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20202026
most citedMEST: Accurate and Fast Memory-Economic Sparse Training Framework on the Edge

41 citations · 128 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

cs.AI2026

When Does Test-Time Search Help World Action Models? An Empirical Audit of Candidate Selection and Simulator Integrity

Jun Liu, Dajie Sun, Zhenglun Kong +9

World-action models increasingly apply test-time scaling, spending extra inference computation on candidate selection and adaptive allocation to improve control. Such gains are cre…

cs.AI2026

UniMoMo: Expert Merging-Based MoE Acceleration for Large Recommendation Models

Lei Xin, Bin Gu, Peize Li +8

Sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) layers expand recommendation capacity through conditional computation, yet a trained checkpoint still stores and routes over its full expert bank. W…

cs.RO2026

When Should a Robot Think? Resource-Aware Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Embodied Robotic Decision-Making

Jun Liu, Pu Zhao, Zhenglun Kong +12

Embodied robotic systems increasingly rely on large language model (LLM)-based agents to support high-level reasoning, planning, and decision-making during interactions with the en…

cs.CL2025

Open-Source Multimodal Moxin Models with Moxin-VLM and Moxin-VLA

Pu Zhao, Arash Akbari, Xuan Shen +16

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have undergone a significant transformation, marked by a rapid rise in both their popularity and capabilities. Leading this evolution are pro…

cs.CL2025

RCR-Router: Efficient Role-Aware Context Routing for Multi-Agent LLM Systems with Structured Memory

Jun Liu, Zhenglun Kong, Changdi Yang +12

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly organized into multi-agent systems for complex reasoning and decision-making tasks. However, scaling such systems can substantial…

cs.CV2025★ 3 cited

TSLA: A Task-Specific Learning Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation on Autonomous Vehicles Platform

Jun Liu, Zhenglun Kong, Pu Zhao +9

Autonomous driving platforms encounter diverse driving scenarios, each with varying hardware resources and precision requirements. Given the computational limitations of embedded d…

cs.CL2025

Enabling Flexible Multi-LLM Integration for Scalable Knowledge Aggregation

Zhenglun Kong, Zheng Zhan, Shiyue Hou +10

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable promise but remain challenging to continually improve through traditional finetuning, particularly when integrating capabilities…

cs.LG2025

ACE: Exploring Activation Cosine Similarity and Variance for Accurate and Calibration-Efficient LLM Pruning

Zhendong Mi, Zhenglun Kong, Geng Yuan +1

With the rapid expansion of large language models (LLMs), the demand for memory and computational resources has grown significantly. Recent advances in LLM pruning aim to reduce th…

cs.LG2025

Structured Agent Distillation for Large Language Model

Jun Liu, Zhenglun Kong, Peiyan Dong +10

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong capabilities as decision-making agents by interleaving reasoning and actions, as seen in ReAct-style frameworks. Yet, their practical de…

cs.LG2025

RoRA: Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLM with Reliability Optimization for Rank Adaptation

Jun Liu, Zhenglun Kong, Peiyan Dong +10

Fine-tuning helps large language models (LLM) recover degraded information and enhance task performance. Although Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is widely used and effective for fine-t…

q-bio.GN2024★ 4 cited

Artificial Intelligence for Central Dogma-Centric Multi-Omics: Challenges and Breakthroughs

Lei Xin, Caiyun Huang, Hao Li +8

With the rapid development of high-throughput sequencing platforms, an increasing number of omics technologies, such as genomics, metabolomics, and transcriptomics, are being appli…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

7B Fully Open Source Moxin-LLM/VLM -- From Pretraining to GRPO-based Reinforcement Learning Enhancement

Pu Zhao, Xuan Shen, Zhenglun Kong +16

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have undergone a significant transformation, marked by a rapid rise in both their popularity and capabilities. Leading this evolution are pro…

cs.CV2024

Fast and Memory-Efficient Video Diffusion Using Streamlined Inference

Zheng Zhan, Yushu Wu, Yifan Gong +7

The rapid progress in artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC), especially with diffusion models, has significantly advanced development of high-quality video generation. H…

cs.AI2024

Search for Efficient Large Language Models

Xuan Shen, Pu Zhao, Yifan Gong +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) have long held sway in the realms of artificial intelligence research. Numerous efficient techniques, including weight pruning, quantization, and disti…

cs.LG2024

Pruning Foundation Models for High Accuracy without Retraining

Pu Zhao, Fei Sun, Xuan Shen +4

Despite the superior performance, it is challenging to deploy foundation models or large language models (LLMs) due to their massive parameters and computations. While pruning is a…

cs.LG2024

Rethinking Token Reduction for State Space Models

Zheng Zhan, Yushu Wu, Zhenglun Kong +6

Recent advancements in State Space Models (SSMs) have attracted significant interest, particularly in models optimized for parallel training and handling long-range dependencies. A…

cs.CV2024

Exploring Token Pruning in Vision State Space Models

Zheng Zhan, Zhenglun Kong, Yifan Gong +8

State Space Models (SSMs) have the advantage of keeping linear computational complexity compared to attention modules in transformers, and have been applied to vision tasks as a ne…

cs.LG2024

Quasar-ViT: Hardware-Oriented Quantization-Aware Architecture Search for Vision Transformers

Zhengang Li, Alec Lu, Yanyue Xie +9

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated their superior accuracy for computer vision tasks compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, ViT models are often compu…

cs.CL2024

Toward Adaptive Large Language Models Structured Pruning via Hybrid-grained Weight Importance Assessment

Jun Liu, Zhenglun Kong, Pu Zhao +9

Structured pruning for large language models (LLMs) has garnered significant academic interest due to its ability to efficiently compress and accelerate LLMs by eliminating redunda…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Squat: Quant Small Language Models on the Edge

Xuan Shen, Peiyan Dong, Zhenglun Kong +9

A growing trend has emerged in designing high-quality Small Language Models (SLMs) with a few million parameters. This trend is driven by the increasing concerns over cloud costs,…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Agile-Quant: Activation-Guided Quantization for Faster Inference of LLMs on the Edge

Xuan Shen, Peiyan Dong, Lei Lu +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) stand out for their impressive performance in intricate language modeling tasks. However, their demanding computational and memory needs pose obstacles…

cs.CV2023

GPU Accelerated Color Correction and Frame Warping for Real-time Video Stitching

Lu Yang, Zhenglun Kong, Ting Li +3

Traditional image stitching focuses on a single panorama frame without considering the spatial-temporal consistency in videos. The straightforward image stitching approach will cau…

cs.CV2022

Peeling the Onion: Hierarchical Reduction of Data Redundancy for Efficient Vision Transformer Training

Zhenglun Kong, Haoyu Ma, Geng Yuan +12

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently obtained success in many applications, but their intensive computation and heavy memory usage at both training and inference time limit the…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

You Need Multiple Exiting: Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating Unified Vision Language Model

Shengkun Tang, Yaqing Wang, Zhenglun Kong +6

Large-scale Transformer models bring significant improvements for various downstream vision language tasks with a unified architecture. The performance improvements come with incre…