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most citedRethinking Interpretability in the Era of Large Language Models

43 citations · 60 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CL2026

Register Tokens for Bounded-State Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models

Albert Ge, Chandan Singh, Yufan Zhuang +3

Masked diffusion language models (dLLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising masked tokens with bidirectional attention. Extending reasoning across generation chunks normally re…

cs.LG2026

Data-Efficient Adaptation of LLMs via Attention Head Reweighting

Tuomas Oikarinen, Zixiao Chen, Charlotte Siska +3

Learning effectively from limited data is critical in domains like security where labeled examples are scarce. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated some capabilities for…

cs.CL2026

Test-time Recursive Thinking: Self-Improvement without External Feedback

Yufan Zhuang, Chandan Singh, Liyuan Liu +5

Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown rapid improvements in reasoning capabilities, driven largely by reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards. Here, we ask whe…

cs.CL2025

Training Language Models to Generate Quality Code with Program Analysis Feedback

Feng Yao, Zilong Wang, Liyuan Liu +7

Code generation with large language models (LLMs), often termed vibe coding, is increasingly adopted in production but fails to ensure code quality, particularly in security (e.g.,…

cs.CL2025

Text Generation Beyond Discrete Token Sampling

Yufan Zhuang, Liyuan Liu, Chandan Singh +2

In standard autoregressive generation, an LLM predicts the next-token distribution, samples a discrete token, and then discards the distribution, passing only the sampled token as…

cs.CL2024

Interpretable Next-token Prediction via the Generalized Induction Head

Eunji Kim, Sriya Mantena, Weiwei Yang +3

While large transformer models excel in predictive performance, their lack of interpretability restricts their usefulness in high-stakes domains. To remedy this, we propose the Gen…

cs.CL2024

Vector-ICL: In-context Learning with Continuous Vector Representations

Yufan Zhuang, Chandan Singh, Liyuan Liu +2

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable in-context learning (ICL) capabilities on textual data. We explore whether these capabilities can be extended to continuous vecto…

cs.CL2024

Generative causal testing to bridge data-driven models and scientific theories in language neuroscience

Richard Antonello, Chandan Singh, Shailee Jain +5

Representations from large language models are highly effective at predicting BOLD fMRI responses to language stimuli. However, these representations are largely opaque: it is uncl…

cs.CL2024

Model Tells Itself Where to Attend: Faithfulness Meets Automatic Attention Steering

Qingru Zhang, Xiaodong Yu, Chandan Singh +6

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various real-world tasks. However, they often struggle to fully comprehend and effectively utilize thei…

cs.CL2024

Diversifying the Expert Knowledge for Task-Agnostic Pruning in Sparse Mixture-of-Experts

Zeliang Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Hao Cheng +2

By increasing model parameters but activating them sparsely when performing a task, the use of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture significantly improves the performance of Large…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Crafting Interpretable Embeddings by Asking LLMs Questions

Vinamra Benara, Chandan Singh, John X. Morris +4

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly improved text embeddings for a growing array of natural-language processing tasks. However, their opaqueness and proliferation into scient…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Learning a Decision Tree Algorithm with Transformers

Yufan Zhuang, Liyuan Liu, Chandan Singh +2

Decision trees are renowned for their ability to achieve high predictive performance while remaining interpretable, especially on tabular data. Traditionally, they are constructed…

cs.CL2024★ 43 cited

Rethinking Interpretability in the Era of Large Language Models

Chandan Singh, Jeevana Priya Inala, Michel Galley +2

Interpretable machine learning has exploded as an area of interest over the last decade, sparked by the rise of increasingly large datasets and deep neural networks. Simultaneously…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Towards Consistent Natural-Language Explanations via Explanation-Consistency Finetuning

Yanda Chen, Chandan Singh, Xiaodong Liu +4

Large language models (LLMs) often generate convincing, fluent explanations. However, different from humans, they often generate inconsistent explanations on different inputs. For…

cs.CL2023

Tell Your Model Where to Attend: Post-hoc Attention Steering for LLMs

Qingru Zhang, Chandan Singh, Liyuan Liu +4

In human-written articles, we often leverage the subtleties of text style, such as bold and italics, to guide the attention of readers. These textual emphases are vital for the rea…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Tree Prompting: Efficient Task Adaptation without Fine-Tuning

John X. Morris, Chandan Singh, Alexander M. Rush +2

Prompting language models (LMs) is the main interface for applying them to new tasks. However, for smaller LMs, prompting provides low accuracy compared to gradient-based finetunin…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Fast-ELECTRA for Efficient Pre-training

Chengyu Dong, Liyuan Liu, Hao Cheng +3

ELECTRA pre-trains language models by detecting tokens in a sequence that have been replaced by an auxiliary model. Although ELECTRA offers a significant boost in efficiency, its p…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

ReEval: Automatic Hallucination Evaluation for Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models via Transferable Adversarial Attacks

Xiaodong Yu, Hao Cheng, Xiaodong Liu +2

Despite remarkable advancements in mitigating hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) by retrieval augmentation, it remains challenging to measure the reliability of LLMs us…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Model Tells You What to Discard: Adaptive KV Cache Compression for LLMs

Suyu Ge, Yunan Zhang, Liyuan Liu +3

In this study, we introduce adaptive KV cache compression, a plug-and-play method that reduces the memory footprint of generative inference for Large Language Models (LLMs). Differ…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Sparse Backpropagation for MoE Training

Liyuan Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Weizhu Chen

One defining characteristic of Mixture-of-Expert (MoE) models is their capacity for conducting sparse computation via expert routing, leading to remarkable scalability. However, ba…