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MT-DAO: Multi-Timescale Distributed Adaptive Optimizers with Local Updates
Alex Iacob, Andrej Jovanovic, Mher Safaryan +6
Training large models with distributed data parallelism (DDP) requires frequent communication of gradients across workers, which can saturate bandwidth. Infrequent communication st…
AbbIE: Autoregressive Block-Based Iterative Encoder for Efficient Sequence Modeling
Preslav Aleksandrov, Meghdad Kurmanji, Fernando Garcia Redondo +7
We introduce the Autoregressive Block-Based Iterative Encoder (AbbIE), a novel recursive generalization of the encoder-only Transformer architecture, which achieves better perplexi…
Breaking Physical and Linguistic Borders: Multilingual Federated Prompt Tuning for Low-Resource Languages
Wanru Zhao, Yihong Chen, Royson Lee +4
Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have become a cornerstone of modern natural language processing, with their capabilities extending across a wide range of applications and…
SEAT: Sparse Entity-Aware Tuning for Knowledge Adaptation while Preserving Epistemic Abstention
William F. Shen, Xinchi Qiu, Nicola Cancedda +1
Adapting LLMs with new knowledge is increasingly important, but standard fine-tuning often erodes aligned epistemic abstention: the ability to acknowledge when the model does not k…
DES-LOC: Desynced Low Communication Adaptive Optimizers for Training Foundation Models
Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani, Mher Safaryan +8
Scaling foundation model training with Distributed Data Parallel (DDP) methods is bandwidth-limited. Existing infrequent communication methods like Local SGD were designed to synch…
Editing as Unlearning: Are Knowledge Editing Methods Strong Baselines for Large Language Model Unlearning?
Zexi Li, Xiangzhu Wang, William F. Shen +5
Large language Model (LLM) unlearning, i.e., selectively removing information from LLMs, is vital for responsible model deployment. Differently, LLM knowledge editing aims to modif…
SparsyFed: Sparse Adaptive Federated Training
Adriano Guastella, Lorenzo Sani, Alex Iacob +3
Sparse training is often adopted in cross-device federated learning (FL) environments where constrained devices collaboratively train a machine learning model on private data by ex…
Evidencing Unauthorized Training Data from AI Generated Content using Information Isotopes
Qi Tao, Yin Jinhua, Cai Dongqi +10
In light of scaling laws, many AI institutions are intensifying efforts to construct advanced AIs on extensive collections of high-quality human data. However, in a rush to stay co…
Exploring Code Language Models for Automated HLS-based Hardware Generation: Benchmark, Infrastructure and Analysis
Jiahao Gai, Hao Mark Chen, Zhican Wang +4
Recent advances in code generation have illuminated the potential of employing large language models (LLMs) for general-purpose programming languages such as Python and C++, openin…
Position: Bridge the Gaps between Machine Unlearning and AI Regulation
Bill Marino, Meghdad Kurmanji, Nicholas D. Lane
The ''right to be forgotten'' and the data privacy laws that encode it have motivated machine unlearning since its earliest days. Now, some argue that an inbound wave of artificial…
LLM Unlearning via Neural Activation Redirection
William F. Shen, Xinchi Qiu, Meghdad Kurmanji +5
The ability to selectively remove knowledge from LLMs is highly desirable. However, existing methods often struggle with balancing unlearning efficacy and retain model utility, and…