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6 papers

cs.AI2025

Training Vision-Language Process Reward Models for Test-Time Scaling in Multimodal Reasoning: Key Insights and Lessons Learned

Brandon Ong, Tej Deep Pala, Vernon Toh +2

Process Reward Models (PRMs) provide step-level supervision that improves the reliability of reasoning in large language models. While PRMs have been extensively studied in text-ba…

cs.CL2025

Lessons from Training Grounded LLMs with Verifiable Rewards

Shang Hong Sim, Tej Deep Pala, Vernon Toh +5

Generating grounded and trustworthy responses remains a key challenge for large language models (LLMs). While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with citation-based grounding hol…

cs.CL2025

Error Typing for Smarter Rewards: Improving Process Reward Models with Error-Aware Hierarchical Supervision

Tej Deep Pala, Panshul Sharma, Amir Zadeh +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are prone to hallucination, especially during multi-hop and reasoning-intensive tasks such as mathematical problem solving. While Outcome Reward Models…

cs.CL2025

PromptDistill: Query-based Selective Token Retention in Intermediate Layers for Efficient Large Language Model Inference

Weisheng Jin, Maojia Song, Tej Deep Pala +4

As large language models (LLMs) tackle increasingly complex tasks and longer documents, their computational and memory costs during inference become a major bottleneck. To address…

cs.RO2024

Emma-X: An Embodied Multimodal Action Model with Grounded Chain of Thought and Look-ahead Spatial Reasoning

Qi Sun, Pengfei Hong, Tej Deep Pala +4

Traditional reinforcement learning-based robotic control methods are often task-specific and fail to generalize across diverse environments or unseen objects and instructions. Visu…

cs.CL2024

Ferret: Faster and Effective Automated Red Teaming with Reward-Based Scoring Technique

Tej Deep Pala, Vernon Y. H. Toh, Rishabh Bhardwaj +1

In today's era, where large language models (LLMs) are integrated into numerous real-world applications, ensuring their safety and robustness is crucial for responsible AI usage. A…