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20242026
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8 papers

cs.LG2026

Flipping Against All Odds: Reducing LLM Coin Flip Bias via Verbalized Rejection Sampling

Tim Z. Xiao, Johannes Zenn, Zhen Liu +3

Large language models (LLMs) can often accurately describe probability distributions using natural language, yet they still struggle to generate faithful samples from them. This mi…

cs.LG2025

On the Challenges and Opportunities in Generative AI

Laura Manduchi, Clara Meister, Kushagra Pandey +23

The field of deep generative modeling has grown rapidly in the last few years. With the availability of massive amounts of training data coupled with advances in scalable unsupervi…

cs.LG2025

Regularized KL-Divergence for Well-Defined Function-Space Variational Inference in Bayesian neural networks

Tristan Cinquin, Robert Bamler

Bayesian neural networks (BNN) promise to combine the predictive performance of neural networks with principled uncertainty modeling important for safety-critical systems and decis…

cs.LG2025

Reducing Storage of Pretrained Neural Networks by Rate-Constrained Quantization and Entropy Coding

Alexander Conzelmann, Robert Bamler

The ever-growing size of neural networks poses serious challenges on resource-constrained devices, such as embedded sensors. Compression algorithms that reduce their size can mitig…

cs.CL2025

Your Finetuned Large Language Model is Already a Powerful Out-of-distribution Detector

Andi Zhang, Tim Z. Xiao, Weiyang Liu +2

We revisit the likelihood ratio between a pretrained large language model (LLM) and its finetuned variant as a criterion for out-of-distribution (OOD) detection. The intuition behi…

cs.LG2025

Verbalized Machine Learning: Revisiting Machine Learning with Language Models

Tim Z. Xiao, Robert Bamler, Bernhard Schölkopf +1

Motivated by the progress made by large language models (LLMs), we introduce the framework of verbalized machine learning (VML). In contrast to conventional machine learning (ML) m…