activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

cs.LG2026

TAPIOCA: Why Task- Aware Pruning Improves OOD model Capability

Krish Sharma, Omar Naim, Soumadeep Saha +3

Recent work has promoted task-aware layer pruning as a way to improve model performance on particular tasks, as shown by TALE. In this paper, we investigate when such improvements…

cs.LG2026

TELL-TALE: Task Efficient LLMs with Task Aware Layer Elimination

Omar Naim, Krish Sharma, Niyar R Barman +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) typically come with a fixed architecture, despite growing evidence that not all layers contribute equally to every downstream task. We introduce TALE (…

cs.CL2026

SSA: Improving Performance With a Better Scoring Function

Omar Naim, Swarnadeep Bhar, Jérôme Bolte +1

While transformer models exhibit strong in-context learning (ICL) abilities, they often fail to generalize under simple distribution shifts. We analyze these failures and identify…

cs.CL2026

COCORELI: Enforcing Execution Preconditions for Reliable Collaborative Instruction Following

Swarnadeep Bhar, Omar Naim, Eleni Metheniti +4

Autonomous agents executing human instructions must operate reliably even when instructions are incomplete. While recent approaches improve detection of missing information, detect…

stat.ML2025

Analyzing limits for in-context learning

Omar Naim, Jerome Bolte, Nicholas Asher

Our paper challenges claims from prior research that transformer-based models, when learning in context, implicitly implement standard learning algorithms. We present empirical evi…

cs.LG2025

Re-examining learning linear functions in context

Omar Naim, Guilhem Fouilhé, Nicholas Asher

In-context learning (ICL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for easily adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to various tasks. However, our understanding of how ICL works remains…