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20172026
most citedFusing finetuned models for better pretraining

12 citations · 28 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CL2026

PolySQL: Scaling Text-to-SQL Evaluation Across SQL Dialects via Automated Backend Isomorphism

Yotam Perlitz, Elad Venezian, Corentin Royer +2

SQL dialects vary in syntax, types, and functions across database engines. Text-to-SQL benchmarks, however, predominantly support only SQLite. This creates a critical evaluation ga…

cs.AI2026★ 2 cited

General Agent Evaluation

Elron Bandel, Asaf Yehudai, Lilach Eden +12

General-purpose agents perform tasks in unfamiliar environments without domain-specific manual customization. Yet no study has systematically measured how agent architecture shapes…

cs.CL2024

Unitxt: Flexible, Shareable and Reusable Data Preparation and Evaluation for Generative AI

Elron Bandel, Yotam Perlitz, Elad Venezian +9

In the dynamic landscape of generative NLP, traditional text processing pipelines limit research flexibility and reproducibility, as they are tailored to specific dataset, task, an…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Knowledge is a Region in Weight Space for Fine-tuned Language Models

Almog Gueta, Elad Venezian, Colin Raffel +3

Research on neural networks has focused on understanding a single model trained on a single dataset. However, relatively little is known about the relationships between different m…

cs.LG2022

ColD Fusion: Collaborative Descent for Distributed Multitask Finetuning

Shachar Don-Yehiya, Elad Venezian, Colin Raffel +3

We propose a new paradigm to continually evolve pretrained models, denoted ColD Fusion. It provides the benefits of multitask learning but leverages distributed computation with li…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Where to start? Analyzing the potential value of intermediate models

Leshem Choshen, Elad Venezian, Shachar Don-Yehia +2

Previous studies observed that finetuned models may be better base models than the vanilla pretrained model. Such a model, finetuned on some source dataset, may provide a better st…

cs.CL2022★ 12 cited

Fusing finetuned models for better pretraining

Leshem Choshen, Elad Venezian, Noam Slonim +1

Pretrained models are the standard starting point for training. This approach consistently outperforms the use of a random initialization. However, pretraining is a costly endeavou…

cs.CL2021

Project Debater APIs: Decomposing the AI Grand Challenge

Roy Bar-Haim, Yoav Kantor, Elad Venezian +2

Project Debater was revealed in 2019 as the first AI system that can debate human experts on complex topics. Engaging in a live debate requires a diverse set of skills, and Project…

cs.CL2019★ 6 cited

Automatic Argument Quality Assessment -- New Datasets and Methods

Assaf Toledo, Shai Gretz, Edo Cohen-Karlik +6

We explore the task of automatic assessment of argument quality. To that end, we actively collected 6.3k arguments, more than a factor of five compared to previously examined data.…

cs.CL2018★ 5 cited

What did you Mention? A Large Scale Mention Detection Benchmark for Spoken and Written Text

Yosi Mass, Lili Kotlerman, Shachar Mirkin +3

We describe a large, high-quality benchmark for the evaluation of Mention Detection tools. The benchmark contains annotations of both named entities as well as other types of entit…

cs.CL2017

A Recorded Debating Dataset

Shachar Mirkin, Michal Jacovi, Tamar Lavee +6

This paper describes an English audio and textual dataset of debating speeches, a unique resource for the growing research field of computational argumentation and debating technol…