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Efficient Penalty-Based Bilevel Methods: Improved Analysis, Novel Updates, and Flatness Condition
Liuyuan Jiang, Quan Xiao, Lisha Chen +1
Penalty-based methods have become popular for solving bilevel optimization (BLO) problems, thanks to their effective first-order nature. However, they often require inner-loop iter…
Bilevel Data Curation for LLM Fine-tuning: Offline Selection and Online Self-Refining Generation
Quan Xiao, Yutong Xuan, Gaowen Liu +2
Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) datasets are critical to the downstream performance of large language models, yet they often contain low-quality or harmful question-response pairs. To…
AdamNX: An Adam improvement algorithm based on a novel exponential decay mechanism for the second-order moment estimate
Meng Zhu, Quan Xiao, Weidong Min
This paper studies the exponential decay mechanism of the second-moment estimate in Adam. We propose AdamNX and a time-varying second-moment decay rate that gradually weakens the c…
Balancing Multi-modal Sensor Learning via Multi-objective Optimization
Heshan Fernando, Quan Xiao, Parikshit Ram +4
Learning-enabled control systems increasingly rely on multiple sensing modalities (e.g., vision, audio, language, etc.) for perception and decision support. A key challenge is that…
Beyond Value Functions: Single-Loop Bilevel Optimization under Flatness Conditions
Liuyuan Jiang, Quan Xiao, Lisha Chen +1
Bilevel optimization, a hierarchical optimization paradigm, has gained significant attention in a wide range of practical applications, notably in the fine-tuning of generative mod…
The Consistency Hypothesis in Uncertainty Quantification for Large Language Models
Quan Xiao, Debarun Bhattacharjya, Balaji Ganesan +5
Estimating the confidence of large language model (LLM) outputs is essential for real-world applications requiring high user trust. Black-box uncertainty quantification (UQ) method…
Efficient First-Order Optimization on the Pareto Set for Multi-Objective Learning under Preference Guidance
Lisha Chen, Quan Xiao, Ellen Hidemi Fukuda +3
Multi-objective learning under user-specified preference is common in real-world problems such as multi-lingual speech recognition under fairness. In this work, we frame such a pro…
A First-order Generative Bilevel Optimization Framework for Diffusion Models
Quan Xiao, Hui Yuan, A F M Saif +4
Diffusion models, which iteratively denoise data samples to synthesize high-quality outputs, have achieved empirical success across domains. However, optimizing these models for do…
Analog In-memory Training on General Non-ideal Resistive Elements: The Impact of Response Functions
Zhaoxian Wu, Quan Xiao, Tayfun Gokmen +2
As the economic and environmental costs of training and deploying large vision or language models increase dramatically, analog in-memory computing (AIMC) emerges as a promising en…