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cs.CL2026

Toward Better Temporal Structures for Geopolitical Events Forecasting

Kian Ahrabian, Eric Boxer, Jay Pujara

Forecasting on geopolitical temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) through the lens of large language models (LLMs) has recently gained traction. While TKGs and their generalization, hyp…

cs.CL2025

A Systematic Analysis of Base Model Choice for Reward Modeling

Kian Ahrabian, Pegah Jandaghi, Negar Mokhberian +2

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and, at its core, reward modeling have become a crucial part of training powerful large language models (LLMs). One commonly overl…

cs.CL2025

A Practical Analysis of Human Alignment with *PO

Kian Ahrabian, Xihui Lin, Barun Patra +4

At the forefront of state-of-the-art human alignment methods are preference optimization methods (*PO). Prior research has often concentrated on identifying the best-performing met…

cs.CL2024

On The Adaptation of Unlimiformer for Decoder-Only Transformers

Kian Ahrabian, Alon Benhaim, Barun Patra +3

One of the prominent issues stifling the current generation of large language models is their limited context length. Recent proprietary models such as GPT-4 and Claude 2 have intr…

cs.CL2024

The Curious Case of Nonverbal Abstract Reasoning with Multi-Modal Large Language Models

Kian Ahrabian, Zhivar Sourati, Kexuan Sun +4

While large language models (LLMs) are still being adopted to new domains and utilized in novel applications, we are experiencing an influx of the new generation of foundation mode…