5 papers
Observable Patterns Are Not Explanations: A Causal-Geometric Analysis of Latent Reasoning Models
Darpan Aswal, Thomas Palmeira Ferraz, Yongxin Zhou +1
Latent reasoning models (LRMs) replace explicit chain-of-thought with continuous thoughts. Recent work treats observable latent-state patterns, such as BFS-like frontiers and decod…
Retrieval-Augmented LLM Agents: Learning to Learn from Experience
Thomas Palmeira Ferraz, Romain Deffayet, Vassilina Nikoulina +2
While large language models (LLMs) have advanced the development of general-purpose agents, achieving robust generalization to unseen tasks remains a significant challenge. Current…
Multilingual DistilWhisper: Efficient Distillation of Multi-task Speech Models via Language-Specific Experts
Thomas Palmeira Ferraz, Marcely Zanon Boito, Caroline Brun +1
Whisper is a multitask and multilingual speech model covering 99 languages. It yields commendable automatic speech recognition (ASR) results in a subset of its covered languages, b…
No Argument Left Behind: Overlapping Chunks for Faster Processing of Arbitrarily Long Legal Texts
Israel Fama, Bárbara Bueno, Alexandre Alcoforado +3
In a context where the Brazilian judiciary system, the largest in the world, faces a crisis due to the slow processing of millions of cases, it becomes imperative to develop effici…
Enriching GNNs with Text Contextual Representations for Detecting Disinformation Campaigns on Social Media
Bruno Croso Cunha da Silva, Thomas Palmeira Ferraz, Roseli De Deus Lopes
Disinformation on social media poses both societal and technical challenges, requiring robust detection systems. While previous studies have integrated textual information into pro…