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most citedBiLoRA: A Bi-level Optimization Framework for Overfitting-Resilient Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Pre-trained Models

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15 papers

cs.CL2026

Beyond State Capacity: Why Retrieval Breaks in Mamba

Nir Yarden, Amit Ben-Artzy, Roy Schwartz

Mamba models underperform Transformers on in-context retrieval. This gap is usually attributed to Mamba's fixed-size recurrent state, which loses information as the context grows.…

cs.RO2026

RLE-Bench: A Qualifying Exam for Coding Agents as Robot Learning Engineers

Haitong Ma, Chenxiao Gao, Rushi Qiang +2

Coding agents are beginning to move beyond purely digital tasks to tackle physical-world challenges, particularly in robotics. Existing robotics benchmarks, however, primarily focu…

cs.CL2026

Frontis-MA1: Training an AI4AI Model towards Recursive Self-Improvement in Machine Learning Engineering

Junlin Yang, Che Jiang, Yu Fu +21

Recursive self-improvement (RSI) requires AI systems that improve the process of building AI (i.e., AI4AI); machine learning engineering (MLE) offers a concrete, executable testbed…

cs.AI2026

Matryoshka Agent: Unfolding Sub-Agents for Long-Horizon Machine Learning Engineering

Rushi Qiang, Changhao Li, Haotian Sun +3

Machine learning engineering (MLE) tasks require long-horizon decision making over iterative solution debugging and refinement, under expensive and feedback-driven environment inte…

cs.CL2026

Forward-Free Diffusion Language Models with BPTT-Free Looped Refinement

Haotian Sun, Rushi Qiang, Yuqian Zheng +1

Diffusion language models generate text through iterative denoising, offering a powerful alternative to autoregressive generation. However, discrete language spaces lack a natural…

cs.LG2026

Revisiting DAgger in the Era of LLM-Agents

Changhao Li, Rushi Qiang, Jiawei Huang +4

Long-horizon LM agents learn from multi-turn interaction, where a single early mistake can alter the subsequent state distribution and derail the whole trajectory. Existing recipes…

cs.LG2026

Exploration-Driven Optimization for Test-Time Large Language Model Reasoning

Changhao Li, Yuchen Zhuang, Chenxiao Gao +4

Post-training techniques combined with inference-time scaling significantly enhance the reasoning and alignment capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, a fundamental…

cs.LG2025

MLE-Smith: Scaling MLE Tasks with Automated Multi-Agent Pipeline

Rushi Qiang, Yuchen Zhuang, Anikait Singh +4

While Language Models (LMs) have made significant progress in automating machine learning engineering (MLE), the acquisition of high-quality MLE training data is significantly cons…

cs.CL2025

Towards Better Instruction Following Retrieval Models

Yuchen Zhuang, Aaron Trinh, Rushi Qiang +4

Modern information retrieval (IR) models, trained exclusively on standard <query, passage> pairs, struggle to effectively interpret and follow explicit user instructions. We introd…

cs.LG2025

MLE-Dojo: Interactive Environments for Empowering LLM Agents in Machine Learning Engineering

Rushi Qiang, Yuchen Zhuang, Yinghao Li +8

We introduce MLE-Dojo, a Gym-style framework for systematically reinforcement learning, evaluating, and improving autonomous large language model (LLM) agents in iterative machine…

cs.CL2025

Language Model Uncertainty Quantification with Attention Chain

Yinghao Li, Rushi Qiang, Lama Moukheiber +1

Accurately quantifying a large language model's (LLM) predictive uncertainty is crucial for judging the reliability of its answers. While most existing research focuses on short, d…

cs.LG2024

Matryoshka Pilot: Learning to Drive Black-Box LLMs with LLMs

Changhao Li, Yuchen Zhuang, Rushi Qiang +4

Despite the impressive generative abilities of black-box large language models (LLMs), their inherent opacity hinders further advancements in capabilities such as reasoning, planni…

cs.CL2024

HYDRA: Model Factorization Framework for Black-Box LLM Personalization

Yuchen Zhuang, Haotian Sun, Yue Yu +4

Personalization has emerged as a critical research area in modern intelligent systems, focusing on mining users' behavioral history and adapting to their preferences for delivering…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

BiLoRA: A Bi-level Optimization Framework for Overfitting-Resilient Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Pre-trained Models

Rushi Qiang, Ruiyi Zhang, Pengtao Xie

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is a popular method for fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained models in downstream tasks by learning low-rank incremental matrices. Though LoRA and its var…

cs.CL2024

AutoLoRA: Automatically Tuning Matrix Ranks in Low-Rank Adaptation Based on Meta Learning

Ruiyi Zhang, Rushi Qiang, Sai Ashish Somayajula +1

Large-scale pretraining followed by task-specific finetuning has achieved great success in various NLP tasks. Since finetuning all parameters of large pretrained models poses subst…