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BOReFT: Manifold Steering of Language Models for Black-box Optimization
Dhruv Agarwal, Rico Angell, Kavitha Srinivas +4
Language models are increasingly used as proposal models for black-box search, from program optimization to molecular design. Existing approaches typically improve proposals throug…
Baikal: Structured Search for Deep Research over Data Lakes
Dhruv Agarwal, Rishitha Guttapalle Mohan, Aarti Kumari +5
Deep research over data lakes requires an LLM agent to investigate evidence across thousands of heterogeneous tables and passages to synthesize a report. Existing methods perform i…
Language Model Representations for Efficient Few-Shot Tabular Classification
Inwon Kang, Parikshit Ram, Yi Zhou +2
The Web is a rich source of structured data in the form of tables, from product catalogs and knowledge bases to scientific datasets. However, the heterogeneity of the structure and…
Balancing Multi-modal Sensor Learning via Multi-objective Optimization
Heshan Fernando, Quan Xiao, Parikshit Ram +4
Learning-enabled control systems increasingly rely on multiple sensing modalities (e.g., vision, audio, language, etc.) for perception and decision support. A key challenge is that…
On Learning Representations for Tabular Data Distillation
Inwon Kang, Parikshit Ram, Yi Zhou +2
Dataset distillation generates a small set of information-rich instances from a large dataset, resulting in reduced storage requirements, privacy or copyright risks, and computatio…
Understanding Forgetting in LLM Supervised Fine-Tuning and Preference Learning -- A Convex Optimization Perspective
Heshan Fernando, Han Shen, Parikshit Ram +4
The post-training of LLMs, which typically consists of the supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage and the preference learning stage (RLHF or DPO), is crucial to effective and safe LLM…