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most citedLLM-Lasso: A Robust Framework for Domain-Informed Feature Selection and Regularization

2 citations · 2 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.AI2026

OpenThoughts-Agent: Data Recipes for Agentic Models

Negin Raoof, Richard Zhuang, Marianna Nezhurina +47

Agentic language models dramatically expand the applications of AI yet little is publicly known about how to curate training data for broadly capable agents. Existing open efforts…

cs.GT2026

TERMS-Bench: Diagnosing LLM Negotiation Agents Beyond Deal Rate

Erica Zhang, Fangzhao Zhang, Aneesh Pappu +5

Negotiation is a central mechanism of economic exchange, shaping markets, procurement, labor agreements, and resource allocation. It is also a canonical testbed for agentic languag…

cs.AI2026

Optimizer-Induced Mode Connectivity: From AdamW to Muon

Fangzhao Zhang, Sungyoon Kim, Erica Zhang +2

Mode connectivity has been widely studied, yet the role of the optimizer remains underexplored. We revisit it through optimizer-induced implicit regularization, asking how connecti…

stat.ML2026

Learning When to Trust LLM Priors: A Validated Framework for Semantic Prior Integration

Erica Zhang, Naomi Sagan, Danny Tse +3

Large language models (LLMs) encode rich semantic knowledge that can be useful for supervised learning, but their outputs are unreliable as statistical priors: they may be noisy, m…

cs.CL2025

HieroLM: Egyptian Hieroglyph Recovery with Next Word Prediction Language Model

Xuheng Cai, Erica Zhang

Egyptian hieroglyphs are found on numerous ancient Egyptian artifacts, but it is common that they are blurry or even missing due to erosion. Existing efforts to restore blurry hier…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

LLM-Lasso: A Robust Framework for Domain-Informed Feature Selection and Regularization

Erica Zhang, Ryunosuke Goto, Naomi Sagan +7

We introduce LLM-Lasso, a novel framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) to guide feature selection in Lasso regression. Unlike traditional methods that rely…

cs.LG2024

Active Learning of Deep Neural Networks via Gradient-Free Cutting Planes

Erica Zhang, Fangzhao Zhang, Mert Pilanci

Active learning methods aim to improve sample complexity in machine learning. In this work, we investigate an active learning scheme via a novel gradient-free cutting-plane trainin…