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cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Olmo 3

Team Olmo, :, Allyson Ettinger +66

We introduce Olmo 3, a family of state-of-the-art, fully-open language models at the 7B and 32B parameter scales. Olmo 3 model construction targets long-context reasoning, function…

cs.CL2025

DR Tulu: Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics for Deep Research

Rulin Shao, Akari Asai, Shannon Zejiang Shen +18

Deep research agents perform multi-step research to produce long-form, well-attributed answers. However, most open deep research agents are trained on easily verifiable short-form…

cs.CL2025

RLVE: Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Language Models with Adaptive Verifiable Environments

Zhiyuan Zeng, Hamish Ivison, Yiping Wang +14

We introduce Reinforcement Learning (RL) with Adaptive Verifiable Environments (RLVE), an approach using verifiable environments that procedurally generate problems and provide alg…

cs.CL2025

A Good Plan is Hard to Find: Aligning Models with Preferences is Misaligned with What Helps Users

Nishant Balepur, Matthew Shu, Yoo Yeon Sung +5

To assist users in complex tasks, LLMs generate plans: step-by-step instructions towards a goal. While alignment methods aim to ensure LLM plans are helpful, they train (RLHF) or e…

cs.CL2025

The Curious Case of Factuality Finetuning: Models' Internal Beliefs Can Improve Factuality

Benjamin Newman, Abhilasha Ravichander, Jaehun Jung +5

Language models are prone to hallucination - generating text that is factually incorrect. Finetuning models on high-quality factual information can potentially reduce hallucination…

cs.CL2025

Generalizing Verifiable Instruction Following

Valentina Pyatkin, Saumya Malik, Victoria Graf +5

A crucial factor for successful human and AI interaction is the ability of language models or chatbots to follow human instructions precisely. A common feature of instructions are…

cs.CL2025

Large-Scale Data Selection for Instruction Tuning

Hamish Ivison, Muru Zhang, Faeze Brahman +2

Selecting high-quality training data from a larger pool is a crucial step when instruction-tuning language models, as carefully curated datasets often produce models that outperfor…

cs.CL2025

TESS 2: A Large-Scale Generalist Diffusion Language Model

Jaesung Tae, Hamish Ivison, Sachin Kumar +1

We introduce TESS 2, a general instruction-following diffusion language model that outperforms contemporary instruction-tuned diffusion models, as well as matches and sometimes exc…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

2 OLMo 2 Furious

Team OLMo, Pete Walsh, Luca Soldaini +40

We present OLMo 2, the next generation of our fully open language models. OLMo 2 includes a family of dense autoregressive language models at 7B, 13B and 32B scales with fully rele…

cs.CL2024★ 8 cited

Tulu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training

Nathan Lambert, Jacob Morrison, Valentina Pyatkin +20

Language model post-training is applied to refine behaviors and unlock new skills across a wide range of recent language models, but open recipes for applying these techniques lag…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Unpacking DPO and PPO: Disentangling Best Practices for Learning from Preference Feedback

Hamish Ivison, Yizhong Wang, Jiacheng Liu +6

Learning from preference feedback has emerged as an essential step for improving the generation quality and performance of modern language models (LMs). Despite its widespread use,…

cs.CL2024★ 11 cited

OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models

Dirk Groeneveld, Iz Beltagy, Pete Walsh +40

Language models (LMs) have become ubiquitous in both NLP research and in commercial product offerings. As their commercial importance has surged, the most powerful models have beco…

cs.CL2023★ 8 cited

Camels in a Changing Climate: Enhancing LM Adaptation with Tulu 2

Hamish Ivison, Yizhong Wang, Valentina Pyatkin +8

Since the release of TÜLU [Wang et al., 2023b], open resources for instruction tuning have developed quickly, from better base models to new finetuning techniques. We test and inco…

cs.CL2023★ 39 cited

How Far Can Camels Go? Exploring the State of Instruction Tuning on Open Resources

Yizhong Wang, Hamish Ivison, Pradeep Dasigi +8

In this work we explore recent advances in instruction-tuning language models on a range of open instruction-following datasets. Despite recent claims that open models can be on pa…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

TESS: Text-to-Text Self-Conditioned Simplex Diffusion

Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi, Hamish Ivison, Jaesung Tae +4

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for generation, obtaining strong performance in various continuous domains. However, applying continuous diffusion models to na…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

HINT: Hypernetwork Instruction Tuning for Efficient Zero- & Few-Shot Generalisation

Hamish Ivison, Akshita Bhagia, Yizhong Wang +2

Recent NLP models have shown the remarkable ability to effectively generalise `zero-shot' to new tasks using only natural language instructions as guidance. However, many of these…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Data-Efficient Finetuning Using Cross-Task Nearest Neighbors

Hamish Ivison, Noah A. Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi +1

Obtaining labeled data to train a model for a task of interest is often expensive. Prior work shows training models on multitask data augmented with task descriptions (prompts) eff…

cs.CL2022

Hyperdecoders: Instance-specific decoders for multi-task NLP

Hamish Ivison, Matthew E. Peters

We investigate input-conditioned hypernetworks for multi-tasking in NLP, generating parameter-efficient adaptations for a decoder using a hypernetwork conditioned on the output of…

cs.CL2021★ 36 cited

Local Interpretations for Explainable Natural Language Processing: A Survey

Siwen Luo, Hamish Ivison, Caren Han +1

As the use of deep learning techniques has grown across various fields over the past decade, complaints about the opaqueness of the black-box models have increased, resulting in an…