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20142025
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6 papers

cs.CL2025

A Comparison of Independent and Joint Fine-tuning Strategies for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Neal Gregory Lawton, Alfy Samuel, Anoop Kumar +1

A Comparison of Independent and Joint Fine-tuning Strategies for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Download PDF Neal Gregory Lawton, Alfy Samuel, Anoop Kumar, Daben Liu Published: 20…

cs.LG2024

Learning Morphisms with Gauss-Newton Approximation for Growing Networks

Neal Lawton, Aram Galstyan, Greg Ver Steeg

A popular method for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is based on growing networks via small local changes to the network's architecture called network morphisms. These methods sta…

cs.LG2024

QuAILoRA: Quantization-Aware Initialization for LoRA

Neal Lawton, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Judith Gaspers +4

QLoRA reduces the memory-cost of fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) with LoRA by quantizing the base LLM. However, quantization introduces quantization errors that negatively…

cs.CL2023

Neural Architecture Search for Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning of Large Pre-trained Language Models

Neal Lawton, Anoop Kumar, Govind Thattai +2

Parameter-efficient tuning (PET) methods fit pre-trained language models (PLMs) to downstream tasks by either computing a small compressed update for a subset of model parameters,…

cs.LG2018

A Forest Mixture Bound for Block-Free Parallel Inference

Neal Lawton, Aram Galstyan, Greg Ver Steeg

Coordinate ascent variational inference is an important algorithm for inference in probabilistic models, but it is slow because it updates only a single variable at a time. Block c…

cs.DM2014

An Important Corollary for the Fast Solution of Dynamic Maximal Clique Enumeration Problems

Neal Lawton

In this paper we modify an algorithm for updating a maximal clique enumeration after an edge insertion to provide an algorithm that runs in linear time with respect to the number o…