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"Reinforcement learning gyms" train agents on the many low-level tasks that they must chain together to execute customer requests.
New audio-processing technology is making entertainment more accessible for millions of viewers.
Reasoning models can generate seven to 10 times as many tokens as necessary on simple tasks, creating unsustainable costs at scale. Amazon's vision for metacognitive AI could fundamentally shift how models allocate computational resources.
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ACL Findings 20252025Targeting long-form question-answering, chain-of-query (CoQ) has been studied, integrating chain-of-thought (CoT) with retrieval-augmented generation. CoQ breaks down complex questions into simpler subquestions (SQs), allowing relevant information to be retrieved step by step. By doing so, CoQ aims to improve the answer comprehensiveness and verifiability, at the expense of latency. Our first contribution
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2025Customized video editing aims at substituting the object in a given source video with a target object from reference images (Fig. 1). Existing approaches often rely on fine-tuning pre-trained models by learning the appearance of the objects in the reference images, as well as the temporal information from the source video. These methods are however not scalable as fine-tuning is required for each source
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ACL 2025, ICLR 2025 Workshop on Sparsity in LLMs2025Large Language Models (LLMs) pruning seeks to remove unimportant weights for inference speedup with minimal accuracy impact. However, existing methods often suffer from accuracy degradation without full-model sparsity-aware fine-tuning. This paper presents Wanda++, a novel pruning framework that outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by utilizing decoder-block-level regional gradients. Specifically, Wanda
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UAI 20252025Continual learning (CL) has gained increasing interest in recent years due to the need for models that can continuously learn new tasks while retaining knowledge from previous ones. However, existing CL methods often require either computationally expensive layer-wise gradient projections or large-scale storage of past task data, making them impractical for resource-constrained scenarios. To address these
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ISWC 20252025In large-scale maintenance organizations, identifying subject matter experts and managing communications across complex entities relationships poses significant challenges – including information overload and longer response times – that traditional communication approaches fail to address effectively. We propose a novel framework that combines RDF graph databases with LLMs to process natural language queries
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