Stochastic Estimation of Transduced Language Models

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Unbiased probability estimation for transduced language models

published

2026-08-27

A niche method for TLMs with finite-state transducers, outside small-scale inference, training, and agent workflows.

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   Replaces threshold pruning with beam summation, which yields a lower bound with unknown error, with reweighted sampling without replacement for unbiased prefix-probability estimates. It requires recursive sampling with inclusion probabilities and a transduced language-model architecture outside typical LLM API or open-model stacks. Its applications are computational psycholinguistics, bioinformatics, and formal language theory rather than everyday ML engineering on small GPUs.

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• Paper Raft study: transduced-lm-2026 ↗

  Five agents each implemented one estimator from the paper (beam summing, smc_simple, smc_rb, beam_swor, beam_swor_adaptive) and were graded against the claim the paper makes for it. All five pass: smc_simple, smc_rb and beam_swor are exact in the Appendix E worst case; the four unbiased estimators stay within 4 standard errors of the exact value over 128 seeds on a DNA bigram, with error falling as M grows; beam summing is a lower bound matching Fig. 1. The error ordering matches the paper's Table 2: beam_swor ≈ beam_swor_adaptive < smc_rb < smc_simple.

  Scope: Claims only, not Table 2's numbers: the paper does not name its DNA corpus or targets, so the bigram and three targets are stand-ins. The WikiText-2/PTB text and GPT-2 experiments are not covered. Remainder entries, the tail roulette for the beam estimators and beam_swor_adaptive's budget shrinking are never triggered by the graded runs.

  5 of 5 methods verified by a separate reviewer · checked 2026-10-13