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David Rendleman

3 accepted papers

2025

Learning the RoPEs: Better 2D and 3D Position Encodings with STRING

ICML 2025spotlight

We introduce $\textbf{STRING}$: Separable Translationally Invariant Position Encodings. STRING extends Rotary Position Encodings, a recently proposed and widely used algorithm in large language models, via a unifying theoretical framework. Importantly, STRING still provides $\textbf{exact}$ translat…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

Linear Transformer Topological Masking with Graph Random Features

ICLR 2025poster

When training transformers on graph-structured data, incorporating information about the underlying topology is crucial for good performance. Topological masking, a type of relative position encoding, achieves this by upweighting or downweighting attention depending on the relationship between the q…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Mobility VLA: Multimodal Instruction Navigation with Long-Context VLMs and Topological Graphs

CoRL 2024poster

An elusive goal in navigation research is to build an intelligent agent that can understand multimodal instructions including natural language and image, and perform useful navigation. To achieve this, we study a widely useful category of navigation tasks we call Multimodal Instruction Navigation wi…

Cited by 20SourceScholar