3 papers
cs.CV2026
Is There Knowledge Left to Extract? Evidence of Fragility in Medically Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models
Oliver McLaughlin, Daniel Shubin, Carsten Eickhoff +3
Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly adapted through domain-specific fine-tuning, yet it remains unclear whether this improves reasoning beyond superficial visual cues, p…
cs.CL2025
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Rhyme: Uncovering Internal Phonetic Representations in LLaMA 3.2
Oliver McLaughlin, Arjun Khurana, Jack Merullo
Large language models demonstrate proficiency on phonetic tasks, such as rhyming, without explicit phonetic or auditory grounding. In this work, we investigate how \verb|Llama-3.2-…
cs.DS2025
Let them have CAKES: A Cutting-Edge Algorithm for Scalable, Efficient, and Exact Search on Big Data
Morgan E. Prior, Thomas J. Howard, Oliver McLaughlin +3
The ongoing Big Data explosion has created a demand for efficient and scalable algorithms for similarity search. Most recent work has focused on \textit{approximate} -NN search,…