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cs.LG2026

Thinking at the Right Size: Amortized Distillation Across Post-Trained LLMs

Yan Zhou, Sara Kangaslahti, Jonathan Geuter +4

Practical deployment of large language models (LLMs) requires families of post-trained variants---instruction-tuned, reasoning-tuned, and chat-style models---each at multiple sizes…

cs.LG2026

Understanding Layer Patching in Model Size Interpolation

Sara Kangaslahti, Jonathan Geuter, Nihal V. Nayak +3

Zero-shot model size interpolation aims to create new models of intermediate target sizes by combining existing models without additional training. Recent work on boomerang distill…

cs.LG2026

A Critical Look at Targeted Instruction Selection: Disentangling What Matters (and What Doesn't)

Nihal V. Nayak, Paula Rodriguez-Diaz, Neha Hulkund +2

Instruction fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) often involves selecting a subset of instruction training data from a large candidate pool, using a small query set from the…

cs.LG2025

Boomerang Distillation Enables Zero-Shot Model Size Interpolation

Sara Kangaslahti, Nihal V. Nayak, Jonathan Geuter +3

Large language models (LLMs) are typically deployed under diverse memory and compute constraints. Existing approaches build model families by training each size independently, whic…

cs.LG2025★ 8 cited

K-Paths: Reasoning over Graph Paths for Drug Repurposing and Drug Interaction Prediction

Tassallah Abdullahi, Ioanna Gemou, Nihal V. Nayak +4

Biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) encode rich, structured information critical for drug discovery tasks, but extracting meaningful insights from large-scale KGs remains challenging…

cs.LG2022

CEREAL: Few-Sample Clustering Evaluation

Nihal V. Nayak, Ethan R. Elenberg, Clemens Rosenbaum

Evaluating clustering quality with reliable evaluation metrics like normalized mutual information (NMI) requires labeled data that can be expensive to annotate. We focus on the und…

cs.LG2022★ 41 cited

Learning to Compose Soft Prompts for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning

Nihal V. Nayak, Peilin Yu, Stephen H. Bach

We introduce compositional soft prompting (CSP), a parameter-efficient learning technique to improve the zero-shot compositionality of large-scale pretrained vision-language models…

cs.LG2022★ 21 cited

PromptSource: An Integrated Development Environment and Repository for Natural Language Prompts

Stephen H. Bach, Victor Sanh, Zheng-Xin Yong +24

PromptSource is a system for creating, sharing, and using natural language prompts. Prompts are functions that map an example from a dataset to a natural language input and target…

cs.LG2021

TAGLETS: A System for Automatic Semi-Supervised Learning with Auxiliary Data

Wasu Piriyakulkij, Cristina Menghini, Ross Briden +4

Machine learning practitioners often have access to a spectrum of data: labeled data for the target task (which is often limited), unlabeled data, and auxiliary data, the many avai…

cs.LG2021★ 563 cited

Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization

Victor Sanh, Albert Webson, Colin Raffel +38

Large language models have recently been shown to attain reasonable zero-shot generalization on a diverse set of tasks (Brown et al., 2020). It has been hypothesized that this is a…

cs.LG2020★ 12 cited

Zero-Shot Learning with Common Sense Knowledge Graphs

Nihal V. Nayak, Stephen H. Bach

Zero-shot learning relies on semantic class representations such as hand-engineered attributes or learned embeddings to predict classes without any labeled examples. We propose to…