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5 papers

cs.LG2025

Accelerating LLM Reasoning via Early Rejection with Partial Reward Modeling

Seyyed Saeid Cheshmi, Azal Ahmad Khan, Xinran Wang +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly relied upon for solving complex reasoning tasks in domains such as mathematics, logic, and multi-step question answering. A growing li…

cs.CL2025

Sem-DPO: Mitigating Semantic Inconsistency in Preference Optimization for Prompt Engineering

Anas Mohamed, Azal Ahmad Khan, Xinran Wang +5

Generative AI can now synthesize strikingly realistic images from text, yet output quality remains highly sensitive to how prompts are phrased. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)…

cs.RO2025

Safety Aware Task Planning via Large Language Models in Robotics

Azal Ahmad Khan, Michael Andrev, Muhammad Ali Murtaza +5

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into robotic task planning has unlocked better reasoning capabilities for complex, long-horizon workflows. However, ensuring safety…

cs.LG2025

LADs: Leveraging LLMs for AI-Driven DevOps

Ahmad Faraz Khan, Azal Ahmad Khan, Anas Mohamed +7

Automating cloud configuration and deployment remains a critical challenge due to evolving infrastructures, heterogeneous hardware, and fluctuating workloads. Existing solutions la…

cs.LG2024

Personalized Federated Learning Techniques: Empirical Analysis

Azal Ahmad Khan, Ahmad Faraz Khan, Haider Ali +1

Personalized Federated Learning (pFL) holds immense promise for tailoring machine learning models to individual users while preserving data privacy. However, achieving optimal perf…