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11 papers

cs.CL2026

MineDraft: A Framework for Batch Parallel Speculative Decoding

Zhenwei Tang, Arun Verma, Zijian Zhou +4

Speculative decoding (SD) accelerates large language model inference by using a smaller draft model to propose draft tokens that are subsequently verified by a larger target model.…

cs.LG2026

BarrierSteer: LLM Safety via Learning Barrier Steering

Thanh Q. Tran, Arun Verma, Kiwan Wong +3

Despite the strong performance of large language models (LLMs) across diverse tasks, their susceptibility to adversarial attacks and unsafe content generation remains a significant…

cs.CL2026

MeMo: Memory as a Model

Ryan Wei Heng Quek, Sanghyuk Lee, Alfred Wei Lun Leong +6

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across a wide range of tasks, but remain frozen after pretraining until subsequent updates. Many real-world applications req…

cs.LG2026

ActiveDPO: Active Direct Preference Optimization for Sample-Efficient Alignment

Xiaoqiang Lin, Arun Verma, Zhongxiang Dai +3

The recent success in using human preferences to align large language models (LLMs) has significantly improved their performance in various downstream tasks, such as question answe…

cs.LG2025

Incentivizing Time-Aware Fairness in Data Sharing

Jiangwei Chen, Kieu Thao Nguyen Pham, Rachael Hwee Ling Sim +4

In collaborative data sharing and machine learning, multiple parties aggregate their data resources to train a machine learning model with better model performance. However, as the…

cs.LG2025

Uncovering Scaling Laws for Large Language Models via Inverse Problems

Arun Verma, Zhaoxuan Wu, Zijian Zhou +15

Large Language Models (LLMs) are large-scale pretrained models that have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains. These successes have been driven by unprecedented compl…