4 papers
Budget-Aware Tool Use Enables Effective Agent Scaling
Tengxiao Liu, Zifeng Wang, Jin Miao +12
Scaling test-time computation has been extended from language model reasoning to tool-augmented agents, where scaling involves not only thinking in tokens but also acting via tool…
Speculative Knowledge Distillation: Bridging the Teacher-Student Gap Through Interleaved Sampling
Wenda Xu, Rujun Han, Zifeng Wang +7
Recent advances in knowledge distillation (KD) have enabled smaller student models to approach the performance of larger teacher models. However, popular methods such as supervised…
Uncovering Factor Level Preferences to Improve Human-Model Alignment
Juhyun Oh, Eunsu Kim, Jiseon Kim +4
Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit tendencies that diverge from human preferences, such as favoring certain writing styles or producing overly verbose outputs. While crucia…
RAG-QA Arena: Evaluating Domain Robustness for Long-form Retrieval Augmented Question Answering
Rujun Han, Yuhao Zhang, Peng Qi +6
Question answering based on retrieval augmented generation (RAG-QA) is an important research topic in NLP and has a wide range of real-world applications. However, most existing da…