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94 citations · 879 across the 84 of their papers we have counts for

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85 papers

cs.LG2025

ResearchGPT: Benchmarking and Training LLMs for End-to-End Computer Science Research Workflows

Penghao Wang, Yuhao Zhou, Mengxuan Wu +12

As large language models (LLMs) advance, the ultimate vision for their role in science is emerging: we could build an AI collaborator to effectively assist human beings throughout…

cs.LG2025

One Token Embedding Is Enough to Deadlock Your Large Reasoning Model

Mohan Zhang, Yihua Zhang, Jinghan Jia +3

Modern large reasoning models (LRMs) exhibit impressive multi-step problem-solving via chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. However, this iterative thinking mechanism introduces a new…

cs.LG2025

Finding Fantastic Experts in MoEs: A Unified Study for Expert Dropping Strategies and Observations

Ajay Jaiswal, Jianyu Wang, Yixiao Li +6

Sparsely activated Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) has shown promise in scaling up the learning capacity of neural networks. However, vanilla SMoEs have issues such as expert redundancy…

cs.AI2025

More is Less: The Pitfalls of Multi-Model Synthetic Preference Data in DPO Safety Alignment

Yifan Wang, Runjin Chen, Bolian Li +7

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values is an increasingly critical step in post-training. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a simple, yet effecti…

cs.LG2025

Make Optimization Once and for All with Fine-grained Guidance

Mingjia Shi, Ruihan Lin, Xuxi Chen +8

Learning to Optimize (L2O) enhances optimization efficiency with integrated neural networks. L2O paradigms achieve great outcomes, e.g., refitting optimizer, generating unseen solu…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

MedHallu: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Detecting Medical Hallucinations in Large Language Models

Shrey Pandit, Jiawei Xu, Junyuan Hong +4

Advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and their increasing use in medical question-answering necessitate rigorous evaluation of their reliability. A critical challenge lies…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Take the Bull by the Horns: Hard Sample-Reweighted Continual Training Improves LLM Generalization

Xuxi Chen, Zhendong Wang, Daouda Sow +5

In the rapidly advancing arena of large language models (LLMs), a key challenge is to enhance their capabilities amid a looming shortage of high-quality training data. Our study st…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

Revisiting Zeroth-Order Optimization for Memory-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning: A Benchmark

Yihua Zhang, Pingzhi Li, Junyuan Hong +10

In the evolving landscape of natural language processing (NLP), fine-tuning pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) with first-order (FO) optimizers like SGD and Adam has become s…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

QuantumSEA: In-Time Sparse Exploration for Noise Adaptive Quantum Circuits

Tianlong Chen, Zhenyu Zhang, Hanrui Wang +6

Parameterized Quantum Circuits (PQC) have obtained increasing popularity thanks to their great potential for near-term Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. Achieving…

cs.CV2023

The Counterattack of CNNs in Self-Supervised Learning: Larger Kernel Size might be All You Need

Tianjin Huang, Tianlong Chen, Zhangyang Wang +1

Vision Transformers have been rapidly uprising in computer vision thanks to their outstanding scaling trends, and gradually replacing convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Recent w…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

Visual Prompting Upgrades Neural Network Sparsification: A Data-Model Perspective

Can Jin, Tianjin Huang, Yihua Zhang +4

The rapid development of large-scale deep learning models questions the affordability of hardware platforms, which necessitates the pruning to reduce their computational and memory…

cs.LG2023

Rethinking PGD Attack: Is Sign Function Necessary?

Junjie Yang, Tianlong Chen, Xuxi Chen +2

Neural networks have demonstrated success in various domains, yet their performance can be significantly degraded by even a small input perturbation. Consequently, the construction…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Merge, Then Compress: Demystify Efficient SMoE with Hints from Its Routing Policy

Pingzhi Li, Zhenyu Zhang, Prateek Yadav +4

Sparsely activated Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) has shown promise to scale up the learning capacity of neural networks, however, they have issues like (a) High Memory Usage, due to du…

cs.CV2023

Enhancing NeRF akin to Enhancing LLMs: Generalizable NeRF Transformer with Mixture-of-View-Experts

Wenyan Cong, Hanxue Liang, Peihao Wang +5

Cross-scene generalizable NeRF models, which can directly synthesize novel views of unseen scenes, have become a new spotlight of the NeRF field. Several existing attempts rely on…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Robust Mixture-of-Expert Training for Convolutional Neural Networks

Yihua Zhang, Ruisi Cai, Tianlong Chen +6

Sparsely-gated Mixture of Expert (MoE), an emerging deep model architecture, has demonstrated a great promise to enable high-accuracy and ultra-efficient model inference. Despite t…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Instant Soup: Cheap Pruning Ensembles in A Single Pass Can Draw Lottery Tickets from Large Models

Ajay Jaiswal, Shiwei Liu, Tianlong Chen +2

Large pre-trained transformers have been receiving explosive attention in the past few years, due to their wide adaptability for numerous downstream applications via fine-tuning, b…

cs.LG2023

Enhancing Adversarial Training via Reweighting Optimization Trajectory

Tianjin Huang, Shiwei Liu, Tianlong Chen +6

Despite the fact that adversarial training has become the de facto method for improving the robustness of deep neural networks, it is well-known that vanilla adversarial training s…

cs.LG2023★ 28 cited

HO: Heavy-Hitter Oracle for Efficient Generative Inference of Large Language Models

Zhenyu Zhang, Ying Sheng, Tianyi Zhou +9

Large Language Models (LLMs), despite their recent impressive accomplishments, are notably cost-prohibitive to deploy, particularly for applications involving long-content generati…

cs.LG2023

Graph Ladling: Shockingly Simple Parallel GNN Training without Intermediate Communication

Ajay Jaiswal, Shiwei Liu, Tianlong Chen +2

Graphs are omnipresent and GNNs are a powerful family of neural networks for learning over graphs. Despite their popularity, scaling GNNs either by deepening or widening suffers fr…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

The Emergence of Essential Sparsity in Large Pre-trained Models: The Weights that Matter

Ajay Jaiswal, Shiwei Liu, Tianlong Chen +1

Large pre-trained transformers are show-stealer in modern-day deep learning, and it becomes crucial to comprehend the parsimonious patterns that exist within them as they grow in s…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Learning to Generalize Provably in Learning to Optimize

Junjie Yang, Tianlong Chen, Mingkang Zhu +4

Learning to optimize (L2O) has gained increasing popularity, which automates the design of optimizers by data-driven approaches. However, current L2O methods often suffer from poor…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Sparsity May Cry: Let Us Fail (Current) Sparse Neural Networks Together!

Shiwei Liu, Tianlong Chen, Zhenyu Zhang +4

Sparse Neural Networks (SNNs) have received voluminous attention predominantly due to growing computational and memory footprints of consistently exploding parameter count in large…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Sparse MoE as the New Dropout: Scaling Dense and Self-Slimmable Transformers

Tianlong Chen, Zhenyu Zhang, Ajay Jaiswal +2

Despite their remarkable achievement, gigantic transformers encounter significant drawbacks, including exorbitant computational and memory footprints during training, as well as se…

cs.LG2023

M-L2O: Towards Generalizable Learning-to-Optimize by Test-Time Fast Self-Adaptation

Junjie Yang, Xuxi Chen, Tianlong Chen +2

Learning to Optimize (L2O) has drawn increasing attention as it often remarkably accelerates the optimization procedure of complex tasks by ``overfitting" specific task type, leadi…