3 papers
cs.LG2026
Convex Optimization for Alignment and Preference Learning on a Single GPU
Miria Feng, Mert Pilanci
Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) to align with human preferences has driven the success of systems such as Gemini and ChatGPT. However, approaches like Reinforcement Learni…
cs.LG2026
Convex Low-resource Accent-Robust Language Detection in Speech Recognition
Miria Feng, William Tan, Mert Pilanci
Globalization and multiculturalism continue to produce increasingly diverse speech varieties. Yet current spoken dialogue systems frequently fail on under-represented dialects and…
cs.LG2024
CRONOS: Enhancing Deep Learning with Scalable GPU Accelerated Convex Neural Networks
Miria Feng, Zachary Frangella, Mert Pilanci
We introduce the CRONOS algorithm for convex optimization of two-layer neural networks. CRONOS is the first algorithm capable of scaling to high-dimensional datasets such as ImageN…