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6 papers

cs.CL2026

ARCHead: Activation-Metric Residual Correction for Large Language Model Output Heads

Şuayp Talha Kocabay, Talha Rüzgar Akkuş, Kamer Ali Yuksel

Weight-only quantization substantially reduces the storage of large language model (LLM) transformer blocks, but practical backends often retain the final language-modeling head (L…

cs.GT2026

Optimism as a Vulnerability: Deceptive Stackelberg Control of UCB Bandit Followers

Şuayp Talha Kocabay, Kerem Yalçın, Talha Rüzgar Akkuş

Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) algorithms guarantee sublinear regret for agents learning unknown stochastic environments, yet the same principle that makes them statistically efficie…

cs.LG2026

Sample Complexity of Scientific Discovery: PAC Learnability of Compositional Function Trees

Şuayp Talha Kocabay, Talha Rüzgar Akkuş, Kerem Yalçın

Scientific discovery via symbolic regression is often viewed as statistically and computationally intractable because the hypothesis space of expressions grows combinatorially with…

cs.LG2026

Selectivity and Shape in the Design of Forward-Forward Goodness Functions

Talha Ruzgar Akkus, Suayp Talha Kocabay, Kamer Ali Yuksel +1

The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm trains networks layer-by-layer using a local "goodness function," yet sum-of-squares (SoS) has remained the only choice studied. We systematicall…

cs.CL2026

Diffutron: A Masked Diffusion Language Model for Turkish Language

Şuayp Talha Kocabay, Talha Rüzgar Akkuş

Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) have emerged as a compelling non-autoregressive alternative to standard large language models; however, their application to morphologicall…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Human-Like Responses in Large Language Models

Ethem Yağız Çalık, Talha Rüzgar Akkuş

This paper explores the advancements in making large language models (LLMs) more human-like. We focus on techniques that enhance natural language understanding, conversational cohe…