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20242026
collaborators

6 papers

cs.LG2026

Reinforcement Learning from Rich Feedback with Distributional DAgger

Rishabh Agrawal, Jacob Fein-Ashley, Paria Rashidinejad

Reasoning models have advanced rapidly, but the dominant reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) recipe remains surprisingly narrow: sample many responses and reward…

cs.LG2026

Solve the Loop: Attractor Models for Language and Reasoning

Jacob Fein-Ashley, Paria Rashidinejad

Looped Transformers offer a promising alternative to purely feed-forward computation by iteratively refining latent representations, improving language modeling and reasoning. Yet…

cs.CV2025

Bridging Hidden States in Vision-Language Models

Benjamin Fein-Ashley, Jacob Fein-Ashley

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are a new family of models that align image content with natural language. Existing approaches typically fuse either (a) early: by mixing tokens/featu…

cs.LG2025

Flowing Through Layers: A Continuous Dynamical Systems Perspective on Transformers

Jacob Fein-Ashley

We show that the standard discrete update rule of transformer layers can be naturally interpreted as a forward Euler discretization of a continuous dynamical system. Our Transforme…

cs.LG2025

Contextual Feedback Loops: Amplifying Deep Reasoning with Iterative Top-Down Feedback

Jacob Fein-Ashley, Rajgopal Kannan, Viktor Prasanna

Conventional deep networks rely on one-way backpropagation that overlooks reconciling high-level predictions with lower-level representations. We propose \emph{Contextual Feedback…

cs.CV2024

Diffusion Models with Anisotropic Gaussian Splatting for Image Inpainting

Jacob Fein-Ashley, Benjamin Fein-Ashley

Image inpainting is a fundamental task in computer vision, aiming to restore missing or corrupted regions in images realistically. While recent deep learning approaches have signif…