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most citedA Survey of Small Language Models

6 citations · 34 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CR2026

TTMark: Pairwise Distortion-Free Watermarking Beyond Single-Token Entropy

Ruibo Chen, Zhengmian Hu, Donghang Lu +5

Distortion-free watermarking enables reliable attribution of machine-generated text while preserving output distribution. However, existing methods operate independently on each ge…

cs.LG2025

CTRLS: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Latent State-Transition

Junda Wu, Yuxin Xiong, Xintong Li +7

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning enables large language models (LLMs) to break down complex problems into interpretable intermediate steps, significantly enhancing model transparen…

cs.CL2025

A Personalized Conversational Benchmark: Towards Simulating Personalized Conversations

Li Li, Peilin Cai, Ryan A. Rossi +21

We present PersonaConvBench, a large-scale benchmark for evaluating personalized reasoning and generation in multi-turn conversations with large language models (LLMs). Unlike exis…

cs.CL2025

Exploring Rewriting Approaches for Different Conversational Tasks

Md Mehrab Tanjim, Ryan A. Rossi, Mike Rimer +9

Conversational assistants often require a question rewriting algorithm that leverages a subset of past interactions to provide a more meaningful (accurate) answer to the user's que…

cs.CL2025

Towards Optimal Multi-draft Speculative Decoding

Zhengmian Hu, Tong Zheng, Vignesh Viswanathan +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become an indispensable part of natural language processing tasks. However, autoregressive sampling has become an efficiency bottleneck. Multi-Dra…

cs.LG2025

From Selection to Generation: A Survey of LLM-based Active Learning

Yu Xia, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Zhouhang Xie +31

Active Learning (AL) has been a powerful paradigm for improving model efficiency and performance by selecting the most informative data points for labeling and training. In recent…

cs.CV2024

Personalized Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey

Junda Wu, Hanjia Lyu, Yu Xia +24

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have become increasingly important due to their state-of-the-art performance and ability to integrate multiple data modalities, such as tex…

cs.AI2024

GUI Agents: A Survey

Dang Nguyen, Jian Chen, Yu Wang +27

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents, powered by Large Foundation Models, have emerged as a transformative approach to automating human-computer interaction. These agents autonomo…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Fast and scalable Wasserstein-1 neural optimal transport solver for single-cell perturbation prediction

Yanshuo Chen, Zhengmian Hu, Wei Chen +1

\textbf{Motivation:} Predicting single-cell perturbation responses requires mapping between two unpaired single-cell data distributions. Optimal transport (OT) theory provides a pr…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

A Bayesian Approach to Harnessing the Power of LLMs in Authorship Attribution

Zhengmian Hu, Tong Zheng, Heng Huang

Authorship attribution aims to identify the origin or author of a document. Traditional approaches have heavily relied on manual features and fail to capture long-range correlation…

cs.CR2024

Inevitable Trade-off between Watermark Strength and Speculative Sampling Efficiency for Language Models

Zhengmian Hu, Heng Huang

Large language models are probabilistic models, and the process of generating content is essentially sampling from the output distribution of the language model. Existing watermark…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

A Survey of Small Language Models

Chien Van Nguyen, Xuan Shen, Ryan Aponte +25

Small Language Models (SLMs) have become increasingly important due to their efficiency and performance to perform various language tasks with minimal computational resources, maki…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Distortion-free Watermarks are not Truly Distortion-free under Watermark Key Collisions

Yihan Wu, Ruibo Chen, Zhengmian Hu +4

Language model (LM) watermarking techniques inject a statistical signal into LM-generated content by substituting the random sampling process with pseudo-random sampling, using wat…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Token-Level Adversarial Prompt Detection Based on Perplexity Measures and Contextual Information

Zhengmian Hu, Gang Wu, Saayan Mitra +4

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLM) have emerged as pivotal tools in various applications. However, these models are susceptible to adversarial prompt attacks, where attac…

eess.IV2023★ 4 cited

GPT-4 Vision on Medical Image Classification -- A Case Study on COVID-19 Dataset

Ruibo Chen, Tianyi Xiong, Yihan Wu +6

This technical report delves into the application of GPT-4 Vision (GPT-4V) in the nuanced realm of COVID-19 image classification, leveraging the transformative potential of in-cont…

cs.CR2023★ 3 cited

Unbiased Watermark for Large Language Models

Zhengmian Hu, Lichang Chen, Xidong Wu +3

The recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have sparked a growing apprehension regarding the potential misuse. One approach to mitigating this risk is to incorporate w…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Solving a Class of Non-Convex Minimax Optimization in Federated Learning

Xidong Wu, Jianhui Sun, Zhengmian Hu +2

The minimax problems arise throughout machine learning applications, ranging from adversarial training and policy evaluation in reinforcement learning to AUROC maximization. To add…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Federated Conditional Stochastic Optimization

Xidong Wu, Jianhui Sun, Zhengmian Hu +3

Conditional stochastic optimization has found applications in a wide range of machine learning tasks, such as invariant learning, AUPRC maximization, and meta-learning. As the dema…

cs.CR2023★ 4 cited

A Resilient and Accessible Distribution-Preserving Watermark for Large Language Models

Yihan Wu, Zhengmian Hu, Junfeng Guo +2

Watermarking techniques offer a promising way to identify machine-generated content via embedding covert information into the contents generated from language models. A challenge i…

cs.LG2023

Serverless Federated AUPRC Optimization for Multi-Party Collaborative Imbalanced Data Mining

Xidong Wu, Zhengmian Hu, Jian Pei +1

Multi-party collaborative training, such as distributed learning and federated learning, is used to address the big data challenges. However, traditional multi-party collaborative…

cs.LG2023

Decentralized Riemannian Algorithm for Nonconvex Minimax Problems

Xidong Wu, Zhengmian Hu, Heng Huang

The minimax optimization over Riemannian manifolds (possibly nonconvex constraints) has been actively applied to solve many problems, such as robust dimensionality reduction and de…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Faster Adaptive Federated Learning

Xidong Wu, Feihu Huang, Zhengmian Hu +1

Federated learning has attracted increasing attention with the emergence of distributed data. While extensive federated learning algorithms have been proposed for the non-convex di…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Fast and Scalable Adversarial Training of Kernel SVM via Doubly Stochastic Gradients

Huimin Wu, Zhengmian Hu, Bin Gu

Adversarial attacks by generating examples which are almost indistinguishable from natural examples, pose a serious threat to learning models. Defending against adversarial attacks…

math.OC2021★ 5 cited

AdaGDA: Faster Adaptive Gradient Descent Ascent Methods for Minimax Optimization

Feihu Huang, Xidong Wu, Zhengmian Hu

In the paper, we propose a class of faster adaptive Gradient Descent Ascent (GDA) methods for solving the nonconvex-strongly-concave minimax problems by using the unified adaptive…