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20182026
most citedMasking as an Efficient Alternative to Finetuning for Pretrained Language Models

13 citations · 34 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

cs.LG2026

A Target-Centric Survey of Quantization-Aware Training

Jiamin Song, Mengjie Zhao, Zijing Wang +6

The rapid development of LLMs incurs prohibitive memory footprints and intensive computational demands. Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) techniques have emerged as a promising sol…

cs.LG2026

ChunkFT: Byte-Streamed Optimization for Memory-Efficient Full Fine-Tuning

Yongkang Liu, Zijing Wang, Mengjie Zhao +7

This work presents \textsc{ChunkFT}, a memory-efficient fine-tuning framework that reformulates full-parameter fine-tuning around a dynamically activated working set. \textsc{Chunk…

cs.LG2026

SMoA: Spectrum Modulation Adapter for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Yongkang Liu, Xing Li, Mengjie Zhao +7

As the number of model parameters increases, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has become the go-to choice for tailoring pre-trained large language models. Low-rank Adaptation…

cs.CL2026

High-Rank Structured Modulation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Yongkang Liu, Xing Li, Mengjie Zhao +7

As the number of model parameters increases, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has become the go-to choice for tailoring pre-trained large language models. Low-rank Adaptation…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

OpenMU: Your Swiss Army Knife for Music Understanding

Mengjie Zhao, Zhi Zhong, Zhuoyuan Mao +5

We present OpenMU-Bench, a large-scale benchmark suite for addressing the data scarcity issue in training multimodal language models to understand music. To construct OpenMU-Bench,…

cs.IR2024

OKG: On-the-Fly Keyword Generation in Sponsored Search Advertising

Zhao Wang, Briti Gangopadhyay, Mengjie Zhao +1

Current keyword decision-making in sponsored search advertising relies on large, static datasets, limiting the ability to automatically set up keywords and adapt to real-time KPI m…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

GLOV: Guided Large Language Models as Implicit Optimizers for Vision Language Models

M. Jehanzeb Mirza, Mengjie Zhao, Zhuoyuan Mao +12

In this work, we propose GLOV, which enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to act as implicit optimizers for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to enhance downstream vision tasks. GLOV p…

cs.CV2024

Mining Your Own Secrets: Diffusion Classifier Scores for Continual Personalization of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Saurav Jha, Shiqi Yang, Masato Ishii +7

Personalized text-to-image diffusion models have grown popular for their ability to efficiently acquire a new concept from user-defined text descriptions and a few images. However,…

cs.SD2024

SpecMaskGIT: Masked Generative Modeling of Audio Spectrograms for Efficient Audio Synthesis and Beyond

Marco Comunità, Zhi Zhong, Akira Takahashi +7

Recent advances in generative models that iteratively synthesize audio clips sparked great success to text-to-audio synthesis (TTA), but with the cost of slow synthesis speed and h…

cs.CL2024

ComperDial: Commonsense Persona-grounded Dialogue Dataset and Benchmark

Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji, Yoshinori Maeda +5

We propose a new benchmark, ComperDial, which facilitates the training and evaluation of evaluation metrics for open-domain dialogue systems. ComperDial consists of human-scored re…

cs.CV2024

Visual Echoes: A Simple Unified Transformer for Audio-Visual Generation

Shiqi Yang, Zhi Zhong, Mengjie Zhao +4

In recent years, with the realistic generation results and a wide range of personalized applications, diffusion-based generative models gain huge attention in both visual and audio…

cs.CL2024

Few-shot Dialogue Strategy Learning for Motivational Interviewing via Inductive Reasoning

Zhouhang Xie, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Mengjie Zhao +4

We consider the task of building a dialogue system that can motivate users to adopt positive lifestyle changes: Motivational Interviewing. Addressing such a task requires a system…

cs.CL2024

DiffuCOMET: Contextual Commonsense Knowledge Diffusion

Silin Gao, Mete Ismayilzada, Mengjie Zhao +3

Inferring contextually-relevant and diverse commonsense to understand narratives remains challenging for knowledge models. In this work, we develop a series of knowledge models, Di…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Using Natural Language Inference to Improve Persona Extraction from Dialogue in a New Domain

Alexandra DeLucia, Mengjie Zhao, Yoshinori Maeda +3

While valuable datasets such as PersonaChat provide a foundation for training persona-grounded dialogue agents, they lack diversity in conversational and narrative settings, primar…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

On the Language Encoder of Contrastive Cross-modal Models

Mengjie Zhao, Junya Ono, Zhi Zhong +7

Contrastive cross-modal models such as CLIP and CLAP aid various vision-language (VL) and audio-language (AL) tasks. However, there has been limited investigation of and improvemen…

cs.CV2023

Towards reporting bias in visual-language datasets: bimodal augmentation by decoupling object-attribute association

Qiyu Wu, Mengjie Zhao, Yutong He +4

Reporting bias arises when people assume that some knowledge is universally understood and hence, do not necessitate explicit elaboration. In this paper, we focus on the wide exist…

math.NA2022

Direct sampling method to inverse wave-number-dependent source problems (part I): determination of the support of a stationary source

Hongxia Guo, Guanghui Hu, Mengjie Zhao

This paper is concerned with a direct sampling method for imaging the support of a frequency-dependent source term embedded in a homogeneous and isotropic medium. The source term i…

cs.SE2022★ 5 cited

Unveiling Code Pre-Trained Models: Investigating Syntax and Semantics Capacities

Wei Ma, Shangqing Liu, Mengjie Zhao +5

Past research has examined how well these models grasp code syntax, yet their understanding of code semantics still needs to be explored. We extensively analyze seven code models t…

cs.CL2022

This joke is [MASK]: Recognizing Humor and Offense with Prompting

Junze Li, Mengjie Zhao, Yubo Xie +3

Humor is a magnetic component in everyday human interactions and communications. Computationally modeling humor enables NLP systems to entertain and engage with users. We investiga…

cs.CL2022

Modular and Parameter-Efficient Multimodal Fusion with Prompting

Sheng Liang, Mengjie Zhao, Hinrich Schütze

Recent research has made impressive progress in large-scale multimodal pre-training. In the context of the rapid growth of model size, it is necessary to seek efficient and flexibl…

cs.SE2022★ 2 cited

GraphCode2Vec: Generic Code Embedding via Lexical and Program Dependence Analyses

Wei Ma, Mengjie Zhao, Ezekiel Soremekun +6

Code embedding is a keystone in the application of machine learning on several Software Engineering (SE) tasks. To effectively support a plethora of SE tasks, the embedding needs t…

cs.CL2021

LMTurk: Few-Shot Learners as Crowdsourcing Workers in a Language-Model-as-a-Service Framework

Mengjie Zhao, Fei Mi, Yasheng Wang +4

Vast efforts have been devoted to creating high-performance few-shot learners, i.e., large-scale pretrained language models (PLMs) that perform well with little downstream task tra…

cs.CL2021

Discrete and Soft Prompting for Multilingual Models

Mengjie Zhao, Hinrich Schütze

It has been shown for English that discrete and soft prompting perform strongly in few-shot learning with pretrained language models (PLMs). In this paper, we show that discrete an…

cs.CL2020

A Closer Look at Few-Shot Crosslingual Transfer: The Choice of Shots Matters

Mengjie Zhao, Yi Zhu, Ehsan Shareghi +4

Few-shot crosslingual transfer has been shown to outperform its zero-shot counterpart with pretrained encoders like multilingual BERT. Despite its growing popularity, little to no…