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most citedSoft Tokens, Hard Truths

1 citations · 1 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CL2026

Beyond Repeated Sampling: Learning Search Policies for LLM Reasoning

Ismail Labiad, Matthieu Kowalski, Marc Schoenauer +2

Large language models increasingly tackle hard reasoning problems by spending more test-time compute, yet the dominant strategy remains naive repeated sampling: draw many independe…

cs.CL2026

Likelihood-Based Reward Designs for General LLM Reasoning

Ariel Kwiatkowski, Natasha Butt, Ismail Labiad +2

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on reasoning benchmarks via reinforcement learning requires a specific reward function, often binary, for each benchmark. This comes with t…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Soft Tokens, Hard Truths

Natasha Butt, Ariel Kwiatkowski, Ismail Labiad +2

The use of continuous instead of discrete tokens during the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) phase of reasoning LLMs has garnered attention recently, based on the intuition that a continuous…

cs.LG2025

Tuning without Peeking: Provable Generalization Bounds and Robust LLM Post-Training

Ismail Labiad, Mathurin Videau, Matthieu Kowalski +4

Gradient-based optimization is the workhorse of deep learning, offering efficient and scalable training via backpropagation. However, exposing gradients during training can leak se…

cs.LG2025

Watermarking Autoregressive Image Generation

Nikola Jovanović, Ismail Labiad, Tomáš Souček +2

Watermarking the outputs of generative models has emerged as a promising approach for tracking their provenance. Despite significant interest in autoregressive image generation mod…

cs.AI2024

Log-normal Mutations and their Use in Detecting Surreptitious Fake Images

Ismail Labiad, Thomas Bäck, Pierre Fernandez +5

In many cases, adversarial attacks are based on specialized algorithms specifically dedicated to attacking automatic image classifiers. These algorithms perform well, thanks to an…