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cs.CL2026

Distilling What Matters: Confidence-Aware Selective Distillation for Large Language Models

Ayan Sengupta, Vaibhav Seth, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Knowledge Distillation (KD) trains a smaller-capacity student model to imitate a larger-capacity teacher model by matching output distributions, implicitly assuming the teacher to…

cs.CL2026

Unifying Depth and Width Pruning for LLMs via Binary Knapsack Optimization

Palaash Goel, Ayan Sengupta, Akshay Nambi +1

Structured pruning is a promising approach for compressing large language models (LLMs), yet existing methods rely heavily on greedy heuristics that produce myopic decisions, and o…

cs.CL2026

It Takes a MAESTRO To Prune Bad Experts

Palaash Goel, Ayush Maheshwari, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Sparsely-activated Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models achieve remarkable inference efficiency by activating only a small fraction of parameters per token, yet their full expe…

cs.CL2026

From Images to Words: Efficient Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation to Language Models from Black-box Teachers

Ayan Sengupta, Shantanu Dixit, Md Shad Akhtar +1

Knowledge distillation (KD) methods are pivotal in compressing large pre-trained language models into smaller models, ensuring computational efficiency without significantly droppi…

cs.CL2026

Exposing Long-Tail Safety Failures in Large Language Models through Efficient Diverse Response Sampling

Suvadeep Hajra, Palash Nandi, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Safety tuning through supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback has substantially improved the robustness of large language models. However, it typicall…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

The Art of Scaling Test-Time Compute for Large Language Models

Aradhye Agarwal, Ayan Sengupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Test-time scaling (TTS) -- the dynamic allocation of compute during inference -- is a promising direction for improving reasoning in large language models (LLMs). However, a system…

cs.CL2025

Value-Guided KV Compression for LLMs via Approximated CUR Decomposition

Ayan Sengupta, Siddhant Chaudhary, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Key-value (KV) cache compression has emerged as a critical technique for reducing the memory and latency overhead of autoregressive language models during inference. Prior approach…

cs.CL2025

Position: Enough of Scaling LLMs! Lets Focus on Downscaling

Yash Goel, Ayan Sengupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty

We challenge the dominant focus on neural scaling laws and advocate for a paradigm shift toward downscaling in the development of large language models (LLMs). While scaling laws h…

cs.CL2025

First Finish Search: Efficient Test-Time Scaling in Large Language Models

Aradhye Agarwal, Ayan Sengupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Test-time scaling (TTS), which involves dynamic allocation of compute during inference, offers a promising way to improve reasoning in large language models. While existing TTS met…

cs.CL2025

On the Generalization vs Fidelity Paradox in Knowledge Distillation

Suhas Kamasetty Ramesh, Ayan Sengupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a key technique for compressing large language models into smaller ones while preserving performance. Despite the recent traction of KD research, its…

math.FA2025

Order-preserving unique Hahn-Banach extensions

Tanmoy Paul, T. S. S. R. K. Rao

Let be a real Banach lattice with a unit, and let be a closed subspace containing the unit. In this paper, we study the order-theoretic (also isometric) structu…

cs.CL2025

You Only Prune Once: Designing Calibration-Free Model Compression With Policy Learning

Ayan Sengupta, Siddhant Chaudhary, Tanmoy Chakraborty

The ever-increasing size of large language models (LLMs) presents significant challenges for deployment due to their heavy computational and memory requirements. Current model prun…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

How to Upscale Neural Networks with Scaling Law? A Survey and Practical Guidelines

Ayan Sengupta, Yash Goel, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Neural scaling laws have revolutionized the design and optimization of large-scale AI models by revealing predictable relationships between model size, dataset volume, and computat…

cs.CL2025

Sentiment-guided Commonsense-aware Response Generation for Mental Health Counseling

Aseem Srivastava, Gauri Naik, Alison Cerezo +2

The crisis of mental health issues is escalating. Effective counseling serves as a critical lifeline for individuals suffering from conditions like PTSD, stress, etc. Therapists fo…

cs.CL2025

Trust Modeling in Counseling Conversations: A Benchmark Study

Aseem Srivastava, Zuhair Hasan Shaik, Tanmoy Chakraborty +1

In mental health counseling, a variety of earlier studies have focused on dialogue modeling. However, most of these studies give limited to no emphasis on the quality of interactio…

cs.LG2024

Robust and Efficient Fine-tuning of LLMs with Bayesian Reparameterization of Low-Rank Adaptation

Ayan Sengupta, Vaibhav Seth, Arinjay Pathak +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) are highly resource-intensive to fine-tune due to their enormous size. While low-rank adaptation is a prominent parameter-efficient fine-tuning approac…

cs.CL2024

Knowledge Planning in Large Language Models for Domain-Aligned Counseling Summarization

Aseem Srivastava, Smriti Joshi, Tanmoy Chakraborty +1

In mental health counseling, condensing dialogues into concise and relevant summaries (aka counseling notes) holds pivotal significance. Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remark…

cs.CL2024

Crowd Intelligence for Early Misinformation Prediction on Social Media

Megha Sundriyal, Harshit Choudhary, Tanmoy Chakraborty +1

Misinformation spreads rapidly on social media, causing serious damage by influencing public opinion, promoting dangerous behavior, or eroding trust in reliable sources. It spreads…

cs.CL2024

Step-by-Step Unmasking for Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning of Large Language Models

Aradhye Agarwal, Suhas K Ramesh, Ayan Sengupta +1

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on downstream tasks requires substantial computational resources. Selective PEFT, a class of parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methodo…

cs.CY2024★ 1 cited

Emotion-Aware Multimodal Fusion for Meme Emotion Detection

Shivam Sharma, Ramaneswaran S, Md. Shad Akhtar +1

The ever-evolving social media discourse has witnessed an overwhelming use of memes to express opinions or dissent. Besides being misused for spreading malcontent, they are mined b…

cs.CL2024

Intent-conditioned and Non-toxic Counterspeech Generation using Multi-Task Instruction Tuning with RLAIF

Amey Hengle, Aswini Kumar, Sahajpreet Singh +3

Counterspeech, defined as a response to mitigate online hate speech, is increasingly used as a non-censorial solution. Addressing hate speech effectively involves dispelling the st…

cs.CL2024

Exploring the Efficacy of Large Language Models in Summarizing Mental Health Counseling Sessions: A Benchmark Study

Prottay Kumar Adhikary, Aseem Srivastava, Shivani Kumar +7

Comprehensive summaries of sessions enable an effective continuity in mental health counseling, facilitating informed therapy planning. Yet, manual summarization presents a signifi…

cs.CL2024

SemEval 2024 -- Task 10: Emotion Discovery and Reasoning its Flip in Conversation (EDiReF)

Shivani Kumar, Md Shad Akhtar, Erik Cambria +1

We present SemEval-2024 Task 10, a shared task centred on identifying emotions and finding the rationale behind their flips within monolingual English and Hindi-English code-mixed…

cs.CL2024

Harmonizing Code-mixed Conversations: Personality-assisted Code-mixed Response Generation in Dialogues

Shivani Kumar, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Code-mixing, the blending of multiple languages within a single conversation, introduces a distinctive challenge, particularly in the context of response generation. Capturing the…