3 papers
cs.LG2025
TV2TV: A Unified Framework for Interleaved Language and Video Generation
Xiaochuang Han, Youssef Emad, Melissa Hall +15
Video generation models are rapidly advancing, but can still struggle with complex video outputs that require significant semantic branching or repeated high-level reasoning about…
cs.LG2025
Demystifying Synthetic Data in LLM Pre-training: A Systematic Study of Scaling Laws, Benefits, and Pitfalls
Feiyang Kang, Newsha Ardalani, Michael Kuchnik +7
Training data plays a crucial role in Large Language Models (LLM) scaling, yet high quality data is of limited supply. Synthetic data techniques offer a potential path toward sides…
cs.CL2025
NaturalThoughts: Selecting and Distilling Reasoning Traces for General Reasoning Tasks
Yang Li, Youssef Emad, Karthik Padthe +8
Recent work has shown that distilling reasoning traces from a larger teacher model via supervised finetuning outperforms reinforcement learning with the smaller student model alone…