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20192025
most citedProbAct: A Probabilistic Activation Function for Deep Neural Networks

24 citations · 30 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2025

EMAFusion: A Self-Optimizing System for Seamless LLM Selection and Integration

Soham Shah, Kumar Shridhar, Surojit Chatterjee +1

While recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced performance across diverse natural language tasks, the high computational and financial costs asso…

cs.CL2025

UNDO: Understanding Distillation as Optimization

Kushal Jain, Piyushi Goyal, Kumar Shridhar

Knowledge distillation has emerged as an effective strategy for compressing large language models' (LLMs) knowledge into smaller, more efficient student models. However, standard o…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Pattern Recognition: Probing Mental Representations of LMs

Moritz Miller, Kumar Shridhar

Language Models (LMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in solving complex reasoning tasks, particularly when prompted to generate intermediate explanations. However, it re…

cs.CL2024

Distilling LLMs' Decomposition Abilities into Compact Language Models

Denis Tarasov, Kumar Shridhar

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated proficiency in their reasoning abilities, yet their large size presents scalability challenges and limits any further customization.…

cs.CL2023

First-Step Advantage: Importance of Starting Right in Multi-Step Math Reasoning

Kushal Jain, Moritz Miller, Niket Tandon +1

Language models can solve complex reasoning tasks better by learning to generate rationales for their predictions. Often these models know how to solve a task but their auto-regres…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

SCREWS: A Modular Framework for Reasoning with Revisions

Kumar Shridhar, Harsh Jhamtani, Hao Fang +3

Large language models (LLMs) can improve their accuracy on various tasks through iteratively refining and revising their output based on feedback. We observe that these revisions c…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Learning to Drop Out: An Adversarial Approach to Training Sequence VAEs

Đorđe Miladinović, Kumar Shridhar, Kushal Jain +4

In principle, applying variational autoencoders (VAEs) to sequential data offers a method for controlled sequence generation, manipulation, and structured representation learning.…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Translational Equivariance in Kernelizable Attention

Max Horn, Kumar Shridhar, Elrich Groenewald +1

While Transformer architectures have show remarkable success, they are bound to the computation of all pairwise interactions of input element and thus suffer from limited scalabili…

cs.LG2019★ 24 cited

ProbAct: A Probabilistic Activation Function for Deep Neural Networks

Kumar Shridhar, Joonho Lee, Hideaki Hayashi +6

Activation functions play an important role in training artificial neural networks. The majority of currently used activation functions are deterministic in nature, with their fixe…