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ForkGRPO: Efficient Exploration and Fine-Grained Credit Assignment for Diffusion Language Models
Zhaoyan Jia, Chengwei Zhou, Gourav Datta +1
Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have advanced rapidly, yet strengthening their reasoning through reinforcement learning (RL) remains an open challenge. Any-order generation…
The Agent Knew: Internal States Forecast Unauthorized Actions and Stop Them, and the Lies That Follow
Arya Fayyazi, Mehdi Kamal, Massoud Pedram
Language-model agents sometimes act beyond their authorization and then misreport what they did. On CAPE-Bench, matched agent tasks in which one fact decides whether an action is a…
The Sharp Directions Are Against You: Curvature Analysis of Activation Steering
Seyedarmin Azizi, Arya Fayyazi, Parsa Razmara +3
Activation steering adds a vector to a language model's internal representations at inference time. It is a lightweight alternative to fine-tuning for behavioral control. The stand…
Stateless Stochastic Computing for Generative AI on Superconducting Logic: A Model-Hardware Co-Design
Mehdi Kamal, Massoud Pedram
Thermodynamic computing lets stochastic physical dynamics carry out a computation and reads out the result as a time average. Recently, thermodynamic computing has been demonstrate…
Running Fewer Loops Removes Refusal Behaviour in Recurrent-Depth Language Models
Seyedarmin Azizi, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo, Arya Fayyazi +2
A recurrent-depth language model reuses one block of weights several times in a row. The number of repetitions, which we call loops, is chosen when the model runs, not when it is t…
Sharpen Without Search: On-Policy Distillation of Sequence-Level Power Distribution
Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo, Seyedarmin Azizi, Arya Fayyazi +4
A language model can give a correct answer more probability than any single incorrect answer and still usually sample an incorrect one, because the incorrect answers together hold…
Labels Override Definitions in Jev-Style Typed Decision Models
Seyedarmin Azizi, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo, Massoud Pedram
A typed decision model answers a fixed question about an input by returning a probability for each of several caller-defined options. Each option carries a short label and a writte…
Chopthin-Consensus Power Sampling: A Diversity-Preserving Approach to LLM Decoding
Minoo Ahmadi, Seyedarmin Azizi, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo +2
Inference-time power sampling via Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) can substantially improve large language model (LLM) reasoning without requiring post-training. However, many existin…
RIVERPlace: Repairing Interconnect Violations with Efficient Retiming and Incremental Placement for AQFP Circuits
Robert S. Aviles, Ziyu Liu, Sasan Razmkhah +2
The Adiabatic Quantum-Flux-Parametron (AQFP) offers near-Landauer-limit energy efficiency but faces significant scalability challenges due to strict path balancing and limited driv…
Fair on the Surface? Benchmarking Hidden-Output Fairness Gaps in LLM Recommenders
Chan Aristella Lu, Arya Fayyazi, Junhao Zhang +6
Fairness audits for LLM-based recommenders have largely focused on observable outputs, implicitly assuming that stable recommendations reflect stable internal processing. We challe…
Multi-Level Modeling of Large Language Model Inference Latency and Energy via Hybrid Analytical--Machine-Learning Predictors
Saeid Shokoufa, Mohammad Erfan Sadeghi, Mehdi Kamal +1
The rapid scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly increased computational cost, energy consumption, and inference latency, making accurate estimation essential fo…
COFT: Counterfactual-Conformal Decoding for Fair Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models
Arya Fayyazi, Mehdi Kamal, Massoud Pedram
Large language models (LLMs) can reveal and amplify societal biases during chain-of-thought (CoT) generation. We present COFT (Chain of Fair Thought), a training-free decoding meth…
One Token Away from Collapse: The Fragility of Instruction-Tuned Helpfulness
Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo, Seyedarmin Azizi, Souvik Kundu +1
Instruction-tuned large language models produce helpful, structured responses, but how robust is this helpfulness under trivial constraints? We show that simple lexical constraints…
TimingLLM: A Two-Stage Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Pre-Synthesis Timing Prediction from Verilog
Armin Abdollahi, Negin Ashrafi, Mehdi Kamal +1
Early, tool-free prediction of post-synthesis timing remains a key obstacle to rapid RTL iteration. We introduce TimingLLM, a two-stage retrieval-augmented LLM pipeline that estima…
Sense Less, Infer More: Agentic Multimodal Transformers for Edge Medical Intelligence
Chengwei Zhou, Zhaoyan Jia, Haotian Yu +6
Edge-based multimodal medical monitoring requires models that balance diagnostic accuracy with severe energy constraints. Continuous acquisition of ECG, PPG, EMG, and IMU streams r…
qPRO-AQFP: Post-Routing Optimization of AQFP Circuits with Delay Line Clocking
Robert S. Aviles, Ziyu Liu, Jingkai Hong +3
Adiabatic Quantum-Flux-Parametron (AQFP) logic is an ultra-low-power superconducting logic family with energy consumption approaching the Shannon limit, making it attractive for qu…
Power-SMC: Low-Latency Sequence-Level Power Sampling for Training-Free LLM Reasoning
Seyedarmin Azizi, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo, Minoo Ahmadi +2
Reasoning ability in large language models is often attributed to \emph{distribution sharpening}: concentrating output probability on high-likelihood sequences. Recent works show t…
HDLFORGE: A Two-Stage Multi-Agent Framework for Efficient Verilog Code Generation with Adaptive Model Escalation
Armin Abdollahi, Saeid Shokoufa, Negin Ashrafi +2
We present HDLFORGE, a two-stage multi-agent framework for automated Verilog generation that optimizes the trade-off between generation speed and accuracy. The system uses a compac…
Inductorless Fast Phase Logic: Enabling Two-Order-of-Magnitude Density Scaling for Superconductor VLSI
Sasan Razmkhah, Douglas Scott Holmes, Massoud Pedram
Fast phase logic (FPL) is a novel digital superconductor electronic (SCE) logic family that employs multiple junction types, including switching 0-Josephson junctions (0-JJs), non-…