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Bharat Runwal

3 accepted papers

2026

PRISM: Demystifying Retention and Interaction in Mid-Training

ICML 2026spotlight

Mid-training is increasingly used to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet its design choices and interaction with evaluation and reinforcement learning (RL) remain poorly understood. Prior work often focuses on narrow domain gains, overlooking retention of general …

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2025

From PEFT to DEFT: Parameter Efficient Finetuning for Reducing Activation Density in Transformers

AAAI 2025technical

Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) have become the de facto starting point for fine-tuning on downstream tasks. However, as model sizes continue to increase, traditional fine-tuning of all parameters becomes challenging. To address this, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods have gained popu…

2024

SOUL: Unlocking the Power of Second-Order Optimization for LLM Unlearning

EMNLP 2024main

Large Language Models (LLMs) have highlighted the necessity of effective unlearning mechanisms to comply with data regulations and ethical AI practices. LLM unlearning aims at removing undesired data influences and associated model capabilities without compromising utility beyond the scope of unlear…