most citedSmall But Funny: A Feedback-Driven Approach to Humor Distillation

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cs.LG2025

CoSMoEs: Compact Sparse Mixture of Experts

Patrick Huber, Akshat Shrivastava, Ernie Chang +3

Sparse Mixture of Expert (MoE) models are popular foundational architectures at large scale, however, under-explored at smaller sizes. Here, we show how to enable Compact Sparse Mi…

cs.CL2024

CoDi: Conversational Distillation for Grounded Question Answering

Patrick Huber, Arash Einolghozati, Rylan Conway +6

Distilling conversational skills into Small Language Models (SLMs) with approximately 1 billion parameters presents significant challenges. Firstly, SLMs have limited capacity in 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.CL2024

LayerSkip: Enabling Early Exit Inference and Self-Speculative Decoding

Mostafa Elhoushi, Akshat Shrivastava, Diana Liskovich +10

We present LayerSkip, an end-to-end solution to speed-up inference of large language models (LLMs). First, during training we apply layer dropout, with low dropout rates for earlie…

cs.CL20241 cited

Small But Funny: A Feedback-Driven Approach to Humor Distillation

Sahithya Ravi, Patrick Huber, Akshat Shrivastava +4

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has brought to light promising language generation capabilities, particularly in performing tasks like complex reasoning and creative…