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8 papers

cs.LG2026

Fix Initial Programs and Iteratively Refine Repair Instructions Toward Non-Elimination Multi-Turn Program Correction

Yuto Tanaka, Issei Sato

Recent work on large language models (LLMs) has emphasized the importance of scaling inference compute. From this perspective, the state-of-the-art method Scattered Forest Search (…

cs.CL2026

Max-pooling Network Revisited: Analyzing the Role of Semantic Probability in Multiple Instance Learning for Hallucination Detection

Shota Fujikawa, Issei Sato

Hallucination detection has become increasingly important for improving the reliability of large language models (LLMs). Recently, hybrid approaches such as HaMI, which combine sem…

cs.AI2026

A Formal Comparison Between Chain of Thought and Latent Thought

Kevin Xu, Issei Sato

Chain of thought (CoT) elicits reasoning in large language models by explicitly generating intermediate tokens. In contrast, latent thought reasoning operates directly in the conti…

cs.LG2026

Power Distribution Bridges Sampling, Self-Reward RL, and Self-Distillation

Akiyoshi Tomihari, Issei Sato

Recent analyses question whether reinforcement learning (RL) is responsible for strong reasoning in large language models (LLMs). At the same time, distillation and inference-time…

cs.LG2026

Gradient Heterogeneity Complements Hessian Heterogeneity in Transformer Optimization

Akiyoshi Tomihari, Issei Sato

Transformers are difficult to optimize with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and largely rely on adaptive optimizers such as Adam. Despite extensive efforts, the mechanisms behind…

cs.LG2025

To CoT or To Loop? A Formal Comparison Between Chain-of-Thought and Looped Transformers

Kevin Xu, Issei Sato

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and Looped Transformers have been shown to empirically improve performance on reasoning tasks and to theoretically enhance expressivity by recursively increa…