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most citedWhere Does the Performance Improvement Come From? -- A Reproducibility Concern about Image-Text Retrieval

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cs.CL2025

SeaPO: Strategic Error Amplification for Robust Preference Optimization of Large Language Models

Jun Rao, Yunjie Liao, Xuebo Liu +6

Existing alignment methods for preference optimization of large language models (LLMs) aim to enhance model performance by utilizing pairs of positive and negative samples. However…

cs.CL2025

APT: Improving Specialist LLM Performance with Weakness Case Acquisition and Iterative Preference Training

Jun Rao, Zepeng Lin, Xuebo Liu +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) often require domain-specific fine-tuning to address targeted tasks, which risks degrading their general capabilities. Maintaining a balance between do…

cs.CL2024

CommonIT: Commonality-Aware Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models via Data Partitions

Jun Rao, Xuebo Liu, Lian Lian +3

With instruction tuning, Large Language Models (LLMs) can enhance their ability to adhere to commands. Diverging from most works focusing on data mixing, our study concentrates on…

cs.CL2024

Exploring and Enhancing the Transfer of Distribution in Knowledge Distillation for Autoregressive Language Models

Jun Rao, Xuebo Liu, Zepeng Lin +4

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique that compresses large teacher models by training smaller student models to mimic them. The success of KD in auto-regressive language mode…

cs.CV2024

3AM: An Ambiguity-Aware Multi-Modal Machine Translation Dataset

Xinyu Ma, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong +6

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) is a challenging task that seeks to improve translation quality by incorporating visual information. However, recent studies have indicated tha…

cs.MM2023★ 1 cited

Can Linguistic Knowledge Improve Multimodal Alignment in Vision-Language Pretraining?

Fei Wang, Liang Ding, Jun Rao +3

The multimedia community has shown a significant interest in perceiving and representing the physical world with multimodal pretrained neural network models, and among them, the vi…

cs.MM2022

Dynamic Contrastive Distillation for Image-Text Retrieval

Jun Rao, Liang Ding, Shuhan Qi +4

Although the vision-and-language pretraining (VLP) equipped cross-modal image-text retrieval (ITR) has achieved remarkable progress in the past two years, it suffers from a major d…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Parameter-Efficient and Student-Friendly Knowledge Distillation

Jun Rao, Xv Meng, Liang Ding +2

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been extensively employed to transfer the knowledge from a large teacher model to the smaller students, where the parameters of the teacher are fixe…

cs.IR2022★ 5 cited

Where Does the Performance Improvement Come From? -- A Reproducibility Concern about Image-Text Retrieval

Jun Rao, Fei Wang, Liang Ding +4

This article aims to provide the information retrieval community with some reflections on recent advances in retrieval learning by analyzing the reproducibility of image-text retri…