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Chengrun Yang

6 accepted papers

2024

Large Language Models as Optimizers

ICLR 2024poster

Optimization is ubiquitous. While derivative-based algorithms have been powerful tools for various problems, the absence of gradient imposes challenges on many real-world applications. In this work, we propose Optimization by PROmpting (OPRO), a simple and effective approach to leverage large langua…

2024

Long-form factuality in large language models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) often generate content that contains factual errors when responding to fact-seeking prompts on open-ended topics. To benchmark a model’s long-form factuality in open domains, we first use GPT-4 to generate LongFact, a prompt set comprising thousands of questions spanning…

2022

How Low Can We Go: Trading Memory for Error in Low-Precision Training

ICLR 2022poster

Low-precision arithmetic trains deep learning models using less energy, less memory and less time. However, we pay a price for the savings: lower precision may yield larger round-off error and hence larger prediction error. As applications proliferate, users must choose which precision to use to tra…

2022

TabNAS: Rejection Sampling for Neural Architecture Search on Tabular Datasets

NeurIPS 2022accept

The best neural architecture for a given machine learning problem depends on many factors: not only the complexity and structure of the dataset, but also on resource constraints including latency, compute, energy consumption, etc. Neural architecture search (NAS) for tabular datasets is an important…

2021

TenIPS: Inverse Propensity Sampling for Tensor Completion

AISTATS 2021poster

Tensors are widely used to represent multiway arrays of data. The recovery of missing entries in a tensor has been extensively studied, generally under the assumption that entries are missing completely at random (MCAR). However, in most practical settings, observations are missing not at random (MN…

2020

Spectral Frank-Wolfe Algorithm: Strict Complementarity and Linear Convergence

ICML 2020poster

We develop a novel variant of the classical Frank-Wolfe algorithm, which we call spectral Frank-Wolfe, for convex optimization over a spectrahedron. The spectral Frank-Wolfe algorithm has a novel ingredient: it computes a few eigenvectors of the gradient and solves a small-scale subproblem in each i…

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