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Safoora Yousefi

4 accepted papers

2026

Tracing the Traces: Latent Temporal Signals for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Reasoning models improve their problem-solving ability through inference-time scaling, allocating more compute via longer token budgets. Identifying which reasoning traces are likely to succeed remains a key opportunity: reliably predicting productive paths can substantially reduce wasted computatio…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

ICLR 2025poster

The ability to follow instructions is crucial for numerous real-world applications of language models. In pursuit of deeper insights and more powerful capabilities, we derive instruction-specific vector representations from language models and use them to steer models accordingly. These vectors are…

2025

Unearthing Skill-level Insights for Understanding Trade-offs of Foundation Models

ICLR 2025poster

With models getting stronger, evaluations have grown more complex, testing multiple skills in one benchmark and even in the same instance at once. However, skill-wise performance is obscured when inspecting aggregate accuracy, under-utilizing the rich signal modern benchmarks contain. We propose an…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2023

Streaming Active Learning with Deep Neural Networks

ICML 2023poster

Active learning is perhaps most naturally posed as an online learning problem. However, prior active learning approaches with deep neural networks assume offline access to the entire dataset ahead of time. This paper proposes VeSSAL, a new algorithm for batch active learning with deep neural network…