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Alexander T Toshev

15 accepted papers

2026

GRACE: A Language Model Framework for Explainable Inverse Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Inverse Reinforcement Learning aims to recover reward models from expert demonstrations, but traditional methods yield black-box models that are difficult to interpret and debug. In this work, we introduce GRACE (**G**enerating **R**ewards **A**s **C**od**E**), a method for using Large Language Mode…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Scaling Synthetic Task Generation for Agents via Exploration

ICLR 2026poster

Post-Training Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to build interactive agents holds promise across domains such as computer-use, web navigation, and robotics. A key challenge in scaling such post-training is lack of high-quality downstream agentic task datasets with tasks that are diverse, feas…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Datasets, Documents, and Repetitions: The Practicalities of Unequal Data Quality

NeurIPS 2025poster

Data filtering has become a powerful tool for improving model performance while reducing computational cost. However, as large language model compute budgets continue to grow, the limited data volume provided by heavily filtered and deduplicated datasets will become a practical constraint. In effort…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

On the Modeling Capabilities of Large Language Models for Sequential Decision Making

ICLR 2025poster

Large pretrained models are showing increasingly better performance in reasoning and planning tasks across different modalities, opening the possibility to leverage them for complex sequential decision making problems. In this paper, we investigate the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) fo…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Data Filtering Networks

ICLR 2024poster

Large training sets have become a cornerstone of machine learning and are the foundation for recent advances in language modeling and multimodal learning. While data curation for pre-training is often still ad-hoc, one common paradigm is to first collect a massive pool of data from the Web and then…

Cited by 153SourcePDFScholar
2024

DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models

NeurIPS 2024poster

We introduce DataComp for Language Models, a testbed for controlled dataset experiments with the goal of improving language models. As part of DCLM, we provide a standardized corpus of 240T tokens extracted from Common Crawl, effective pretraining recipes based on the OpenLM framework, and a broad s…

Cited by 64SourcePDFScholar
2024

Grounding Multimodal Large Language Models in Actions

NeurIPS 2024poster

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated a wide range of capabilities across many domains including Embodied AI. In this work, we study how to best ground a MLLM into different embodiments and their associated action spaces, including both continuous and discrete actions. For conti…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2024

Large Language Models as Generalizable Policies for Embodied Tasks

ICLR 2024poster

We show that large language models (LLMs) can be adapted to be generalizable policies for embodied visual tasks. Our approach, called Large LAnguage model Reinforcement Learning Policy (LLaRP), adapts a pre-trained frozen LLM to take as input text instructions and visual egocentric observations and…

Cited by 75SourcePDFScholar
2024

Pre-trained Language Models Do Not Help Auto-regressive Text-to-Image Generation

EMNLP 2024main

Recent advances in image tokenizers, such as VQ-VAE, have enabled text-to-image generation using auto-regressive methods, similar to language modeling. However, these methods have yet to leverage pre-trained language models, despite their adaptability to various downstream tasks. In this work, we ex…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2024

Scalable Pre-training of Large Autoregressive Image Models

ICML 2024poster

This paper introduces AIM, a collection of vision models pre-trained with an autoregressive objective. These models are inspired by their textual counterparts, i.e., Large Language Models (LLMs), and exhibit similar scaling properties. Specifically, we highlight two key findings: (1) the performance…

2023

Robustness in Multimodal Learning under Train-Test Modality Mismatch

ICML 2023poster

Multimodal learning is defined as learning over multiple heterogeneous input modalities such as video, audio, and text. In this work, we are concerned with understanding how models behave as the type of modalities differ between training and deployment, a situation that naturally arises in many appl…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2023

STAIR: Learning Sparse Text and Image Representation in Grounded Tokens

EMNLP 2023long main

Image and text retrieval is one of the foundational tasks in the vision and language domain with multiple real-world applications. State-of-the-art contrastive approaches, e.g. CLIP, ALIGN, represent images and texts as dense embeddings and calculate the similarity in the dense embedding space as th…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2022

Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances

CoRL 2022oral

Large language models can encode a wealth of semantic knowledge about the world. Such knowledge could be extremely useful to robots aiming to act upon high-level, temporally extended instructions expressed in natural language. However, a significant weakness of language models is that they lack real…

Cited by 1747SourcecodeScholar
2022

GAUDI: A Neural Architect for Immersive 3D Scene Generation

NeurIPS 2022accept

We introduce GAUDI, a generative model capable of capturing the distribution of complex and realistic 3D scenes that can be rendered immersively from a moving camera. We tackle this challenging problem with a scalable yet powerful approach, where we first optimize a latent representation that disent…

2022

Value Function Spaces: Skill-Centric State Abstractions for Long-Horizon Reasoning

ICLR 2022poster

Reinforcement learning can train policies that effectively perform complex tasks. However for long-horizon tasks, the performance of these methods degrades with horizon, often necessitating reasoning over and chaining lower-level skills. Hierarchical reinforcement learning aims to enable this by pro…

Cited by 41SourcePDFScholar