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most citedLiLiuM: eBay's Large Language Models for e-commerce

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9 papers

cs.CV2026

Adapting Vision-Language Models for E-commerce Understanding at Scale

Matteo Nulli, Vladimir Orshulevich, Tala Bazazo +9

E-commerce product understanding demands by nature, strong multimodal comprehension from text, images, and structured attributes. General-purpose Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enab…

cs.CL2025

Vocabulary Customization for Efficient Domain-Specific LLM Deployment

Christian Herold, Michael Kozielski, Nicholas Santavas +2

When using an LLM to process text outside the training domain(s), an often overlooked factor is vocabulary mismatch, where the general-domain tokenizer fails to capture frequent do…

cs.CL2025

Lost at the Beginning of Reasoning

Baohao Liao, Xinyi Chen, Sara Rajaee +5

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced complex reasoning capabilities, particularly through extended chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning that…

cs.CL2025

Unilogit: Robust Machine Unlearning for LLMs Using Uniform-Target Self-Distillation

Stefan Vasilev, Christian Herold, Baohao Liao +3

This paper introduces Unilogit, a novel self-distillation method for machine unlearning in Large Language Models. Unilogit addresses the challenge of selectively forgetting specifi…

cs.CL2025

CONGRAD:Conflicting Gradient Filtering for Multilingual Preference Alignment

Jiangnan Li, Thuy-Trang Vu, Christian Herold +3

Naive joint training of large language models (LLMs) for multilingual preference alignment can suffer from negative interference. This is a known issue in multilingual training, wh…

cs.CL2025

ClusComp: A Simple Paradigm for Model Compression and Efficient Finetuning

Baohao Liao, Christian Herold, Seyyed Hadi Hashemi +3

As large language models (LLMs) scale, model compression is crucial for edge deployment and accessibility. Weight-only quantization reduces model size but suffers from performance…

cs.CL2025

Domain Adaptation of Foundation LLMs for e-Commerce

Christian Herold, Michael Kozielski, Tala Bazazo +6

We present the e-Llama models: 8 billion and 70 billion parameter large language models that are adapted towards the e-commerce domain. These models are meant as foundation models…

cs.CL2024

IKUN for WMT24 General MT Task: LLMs Are here for Multilingual Machine Translation

Baohao Liao, Christian Herold, Shahram Khadivi +1

This paper introduces two multilingual systems, IKUN and IKUN-C, developed for the general machine translation task in WMT24. IKUN and IKUN-C represent an open system and a constra…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

LiLiuM: eBay's Large Language Models for e-commerce

Christian Herold, Michael Kozielski, Leonid Ekimov +3

We introduce the LiLiuM series of large language models (LLMs): 1B, 7B, and 13B parameter models developed 100% in-house to fit eBay's specific needs in the e-commerce domain. This…