collaborators

6 papers

cs.CL2026

Faithfulness Serum: Mitigating the Faithfulness Gap in Textual Explanations of LLM Decisions via Attribution Guidance

Bar Alon, Itamar Zimerman, Lior Wolf

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance and have revolutionized NLP, but their lack of explainability keeps them treated as black boxes, limiting their use in domai…

cs.LG2026

TensorLens: End-to-End Transformer Analysis via High-Order Attention Tensors

Ido Andrew Atad, Itamar Zimerman, Shahar Katz +1

Attention matrices are fundamental to transformer research, supporting a broad range of applications including interpretability, visualization, manipulation, and distillation. Yet,…

cs.LG2025

Overclocking LLM Reasoning: Monitoring and Controlling Thinking Path Lengths in LLMs

Roy Eisenstadt, Itamar Zimerman, Lior Wolf

Recently, techniques such as explicit structured reasoning have demonstrated strong test-time scaling behavior by enforcing a separation between the model's internal "thinking" pro…

cs.LG2025

Revisiting LRP: Positional Attribution as the Missing Ingredient for Transformer Explainability

Yarden Bakish, Itamar Zimerman, Hila Chefer +1

The development of effective explainability tools for Transformers is a crucial pursuit in deep learning research. One of the most promising approaches in this domain is Layer-wise…

cs.LG2025

DeciMamba: Exploring the Length Extrapolation Potential of Mamba

Assaf Ben-Kish, Itamar Zimerman, Shady Abu-Hussein +4

Long-range sequence processing poses a significant challenge for Transformers due to their quadratic complexity in input length. A promising alternative is Mamba, which demonstrate…

cs.LG2025

On the Expressivity of Selective State-Space Layers: A Multivariate Polynomial Approach

Edo Cohen-Karlik, Itamar Zimerman, Liane Galanti +3

Recent advances in efficient sequence modeling have introduced selective state-space layers, a key component of the Mamba architecture, which have demonstrated remarkable success i…