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most citedRethinking Soft Labels for Knowledge Distillation: A Bias-Variance Tradeoff Perspective

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cs.CL2025

On the Shelf Life of Fine-Tuned LLM-Judges: Future-Proofing, Backward-Compatibility, and Question Generalization

Janvijay Singh, Austin Xu, Yilun Zhou +3

The LLM-as-a-judge paradigm is widely used in both evaluating free-text model responses and reward modeling for model alignment and fine-tuning. Recently, fine-tuning judges with j…

cs.CL2025

Variation in Verification: Understanding Verification Dynamics in Large Language Models

Yefan Zhou, Austin Xu, Yilun Zhou +3

Recent advances have shown that scaling test-time computation enables large language models (LLMs) to solve increasingly complex problems across diverse domains. One effective para…

cs.CL2025

Diffusion Language Models Know the Answer Before Decoding

Pengxiang Li, Yefan Zhou, Dilxat Muhtar +5

Diffusion language models (DLMs) have recently emerged as an alternative to autoregressive approaches, offering parallel sequence generation and flexible token orders. However, the…

cs.LG2025

A Model Zoo on Phase Transitions in Neural Networks

Konstantin Schürholt, Léo Meynent, Yefan Zhou +3

Using the weights of trained Neural Network (NN) models as data modality has recently gained traction as a research field - dubbed Weight Space Learning (WSL). Multiple recent work…

cs.LG2024

Model Balancing Helps Low-data Training and Fine-tuning

Zihang Liu, Yuanzhe Hu, Tianyu Pang +3

Recent advances in foundation models have emphasized the need to align pre-trained models with specialized domains using small, curated datasets. Studies on these foundation models…

cs.LG2024

AlphaPruning: Using Heavy-Tailed Self Regularization Theory for Improved Layer-wise Pruning of Large Language Models

Haiquan Lu, Yefan Zhou, Shiwei Liu +3

Recent work on pruning large language models (LLMs) has shown that one can eliminate a large number of parameters without compromising performance, making pruning a promising strat…