most citedI Predict Therefore I Am: Is Next Token Prediction Enough to Learn Human-Interpretable Concepts from Data?

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stat.ML2026

TimeLAVA: Learning-Agnostic Valuation for Time Series Data

Wenqin Liu, Weizhi Quan, Aoqi Zuo +5

Data valuation quantifies the intrinsic quality of individual samples to enable principled data curation, quality control, and robust learning. For time series in critical domains…

cs.LG2026

Causal Ensemble Agent: Hierarchical Causal Discovery with LLM-guided Expert Reweighting

Xinyu Li, Yuanyuan Wang, Haoxuan Li +7

Causal discovery aims to uncover causal structures from observational data, which is crucial for real-world decision-making. However, different causal discovery algorithms can prod…

cs.LG2026

Learning Latent Dynamical Causal Processes for Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction

Wenkang Jiang, Yuhang Liu, Erdun Gao +3

Single-cell perturbation prediction aims to infer how cells respond to unseen interventions and to achieve out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization, providing a computational route…

cs.LG2026

What Makes a Representation Good for Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction?

Wenkang Jiang, Yuhang Liu, Yichao Cai +5

Single-cell perturbation modeling is fundamental for understanding and predicting cellular responses to genetic perturbations. However, existing approaches, from causal representat…

cs.SE2026

Uncertainty Propagation in LLM-Based Systems

Boming Xia, Liming Zhu, Erdun Gao +3

Uncertainty in large language model (LLM)-based systems is often studied at the level of a single model output, yet deployed LLM applications are compound systems in which uncertai…

stat.ML2026

Observationally Informed Adaptive Causal Experimental Design

Erdun Gao, Liang Zhang, Jake Fawkes +5

Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) represent the gold standard for causal inference yet remain a scarce resource. While large-scale observational data is often available, it is ut…

cs.LG2026

Concept Component Analysis: A Principled Approach for Concept Extraction in LLMs

Yuhang Liu, Erdun Gao, Dong Gong +2

Developing human understandable interpretation of large language models (LLMs) becomes increasingly critical for their deployment in essential domains. Mechanistic interpretability…

cs.AI2025

Causality-aligned Prompt Learning via Diffusion-based Counterfactual Generation

Xinshu Li, Ruoyu Wang, Erdun Gao +2

Prompt learning has garnered attention for its efficiency over traditional model training and fine-tuning. However, existing methods, constrained by inadequate theoretical foundati…

cs.LG2025

On the Value of Cross-Modal Misalignment in Multimodal Representation Learning

Yichao Cai, Yuhang Liu, Erdun Gao +4

Multimodal representation learning, exemplified by multimodal contrastive learning (MMCL) using image-text pairs, aims to learn powerful representations by aligning cues across mod…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

I Predict Therefore I Am: Is Next Token Prediction Enough to Learn Human-Interpretable Concepts from Data?

Yuhang Liu, Dong Gong, Yichao Cai +6

Recent empirical evidence shows that LLM representations encode human-interpretable concepts. Nevertheless, the mechanisms by which these representations emerge remain largely unex…