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20182026
most citedTaming Sparsely Activated Transformer with Stochastic Experts

27 citations · 113 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.IR2026

AdsWorldEngine: A Self-Evolving Conversational Advertising Agent through Orchestrator and Tool Coevolution

Simiao Zuo, Chenhui Xu, Yimeng Jia +3

Conversational advertising aims to deliver useful ads within multi-turn assistant interactions. Unlike conventional query-based advertising, where the user's intent is often expres…

cs.CL2026

m3BERT: A Modern, Multi-lingual, Matryoshka Bidirectional Encoder

Yaoxiang Wang, Simiao Zuo, Qingguo Hu +4

Embedding models are pivotal in industrial information retrieval systems like search and advertising. However, existing pretrained models often exhibit fixed architectures and embe…

cs.CL2024

Task Oriented In-Domain Data Augmentation

Xiao Liang, Xinyu Hu, Simiao Zuo +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown superior performance in various applications and fields. To achieve better performance on specialized domains such as law and advertisement,…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Towards Consistent Natural-Language Explanations via Explanation-Consistency Finetuning

Yanda Chen, Chandan Singh, Xiaodong Liu +4

Large language models (LLMs) often generate convincing, fluent explanations. However, different from humans, they often generate inconsistent explanations on different inputs. For…

cs.LG2023

SMURF-THP: Score Matching-based UnceRtainty quantiFication for Transformer Hawkes Process

Zichong Li, Yanbo Xu, Simiao Zuo +4

Transformer Hawkes process models have shown to be successful in modeling event sequence data. However, most of the existing training methods rely on maximizing the likelihood of e…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Evoke: Evoking Critical Thinking Abilities in LLMs via Reviewer-Author Prompt Editing

Xinyu Hu, Pengfei Tang, Simiao Zuo +5

Large language models (LLMs) have made impressive progress in natural language processing. These models rely on proper human instructions (or prompts) to generate suitable response…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Adversarial Regularization: Theoretical Foundation and Stable Algorithms

Alexander Bukharin, Yan Li, Yue Yu +6

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has shown promising results across several domains. Despite this promise, MARL policies often lack robustness and are therefore sensitive…

cs.IR2023

DeepTagger: Knowledge Enhanced Named Entity Recognition for Web-Based Ads Queries

Simiao Zuo, Pengfei Tang, Xinyu Hu +3

Named entity recognition (NER) is a crucial task for online advertisement. State-of-the-art solutions leverage pre-trained language models for this task. However, three major chall…

q-bio.QM2023

Machine Learning Force Fields with Data Cost Aware Training

Alexander Bukharin, Tianyi Liu, Shengjie Wang +4

Machine learning force fields (MLFF) have been proposed to accelerate molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, which finds widespread applications in chemistry and biomedical research.…

cs.CL2022★ 7 cited

Efficient Long Sequence Modeling via State Space Augmented Transformer

Simiao Zuo, Xiaodong Liu, Jian Jiao +4

Transformer models have achieved superior performance in various natural language processing tasks. However, the quadratic computational cost of the attention mechanism limits its…

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.IR2022★ 1 cited

Context-Aware Query Rewriting for Improving Users' Search Experience on E-commerce Websites

Simiao Zuo, Qingyu Yin, Haoming Jiang +4

E-commerce queries are often short and ambiguous. Consequently, query understanding often uses query rewriting to disambiguate user-input queries. While using e-commerce search too…

cs.LG2022

DiP-GNN: Discriminative Pre-Training of Graph Neural Networks

Simiao Zuo, Haoming Jiang, Qingyu Yin +3

Graph neural network (GNN) pre-training methods have been proposed to enhance the power of GNNs. Specifically, a GNN is first pre-trained on a large-scale unlabeled graph and then…

cs.LG2022

Differentially Private Estimation of Hawkes Process

Simiao Zuo, Tianyi Liu, Tuo Zhao +1

Point process models are of great importance in real world applications. In certain critical applications, estimation of point process models involves large amounts of sensitive pe…

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★ 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★ 27 cited

Taming Sparsely Activated Transformer with Stochastic Experts

Simiao Zuo, Xiaodong Liu, Jian Jiao +5

Sparsely activated models (SAMs), such as Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), can easily scale to have outrageously large amounts of parameters without significant increase in computational…

cs.RO2021★ 3 cited

Adversarially Regularized Policy Learning Guided by Trajectory Optimization

Zhigen Zhao, Simiao Zuo, Tuo Zhao +1

Recent advancement in combining trajectory optimization with function approximation (especially neural networks) shows promise in learning complex control policies for diverse task…

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.LG2020

A Hypergradient Approach to Robust Regression without Correspondence

Yujia Xie, Yixiu Mao, Simiao Zuo +4

We consider a variant of regression problem, where the correspondence between input and output data is not available. Such shuffled data is commonly observed in many real world pro…