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most citedFederated Learning with Partial Model Personalization

27 citations · 119 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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41 papers

cs.CL2025

To Think or Not to Think: The Hidden Cost of Meta-Training with Excessive CoT Examples

Vignesh Kothapalli, Ata Fatahibaarzi, Hamed Firooz +1

Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting combined with few-shot in-context learning (ICL) has unlocked significant reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs). However, ICL with…

cs.CL2025

CoT-ICL Lab: A Synthetic Framework for Studying Chain-of-Thought Learning from In-Context Demonstrations

Vignesh Kothapalli, Hamed Firooz, Maziar Sanjabi

We introduce CoT-ICL Lab, a framework and methodology to generate synthetic tokenized datasets and systematically study chain-of-thought (CoT) in-context learning (ICL) in language…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

Scaling Down, Serving Fast: Compressing and Deploying Efficient LLMs for Recommendation Systems

Kayhan Behdin, Ata Fatahibaarzi, Qingquan Song +17

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of industrial applications, from search and recommendation systems to generative tasks. Al…

cs.IR2025★ 2 cited

360Brew: A Decoder-only Foundation Model for Personalized Ranking and Recommendation

Hamed Firooz, Maziar Sanjabi, Adrian Englhardt +20

Ranking and recommendation systems are the foundation for numerous online experiences, ranging from search results to personalized content delivery. These systems have evolved into…

cs.AI2024

Lost-in-Distance: Impact of Contextual Proximity on LLM Performance in Graph Tasks

Hamed Firooz, Maziar Sanjabi, Wenlong Jiang +1

Despite significant advancements, Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit blind spots that impair their ability to retrieve and process relevant contextual data effectively. We demons…

cs.LG2024

DP-RDM: Adapting Diffusion Models to Private Domains Without Fine-Tuning

Jonathan Lebensold, Maziar Sanjabi, Pietro Astolfi +4

Text-to-image diffusion models have been shown to suffer from sample-level memorization, possibly reproducing near-perfect replica of images that they are trained on, which may be…