5 papers
The Case Against Generation for Retrieval: Discriminative Language Models as Effective Retrievers
Zhe Xu, Prachi Agrawal, Kavosh Asadi +17
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful assets for recommender systems. However, deploying them as generative recommenders or zero-shot rankers at web-scale remains b…
LatentMT: Machine Translation with Latent Reasoning
Wei-Rui Chen, Samar M. Magdy, Chiyu Zhang +3
Latent-reasoning looped language models (LoopLMs) offer a different scaling path for machine translation (MT): instead of increasing parameter count or emitting explicit chain-of-t…
Tokenizing Numerical and Embedding Features for LLM RecSys
Zhe Xu, Ankit Peshin, Chiyu Zhang +7
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as backbone architectures for recommender systems because of their strong sequence modeling and representation learning capabilit…
DefenderBench: A Toolkit for Evaluating Language Agents in Cybersecurity Environments
Chiyu Zhang, Marc-Alexandre Cote, Michael Albada +6
Large language model (LLM) agents have shown impressive capabilities in human language comprehension and reasoning, yet their potential in cybersecurity remains underexplored. We i…
NADI 2025: The First Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task
Bashar Talafha, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Peter Sullivan +9
We present the findings of the sixth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI 2025) Shared Task, which focused on Arabic speech dialect processing across three subtasks: spoken…