3 papers
cs.LG2025
Why and How Auxiliary Tasks Improve JEPA Representations
Jiacan Yu, Siyi Chen, Mingrui Liu +5
Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) is increasingly used for visual representation learning and as a component in model-based RL, but its behavior remains poorly underst…
cs.CL2025
Language Models Benefit from Preparation with Elicited Knowledge
Jiacan Yu, Hannah An, Lenhart K. Schubert
The zero-shot chain of thought (CoT) approach is often used in question answering (QA) by language models (LMs) for tasks that require multiple reasoning steps. However, some QA ta…
cs.CL2025
Certified Mitigation of Worst-Case LLM Copyright Infringement
Jingyu Zhang, Jiacan Yu, Marc Marone +2
The exposure of large language models (LLMs) to copyrighted material during pre-training raises concerns about unintentional copyright infringement post deployment. This has driven…