3 papers
cs.CL2026
AcquisitionSynthesis: Targeted Data Generation using Acquisition Functions
Ishika Agarwal, Sofia Stoica, Emre Can Acikgoz +4
Data quality remains a critical bottleneck in developing capable, competitive models. Researchers have explored many ways to generate top quality samples. Some works rely on reject…
cs.CL2026
Perception-Aware Policy Optimization for Multimodal Reasoning
Zhenhailong Wang, Xuehang Guo, Sofia Stoica +8
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has proven to be a highly effective strategy for endowing Large Language Models (LLMs) with robust multi-step reasoning abilit…
cs.SD2026
SoundWeaver: Semantic Warm-Starting for Text-to-Audio Diffusion Serving
Ayush Barik, Sofia Stoica, Nikhil Sarda +4
Text-to-audio diffusion models produce high-fidelity audio but require tens of function evaluations (NFEs), incurring multi-second latency and limited throughput. We present SoundW…