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NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Foundations of Reasoning in Language Models2025Test-time scaling has emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance reasoning in large reasoning models by allocating additional inference-time compute. However, its potential for tabular reasoning remains underexplored. We identify that existing process reward models, widely used to supervise reasoning steps, struggle with table-specific operations such as table retrieval and schema interaction, leading to
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2025The efficient implementation of large language models (LLMs) is crucial for deployment on resource-constrained devices. Low-rank tensor compression techniques, such as tensor-train (TT) networks, have been widely studied for over-parameterized neural networks. However, their applications to compress pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for downstream tasks (post-training) remains challenging due to
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ACM SIGOPS 2025 Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems2025A metastable failure is a self-sustaining congestive collapse in which a system degrades in response to a transient stressor (e.g., a load surge) but fails to recover after the stressor is removed. These rare but potentially catastrophic events are notoriously hard to diagnose and mitigate, sometimes causing prolonged outages affecting millions of users. Ideally, we would discover susceptibility to metastable
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2025Recent advancements in speech encoders have drawn attention due to their integration with Large Language Models for various speech tasks. While most research has focused on either causal or full-context speech encoders, there’s limited exploration to effectively handle both streaming and non-streaming applications, while achieving state-of-the-art performance. We introduce DuRep, a Dual-mode Speech Representation
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2025The use of human speech to train LLMs poses privacy concerns due to these models’ ability to generate samples that closely resemble artifacts in the training data. We propose a speaker privacy-preserving representation learning method through the Universal Speech Codec (USC), a computationally efficient codec that disentangles speech into: (i) privacy-preserving semantically rich representations, capturing
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