collaborators

8 papers

cs.DM2025

Semi-Random Graphs, Robust Asymmetry, and Reconstruction

Julian Asilis, Xi Chen, Dutch Hansen +1

The Graph Reconstruction Conjecture famously posits that any undirected graph on at least three vertices is determined up to isomorphism by its family of (unlabeled) induced subgra…

cs.CL2025

Resa: Transparent Reasoning Models via SAEs

Shangshang Wang, Julian Asilis, Ömer Faruk Akgül +4

How cost-effectively can we elicit strong reasoning in language models by leveraging their underlying representations? We answer this question with Resa, a family of 1.5B reasoning…

cs.LG2025

Textual Steering Vectors Can Improve Visual Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models

Woody Haosheng Gan, Deqing Fu, Julian Asilis +5

Steering methods have emerged as effective and targeted tools for guiding large language models' (LLMs) behavior without modifying their parameters. Multimodal large language model…

cs.CL2025

Tina: Tiny Reasoning Models via LoRA

Shangshang Wang, Julian Asilis, Ömer Faruk Akgül +3

How cost-effectively can strong reasoning abilities be achieved in language models? Driven by this fundamental question, we present Tina, a family of tiny reasoning models achieved…

cs.LG2025

Local Regularizers Are Not Transductive Learners

Sky Jafar, Julian Asilis, Shaddin Dughmi

We partly resolve an open question raised by Asilis et al. (COLT 2024): whether the algorithmic template of local regularization -- an intriguing generalization of explicit regular…

cs.LG2025

Proper Learnability and the Role of Unlabeled Data

Julian Asilis, Siddartha Devic, Shaddin Dughmi +2

Proper learning refers to the setting in which learners must emit predictors in the underlying hypothesis class , and often leads to learners with simple algorithmic forms (e.g.…