Parameter-efficient fine-tuning adapts pretrained models at a fraction of the cost of full fine-tuning, yet most low-rank adapters are single-task and represent each weight update multiplicatively, leaving no explicit account of what is shared across tasks and what is task-specific. We introduce JIVEAdapter, a multi-ta...
Large-scale pretrained transformer models have achieved state-of-the-art performance across diverse machine translation tasks, including multilingual settings. Knowledge distillation has emerged as a sustainable approach for model compression, transferring knowledge from large teacher models to smaller, more efficient...
Maria Zafar, Souhail Bakkali, Rejwanul Haque· 0 citations
Image-to-text jailbreaks place harmful intent in text, image content, or the relationship between them. We examine image-side factors across four published attack families on a 313-prompt StrongREJECT slice, using five multimodal models and an additional appendix evaluation of InternVL3.5-8B. The harmful instruction is...
Bo-Yuan Chen, Yehia Dawoud, Hailemariam Mersha et al.· 0 citations
We audit frequency and decoder-depth claims for AdvWave-P, an additive audio jailbreak, on Qwen2-Audio. The protocol masks frequency components of the perturbation in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain and measures attack success and audio-span representations. On 520 AdvBench prompts, the primary judge lab...
Boyuan Chen, Minseok Kim, Sohaila Abdulsattar et al.· 0 citations
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Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in interactive environments, yet their ability to continually evolve from experience remains limited. Although fine-tuning enables adaptation, its dependence on parameter access and high computational costs restrict its flexibility, especially for...
Bo-Wen Ye, Yong-Chao Xu, Jun-Kai Ma et al.· 0 citations
This paper concerns how semantic context determines geometry in learned vector representations. Similarity is typically measured using cosine similarity, which provides a single fixed geometry. Semantic similarity, however, is inherently context dependent: two images may be similar because they depict the same object,...
Akash Kannan, Kiho Park, Victor Veitch· 0 citations
Activation steering manipulates large language model behavior by intervening on internal activations, but the mechanistic basis of these interventions remains poorly understood. We decompose refusal steering into component-level interventions across four open-weight models, identifying the sparse subsets of attention a...
Vincent Siu, Glenn Grant-Richards, Vlad Pavlovich et al.· 0 citations
Learning from human preference data is the dominant route to aligning language models with human values. In linear social choice, where rewards are linear in a fixed feature representation of prompt-response pairs, Ge et al.[2024] show that fitting such a reward by minimizing any non-decreasing convex loss, including B...
Soumya Nasipuri, Sayak Ray Chowdhury, Sanjukta Roy· 0 citations
We study the application of large language models (LLMs) to the visual exploration of textual corpora. We introduce zero-shot visualization (ZSV), a task in which users specify concepts in natural language and documents are mapped onto the corresponding concept axes for visualization. Building a ZSV system of practical...
Arnau Bueno Tricas, J. A. Rodríguez-Serrano· 0 citations
Accurate prediction does not establish that a world model has recovered a physical law: distinct dynamics can generate identical records under the same observation protocol. We formulate law recovery on a fixed physical domain under an explicit catalog of experiments, sensor uncertainty, and an acquisition budget. A ra...
Sequential recommenders typically use a fixed slate size even though the number of useful alternatives changes within a session. We propose Reinforcement Learning with Calibrated Pruning (RLCP), which adapts the retained action set using critic scores and an online threshold. The threshold is updated from binary feedba...
Language models increasingly act as agents. An agent that says an action is wrong and then takes it anyway is a different failure from one that does not know better, and evaluations of stated values cannot see it. We build a pre-registered panel of 248 scenarios across five kinds of pressure. Each scenario is posed twi...
With $2.1 million funding from Google.org, the open-source Public Transit Intelligence Hub will unify public transit monitoring, operations, and passenger communication.
Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.