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most citedScaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models

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cs.CV2026

Technical Report on the CVPR 2026@AdvML Workshop Challenge

Tianyuan Zhang, Zonglei Jing, Jiangfan Liu +47

Vision-language agents (VLAs) are increasingly used to interpret complex driving scenes and support safety-critical reasoning. This report presents the CVPR 2026@AdvML Workshop Cha…

cs.LG2023★ 20 cited

Large Language Models as Tool Makers

Tianle Cai, Xuezhi Wang, Tengyu Ma +2

Recent research has highlighted the potential of large language models (LLMs) to improve their problem-solving capabilities with the aid of suitable external tools. In our work, we…

cs.CL2023★ 20 cited

Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning:A Winning Combination for Large Language Models

Sheng Shen, Le Hou, Yanqi Zhou +17

Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) is a neural architecture design that can be utilized to add learnable parameters to Large Language Models (LLMs) without increasing inference cost.…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Symbol tuning improves in-context learning in language models

Jerry Wei, Le Hou, Andrew Lampinen +8

We present symbol tuning - finetuning language models on in-context input-label pairs where natural language labels (e.g., "positive/negative sentiment") are replaced with arbitrar…

cs.CL2023★ 80 cited

Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug

Xinyun Chen, Maxwell Lin, Nathanael Schärli +1

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on code generation. However, for complex programming tasks, generating the correct solution in one go becomes chal…

cs.CR2023★ 10 cited

DiverseVul: A New Vulnerable Source Code Dataset for Deep Learning Based Vulnerability Detection

Yizheng Chen, Zhoujie Ding, Lamya Alowain +2

We propose and release a new vulnerable source code dataset. We curate the dataset by crawling security issue websites, extracting vulnerability-fixing commits and source codes fro…

cs.CL2023★ 100 cited

Larger language models do in-context learning differently

Jerry Wei, Jason Wei, Yi Tay +8

We study how in-context learning (ICL) in language models is affected by semantic priors versus input-label mappings. We investigate two setups-ICL with flipped labels and ICL with…

cs.CL2023★ 106 cited

Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context

Freda Shi, Xinyun Chen, Kanishka Misra +5

Large language models have achieved impressive performance on various natural language processing tasks. However, so far they have been evaluated primarily on benchmarks where all…

cs.CL2022

Benchmarking Language Models for Code Syntax Understanding

Da Shen, Xinyun Chen, Chenguang Wang +2

Pre-trained language models have demonstrated impressive performance in both natural language processing and program understanding, which represent the input as a token sequence wi…

cs.LG2022★ 1.2k cited

Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models

Hyung Won Chung, Le Hou, Shayne Longpre +32

Finetuning language models on a collection of datasets phrased as instructions has been shown to improve model performance and generalization to unseen tasks. In this paper we expl…

cs.CL2022★ 39 cited

Compositional Semantic Parsing with Large Language Models

Andrew Drozdov, Nathanael Schärli, Ekin Akyürek +5

Humans can reason compositionally when presented with new tasks. Previous research shows that appropriate prompting techniques enable large language models (LLMs) to solve artifici…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Measuring and Improving Compositional Generalization in Text-to-SQL via Component Alignment

Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Qiuping Huang +1

In text-to-SQL tasks -- as in much of NLP -- compositional generalization is a major challenge: neural networks struggle with compositional generalization where training and test d…

cs.PL2022★ 1k cited

Competition-Level Code Generation with AlphaCode

Yujia Li, David Choi, Junyoung Chung +23

Programming is a powerful and ubiquitous problem-solving tool. Developing systems that can assist programmers or even generate programs independently could make programming more pr…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Learning Bounded Context-Free-Grammar via LSTM and the Transformer:Difference and Explanations

Hui Shi, Sicun Gao, Yuandong Tian +2

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Transformers are two popular neural architectures used for natural language processing tasks. Theoretical results show that both are Turing-comple…

cs.LG2021★ 7 cited

SMORE: Knowledge Graph Completion and Multi-hop Reasoning in Massive Knowledge Graphs

Hongyu Ren, Hanjun Dai, Bo Dai +4

Knowledge graphs (KGs) capture knowledge in the form of head--relation--tail triples and are a crucial component in many AI systems. There are two important reasoning tasks on KGs:…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Exploring Underexplored Limitations of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Generalization

Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Matthew Purver

Recently, there has been significant progress in studying neural networks for translating text descriptions into SQL queries under the zero-shot cross-domain setting. Despite achie…

cs.CL2021

Natural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications

Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Jinxia Xie +4

Addressing the mismatch between natural language descriptions and the corresponding SQL queries is a key challenge for text-to-SQL translation. To bridge this gap, we propose an SQ…

cs.CV2021★ 51 cited

RobustART: Benchmarking Robustness on Architecture Design and Training Techniques

Shiyu Tang, Ruihao Gong, Yan Wang +9

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial noises, which motivates the benchmark of model robustness. Existing benchmarks mainly focus on evaluating defenses, but th…

cs.DB2021

A Note on General Statistics of Publicly Accessible Knowledge Bases

Feixiang Wang, Yixiang Fang, Yan Song +2

Knowledge bases are prevalent in various domains and have been widely used in a large number of real applications such as applications in online encyclopedia, social media, biomedi…

cs.PL2021

Latent Execution for Neural Program Synthesis

Xinyun Chen, Dawn Song, Yuandong Tian

Program synthesis from input-output (IO) examples has been a long-standing challenge. While recent works demonstrated limited success on domain-specific languages (DSL), it remains…

cs.SE2021★ 7 cited

SpreadsheetCoder: Formula Prediction from Semi-structured Context

Xinyun Chen, Petros Maniatis, Rishabh Singh +4

Spreadsheet formula prediction has been an important program synthesis problem with many real-world applications. Previous works typically utilize input-output examples as the spec…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Understanding the Spread of COVID-19 Epidemic: A Spatio-Temporal Point Process View

Shuang Li, Lu Wang, Xinyun Chen +2

Since the first coronavirus case was identified in the U.S. on Jan. 21, more than 1 million people in the U.S. have confirmed cases of COVID-19. This infectious respiratory disease…

cs.CL2021★ 15 cited

Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution

Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Qiuping Huang +4

Recently, there has been significant progress in studying neural networks to translate text descriptions into SQL queries. Despite achieving good performance on some public benchma…

cs.LG2021

A High-fidelity, Machine-learning Enhanced Queueing Network Simulation Model for Hospital Ultrasound Operations

Yihan Pan, Zhenghang Xu, Jin Guang +10

We collaborate with a large teaching hospital in Shenzhen, China and build a high-fidelity simulation model for its ultrasound center to predict key performance metrics, including…