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20242026
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10 papers

cs.CL2026

Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures

Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Sadallah +377

To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we pre…

cs.CL2026

ABBA-Adapters: Efficient and Expressive Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models

Raghav Singhal, Kaustubh Ponkshe, Rohit Vartak +1

Large Language Models have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of tasks, but adapting them efficiently to new domains remains a key challenge. Parameter-Efficient F…

cs.LG2026

Safety Subspaces are Not Linearly Distinct: A Fine-Tuning Case Study

Kaustubh Ponkshe, Shaan Shah, Raghav Singhal +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on safety alignment to produce socially acceptable responses. However, this behavior is known to be brittle: further fine-tuning, even on benign o…

cs.CL2025

Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments

Project Apertus, Alejandro Hernández-Cano, Alexander Hägele +100

We present Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs) designed to address two systemic shortcomings in today's open model ecosystem: data compliance and multilingu…

cs.LG2025

Power Mechanism: Private Tabular Representation Release for Model Agnostic Consumption

Praneeth Vepakomma, Kaustubh Ponkshe

Traditional collaborative learning approaches are based on sharing of model weights between clients and a server. However, there are advantages to resource efficiency through schem…

cs.LG2025

Fed-SB: A Silver Bullet for Extreme Communication Efficiency and Performance in (Private) Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning

Raghav Singhal, Kaustubh Ponkshe, Rohit Vartak +2

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become ubiquitous for efficiently fine-tuning foundation models. However, federated fine-tuning using LoRA is challenging due to suboptimal updates a…