2 papers
cs.CL2026
How Do Language Models Compose Functions?
Apoorv Khandelwal, Ellie Pavlick
While large language models (LLMs) appear to be increasingly capable of solving compositional tasks, it is an open question whether they do so using compositional mechanisms. In th…
cs.CL2025
$100K or 100 Days: Trade-offs when Pre-Training with Academic Resources
Apoorv Khandelwal, Tian Yun, Nihal V. Nayak +4
Pre-training is notoriously compute-intensive and academic researchers are notoriously under-resourced. It is, therefore, commonly assumed that academics can't pre-train models. In…