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cs.DB2026

PluRel: Synthetic Data unlocks Scaling Laws for Relational Foundation Models

Vignesh Kothapalli, Rishabh Ranjan, Valter Hudovernik +4

The paper presents PLUREL, a lightweight framework for generating synthetic multi-table relational databases, enabling the study of scaling laws in relational foundation models and…

cs.CL2026

Distilling the Essence: Efficient Reasoning Distillation via Sequence Truncation

Wei-Rui Chen, Vignesh Kothapalli, Ata Fatahibaarzi +5

Distilling the capabilities from a large reasoning model (LRM) to a smaller student model often involves training on substantial amounts of reasoning data. However, knowledge disti…

cs.LG2026

Balancing Learning Rates Across Layers: Exact Two-Step Dynamics and Optimal Scaling in Linear Neural Networks

Tianyu Pang, Vignesh Kothapalli, Shenyang Deng +3

We study optimal learning-rate selection in two-layer and three-layer linear neural networks trained to learn linear target functions. In particular, we derive the exact closed-for…

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.IR2025

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

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…