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Ozlem Garibay

7 accepted papers

2026

FlowNIB: An Information Bottleneck Analysis of Bidirectional vs. Unidirectional Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Bidirectional language models (LMs) consistently show stronger context understanding than unidirectional models, yet the theoretical reason remains unclear. We present a simple information bottleneck (IB) perspective: bidirectional representations preserve more mutual information (MI) about both the…

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2026

LiME: Lightweight Mixture of Experts for Efficient Multimodal Multi-task Learning

ICML 2026spotlight

MoE-PEFT methods combine Mixture of Experts with parameter-efficient fine-tuning for multi-task adaptation, but require separate adapters per expert—causing trainable parameters to scale linearly with expert count and limiting applicability to adapter-based architectures. We propose LiME (Lightweigh…

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2025

BnTTS: Few-Shot Speaker Adaptation in Low-Resource Setting

NAACL 2025findings

This paper introduces BnTTS (Bangla Text-To-Speech), the first framework for Bangla speaker adaptation-based TTS, designed to bridge the gap in Bangla speech synthesis using minimal training data. Building upon the XTTS architecture, our approach integrates Bangla into a multilingual TTS pipeline, w…

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2025

Does Self-Attention Need Separate Weights in Transformers?

NAACL 2025industry

Self-attention has revolutionized natural language processing by capturing long-range dependencies and improving context understanding. However, it comes with high computational costs and struggles with sequential data’s inherent directionality. This paper investigates and presents a simplified appr…

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2025

Equi-mRNA: Protein Translation Equivariant Encoding for mRNA Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

The growing importance of mRNA therapeutics and synthetic biology highlights the need for models that capture the latent structure of synonymous codon (different triplets encoding the same amino acid) usage, which subtly modulates translation efficiency and gene expression. While recent efforts inco…

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2025

Predicting Through Generation: Why Generation Is Better for Prediction

ACL 2025long

This paper argues that generating output tokens is more effective than using pooled representations for prediction tasks because token-level generation retains more mutual information. Since LLMs are trained on massive text corpora using next-token prediction, generation aligns naturally with their…

2024

Fair Bilevel Neural Network (FairBiNN): On Balancing fairness and accuracy via Stackelberg Equilibrium

NeurIPS 2024poster

The persistent challenge of bias in machine learning models necessitates robust solutions to ensure parity and equal treatment across diverse groups, particularly in classification tasks. Current methods for mitigating bias often result in information loss and an inadequate balance between accuracy…