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Pasan Dissanayake

4 accepted papers

2025

Few-Shot Knowledge Distillation of LLMs With Counterfactual Explanations

NeurIPS 2025poster

Knowledge distillation is a promising approach to transfer capabilities from complex teacher models to smaller, resource-efficient student models that can be deployed easily, particularly in task-aware scenarios. However, existing methods of task-aware distillation typically require substantial quan…

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2025

Quantifying Knowledge Distillation using Partial Information Decomposition

AISTATS 2025poster

Knowledge distillation deploys complex machine learning models in resource-constrained environments by training a smaller student model to emulate internal representations of a complex teacher model. However, the teacher's representations can also encode nuisance or additional information not releva…

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2025

Quantifying Prediction Consistency Under Fine-tuning Multiplicity in Tabular LLMs

ICML 2025poster

Fine-tuning LLMs on tabular classification tasks can lead to the phenomenon of *fine-tuning multiplicity* where equally well-performing models make conflicting predictions on the same input. Fine-tuning multiplicity can arise due to variations in the training process, e.g., seed, weight initializati…

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2024

Model Reconstruction Using Counterfactual Explanations: A Perspective From Polytope Theory

NeurIPS 2024poster

Counterfactual explanations provide ways of achieving a favorable model outcome with minimum input perturbation. However, counterfactual explanations can also be leveraged to reconstruct the model by strategically training a surrogate model to give similar predictions as the original (target) model.…