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most citedData-Efficiency with a Single GPU: An Exploration of Transfer Methods for Small Language Models

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cs.LG2026

MobileLLM-Flash: Latency-Guided On-Device LLM Design for Industry Scale Deployment

Hanxian Huang, Igor Fedorov, Andrey Gromov +14

Real-time AI experiences call for on-device large language models (OD-LLMs) optimized for efficient deployment on resource-constrained hardware. The most useful OD-LLMs produce nea…

cs.CL2026

Short Data, Long Context: Distilling Positional Knowledge in Transformers

Patrick Huber, Ernie Chang, Chinnadhurai Sankar +4

Extending the context window of language models typically requires expensive long-context pre-training, posing significant challenges for both training efficiency and data collecti…

cs.LG2025

MobileLLM-Pro Technical Report

Patrick Huber, Ernie Chang, Wei Wen +16

Efficient on-device language models around 1 billion parameters are essential for powering low-latency AI applications on mobile and wearable devices. However, achieving strong per…

cs.CL2025

Stream RAG: Instant and Accurate Spoken Dialogue Systems with Streaming Tool Usage

Siddhant Arora, Haidar Khan, Kai Sun +14

End-to-end speech-in speech-out dialogue systems are emerging as a powerful alternative to traditional ASR-LLM-TTS pipelines, generating more natural, expressive responses with sig…

cs.LG2025

CoSMoEs: Compact Sparse Mixture of Experts

Patrick Huber, Akshat Shrivastava, Ernie Chang +3

Sparse Mixture of Expert (MoE) models are popular foundational architectures at large scale, however, under-explored at smaller sizes. Here, we show how to enable Compact Sparse Mi…

cs.CL2024

CoDi: Conversational Distillation for Grounded Question Answering

Patrick Huber, Arash Einolghozati, Rylan Conway +6

Distilling conversational skills into Small Language Models (SLMs) with approximately 1 billion parameters presents significant challenges. Firstly, SLMs have limited capacity in t…

cs.CL2024

PRoDeliberation: Parallel Robust Deliberation for End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding

Trang Le, Daniel Lazar, Suyoun Kim +6

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a critical component of voice assistants; it consists of converting speech to semantic parses for task execution. Previous works have explore…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

PrE-Text: Training Language Models on Private Federated Data in the Age of LLMs

Charlie Hou, Akshat Shrivastava, Hongyuan Zhan +5

On-device training is currently the most common approach for training machine learning (ML) models on private, distributed user data. Despite this, on-device training has several d…

cs.CL2024

Large Language Models as Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracker through Function Calling

Zekun Li, Zhiyu Zoey Chen, Mike Ross +7

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly prevalent in conversational systems due to their advanced understanding and generative capabilities in general contexts. However, thei…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Data-Efficiency with a Single GPU: An Exploration of Transfer Methods for Small Language Models

Alon Albalak, Akshat Shrivastava, Chinnadhurai Sankar +2

Multi-task learning (MTL), instruction tuning, and prompting have recently been shown to improve the generalizability of large language models to new tasks. However, the benefits o…

cs.CL2022

STOP: A dataset for Spoken Task Oriented Semantic Parsing

Paden Tomasello, Akshat Shrivastava, Daniel Lazar +12

End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) predicts intent directly from audio using a single model. It promises to improve the performance of assistant systems by leveraging a…

cs.CL2021

RETRONLU: Retrieval Augmented Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing

Vivek Gupta, Akshat Shrivastava, Adithya Sagar +2

While large pre-trained language models accumulate a lot of knowledge in their parameters, it has been demonstrated that augmenting it with non-parametric retrieval-based memory ha…

eess.AS2020

Lattice-based Improvements for Voice Triggering Using Graph Neural Networks

Pranay Dighe, Saurabh Adya, Nuoyu Li +6

Voice-triggered smart assistants often rely on detection of a trigger-phrase before they start listening for the user request. Mitigation of false triggers is an important aspect o…

cs.LG2019

Active Learning for Domain Classification in a Commercial Spoken Personal Assistant

Xi C. Chen, Adithya Sagar, Justine T. Kao +5

We describe a method for selecting relevant new training data for the LSTM-based domain selection component of our personal assistant system. Adding more annotated training data fo…