arXiv:2608. 10137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Grammar Constrained Decoding (GCD) forces Language Models (LMs) to produce syntactically valid outputs by masking out non-conforming tokens at each step.
By I\c{s}{\i}l \"Ozg\"u, Yaoxuan Wu, Guy Van den Broeck, Miryung Kim
arXiv:2602. 15983v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can translate natural language into optimization code, but silent failures pose a critical risk: code that executes and returns solver-feasible solutions may encode semantically incorrect formulations---a feasibility--correctness gap reaching 90 percentage points on compositional problems.
By Junbo Jacob Lian, Yujun Sun, Huiling Chen, Chaoyu Zhang, Hanzhang Qin, Chung-Piaw Teo
arXiv:2608. 06111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Positional embeddings (PE) in Transformers encode token distance and order but are largely agnostic to \textit{syntactic structure}.
By Haris Riaz, Hyungji Kim, Mihai Surdeanu
arXiv:2605. 15607v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve high pass rates on code generation benchmarks, yet whether they can transfer this ability to languages absent from pretraining remains poorly understood.
By Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar, Disha Makhija, Manoj Ghuhan Arivazhagan, Rashmi Gangadharaiah
arXiv:2603. 03305v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate executable outputs, JSON objects, and API calls, where a single syntax error can make the output unusable.
By Avinash Reddy, Thayne T. Walker, James S. Ide, Amrit Singh Bedi
arXiv:2608. 05493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models (LMs) are increasingly used to interact with external services via programs written in domain-specific languages (DSLs).
By Kevin Cheang, Geoff Hulette, Rahul Kumar, Felipe R. Monteiro, Federico Mora, Robin Salkeld, Lin Tan, Serdar Tasiran
arXiv:2606. 18286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning of code LLMs typically applies uniform cross-entropy loss to all response tokens, implicitly assuming that every token provides equally useful learning signal.
By Zhijie Deng, Ling Li, Jinlong Pang, Kaiqin Hu, Qi Xuan, Zhaowei Zhu, Jiaheng Wei
arXiv:2606. 15521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tokenization introduces representational redundancy: under a fixed token vocabulary, every byte string admits many valid token encodings, or segmentations, that decode to the same surface string.
By Kanishk Jain, Matthew Day, Tankut Can
arXiv:2607. 12696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have become an important approach for scaling Large Language Models (LLMs), but their inference efficiency depends strongly on expert activation patterns.
By Jincheng Xie, Runheng Liu, Heyan Huang, Yawen Ling, Hanbin Dai, Yu Zheng, Wen Hu
arXiv:2608. 02641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can translate natural-language optimization problems into solver-ready formulations, but direct code generation is brittle: schema, indexing, and semantic errors can cause compilation failures, infeasible models, or incorrect objectives, while iterative repair, search, and multi-agent workflows increase inference cost.
By Penglin Zhu, Linhai Zhang, Jungang Xu, Xinchi Wei, Xiuqi Wu
arXiv:2608. 03930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-pretraining language models (LMs) on symbolic data can accelerate and improve natural language acquisition.
By Jo-Ku Cheng, Nikolaos Aletras, Marco Valentino
arXiv:2607. 18961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) generate fluent text by incrementally predicting the next token from a prefix.
By Remo Pareschi