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Vicente Balmaseda

3 accepted papers

2025

Discovering Global False Negatives On the Fly for Self-supervised Contrastive Learning

ICML 2025poster

In self-supervised contrastive learning, negative pairs are typically constructed using an anchor image and a sample drawn from the entire dataset, excluding the anchor. However, this approach can result in the creation of negative pairs with similar semantics, referred to as "false negatives", lead…

2025

Discriminative Finetuning of Generative Large Language Models without Reward Models and Human Preference Data

ICML 2025poster

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) has become a crucial step for aligning pretrained large language models (LLMs) using supervised datasets of input-output pairs. However, despite being supervised, SFT is inherently limited by its generative training objective. To address its limitations, the existing com…

2024

Combinatorial Approximations for Cluster Deletion: Simpler, Faster, and Better

ICML 2024poster

Cluster deletion is an NP-hard graph clustering objective with applications in computational biology and social network analysis, where the goal is to delete a minimum number of edges to partition a graph into cliques. We first provide a tighter analysis of two previous approximation algorithms, imp…