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7 papers

cs.CL2026

Adapting Text LLMs to Speech via Multimodal Depth Up-Scaling

Kazuki Yano, Jun Suzuki, Shinji Watanabe

Adapting pre-trained text Large Language Models (LLMs) into Speech Language Models (Speech LMs) via continual pretraining on speech data is promising, but often degrades the origin…

cs.CL2026

Pre-training LLM without Learning Rate Decay Enhances Supervised Fine-Tuning

Kazuki Yano, Shun Kiyono, Sosuke Kobayashi +2

We investigate the role of learning rate scheduling in the large-scale pre-training of large language models, focusing on its influence on downstream performance after supervised f…

cs.CL2026

Efficient Construction of Model Family through Progressive Training Using Model Expansion

Kazuki Yano, Sho Takase, Sosuke Kobayashi +2

As Large Language Models (LLMs) gain widespread practical application, offering model families with varying parameter sizes has become standard practice to accommodate diverse comp…

cs.SE2026

TimeMachine-bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Model Capabilities in Repository-Level Migration Tasks

Ryo Fujii, Makoto Morishita, Kazuki Yano +1

With the advancement of automated software engineering, research focus is increasingly shifting toward practical tasks reflecting the day-to-day work of software engineers. Among t…

cs.CL2026

Suppressing Final Layer Hidden State Jumps in Transformer Pretraining

Keigo Shibata, Kazuki Yano, Ryosuke Takahashi +3

This paper discusses the internal behavior of Transformer language models. Many recent pre-trained models have been reported to exhibit only slight changes in the angular distance…

cs.CL2025

Layerwise Importance Analysis of Feed-Forward Networks in Transformer-based Language Models

Wataru Ikeda, Kazuki Yano, Ryosuke Takahashi +3

This study investigates the layerwise importance of feed-forward networks (FFNs) in Transformer-based language models during pretraining. We introduce an experimental approach that…