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most citedExploring Quantization for Efficient Pre-Training of Transformer Language Models

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cs.CE2026

Multi-Objective Amortized CDRH3 Sequence Sampling Diversifies Promising Antibody Candidates

Joseph D. Viviano, Almer van der Sloot, Quentin Fournier +3

Antibody therapeutics have transformed treatment across diverse therapeutic areas and have become central to modern medicine. While recent machine learning approaches aim to accele…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

A Large Scale Investigation of Scaling Limits in Chemical Language Models

Kamran Chitsaz, Roshan Balaji, Quentin Fournier +2

Chemical Language Models (CLMs) are increasingly used in de novo drug design, driven by recent growth in model scale, compute, and dataset size. However, the relationship between d…

cs.GR2025

CADmium: Fine-Tuning Code Language Models for Text-Driven Sequential CAD Design

Prashant Govindarajan, Davide Baldelli, Jay Pathak +2

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the digital construction of 2D and 3D objects, and is central to a wide range of engineering and manufacturing applications like automobile and aviat…

cs.CL2025

Small Encoders Can Rival Large Decoders in Detecting Groundedness

Istabrak Abbes, Gabriele Prato, Quentin Fournier +4

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external context significantly improves their performance in natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, LLMs struggle to answer…

cs.CL2025

NeoBERT: A Next-Generation BERT

Lola Le Breton, Quentin Fournier, Mariam El Mezouar +2

Recent innovations in architecture, pre-training, and fine-tuning have led to the remarkable in-context learning and reasoning abilities of large auto-regressive language models su…

cs.AI2024

Combining Domain and Alignment Vectors to Achieve Better Knowledge-Safety Trade-offs in LLMs

Megh Thakkar, Quentin Fournier, Matthew Riemer +4

There is a growing interest in training domain-expert LLMs that excel in specific technical fields compared to their general-purpose instruction-tuned counterparts. However, these…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Exploring Quantization for Efficient Pre-Training of Transformer Language Models

Kamran Chitsaz, Quentin Fournier, Gonçalo Mordido +1

The increasing scale of Transformer models has led to an increase in their pre-training computational requirements. While quantization has proven to be effective after pre-training…

cs.CL2024

A Deep Dive into the Trade-Offs of Parameter-Efficient Preference Alignment Techniques

Megh Thakkar, Quentin Fournier, Matthew D Riemer +4

Large language models are first pre-trained on trillions of tokens and then instruction-tuned or aligned to specific preferences. While pre-training remains out of reach for most r…

cs.LG2024

Manifold Metric: A Loss Landscape Approach for Predicting Model Performance

Pranshu Malviya, Jerry Huang, Aristide Baratin +2

Determining the optimal model for a given task often requires training multiple models from scratch, which becomes impractical as dataset and model sizes grow. A more efficient alt…