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6 papers

cs.CL2025

To Think or Not to Think: The Hidden Cost of Meta-Training with Excessive CoT Examples

Vignesh Kothapalli, Ata Fatahibaarzi, Hamed Firooz +1

Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting combined with few-shot in-context learning (ICL) has unlocked significant reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs). However, ICL with…

cs.IR2025

Scaling Down, Serving Fast: Compressing and Deploying Efficient LLMs for Recommendation Systems

Kayhan Behdin, Ata Fatahibaarzi, Qingquan Song +17

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of industrial applications, from search and recommendation systems to generative tasks. Al…

cs.IR2025

Large Scale Retrieval for the LinkedIn Feed using Causal Language Models

Sudarshan Srinivasa Ramanujam, Antonio Alonso, Saurabh Kataria +20

In large scale recommendation systems like the LinkedIn Feed, the retrieval stage is critical for narrowing hundreds of millions of potential candidates to a manageable subset for…

cs.IR2025

360Brew: A Decoder-only Foundation Model for Personalized Ranking and Recommendation

Hamed Firooz, Maziar Sanjabi, Adrian Englhardt +20

Ranking and recommendation systems are the foundation for numerous online experiences, ranging from search results to personalized content delivery. These systems have evolved into…

cs.CL2025

CoT-ICL Lab: A Synthetic Framework for Studying Chain-of-Thought Learning from In-Context Demonstrations

Vignesh Kothapalli, Hamed Firooz, Maziar Sanjabi

We introduce CoT-ICL Lab, a framework and methodology to generate synthetic tokenized datasets and systematically study chain-of-thought (CoT) in-context learning (ICL) in language…

cs.AI2025

Lost-in-Distance: Impact of Contextual Proximity on LLM Performance in Graph Tasks

Hamed Firooz, Maziar Sanjabi, Wenlong Jiang +1

Despite significant advancements, Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit blind spots that impair their ability to retrieve and process relevant contextual data effectively. We demons…