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most citedMultimodal Autoregressive Pre-training of Large Vision Encoders

2 citations · 6 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

Thinking into the Future: Latent Lookahead Training for Transformers

Lorenzo Noci, Gregor Bachmann, Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli +1

Autoregressive language models trained with next-token prediction generate text by sampling one discrete token at a time. Although very scalable, this objective forces the model to…

cs.AI2026

The Potential of CoT for Reasoning: A Closer Look at Trace Dynamics

Gregor Bachmann, Yichen Jiang, Seyed Mohsen Moosavi Dezfooli +1

Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting is a de-facto standard technique to elicit reasoning-like responses from large language models (LLMs), allowing them to spell out individual steps…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

AstroMMBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models Capabilities in Astronomy

Jinghang Shi, Xiaoyu Tang, Yang Huang +4

Astronomical image interpretation presents a significant challenge for applying multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to specialized scientific tasks. Existing benchmarks focus…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Learning Private Representations through Entropy-based Adversarial Training

Tassilo Klein, Moin Nabi

How can we learn a representation with high predictive power while preserving user privacy? We present an adversarial representation learning method for sanitizing sensitive conten…

cs.CL2025

From Dense to Dynamic: Token-Difficulty Driven MoEfication of Pre-Trained LLMs

Kumari Nishu, Sachin Mehta, Samira Abnar +6

Training large language models (LLMs) for different inference constraints is computationally expensive, limiting control over efficiency-accuracy trade-offs. Moreover, once trained…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Computational Bottlenecks of Training Small-scale Large Language Models

Saleh Ashkboos, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh +4

While large language models (LLMs) dominate the AI landscape, Small-scale large Language Models (SLMs) are gaining attention due to cost and efficiency demands from consumers. Howe…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Multimodal Autoregressive Pre-training of Large Vision Encoders

Enrico Fini, Mustafa Shukor, Xiujun Li +13

We introduce a novel method for pre-training of large-scale vision encoders. Building on recent advancements in autoregressive pre-training of vision models, we extend this framewo…

cs.LG2024

SALSA: Soup-based Alignment Learning for Stronger Adaptation in RLHF

Atoosa Chegini, Hamid Kazemi, Iman Mirzadeh +5

In Large Language Model (LLM) development, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is crucial for aligning models with human values and preferences. RLHF traditionally re…

cs.CL2024

KV Prediction for Improved Time to First Token

Maxwell Horton, Qingqing Cao, Chenfan Sun +4

Inference with transformer-based language models begins with a prompt processing step. In this step, the model generates the first output token and stores the KV cache needed for f…

cs.LG2024

Duo-LLM: A Framework for Studying Adaptive Computation in Large Language Models

Keivan Alizadeh, Iman Mirzadeh, Hooman Shahrokhi +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) typically generate outputs token by token using a fixed compute budget, leading to inefficient resource utilization. To address this shortcoming, recen…

cs.LG2024

Chain-of-Sketch: Enabling Global Visual Reasoning

Aryo Lotfi, Enrico Fini, Samy Bengio +2

Modern vision models have achieved remarkable success in benchmarks where local features provide critical information about the target. There is now a growing interest in tackling…

cs.CL2024

Scaling Smart: Accelerating Large Language Model Pre-training with Small Model Initialization

Mohammad Samragh, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh Vahid +5

The pre-training phase of language models often begins with randomly initialized parameters. With the current trends in scaling models, training their large number of parameters ca…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Contrastive Perplexity for Controlled Generation: An Application in Detoxifying Large Language Models

Tassilo Klein, Moin Nabi

The generation of toxic content by large language models (LLMs) remains a critical challenge for the safe deployment of language technology. We propose a novel framework for implic…