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20192026
most citedTinyBERT: Distilling BERT for Natural Language Understanding

134 citations · 189 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.CL2026

AdaMTP: An Adaptive Training Paradigm for Multi-Token Prediction

Ziqiang Cui, Han Shi, Bowei He +8

Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) has emerged as an effective paradigm that augments a shared Large Language Model backbone with auxiliary heads, training the model to predict several f…

cs.AI2026

Discover and Prove: An Open-source Agentic Framework for Hard Mode Automated Theorem Proving in Lean 4

Chengwu Liu, Yichun Yin, Ye Yuan +7

Most ATP benchmarks embed the final answer within the formal statement -- a convention we call "Easy Mode" -- a design that simplifies the task relative to what human competitors f…

cs.CL2026

Switch Attention: Towards Dynamic and Fine-grained Hybrid Transformers

Yusheng Zhao, Hourun Li, Bohan Wu +5

The attention mechanism has been the core component in modern transformer architectures. However, the computation of standard full attention scales quadratically with the sequence…

cs.CL2025

Safe: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models via Retrospective Step-aware Formal Verification

Chengwu Liu, Ye Yuan, Yichun Yin +7

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has become the de facto method to elicit reasoning capabilities from large language models (LLMs). However, to mitigate hallucinations in CoT that…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Preparing Lessons for Progressive Training on Language Models

Yu Pan, Ye Yuan, Yichun Yin +6

The rapid progress of Transformers in artificial intelligence has come at the cost of increased resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions due to growing model sizes. Prior…

cs.CL2023

TRIGO: Benchmarking Formal Mathematical Proof Reduction for Generative Language Models

Jing Xiong, Jianhao Shen, Ye Yuan +11

Automated theorem proving (ATP) has become an appealing domain for exploring the reasoning ability of the recent successful generative language models. However, current ATP benchma…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Reusing Pretrained Models by Multi-linear Operators for Efficient Training

Yu Pan, Ye Yuan, Yichun Yin +4

Training large models from scratch usually costs a substantial amount of resources. Towards this problem, recent studies such as bert2BERT and LiGO have reused small pretrained mod…

cs.AI2023★ 10 cited

FIMO: A Challenge Formal Dataset for Automated Theorem Proving

Chengwu Liu, Jianhao Shen, Huajian Xin +9

We present FIMO, an innovative dataset comprising formal mathematical problem statements sourced from the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) Shortlisted Problems. Designed t…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

AutoConv: Automatically Generating Information-seeking Conversations with Large Language Models

Siheng Li, Cheng Yang, Yichun Yin +6

Information-seeking conversation, which aims to help users gather information through conversation, has achieved great progress in recent years. However, the research is still stym…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

NewsDialogues: Towards Proactive News Grounded Conversation

Siheng Li, Yichun Yin, Cheng Yang +7

Hot news is one of the most popular topics in daily conversations. However, news grounded conversation has long been stymied by the lack of well-designed task definition and scarce…

cs.CL2022

G-MAP: General Memory-Augmented Pre-trained Language Model for Domain Tasks

Zhongwei Wan, Yichun Yin, Wei Zhang +5

Recently, domain-specific PLMs have been proposed to boost the task performance of specific domains (e.g., biomedical and computer science) by continuing to pre-train general PLMs…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

FPT: Improving Prompt Tuning Efficiency via Progressive Training

Yufei Huang, Yujia Qin, Huadong Wang +4

Recently, prompt tuning (PT) has gained increasing attention as a parameter-efficient way of tuning pre-trained language models (PLMs). Despite extensively reducing the number of t…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

bert2BERT: Towards Reusable Pretrained Language Models

Cheng Chen, Yichun Yin, Lifeng Shang +7

In recent years, researchers tend to pre-train ever-larger language models to explore the upper limit of deep models. However, large language model pre-training costs intensive com…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Generate & Rank: A Multi-task Framework for Math Word Problems

Jianhao Shen, Yichun Yin, Lin Li +4

Math word problem (MWP) is a challenging and critical task in natural language processing. Many recent studies formalize MWP as a generation task and have adopted sequence-to-seque…

cs.CL2021

Integrating Regular Expressions with Neural Networks via DFA

Shaobo Li, Qun Liu, Xin Jiang +5

Human-designed rules are widely used to build industry applications. However, it is infeasible to maintain thousands of such hand-crafted rules. So it is very important to integrat…

cs.CL2021

AutoTinyBERT: Automatic Hyper-parameter Optimization for Efficient Pre-trained Language Models

Yichun Yin, Cheng Chen, Lifeng Shang +3

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved great success in natural language processing. Most of PLMs follow the default setting of architecture hyper-parameters (e.g., the h…

cs.CL2021★ 4 cited

Extract then Distill: Efficient and Effective Task-Agnostic BERT Distillation

Cheng Chen, Yichun Yin, Lifeng Shang +4

Task-agnostic knowledge distillation, a teacher-student framework, has been proved effective for BERT compression. Although achieving promising results on NLP tasks, it requires en…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

LightMBERT: A Simple Yet Effective Method for Multilingual BERT Distillation

Xiaoqi Jiao, Yichun Yin, Lifeng Shang +5

The multilingual pre-trained language models (e.g, mBERT, XLM and XLM-R) have shown impressive performance on cross-lingual natural language understanding tasks. However, these mod…

cs.CL2020★ 2 cited

Improving Task-Agnostic BERT Distillation with Layer Mapping Search

Xiaoqi Jiao, Huating Chang, Yichun Yin +6

Knowledge distillation (KD) which transfers the knowledge from a large teacher model to a small student model, has been widely used to compress the BERT model recently. Besides the…

cs.CL2020★ 10 cited

TernaryBERT: Distillation-aware Ultra-low Bit BERT

Wei Zhang, Lu Hou, Yichun Yin +4

Transformer-based pre-training models like BERT have achieved remarkable performance in many natural language processing tasks.However, these models are both computation and memory…

cs.CL2019★ 2 cited

PoD: Positional Dependency-Based Word Embedding for Aspect Term Extraction

Yichun Yin, Chenguang Wang, Ming Zhang

Dependency context-based word embedding jointly learns the representations of word and dependency context, and has been proved effective in aspect term extraction. In this paper, w…

cs.CL2019★ 134 cited

TinyBERT: Distilling BERT for Natural Language Understanding

Xiaoqi Jiao, Yichun Yin, Lifeng Shang +5

Language model pre-training, such as BERT, has significantly improved the performances of many natural language processing tasks. However, pre-trained language models are usually c…