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5 papers

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.CL2025

CoT-ICL Lab: A Synthetic Framework for Studying Chain-of-Thought Learning from In-Context Demonstrations

Vignesh Kothapalli, Hamed Firooz, Maziar Sanjabi

We introduce CoT-ICL Lab, a framework and methodology to generate synthetic tokenized datasets and systematically study chain-of-thought (CoT) in-context learning (ICL) in language…

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…

cs.CV2018

Binary Document Image Super Resolution for Improved Readability and OCR Performance

Ram Krishna Pandey, K Vignesh, A G Ramakrishnan +1

There is a need for information retrieval from large collections of low-resolution (LR) binary document images, which can be found in digital libraries across the world, where the…