6 papers
LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically Controlled Knowledge Exposure
Fanfei Li, Jana Zeller, Manuel Prada-Corral +4
Modern language models are trained on heterogeneous web-scale text corpora. Consequently, studying knowledge and skill acquisition is difficult, as prior exposure to related conten…
MentisOculi: Revealing the Limits of Reasoning with Mental Imagery
Jana Zeller, Thaddäus Wiedemer, Fanfei Li +6
Frontier models are transitioning from multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that merely ingest visual information to unified multimodal models (UMMs) capable of native interlea…
MATH-Beyond: A Benchmark for RL to Expand Beyond the Base Model
Prasanna Mayilvahanan, Ricardo Dominguez-Olmedo, Thaddäus Wiedemer +1
With the advent of DeepSeek-R1, a new wave of reinforcement learning (RL) methods has emerged that seem to unlock stronger mathematical reasoning. However, a closer look at the ope…
LLMs on the Line: Data Determines Loss-to-Loss Scaling Laws
Prasanna Mayilvahanan, Thaddäus Wiedemer, Sayak Mallick +2
Scaling laws guide the development of large language models (LLMs) by offering estimates for the optimal balance of model size, tokens, and compute. More recently, loss-to-loss sca…
In Search of Forgotten Domain Generalization
Prasanna Mayilvahanan, Roland S. Zimmermann, Thaddäus Wiedemer +4
Out-of-Domain (OOD) generalization is the ability of a model trained on one or more domains to generalize to unseen domains. In the ImageNet era of computer vision, evaluation sets…
Does CLIP's Generalization Performance Mainly Stem from High Train-Test Similarity?
Prasanna Mayilvahanan, Thaddäus Wiedemer, Evgenia Rusak +2
Foundation models like CLIP are trained on hundreds of millions of samples and effortlessly generalize to new tasks and inputs. Out of the box, CLIP shows stellar zero-shot and few…