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20222025
most citedComparative Knowledge Distillation

1 citations · 3 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.AI2025

Propose, Solve, Verify: Self-Play Through Formal Verification

Alex Wilf, Pranjal Aggarwal, Bryan Parno +4

Training models through self-play alone (without any human data) has been a longstanding goal in AI, but its effectiveness for training large language models remains unclear, parti…

cs.AI2025

From Reproduction to Replication: Evaluating Research Agents with Progressive Code Masking

Gyeongwon James Kim, Alex Wilf, Louis-Philippe Morency +1

Recent progress in autonomous code generation has fueled excitement around AI agents capable of accelerating scientific discovery by running experiments. However, there is currentl…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

Think Twice: Perspective-Taking Improves Large Language Models' Theory-of-Mind Capabilities

Alex Wilf, Sihyun Shawn Lee, Paul Pu Liang +1

Human interactions are deeply rooted in the interplay of thoughts, beliefs, and desires made possible by Theory of Mind (ToM): our cognitive ability to understand the mental states…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Comparative Knowledge Distillation

Alex Wilf, Alex Tianyi Xu, Paul Pu Liang +3

In the era of large scale pretrained models, Knowledge Distillation (KD) serves an important role in transferring the wisdom of computationally heavy teacher models to lightweight,…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Multimodal Learning Without Labeled Multimodal Data: Guarantees and Applications

Paul Pu Liang, Chun Kai Ling, Yun Cheng +6

In many machine learning systems that jointly learn from multiple modalities, a core research question is to understand the nature of multimodal interactions: how modalities combin…

cs.LG2023

Difference-Masking: Choosing What to Mask in Continued Pretraining

Alex Wilf, Syeda Nahida Akter, Leena Mathur +5

The self-supervised objective of masking-and-predicting has led to promising performance gains on a variety of downstream tasks. However, while most approaches randomly mask tokens…

cs.LG2022

Face-to-Face Contrastive Learning for Social Intelligence Question-Answering

Alex Wilf, Martin Q. Ma, Paul Pu Liang +2

Creating artificial social intelligence - algorithms that can understand the nuances of multi-person interactions - is an exciting and emerging challenge in processing facial expre…