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20182026
most citedWasserstein Barycenter Model Ensembling

15 citations · 46 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.CL2026

AI Steerability 360: A Toolkit for Steering Large Language Models

Erik Miehling, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Praveen Venkateswaran +10

The AI Steerability 360 toolkit is an extensible, open-source Python library for steering LLMs. Steering abstractions are designed around four model control surfaces: input (modifi…

cs.CL2025

Sparsity May Be All You Need: Sparse Random Parameter Adaptation

Jesus Rios, Pierre Dognin, Ronny Luss +1

Full fine-tuning of large language models for alignment and task adaptation has become prohibitively expensive as models have grown in size. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT)…

cs.CL2024

Granite Guardian

Inkit Padhi, Manish Nagireddy, Giandomenico Cornacchia +20

We introduce the Granite Guardian models, a suite of safeguards designed to provide risk detection for prompts and responses, enabling safe and responsible use in combination with…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Evaluating the Prompt Steerability of Large Language Models

Erik Miehling, Michael Desmond, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy +5

Building pluralistic AI requires designing models that are able to be shaped to represent a wide range of value systems and cultures. Achieving this requires first being able to ev…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Programming Refusal with Conditional Activation Steering

Bruce W. Lee, Inkit Padhi, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy +4

LLMs have shown remarkable capabilities, but precisely controlling their response behavior remains challenging. Existing activation steering methods alter LLM behavior indiscrimina…

cs.CL2024

Value Alignment from Unstructured Text

Inkit Padhi, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Prasanna Sattigeri +3

Aligning large language models (LLMs) to value systems has emerged as a significant area of research within the fields of AI and NLP. Currently, this alignment process relies on th…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Contextual Moral Value Alignment Through Context-Based Aggregation

Pierre Dognin, Jesus Rios, Ronny Luss +7

Developing value-aligned AI agents is a complex undertaking and an ongoing challenge in the field of AI. Specifically within the domain of Large Language Models (LLMs), the capabil…

cs.CL2024

Alignment Studio: Aligning Large Language Models to Particular Contextual Regulations

Swapnaja Achintalwar, Ioana Baldini, Djallel Bouneffouf +16

The alignment of large language models is usually done by model providers to add or control behaviors that are common or universally understood across use cases and contexts. In co…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Detectors for Safe and Reliable LLMs: Implementations, Uses, and Limitations

Swapnaja Achintalwar, Adriana Alvarado Garcia, Ateret Anaby-Tavor +35

Large language models (LLMs) are susceptible to a variety of risks, from non-faithful output to biased and toxic generations. Due to several limiting factors surrounding LLMs (trai…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Auditing and Generating Synthetic Data with Controllable Trust Trade-offs

Brian Belgodere, Pierre Dognin, Adam Ivankay +11

Real-world data often exhibits bias, imbalance, and privacy risks. Synthetic datasets have emerged to address these issues. This paradigm relies on generative AI models to generate…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

Fair Infinitesimal Jackknife: Mitigating the Influence of Biased Training Data Points Without Refitting

Prasanna Sattigeri, Soumya Ghosh, Inkit Padhi +2

In consequential decision-making applications, mitigating unwanted biases in machine learning models that yield systematic disadvantage to members of groups delineated by sensitive…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Knowledge Graph Generation From Text

Igor Melnyk, Pierre Dognin, Payel Das

In this work we propose a novel end-to-end multi-stage Knowledge Graph (KG) generation system from textual inputs, separating the overall process into two stages. The graph nodes a…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Cloud-Based Real-Time Molecular Screening Platform with MolFormer

Brian Belgodere, Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Payel Das +9

With the prospect of automating a number of chemical tasks with high fidelity, chemical language processing models are emerging at a rapid speed. Here, we present a cloud-based rea…

cs.CL2021

ReGen: Reinforcement Learning for Text and Knowledge Base Generation using Pretrained Language Models

Pierre L. Dognin, Inkit Padhi, Igor Melnyk +1

Automatic construction of relevant Knowledge Bases (KBs) from text, and generation of semantically meaningful text from KBs are both long-standing goals in Machine Learning. In thi…

cs.CV2020★ 2 cited

Alleviating Noisy Data in Image Captioning with Cooperative Distillation

Pierre Dognin, Igor Melnyk, Youssef Mroueh +4

Image captioning systems have made substantial progress, largely due to the availability of curated datasets like Microsoft COCO or Vizwiz that have accurate descriptions of their…

cs.CV2020★ 8 cited

Image Captioning as an Assistive Technology: Lessons Learned from VizWiz 2020 Challenge

Pierre Dognin, Igor Melnyk, Youssef Mroueh +6

Image captioning has recently demonstrated impressive progress largely owing to the introduction of neural network algorithms trained on curated dataset like MS-COCO. Often work in…

cs.LG2020

Tabular Transformers for Modeling Multivariate Time Series

Inkit Padhi, Yair Schiff, Igor Melnyk +6

Tabular datasets are ubiquitous in data science applications. Given their importance, it seems natural to apply state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms in order to fully unlock t…

cs.CL2020

DualTKB: A Dual Learning Bridge between Text and Knowledge Base

Pierre L. Dognin, Igor Melnyk, Inkit Padhi +2

In this work, we present a dual learning approach for unsupervised text to path and path to text transfers in Commonsense Knowledge Bases (KBs). We investigate the impact of weak s…

cs.CL2020

Learning Implicit Text Generation via Feature Matching

Inkit Padhi, Pierre Dognin, Ke Bai +4

Generative feature matching network (GFMN) is an approach for training implicit generative models for images by performing moment matching on features from pre-trained neural netwo…

cs.CV2019★ 1 cited

Learning Implicit Generative Models by Matching Perceptual Features

Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Youssef Mroueh, Inkit Padhi +1

Perceptual features (PFs) have been used with great success in tasks such as transfer learning, style transfer, and super-resolution. However, the efficacy of PFs as key source of…

cs.LG2019★ 15 cited

Wasserstein Barycenter Model Ensembling

Pierre Dognin, Igor Melnyk, Youssef Mroueh +3

In this paper we propose to perform model ensembling in a multiclass or a multilabel learning setting using Wasserstein (W.) barycenters. Optimal transport metrics, such as the Was…

cs.LG2018

Adversarial Semantic Alignment for Improved Image Captions

Pierre L. Dognin, Igor Melnyk, Youssef Mroueh +2

In this paper we study image captioning as a conditional GAN training, proposing both a context-aware LSTM captioner and co-attentive discriminator, which enforces semantic alignme…