Takeoka, Kosuke Akimoto +2

Open-Domain Multi-Document Summarization (ODMDS) is the task of generating summaries from large document collections in response to user queries. This task is crucial for efficient…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

Context Quality Matters in Training Fusion-in-Decoder for Extractive Open-Domain Question Answering

Kosuke Akimoto, Kunihiro Takeoka, Masafumi Oyamada

Retrieval-augmented generation models augment knowledge encoded in a language model by providing additional relevant external knowledge (context) during generation. Although it has…

cs.AI2023★ 4 cited

Jellyfish: A Large Language Model for Data Preprocessing

Haochen Zhang, Yuyang Dong, Chuan Xiao +1

This paper explores the utilization of LLMs for data preprocessing (DP), a crucial step in the data mining pipeline that transforms raw data into a clean format conducive to easy p…

cs.AI2023★ 10 cited

Large Language Models as Data Preprocessors

Haochen Zhang, Yuyang Dong, Chuan Xiao +1

Large Language Models (LLMs), typified by OpenAI's GPT, have marked a significant advancement in artificial intelligence. Trained on vast amounts of text data, LLMs are capable of…

cs.DB2022★ 3 cited

DeepJoin: Joinable Table Discovery with Pre-trained Language Models

Yuyang Dong, Chuan Xiao, Takuma Nozawa +2

Due to the usefulness in data enrichment for data analysis tasks, joinable table discovery has become an important operation in data lake management. Existing approaches target equ…

cs.IR2022

Table Enrichment System for Machine Learning

Yuyang Dong, Masafumi Oyamada

Data scientists are constantly facing the problem of how to improve prediction accuracy with insufficient tabular data. We propose a table enrichment system that enriches a query t…

cs.IR2020★ 9 cited

Efficient Joinable Table Discovery in Data Lakes: A High-Dimensional Similarity-Based Approach

Yuyang Dong, Kunihiro Takeoka, Chuan Xiao +1

Finding joinable tables in data lakes is key procedure in many applications such as data integration, data augmentation, data analysis, and data market. Traditional approaches that…