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20192024
most citedBERT Loses Patience: Fast and Robust Inference with Early Exit

45 citations · 260 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

AI PERSONA: Towards Life-long Personalization of LLMs

Tiannan Wang, Meiling Tao, Ruoyu Fang +4

In this work, we introduce the task of life-long personalization of large language models. While recent mainstream efforts in the LLM community mainly focus on scaling data and com…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Symbolic Learning Enables Self-Evolving Agents

Wangchunshu Zhou, Yixin Ou, Shengwei Ding +9

The AI community has been exploring a pathway to artificial general intelligence (AGI) by developing "language agents", which are complex large language models (LLMs) pipelines inv…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Weaver: Foundation Models for Creative Writing

Tiannan Wang, Jiamin Chen, Qingrui Jia +43

This work introduces Weaver, our first family of large language models (LLMs) dedicated to content creation. Weaver is pre-trained on a carefully selected corpus that focuses on im…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

AutoAct: Automatic Agent Learning from Scratch for QA via Self-Planning

Shuofei Qiao, Ningyu Zhang, Runnan Fang +5

Language agents have achieved considerable performance on various complex question-answering tasks by planning with external tools. Despite the incessant exploration in this field,…

cs.CL2023★ 19 cited

Agents: An Open-source Framework for Autonomous Language Agents

Wangchunshu Zhou, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Long Li +15

Recent advances on large language models (LLMs) enable researchers and developers to build autonomous language agents that can automatically solve various tasks and interact with e…

cs.CL2023

Commonsense Knowledge Transfer for Pre-trained Language Models

Wangchunshu Zhou, Ronan Le Bras, Yejin Choi

Despite serving as the foundation models for a wide range of NLP benchmarks, pre-trained language models have shown limited capabilities of acquiring implicit commonsense knowledge…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Modular Transformers: Compressing Transformers into Modularized Layers for Flexible Efficient Inference

Wangchunshu Zhou, Ronan Le Bras, Yejin Choi

Pre-trained Transformer models like T5 and BART have advanced the state of the art on a wide range of text generation tasks. Compressing these models into smaller ones has become c…

cs.CL2023★ 10 cited

RecurrentGPT: Interactive Generation of (Arbitrarily) Long Text

Wangchunshu Zhou, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Peng Cui +5

The fixed-size context of Transformer makes GPT models incapable of generating arbitrarily long text. In this paper, we introduce RecurrentGPT, a language-based simulacrum of the r…

cs.CL2023★ 23 cited

Interactive Natural Language Processing

Zekun Wang, Ge Zhang, Kexin Yang +19

Interactive Natural Language Processing (iNLP) has emerged as a novel paradigm within the field of NLP, aimed at addressing limitations in existing frameworks while aligning with t…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Efficient Prompting via Dynamic In-Context Learning

Wangchunshu Zhou, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Ryan Cotterell +1

The primary way of building AI applications is shifting from training specialist models to prompting generalist models. A common practice for prompting generalist models, often ref…

cs.LG2023★ 20 cited

To Repeat or Not To Repeat: Insights from Scaling LLM under Token-Crisis

Fuzhao Xue, Yao Fu, Wangchunshu Zhou +2

Recent research has highlighted the importance of dataset size in scaling language models. However, large language models (LLMs) are notoriously token-hungry during pre-training, a…

cs.CL2023★ 10 cited

Controlled Text Generation with Natural Language Instructions

Wangchunshu Zhou, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Ethan Wilcox +2

Large language models generate fluent texts and can follow natural language instructions to solve a wide range of tasks without task-specific training. Nevertheless, it is notoriou…

cs.CL2023

Poor Man's Quality Estimation: Predicting Reference-Based MT Metrics Without the Reference

Vilém Zouhar, Shehzaad Dhuliawala, Wangchunshu Zhou +4

Machine translation quality estimation (QE) predicts human judgements of a translation hypothesis without seeing the reference. State-of-the-art QE systems based on pretrained lang…

cs.CL2022

Efficiently Tuned Parameters are Task Embeddings

Wangchunshu Zhou, Canwen Xu, Julian McAuley

Intermediate-task transfer can benefit a wide range of NLP tasks with properly selected source datasets. However, it is computationally infeasible to experiment with all intermedia…

cs.CL2022

EfficientVLM: Fast and Accurate Vision-Language Models via Knowledge Distillation and Modal-adaptive Pruning

Tiannan Wang, Wangchunshu Zhou, Yan Zeng +1

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved impressive results in a range of vision-language tasks. However, popular VLMs usually consist of hundreds of millions of par…

cs.CV2022★ 5 cited

Write and Paint: Generative Vision-Language Models are Unified Modal Learners

Shizhe Diao, Wangchunshu Zhou, Xinsong Zhang +1

Recent advances in vision-language pre-training have pushed the state-of-the-art on various vision-language tasks, making machines more capable of multi-modal writing (image-to-tex…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

Cross-View Language Modeling: Towards Unified Cross-Lingual Cross-Modal Pre-training

Yan Zeng, Wangchunshu Zhou, Ao Luo +2

In this paper, we introduce Cross-View Language Modeling, a simple and effective pre-training framework that unifies cross-lingual and cross-modal pre-training with shared architec…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

VLUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark for Evaluating Vision-Language Models

Wangchunshu Zhou, Yan Zeng, Shizhe Diao +1

Recent advances in vision-language pre-training (VLP) have demonstrated impressive performance in a range of vision-language (VL) tasks. However, there exist several challenges for…

cs.CL2022

Contextual Representation Learning beyond Masked Language Modeling

Zhiyi Fu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Jingjing Xu +2

How do masked language models (MLMs) such as BERT learn contextual representations? In this work, we analyze the learning dynamics of MLMs. We find that MLMs adopt sampled embeddin…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Learning to Predict Persona Information forDialogue Personalization without Explicit Persona Description

Wangchunshu Zhou, Qifei Li, Chenle Li

Personalizing dialogue agents is important for dialogue systems to generate more specific, consistent, and engaging responses. However, most current dialogue personalization approa…

cs.LG2021

A Survey on Green Deep Learning

Jingjing Xu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Zhiyi Fu +2

In recent years, larger and deeper models are springing up and continuously pushing state-of-the-art (SOTA) results across various fields like natural language processing (NLP) and…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Beyond Preserved Accuracy: Evaluating Loyalty and Robustness of BERT Compression

Canwen Xu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Tao Ge +3

Recent studies on compression of pretrained language models (e.g., BERT) usually use preserved accuracy as the metric for evaluation. In this paper, we propose two new metrics, lab…

cs.LG2021

BERT Learns to Teach: Knowledge Distillation with Meta Learning

Wangchunshu Zhou, Canwen Xu, Julian McAuley

We present Knowledge Distillation with Meta Learning (MetaDistil), a simple yet effective alternative to traditional knowledge distillation (KD) methods where the teacher model is…

cs.CL2021

Learning from Perturbations: Diverse and Informative Dialogue Generation with Inverse Adversarial Training

Wangchunshu Zhou, Qifei Li, Chenle Li

In this paper, we propose Inverse Adversarial Training (IAT) algorithm for training neural dialogue systems to avoid generic responses and model dialogue history better. In contras…