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publications
SwitchCIT: Switching for Continual Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models
Accepted into Journal of Special Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP). Paper on utilizing a Switch Network to alleviate catastrophic forgetting in LLMs
Recommended citation: Wu, X., Hartman, M.*, Jayaraman, V. A.*, & Varshney, L. R. (2024, July 16). SwitchCIT: Switching for continual instruction tuning of large language models. arXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11780
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Planning Model based on Projection Methodology Bayesian Discrete Extended (PM2-BDE)
Not yet published, undergoing internal review. Improves existing methods for Reliability Growth Planning and system reliability estimation. Manuscript available upon request
Recommended citation: Bernstein, H. C., Bindel, S. R., McKibben, M. A., & Jayaraman, V. A. (2024). Planning Model based on Projection Methodology Bayesian Discrete Extended (PM2-BDE)
Skip-It? Theoretical Conditions for Layer Skipping in Vision-Language Models
Under Review for ICML 2026. Paper presents a unified framework for analyzing model efficiency improvement methods such as token pruning and layer skipping. We then use this framework and do a case-study on layer-skipping, theoretically grounding its results.
Recommended citation: Hartman, M.*, Jayaraman V.A.*, Choraria, M., Bhimaraju, A., & Varshney, L.R. (2025). Skip-It? Theoretical Conditions for Layer Skipping in Vision-Language Models. Preprint https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.25584
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Unmasking the functionality of the early layers in VLMs
Presented at the eXCV Workshop at ICCV 2025. Interpretability work on determining how vision is transformed in the early layers in VLMs.
Recommended citation: Hartman, M.*, Jayaraman, V.A.*, Choraria, M., Bhimaraju, A., & Varshney, L. R. (2025). Unmasking the functionality of early layers in VLMs
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teaching
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Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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