29 papers
Towards Robust Reinforcement Learning for Small-Scale Language Model Agents
Md Rezwanul Haque, Md. Milon Islam, Fakhri Karray
The alignment of Small Language Models (SLMs) in the 70--500M parameter range using reinforcement learning is often considered unstable, though the underlying failure mechanisms ha…
Multimodal Unlearning Across Vision, Language, Video, and Audio: Survey of Methods, Datasets, and Benchmarks
Nobin Sarwar, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Zheyuan Liu +1
With the growing adoption of VLMs, DMs, LLMs, and AFMs, these multimodal foundation models can inadvertently encode sensitive, copyrighted, biased, or unsafe cross-modal associatio…
PAST-TIDE: Prototype-Anchored Statement Tuning with Topic-Invariant Normalization for Stance Detection
Md. Shakhoyat Rahman Shujon, MD Jahid Hasan Jim, Md. Milon Islam +2
We introduce PAST-TIDE, our stance detection system addressing both subtasks of the StanceNakba Shared Task at NakbaNLP@LREC-COLING 2026. The main idea is statement tuning. We rede…
CoQuIR: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Code Quality-Aware Information Retrieval
Jiahui Geng, Fengyu Cai, Shaobo Cui +8
Code retrieval is essential in modern software development, as it boosts code reuse and accelerates debugging. However, current benchmarks primarily emphasize functional relevance…
Dual Advantage Fields
Alexey Zemtsov, Maxim Bobrin, Alexander Nikulin +5
Offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning requires both long-horizon reachability estimates and local action comparisons. Dual goal representations provide value fields that…
NL-MambaXCT: Self-Supervised Nested-Learning Mamba for Nomex Honeycomb X-ray CT Defect Classification
Ghaleb Aldoboni, Lobna Nassar, Fakhri Karray +1
X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is widely used for non-destructive testing of Nomex honeycomb structures in aerospace manufacturing, but industrial inspection still relies heavily…