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20192026
most citedARB: Advanced Reasoning Benchmark for Large Language Models

14 citations · 41 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.AI2026

At the Limits of Computability: Steps Towards Autonomous AI Discovery on the Busy Beaver Frontier

Marco Dos Santos, Vivek Veeriah, Alex Havrilla +4

Recent breakthroughs in AI for mathematics---ranging from Olympiad medal performances to resolving long-standing open conjectures---have rapidly expanded what automated systems can…

cs.AI2026

COrigami: An AI Pipeline for Co-Designing Flat-Foldable Visually Recognisable Origami

Tom Zahavy, Shaobo Hou, Thomas Tumiel +16

While generative AI has achieved remarkable success in solving problems with verifiable solutions, generating physical art that satisfies both strict geometric constraints and subj…

cs.LG2025

SPARQ: Synthetic Problem Generation for Reasoning via Quality-Diversity Algorithms

Alex Havrilla, Edward Hughes, Mikayel Samvelyan +1

Large language model (LLM) driven synthetic data generation has emerged as a powerful method for improving model reasoning capabilities. However, most methods either distill large…

cs.LG2025

Transformers for Learning on Noisy and Task-Level Manifolds: Approximation and Generalization Insights

Zhaiming Shen, Alex Havrilla, Rongjie Lai +2

Transformers serve as the foundational architecture for large language and video generation models, such as GPT, BERT, SORA and their successors. Empirical studies have demonstrate…

cs.LG2025

IGDA: Interactive Graph Discovery through Large Language Model Agents

Alex Havrilla, David Alvarez-Melis, Nicolo Fusi

Large language models () have emerged as a powerful method for discovery. Instead of utilizing numerical data, LLMs utilize associated variable $\textit{semantic met…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Surveying the Effects of Quality, Diversity, and Complexity in Synthetic Data From Large Language Models

Alex Havrilla, Andrew Dai, Laura O'Mahony +17

Synthetic data generation with Large Language Models is a promising paradigm for augmenting natural data over a nearly infinite range of tasks. Given this variety, direct compariso…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Understanding Scaling Laws with Statistical and Approximation Theory for Transformer Neural Networks on Intrinsically Low-dimensional Data

Alex Havrilla, Wenjing Liao

When training deep neural networks, a model's generalization error is often observed to follow a power scaling law dependent both on the model size and the data size. Perhaps the b…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Teaching Large Language Models to Reason with Reinforcement Learning

Alex Havrilla, Yuqing Du, Sharath Chandra Raparthy +6

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (\textbf{RLHF}) has emerged as a dominant approach for aligning LLM outputs with human preferences. Inspired by the success of RLHF, we s…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Understanding the Effect of Noise in LLM Training Data with Algorithmic Chains of Thought

Alex Havrilla, Maia Iyer

During both pretraining and fine-tuning, Large Language Models (\textbf{LLMs}) are trained on trillions of tokens of text of widely varying quality. Both phases of training typical…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

GLoRe: When, Where, and How to Improve LLM Reasoning via Global and Local Refinements

Alex Havrilla, Sharath Raparthy, Christoforus Nalmpantis +4

State-of-the-art language models can exhibit impressive reasoning refinement capabilities on math, science or coding tasks. However, recent work demonstrates that even the best mod…

cs.CL2023★ 14 cited

ARB: Advanced Reasoning Benchmark for Large Language Models

Tomohiro Sawada, Daniel Paleka, Alexander Havrilla +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on various quantitative reasoning and knowledge benchmarks. However, many of these benchmarks are losing utili…

stat.ML2023

Deep Nonparametric Estimation of Intrinsic Data Structures by Chart Autoencoders: Generalization Error and Robustness

Hao Liu, Alex Havrilla, Rongjie Lai +1

Autoencoders have demonstrated remarkable success in learning low-dimensional latent features of high-dimensional data across various applications. Assuming that data are sampled n…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Robust Preference Learning for Storytelling via Contrastive Reinforcement Learning

Louis Castricato, Alexander Havrilla, Shahbuland Matiana +5

Controlled automated story generation seeks to generate natural language stories satisfying constraints from natural language critiques or preferences. Existing methods to control…

math.PR2021★ 9 cited

Khinchin-type inequalities via Hadamard's factorisation

Alex Havrilla, Piotr Nayar, Tomasz Tkocz

We prove Khinchin-type inequalities with sharp constants for type L random variables and all even moments. Our main tool is Hadamard's factorisation theorem from complex analysis,…

math.PR2019★ 3 cited

Sharp Khinchin-type inequalities for symmetric discrete uniform random variables

Alex Havrilla, Tomasz Tkocz

We establish several optimal moment comparison inequalities (Khinchin-type inequalities) for weighted sums of independent identically distributed symmetric discrete random variable…