3 papers
cs.IR2026
ARMOR: Adaptive Retriever Optimization for Low-Resource Telecom Question Answering
Heshan Fernando, Quan Xiao, Yan Xin +1
Telecom question answering (QA) is a challenging setting for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): evidence is fragmented across standards, papers, encyclopedic resources, and web…
cs.LG2026
Balancing Multi-modal Sensor Learning via Multi-objective Optimization
Heshan Fernando, Quan Xiao, Parikshit Ram +4
Learning-enabled control systems increasingly rely on multiple sensing modalities (e.g., vision, audio, language, etc.) for perception and decision support. A key challenge is that…
cs.LG2025
Understanding Forgetting in LLM Supervised Fine-Tuning and Preference Learning -- A Convex Optimization Perspective
Heshan Fernando, Han Shen, Parikshit Ram +4
The post-training of LLMs, which typically consists of the supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage and the preference learning stage (RLHF or DPO), is crucial to effective and safe LLM…