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5 papers

cs.LG2025

Few-Shot Knowledge Distillation of LLMs With Counterfactual Explanations

Faisal Hamman, Pasan Dissanayake, Yanjun Fu +1

Knowledge distillation is a promising approach to transfer capabilities from complex teacher models to smaller, resource-efficient student models that can be deployed easily, parti…

cs.CL2025

Improving Consistency in Retrieval-Augmented Systems with Group Similarity Rewards

Faisal Hamman, Chenyang Zhu, Anoop Kumar +4

RAG systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains where users expect outputs to be consistent across semantically equivalent queries. However, existing systems often exh…

cs.LG2025

T-SHIRT: Token-Selective Hierarchical Data Selection for Instruction Tuning

Yanjun Fu, Faisal Hamman, Sanghamitra Dutta

Instruction tuning is essential for Large Language Models (LLMs) to effectively follow user instructions. To improve training efficiency and reduce data redundancy, recent works us…

cs.LG2025

Counterfactual Explanations for Model Ensembles Using Entropic Risk Measures

Erfaun Noorani, Pasan Dissanayake, Faisal Hamman +1

Counterfactual explanations indicate the smallest change in input that can translate to a different outcome for a machine learning model. Counterfactuals have generated immense int…

stat.ML2024

Quantifying Knowledge Distillation Using Partial Information Decomposition

Pasan Dissanayake, Faisal Hamman, Barproda Halder +3

Knowledge distillation deploys complex machine learning models in resource-constrained environments by training a smaller student model to emulate internal representations of a com…