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ConvAI @ UIUC
@convai-uiuc.bsky.social
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Conversational AI | NLP | Headed by Dr. Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Dr. Gokhan Tur | UIUC | IllinoisCDS
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Reinforcement Learning Finetunes Small Subnetworks in Large Language Models by @sagnikmukherjee.bsky.social, Lifan Yuan, @dilekh.bsky.social, Hao Peng

Read more here: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11711
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Reinforcement Learning Finetunes Small Subnetworks in Large Language Models
Reinforcement learning (RL) yields substantial improvements in large language models (LLMs) downstream task performance and alignment with human values. Surprisingly, such large gains result from upda...
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September 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs by Cheng Qian, @emrecanacikgoz.bsky.social, Qi He, Hongru Wang, Xiusi Chen, @dilekh.bsky.social, @gokhantur.bsky.social, Heng Ji

Read more here: arxiv.org/abs/2504.13958, x.com/emrecanacikg...
ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs
Current Large Language Models (LLMs) often undergo supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to acquire tool use capabilities. However, SFT struggles to generalize to unfamiliar or complex tool use scenarios. Rece...
arxiv.org
September 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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MIRAGE: A Benchmark for Multimodal Information-Seeking and Reasoning in Agricultural Expert-Guided Conversations by @vardhandongre.bsky.social Chi Gui, Hooshang Nayyeri, Shubham Garg, @gokhantur.bsky.social, @dilekh.bsky.social, Vikram Adve

Read more here: mirage-benchmark.github.io
MIRAGE: A Benchmark for Multimodal Information‑Seeking and Reasoning in Agricultural Expert‑Guided Conversations
MIRAGE is a benchmark for multimodal expert‑level reasoning and decision‑making in agricultural consultative interactions.
mirage-benchmark.github.io
September 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Neural Networks for Learnable and Scalable Influence Estimation of Instruction Fine-Tuning Data by @wonderingishika.bsky.social @dilekh.bsky.social

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Ishika Agarwal on X: "🚀Very excited about my new paper! NN-CIFT slashes data valuation costs by 99% using tiny neural nets (205k params, just 0.0027% of 8B LLMs) while maintaining top-tier performance! https://t.co/7SEMjFV2Pw" / X
🚀Very excited about my new paper! NN-CIFT slashes data valuation costs by 99% using tiny neural nets (205k params, just 0.0027% of 8B LLMs) while maintaining top-tier performance! https://t.co/7SEMjFV2Pw
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September 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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[5/5] Persuasion research is still playing catch-up, promising great advancements!✨

Thank you to my amazing co-authors! @shuhaib.bsky.social @xiaocheng-yang.bsky.social @HyeonjeongHa @ziruicheng.bsky.social @EsinDurmus @JiaxuanYou @HengJi @gokhantur.bsky.social @dilekh.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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sagnikmukherjee.bsky.social
📂 Code and data coming soon! Read our paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.02362

This would not have been possible without the contributions of @abhinav-chinta.bsky.social @takyoung.bsky.social Tarun and our amazing advisor @dilekh.bsky.social Special thanks to the members of @convai-uiuc.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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emrecanacikgoz.bsky.social
CALM is a result of a collaboration between @convai-uiuc.bsky.social and #Oumi.

Special thanks for the great team work, it would not be possible without Jeremiah Greer, Akul Datta, Ze Yang, William Zeng, Oussama Elachqar, Manos Koukoumidis, @dilekh.bsky.social, and @gokhantur.bsky.social.
February 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
convai-uiuc.bsky.social
Hello! Can our group be added as well? Thank you :)
November 18, 2024 at 10:07 AM