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20202026
most citedFedML: A Research Library and Benchmark for Federated Machine Learning

354 citations · 634 across the 70 of their papers we have counts for

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71 papers

cs.LG2026

LLM Evolution as an Industry-Scale Ecosystem: A Lifecycle Perspective on Continual Learning

Hao Jiang, Enneng Yang, Guojie Zhu +7

Continual learning capability is critical for Industrial LLMs, as deployed models must be continuously updated to meet evolving requirements and environments, rather than repeatedl…

cs.CL2025

Reason-KE++: Aligning the Process, Not Just the Outcome, for Faithful LLM Knowledge Editing

Yuchen Wu, Liang Ding, Li Shen +1

Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) to be faithful to new knowledge in complex, multi-hop reasoning tasks is a critical, yet unsolved, challenge. We find that SFT-based methods,…

cs.CV2025

From Hindsight to Foresight: Self-Encouraged Hindsight Distillation for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering

Yu Zhao, Ying Zhang, Xuhui Sui +4

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KBVQA) necessitates external knowledge incorporation beyond cross-modal understanding. Existing KBVQA methods either utilize implicit kno…

cs.CV2025

Sparse Model Inversion: Efficient Inversion of Vision Transformers for Data-Free Applications

Zixuan Hu, Yongxian Wei, Li Shen +4

Model inversion, which aims to reconstruct the original training data from pre-trained discriminative models, is especially useful when the original training data is unavailable du…

cs.LG2025

Network Sparsity Unlocks the Scaling Potential of Deep Reinforcement Learning

Guozheng Ma, Lu Li, Zilin Wang +3

Effectively scaling up deep reinforcement learning models has proven notoriously difficult due to network pathologies during training, motivating various targeted interventions suc…

cs.MA2025

Near-Optimal Online Learning for Multi-Agent Submodular Coordination: Tight Approximation and Communication Efficiency

Qixin Zhang, Zongqi Wan, Yu Yang +2

Coordinating multiple agents to collaboratively maximize submodular functions in unpredictable environments is a critical task with numerous applications in machine learning, robot…

cs.CL2025

Edit Once, Update Everywhere: A Simple Framework for Cross-Lingual Knowledge Synchronization in LLMs

Yuchen Wu, Liang Ding, Li Shen +1

Knowledge editing allows for efficient adaptation of large language models (LLMs) to new information or corrections without requiring full retraining. However, prior methods typica…

cs.LG2025

Safety Reasoning with Guidelines

Haoyu Wang, Zeyu Qin, Li Shen +3

Training safe LLMs remains a critical challenge. The most widely used method, Refusal Training (RT), struggles to generalize against various Out-of-Distribution (OOD) jailbreaking…

cs.LG2025

TeZO: Empowering the Low-Rankness on the Temporal Dimension in the Zeroth-Order Optimization for Fine-tuning LLMs

Yan Sun, Tiansheng Huang, Liang Ding +2

Zeroth-order optimization (ZO) has demonstrated remarkable promise in efficient fine-tuning tasks for Large Language Models (LLMs). In particular, recent advances incorporate the l…

cs.CV2024

Unlocking Tuning-Free Few-Shot Adaptability in Visual Foundation Models by Recycling Pre-Tuned LoRAs

Zixuan Hu, Yongxian Wei, Li Shen +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT demonstrate strong few-shot adaptability without requiring fine-tuning, positioning them ideal for data-limited and real-time applicati…

cs.LG2024

Communication Learning in Multi-Agent Systems from Graph Modeling Perspective

Shengchao Hu, Li Shen, Ya Zhang +1

In numerous artificial intelligence applications, the collaborative efforts of multiple intelligent agents are imperative for the successful attainment of target objectives. To enh…

cs.LG2024

A-FedPD: Aligning Dual-Drift is All Federated Primal-Dual Learning Needs

Yan Sun, Li Shen, Dacheng Tao

As a popular paradigm for juggling data privacy and collaborative training, federated learning (FL) is flourishing to distributively process the large scale of heterogeneous datase…

cs.CV2024

Divide, Conquer and Combine: A Training-Free Framework for High-Resolution Image Perception in Multimodal Large Language Models

Wenbin Wang, Liang Ding, Minyan Zeng +4

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have experienced significant advancements recently, but still struggle to recognize and interpret intricate details in high-resolution (HR)…

cs.LG2024

Convergent Differential Privacy Analysis for General Federated Learning

Yan Sun, Qixin Zhang, Li Shen +1

The powerful cooperation of federated learning (FL) and differential privacy~(DP) provides a promising paradigm for the large-scale private clients. However, existing analyses in F…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Learning Multi-Agent Communication from Graph Modeling Perspective

Shengchao Hu, Li Shen, Ya Zhang +1

In numerous artificial intelligence applications, the collaborative efforts of multiple intelligent agents are imperative for the successful attainment of target objectives. To enh…

cs.LG2024

Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning with Local Immediate Error Compensation

Yifei Cheng, Li Shen, Linli Xu +6

Gradient compression with error compensation has attracted significant attention with the target of reducing the heavy communication overhead in distributed learning. However, exis…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Representation Surgery for Multi-Task Model Merging

Enneng Yang, Li Shen, Zhenyi Wang +4

Multi-task learning (MTL) compresses the information from multiple tasks into a unified backbone to improve computational efficiency and generalization. Recent work directly merges…

cs.LG2024

Solving Continual Offline Reinforcement Learning with Decision Transformer

Kaixin Huang, Li Shen, Chen Zhao +2

Continuous offline reinforcement learning (CORL) combines continuous and offline reinforcement learning, enabling agents to learn multiple tasks from static datasets without forget…

cs.CL2023

Merging Experts into One: Improving Computational Efficiency of Mixture of Experts

Shwai He, Run-Ze Fan, Liang Ding +3

Scaling the size of language models usually leads to remarkable advancements in NLP tasks. But it often comes with a price of growing computational cost. Although a sparse Mixture…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Efficient Federated Prompt Tuning for Black-box Large Pre-trained Models

Zihao Lin, Yan Sun, Yifan Shi +4

With the blowout development of pre-trained models (PTMs), the efficient tuning of these models for diverse downstream applications has emerged as a pivotal research concern. Altho…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Diversifying the Mixture-of-Experts Representation for Language Models with Orthogonal Optimizer

Boan Liu, Liang Ding, Li Shen +4

The Mixture of Experts (MoE) has emerged as a highly successful technique in deep learning, based on the principle of divide-and-conquer to maximize model capacity without signific…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Revisiting Plasticity in Visual Reinforcement Learning: Data, Modules and Training Stages

Guozheng Ma, Lu Li, Sen Zhang +6

Plasticity, the ability of a neural network to evolve with new data, is crucial for high-performance and sample-efficient visual reinforcement learning (VRL). Although methods like…

cs.LG2023

Towards Understanding Generalization and Stability Gaps between Centralized and Decentralized Federated Learning

Yan Sun, Li Shen, Dacheng Tao

As two mainstream frameworks in federated learning (FL), both centralized and decentralized approaches have shown great application value in practical scenarios. However, existing…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

AdaMerging: Adaptive Model Merging for Multi-Task Learning

Enneng Yang, Zhenyi Wang, Li Shen +4

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to empower a model to tackle multiple tasks simultaneously. A recent development known as task arithmetic has revealed that several models, each fine…