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Publications (9)

cs.CV2021

Homogeneous Vector Capsules Enable Adaptive Gradient Descent in Convolutional Neural Networks

Adam Byerly, Tatiana Kalganova

Capsules are the name given by Geoffrey Hinton to vector-valued neurons. Neural networks traditionally produce a scalar value for an activated neuron. Capsules, on the other hand,…

cs.CL2024

Insights into LLM Long-Context Failures: When Transformers Know but Don't Tell

Taiming Lu, Muhan Gao, Kuai Yu +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit positional bias, struggling to utilize information from the middle or end of long contexts. Our study explores LLMs' long-context reasoning by…

cs.CV2021

On the Importance of Capturing a Sufficient Diversity of Perspective for the Classification of micro-PCBs

Adam Byerly, Tatiana Kalganova, Anthony J. Grichnik

We present a dataset consisting of high-resolution images of 13 micro-PCBs captured in various rotations and perspectives relative to the camera, with each sample labeled for PCB t…

cs.LG2022

Towards an Analytical Definition of Sufficient Data

Adam Byerly, Tatiana Kalganova

We show that, for each of five datasets of increasing complexity, certain training samples are more informative of class membership than others. These samples can be identified a p…

cs.CL2025

Self-Consistency Falls Short! The Adverse Effects of Positional Bias on Long-Context Problems

Adam Byerly, Daniel Khashabi

Self-consistency (SC) improves the performance of large language models (LLMs) across various tasks and domains that involve short content. However, does this support its effective…

cs.AI2025

Tur[k]ingBench: A Challenge Benchmark for Web Agents

Kevin Xu, Yeganeh Kordi, Tanay Nayak +7

Can advanced multi-modal models effectively tackle complex web-based tasks? Such tasks are often found on crowdsourcing platforms, where crowdworkers engage in challenging micro-ta…

cs.CV2021

No Routing Needed Between Capsules

Adam Byerly, Tatiana Kalganova, Ian Dear

Most capsule network designs rely on traditional matrix multiplication between capsule layers and computationally expensive routing mechanisms to deal with the capsule dimensional…

cs.CL2026

GOLD PANNING: Strategic Context Shuffling for Needle-in-Haystack Reasoning

Adam Byerly, Daniel Khashabi

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit pronounced position bias in long-context needle-in-haystack problems, systematically prioritizing the location of information over its relevanc…

cs.LG2022

Class Density and Dataset Quality in High-Dimensional, Unstructured Data

Adam Byerly, Tatiana Kalganova

We provide a definition for class density that can be used to measure the aggregate similarity of the samples within each of the classes in a high-dimensional, unstructured dataset…