Teaser for JumpLoRA: Sparse Adapters for Continual Learning in Large Language Models
Alexandra Dragomir, Ioana Pintilie, Antonio Barbalau, Marius Dragoi, Florin Brad, Cristian Paduraru, Alexandru Tifrea, Elena Burceanu, Radu Ionescu
Under review at CoLLAs 2026 Apr 2026
Links: arXiv Abstract Adapter-based methods have become a cost-effective approach to continual learning (CL) for Large Language Models (LLMs), by …
Teaser for Bridging Explainability and Embeddings: BEE Aware of Spuriousness
Cristian Daniel Paduraru, Antonio Barbalau, Radu Filipescu, Andrei Liviu Nicolicioiu, Elena Burceanu
Accepted at ICLR 2026 (poster) Apr 2026
Links: OpenReview GitHub Abstract Current methods for detecting spurious correlations rely on data splits or error patterns, leaving many harmful …
Teaser for BEE Aware of Spuriousness: Mechanistic Interpretability for Fine Tuning Foundation Models
[Bitdefender Machine Learning]
Feb 2026
Introduction Fine tuning is usually framed as “adaptation”. In practice, it can also manufacture shortcuts. A model can recognize the “right” object …
Feb 2026
The Deep Learning course at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest is running again in 2026. It is aimed at …
Teaser for Investigating self-supervised representations for audio-visual deepfake detection
Dragos-Alexandru Boldisor, Stefan Smeu, Dan Oneata, Elisabeta Oneata
Accepted at CVPR 2026 Feb 2026
Links: arXiv GitHub Abstract Self-supervised representations excel at many vision and speech tasks, but their potential for audio-visual deepfake …
Teaser for CLewR: Curriculum Learning with Restarts for Machine Translation Preference Learning
Alexandra Dragomir, Florin Brad, Radu Tudor Ionescu
Accepted at ACL 2026 Jan 2026
Links: arXiv GitHub Abstract Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated competitive performance in zero-shot multilingual machine translation …
Dec 2025
A member of our team was recognized among the best reviewers at NeurIPS, reflecting sustained, high-quality peer review for the machine learning …
Teaser for C-ing Clearly: Enhanced Binary Code Explanations using C code
Teodor Poncu, Ioana Pintilie, Marius Dragoi, Dragos Tantaru, Florin Brad
Under review Dec 2025
Links: arXiv Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) typically excel at coding tasks involving high-level programming languages, as opposed to …
Teaser for Beyond Pass@k: Breadth-Depth Metrics for Reasoning Boundaries
Marius Dragoi, Ioana Pintilie, Florin Gogianu, Florin Brad
Accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop FoRLM (Poster) Dec 2025
Links: arXiv Abstract Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm to improve Large Language Models on …
Teaser for ChronoGraph: A Real-World Graph-Based Multivariate Time Series Dataset
Adrian Catalin Lutu, Ioana Pintilie, Elena Burceanu, Andrei Manolache
Accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop BERT2S (Oral) Dec 2025
Links: arXiv GitHub Abstract We present ChronoGraph, a graph-structured multivariate time series forecasting dataset built from real-world production …