3 papers
cs.AI2026
Cross-Entropy Games and Frost Training
Arthur Renard, Franck Gabriel, Valentin Hartmann +1
We present Frost Training, a method for improving Monte Carlo-based policy optimization for a large family of LLM-as-a-judge tasks called Cross-Entropy Games. The key idea is to ex…
cs.CL2025
TiME: Tiny Monolingual Encoders for Efficient NLP Pipelines
David Schulmeister, Valentin Hartmann, Lars Klein +1
Today, a lot of research on language models is focused on large, general-purpose models. However, many NLP pipelines only require models with a well-defined, small set of capabilit…
cs.LG2025
Neural Redshift: Random Networks are not Random Functions
Damien Teney, Armand Nicolicioiu, Valentin Hartmann +1
Our understanding of the generalization capabilities of neural networks (NNs) is still incomplete. Prevailing explanations are based on implicit biases of gradient descent (GD) but…