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Sairam Vaidya
dblp:409/9094
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Language models and text generation · 50% Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 50% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › decoding
constrained decoding |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Constrained Sampling for Language Models Should Be Easy: An MCMC Perspective · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › sampling
constrained sampling |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Constrained Sampling for Language Models Should Be Easy: An MCMC Perspective · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
metropolis-hastings · 0.9markov chain monte carlo · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Constrained Sampling for Language Models Should Be Easy: An MCMC PerspectiveabstractConstrained decoding enables Language Models (LMs) to produce samples that provably satisfy hard constraints.
However, existing constrained-decoding approaches often distort the underlying model distribution, a limitation that is especially problematic in applications like program fuzzing, where one wants to generate diverse and valid program inputs for testing purposes.
We propose a new constrained sampling framework based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) that simultaneously satisfies three core desiderata: constraint satisfying (every sample satisfies the constraint), monotonically converging (the sampling process converges to the true conditional distribution), and efficient (high-quality samples emerge in few steps). Our method constructs a proposal distribution over valid outputs and applies a Metropolis-Hastings acceptance criterion based on the LM’s likelihood, ensuring principled and efficient exploration of the constrained space. Empirically, our sampler outperforms existing methods on both synthetic benchmarks and real-world program fuzzing tasks. Emmanuel Anaya Gonzalez, Sairam Vaidya, Kanghee Park, Ruyi Ji, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Loris D'Antoni |
NeurIPS | 2 |