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Parag Jain

6 accepted papers

2026

Compute as Teacher: Turning Inference Compute Into Reference-Free Supervision

ICML 2026poster

Where do learning signals come from when there is no ground truth in post-training? We show that inference compute itself can serve as supervision. By generating parallel rollouts and converting them into reference estimates, models can learn without human labels—critically, even in non-verifiable d…

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2026

Training AI Co-Scientists Using Rubric Rewards

ICML 2026poster

AI co-scientists are emerging as a useful tool for human researchers, with a crucial ability being proposing a research plan for a given research goal. In this work, we study how to train language models that generate better research plans by leveraging the vast corpus of existing research papers. T…

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2026

What Characterizes Effective Reasoning? Revisiting Length, Review, and Structure of CoT

ICML 2026poster

Large reasoning models (LRMs) spend substantial test-time compute on long chain-of-thought (CoT) traces, but what *characterizes* an effective CoT remains unclear. While prior work reports gains from lengthening CoTs and increasing review via appended *wait* tokens, recent studies suggest that short…

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2023

Multi-Document Summarization with Centroid-Based Pretraining

ACL 2023short

In Multi-Document Summarization (MDS), the input can be modeled as a set of documents, and the output is its summary. In this paper, we focus on pretraining objectives for MDS. Specifically, we introduce a novel pretraining objective, which involves selecting the ROUGE-based centroid of each documen…