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most citedPrivately Customizing Prefinetuning to Better Match User Data in Federated Learning

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cs.LG2025

POPri: Private Federated Learning using Preference-Optimized Synthetic Data

Charlie Hou, Mei-Yu Wang, Yige Zhu +2

In practical settings, differentially private Federated learning (DP-FL) is the dominant method for training models from private, on-device client data. Recent work has suggested t…

cs.CL2024

PRoDeliberation: Parallel Robust Deliberation for End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding

Trang Le, Daniel Lazar, Suyoun Kim +6

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a critical component of voice assistants; it consists of converting speech to semantic parses for task execution. Previous works have explore…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

PrE-Text: Training Language Models on Private Federated Data in the Age of LLMs

Charlie Hou, Akshat Shrivastava, Hongyuan Zhan +5

On-device training is currently the most common approach for training machine learning (ML) models on private, distributed user data. Despite this, on-device training has several d…

cs.CL2023

Augmenting text for spoken language understanding with Large Language Models

Roshan Sharma, Suyoun Kim, Daniel Lazar +7

Spoken semantic parsing (SSP) involves generating machine-comprehensible parses from input speech. Training robust models for existing application domains represented in training d…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Privately Customizing Prefinetuning to Better Match User Data in Federated Learning

Charlie Hou, Hongyuan Zhan, Akshat Shrivastava +4

In Federated Learning (FL), accessing private client data incurs communication and privacy costs. As a result, FL deployments commonly prefinetune pretrained foundation models on a…

cs.CL2022

STOP: A dataset for Spoken Task Oriented Semantic Parsing

Paden Tomasello, Akshat Shrivastava, Daniel Lazar +12

End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) predicts intent directly from audio using a single model. It promises to improve the performance of assistant systems by leveraging a…