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20192026
most citedBOND: BERT-Assisted Open-Domain Named Entity Recognition with Distant Supervision

118 citations · 199 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.AI2026

Label-Centric Knowledge Retrieval for Zero-Shot Text Classification

Daoping Wu, Dong Wang, Siyu Liu +5

Flagship large language models (LLMs) offer rich general knowledge and strong reasoning capabilities, but their high inference cost and latency limit their use for large-scale data…

cs.CL2026

Ling and Ring 2.6 Technical Report: Efficient and Instant Agentic Intelligence at Trillion-Parameter Scale

Ang Li, Ben Liu, Bin Han +215

Efficient and scalable agentic intelligence requires models that can deliver both low-latency responses and strong reasoning capabilities while remaining practical to train, serve,…

cs.LG2025

NorMuon: Making Muon more efficient and scalable

Zichong Li, Liming Liu, Chen Liang +2

The choice of optimizer significantly impacts the training efficiency and computational costs of large language models (LLMs). Recently, the Muon optimizer has demonstrated promisi…

cs.CL2025

LLMs Can Generate a Better Answer by Aggregating Their Own Responses

Zichong Li, Xinyu Feng, Yuheng Cai +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across tasks, yet they often require additional prompting techniques when facing complex problems. While approaches…

cs.LG2025

COSMOS: A Hybrid Adaptive Optimizer for Memory-Efficient Training of LLMs

Liming Liu, Zhenghao Xu, Zixuan Zhang +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success across various domains, yet their optimization remains a significant challenge due to the complex and high-dimensi…

cs.CL2023★ 19 cited

LoftQ: LoRA-Fine-Tuning-Aware Quantization for Large Language Models

Yixiao Li, Yifan Yu, Chen Liang +4

Quantization is an indispensable technique for serving Large Language Models (LLMs) and has recently found its way into LoRA fine-tuning. In this work we focus on the scenario wher…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

Module-wise Adaptive Distillation for Multimodality Foundation Models

Chen Liang, Jiahui Yu, Ming-Hsuan Yang +5

Pre-trained multimodal foundation models have demonstrated remarkable generalizability but pose challenges for deployment due to their large sizes. One effective approach to reduci…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

LoSparse: Structured Compression of Large Language Models based on Low-Rank and Sparse Approximation

Yixiao Li, Yifan Yu, Qingru Zhang +4

Transformer models have achieved remarkable results in various natural language tasks, but they are often prohibitively large, requiring massive memories and computational resource…

cs.CL2023★ 9 cited

HomoDistil: Homotopic Task-Agnostic Distillation of Pre-trained Transformers

Chen Liang, Haoming Jiang, Zheng Li +3

Knowledge distillation has been shown to be a powerful model compression approach to facilitate the deployment of pre-trained language models in practice. This paper focuses on tas…

cs.CL2022★ 14 cited

Less is More: Task-aware Layer-wise Distillation for Language Model Compression

Chen Liang, Simiao Zuo, Qingru Zhang +3

Layer-wise distillation is a powerful tool to compress large models (i.e. teacher models) into small ones (i.e., student models). The student distills knowledge from the teacher by…

cs.LG2022★ 11 cited

PLATON: Pruning Large Transformer Models with Upper Confidence Bound of Weight Importance

Qingru Zhang, Simiao Zuo, Chen Liang +4

Large Transformer-based models have exhibited superior performance in various natural language processing and computer vision tasks. However, these models contain enormous amounts…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

MoEBERT: from BERT to Mixture-of-Experts via Importance-Guided Adaptation

Simiao Zuo, Qingru Zhang, Chen Liang +3

Pre-trained language models have demonstrated superior performance in various natural language processing tasks. However, these models usually contain hundreds of millions of param…

cs.CL2022

CAMERO: Consistency Regularized Ensemble of Perturbed Language Models with Weight Sharing

Chen Liang, Pengcheng He, Yelong Shen +2

Model ensemble is a popular approach to produce a low-variance and well-generalized model. However, it induces large memory and inference costs, which are often not affordable for…

cs.CL2022★ 8 cited

No Parameters Left Behind: Sensitivity Guided Adaptive Learning Rate for Training Large Transformer Models

Chen Liang, Haoming Jiang, Simiao Zuo +5

Recent research has shown the existence of significant redundancy in large Transformer models. One can prune the redundant parameters without significantly sacrificing the generali…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Self-Training with Differentiable Teacher

Simiao Zuo, Yue Yu, Chen Liang +5

Self-training achieves enormous success in various semi-supervised and weakly-supervised learning tasks. The method can be interpreted as a teacher-student framework, where the tea…

cs.CL2021

ARCH: Efficient Adversarial Regularized Training with Caching

Simiao Zuo, Chen Liang, Haoming Jiang +5

Adversarial regularization can improve model generalization in many natural language processing tasks. However, conventional approaches are computationally expensive since they nee…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Super Tickets in Pre-Trained Language Models: From Model Compression to Improving Generalization

Chen Liang, Simiao Zuo, Minshuo Chen +5

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis suggests that an over-parametrized network consists of ``lottery tickets'', and training a certain collection of them (i.e., a subnetwork) can match t…

cs.LG2021

Adversarial Regularization as Stackelberg Game: An Unrolled Optimization Approach

Simiao Zuo, Chen Liang, Haoming Jiang +5

Adversarial regularization has been shown to improve the generalization performance of deep learning models in various natural language processing tasks. Existing works usually for…

cs.CL2021

Token-wise Curriculum Learning for Neural Machine Translation

Chen Liang, Haoming Jiang, Xiaodong Liu +4

Existing curriculum learning approaches to Neural Machine Translation (NMT) require sampling sufficient amounts of "easy" samples from training data at the early training stage. Th…

cs.CL2020★ 118 cited

BOND: BERT-Assisted Open-Domain Named Entity Recognition with Distant Supervision

Chen Liang, Yue Yu, Haoming Jiang +4

We study the open-domain named entity recognition (NER) problem under distant supervision. The distant supervision, though does not require large amounts of manual annotations, yie…

cs.CL2019★ 4 cited

Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation with Word-Level Adaptive Layer-wise Domain Mixing

Haoming Jiang, Chen Liang, Chong Wang +1

Many multi-domain neural machine translation (NMT) models achieve knowledge transfer by enforcing one encoder to learn shared embedding across domains. However, this design lacks a…