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Carmen Amo Alonso

5 accepted papers

2026

GenCtrl -- A Formal Controllability Toolkit for Generative Models

ICLR 2026poster

As generative models become ubiquitous, there is a critical need for fine-grained control over the generation process. Yet, while controlled generation methods from prompting to fine-tuning proliferate, a fundamental question remains unanswered: are these models truly controllable in the first place…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Bridging Expressivity and Scalability with Adaptive Unitary SSMs

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent work has revealed that state space models (SSMs), while efficient for long-sequence processing, are fundamentally limited in their ability to represent formal languages—particularly due to time-invariant and real-valued recurrence structures. In this work, we draw inspiration from adaptive an…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Lambda-Skip Connections: the architectural component that prevents Rank Collapse

ICLR 2025poster

Rank collapse, a phenomenon where embedding vectors in sequence models rapidly converge to a uniform token or equilibrium state, has recently gained at- tention in the deep learning literature. This phenomenon leads to reduced expres- sivity and potential training instabilities due to vanishing grad…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

NARRATE: Versatile Language Architecture for Optimal Control in Robotics

IROS 2024poster

The impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to various efforts in enabling robots to be controlled through natural language instructions, opening exciting possibilities for human-robot interaction. The goal is for the motor-control task to be performed accurately, efficientl…

Cited by 2SourcecodeScholar
2024

Understanding the Differences in Foundation Models: Attention, State Space Models, and Recurrent Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2024poster

Softmax attention is the principle backbone of foundation models for various artificial intelligence applications, yet its quadratic complexity in sequence length can limit its inference throughput in long-context settings. To address this challenge, alternative architectures such as linear attentio…