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most citedLLM Performance Predictors are good initializers for Architecture Search

2 citations · 3 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

GyroNovo: Error-Guided Fragment Imputation with Mass-Aware Attention for De Novo Peptide Sequencing

Abdellah El Mekki, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

De novo peptide sequencing from tandem mass spectra is essential for identifying peptides without relying on reference databases. Despite advances in deep learning, accurate sequen…

cs.CL2026

When LLM Meets Tree Search: A Systematic View of Inference as Search in Large Language Models

Jiaqi Wei, Xiang Zhang, Yuejin Yang +10

As pretraining scaling laws approach saturation, Test-Time Scaling (TTS) has emerged as an important direction for improving reasoning by allocating inference-time compute to a fix…

cs.CL2026

LatentMT: Machine Translation with Latent Reasoning

Wei-Rui Chen, Samar M. Magdy, Chiyu Zhang +3

Latent-reasoning looped language models (LoopLMs) offer a different scaling path for machine translation (MT): instead of increasing parameter count or emitting explicit chain-of-t…

cs.AI2026

DRFLOW: A Deep Research Benchmark for Personalized Workflow Prediction

Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Raymond Li, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed +2

Deep research (DR) systems are increasingly used for complex information-seeking tasks, but existing works mainly focus on generating reports and summaries. In contrast, many enter…

cs.CL2025

Reflection Pretraining Enables Token-Level Self-Correction in Biological Sequence Models

Xiang Zhang, Jiaqi Wei, Yuejin Yang +8

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has significantly advanced task-solving capabilities in natural language processing with large language models. Unlike standard prompting, CoT enco…

cs.CL2025

Distilling the Essence: Efficient Reasoning Distillation via Sequence Truncation

Wei-Rui Chen, Vignesh Kothapalli, Ata Fatahibaarzi +5

Distilling the capabilities from a large reasoning model (LRM) to a smaller student model often involves training on substantial amounts of reasoning data. However, knowledge disti…

cs.CL2025

Unifying Tree Search Algorithm and Reward Design for LLM Reasoning: A Survey

Jiaqi Wei, Xiang Zhang, Yuejin Yang +10

Deliberative tree search is a cornerstone of modern Large Language Model (LLM) research, driving the pivot from brute-force scaling toward algorithmic efficiency. This single parad…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Cross-Modal Consistency in Multimodal Large Language Models

Xiang Zhang, Senyu Li, Ning Shi +5

Recent developments in multimodal methodologies have marked the beginning of an exciting era for models adept at processing diverse data types, encompassing text, audio, and visual…

cs.CL2024

Autoregressive + Chain of Thought = Recurrent: Recurrence's Role in Language Models' Computability and a Revisit of Recurrent Transformer

Xiang Zhang, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

The Transformer architecture excels in a variety of language modeling tasks, outperforming traditional neural architectures such as RNN and LSTM. This is partially due to its elimi…

cs.LG2024

DetoxLLM: A Framework for Detoxification with Explanations

Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

Prior works on detoxification are scattered in the sense that they do not cover all aspects of detoxification needed in a real-world scenario. Notably, prior works restrict the tas…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

LLM Performance Predictors are good initializers for Architecture Search

Ganesh Jawahar, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan +1

In this work, we utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) for a novel use case: constructing Performance Predictors (PP) that estimate the performance of specific deep neural network a…

cs.CL2023

Mixture-of-Supernets: Improving Weight-Sharing Supernet Training with Architecture-Routed Mixture-of-Experts

Ganesh Jawahar, Haichuan Yang, Yunyang Xiong +10

Weight-sharing supernets are crucial for performance estimation in cutting-edge neural architecture search (NAS) frameworks. Despite their ability to generate diverse subnetworks w…

cs.CL2022

Cross-Platform and Cross-Domain Abusive Language Detection with Supervised Contrastive Learning

Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

The prevalence of abusive language on different online platforms has been a major concern that raises the need for automated cross-platform abusive language detection. However, pri…

cs.CL2022

AutoMoE: Heterogeneous Mixture-of-Experts with Adaptive Computation for Efficient Neural Machine Translation

Ganesh Jawahar, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Xiaodong Liu +6

Mixture-of-Expert (MoE) models have obtained state-of-the-art performance in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) tasks. Existing works in MoE mostly consider a homogeneous design wher…

cs.CL2022

Small Character Models Match Large Word Models for Autocomplete Under Memory Constraints

Ganesh Jawahar, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Debadeepta Dey +5

Autocomplete is a task where the user inputs a piece of text, termed prompt, which is conditioned by the model to generate semantically coherent continuation. Existing works for th…