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most citedMambaByte: Token-free Selective State Space Model

7 citations · 7 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.LG2026

Data Distribution as a Lever for Guiding Optimizers Toward Superior Generalization in LLMs

Tushaar Gangavarapu, Jiping Li, Christopher Vattheuer +2

Can modifying the training data distribution guide optimizers toward solutions with improved generalization when training large language models (LLMs)? In this work, we theoretical…

cs.CL2025

Conversations Gone Awry, But Then? Evaluating Conversational Forecasting Models

Son Quoc Tran, Tushaar Gangavarapu, Nicholas Chernogor +2

We often rely on our intuition to anticipate the direction of a conversation. Endowing automated systems with similar foresight can enable them to assist human-human interactions.…

cs.LG2024

GPT-2 Through the Lens of Vector Symbolic Architectures

Johannes Knittel, Tushaar Gangavarapu, Hendrik Strobelt +1

Understanding the general priniciples behind transformer models remains a complex endeavor. Experiments with probing and disentangling features using sparse autoencoders (SAE) sugg…

cs.CL2024★ 7 cited

MambaByte: Token-free Selective State Space Model

Junxiong Wang, Tushaar Gangavarapu, Jing Nathan Yan +1

Token-free language models learn directly from raw bytes and remove the inductive bias of subword tokenization. Operating on bytes, however, results in significantly longer sequenc…

cs.CL2023

Assessing the efficacy of large language models in generating accurate teacher responses

Yann Hicke, Abhishek Masand, Wentao Guo +1

(Tack et al., 2023) organized the shared task hosted by the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications on generation of teacher language in educat…