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Floris Weers

5 accepted papers

2025

Can External Validation Tools Improve Annotation Quality for LLM-as-a-Judge?

ACL 2025long

Pairwise preferences over model responses are widely collected to evaluate and provide feedback to large language models (LLMs). Given two alternative model responses to the same input, a human or AI annotator selects the “better” response. This approach can provide feedback for domains where other…

2025

Distillation Scaling Laws

ICML 2025poster

We propose a distillation scaling law that estimates distilled model performance based on a compute budget and its allocation between the student and teacher. Our findings mitigate the risks associated with large-scale distillation by enabling compute-optimal allocation for both the teacher and stud…

Cited by 52SourcePDFScholar
2025

Theory, Analysis, and Best Practices for Sigmoid Self-Attention

ICLR 2025poster

Attention is a key part of the transformer architecture. It is a sequence-to-sequence mapping that transforms each sequence element into a weighted sum of values. The weights are typically obtained as the softmax of dot products between keys and queries. Recent work has explored alternatives to soft…

2024

Ferret-UI: Grounded Mobile UI Understanding with Multimodal LLMs

ECCV 2024poster

"Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been noteworthy, yet, these general-domain MLLMs often fall short in their ability to comprehend and interact effectively with user interface (UI) screens. In this paper, we present Ferret-UI, a new MLLM tailored for enhanced unde…

Cited by 109SourcePDFScholar
2023

Masked Autoencoding Does Not Help Natural Language Supervision at Scale

CVPR 2023poster

Self supervision and natural language supervision have emerged as two exciting ways to train general purpose image encoders which excel at a variety of downstream tasks. Recent works such as M3AE (Geng et al 2022) and SLIP (Mu et al 2022) have suggested that these approaches can be effectively combi…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar