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20222026
most citedERNIE-Music: Text-to-Waveform Music Generation with Diffusion Models

9 citations · 19 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CL2026

Enough is as good as a feast: A Comprehensive Analysis of How Reinforcement Learning Mitigates Task Conflicts in LLMs

Zixuan Ren, Jinliang Lu, Junhong Wu +5

Model merging plays a crucial role in consolidating multiple specialized models into a single, unified model, especially in the era of large language models (LLMs). Recent research…

cs.CL2026

Sparse Growing Transformer: Training-Time Sparse Depth Allocation via Progressive Attention Looping

Yao Chen, Yilong Chen, Yinqi Yang +9

Existing approaches to increasing the effective depth of Transformers predominantly rely on parameter reuse, extending computation through recursive execution. Under this paradigm,…

cs.AI2026

KnowRL: Boosting LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning with Minimal-Sufficient Knowledge Guidance

Linhao Yu, Tianmeng Yang, Siyu Ding +8

RLVR improves reasoning in large language models, but its effectiveness is often limited by severe reward sparsity on hard problems. Recent hint-based RL methods mitigate sparsity…

cs.AI2026

DreamKG: A KG-Augmented Conversational System for People Experiencing Homelessness

Javad M Alizadeh, Genhui Zheng, Chiu C Tan +7

People experiencing homelessness (PEH) face substantial barriers to accessing timely, accurate information about community services. DreamKG addresses this through a knowledge grap…

cs.CV2026

Learning to Generate via Understanding: Understanding-Driven Intrinsic Rewarding for Unified Multimodal Models

Jiadong Pan, Liang Li, Yuxin Peng +6

Recently, unified multimodal models (UMMs) have made remarkable progress in integrating visual understanding and generation, demonstrating strong potential for complex text-to-imag…

cs.CV2026

VideoAR: Autoregressive Video Generation via Next-Frame & Scale Prediction

Longbin Ji, Xiaoxiong Liu, Junyuan Shang +4

Recent advances in video generation have been dominated by diffusion and flow-matching models, which produce high-quality results but remain computationally intensive and difficult…

cs.CV2025

V-ITI: Mitigating Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models via Visual Inference-Time Intervention

Nan Sun, Zhenyu Zhang, Xixun Lin +8

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in numerous vision-language tasks yet suffer from hallucinations, producing content inconsistent with input visuals, that undermine r…

cs.CV2025

Blink: Dynamic Visual Token Resolution for Enhanced Multimodal Understanding

Yuchen Feng, Zhenyu Zhang, Naibin Gu +8

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress on various vision-language tasks, yet their visual perception remains limited. Humans, in comparison, per…

cs.CL2025

Elastic MoE: Unlocking the Inference-Time Scalability of Mixture-of-Experts

Naibin Gu, Zhenyu Zhang, Yuchen Feng +8

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models typically fix the number of activated experts at both training and inference. However, real-world deployments often face heterogeneous hardware,…

cs.CL2025

Advantageous Parameter Expansion Training Makes Better Large Language Models

Naibin Gu, Yilong Chen, Zhenyu Zhang +7

Although scaling up the number of trainable parameters can effectively improve the training performance of large language models, it also leads to increased computational overhead.…

cs.CL2025

Inner Thinking Transformer: Leveraging Dynamic Depth Scaling to Foster Adaptive Internal Thinking

Yilong Chen, Junyuan Shang, Zhenyu Zhang +7

Large language models (LLMs) face inherent performance bottlenecks under parameter constraints, particularly in processing critical tokens that demand complex reasoning. Empirical…

cs.CL2025

BeamLoRA: Beam-Constraint Low-Rank Adaptation

Naibin Gu, Zhenyu Zhang, Xiyu Liu +7

Due to the demand for efficient fine-tuning of large language models, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has been widely adopted as one of the most effective parameter-efficient fine-tunin…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Curiosity-Driven Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Haoran Sun, Yekun Chai, Shuohuan Wang +3

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has proven effective in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences, but often at the cost of reduced output dive…

cs.CL2024

Mixture of Hidden-Dimensions Transformer

Yilong Chen, Junyuan Shang, Zhengyu Zhang +6

Transformer models encounter challenges in scaling hidden dimensions efficiently, as uniformly increasing them inflates computational and memory costs while failing to emphasize th…

cs.CL2024

Upcycling Instruction Tuning from Dense to Mixture-of-Experts via Parameter Merging

Tingfeng Hui, Zhenyu Zhang, Shuohuan Wang +3

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) shines brightly in large language models (LLMs) and demonstrates outstanding performance in plentiful natural language processing tasks. However, existing…

cs.CL2024

MA-RLHF: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with Macro Actions

Yekun Chai, Haoran Sun, Huang Fang +3

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has demonstrated effectiveness in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, token-level RLHF suffers…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

NACL: A General and Effective KV Cache Eviction Framework for LLMs at Inference Time

Yilong Chen, Guoxia Wang, Junyuan Shang +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) have ignited an innovative surge of AI applications, marking a new era of exciting possibilities equipped with extended context windows. However, hosti…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

HFT: Half Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models

Tingfeng Hui, Zhenyu Zhang, Shuohuan Wang +3

Large language models (LLMs) with one or more fine-tuning phases have become a necessary step to unlock various capabilities, enabling LLMs to follow natural language instructions…

cs.CL2024

Autoregressive Pre-Training on Pixels and Texts

Yekun Chai, Qingyi Liu, Jingwu Xiao +3

The integration of visual and textual information represents a promising direction in the advancement of language models. In this paper, we explore the dual modality of language--b…

cs.CL2024

On Training Data Influence of GPT Models

Yekun Chai, Qingyi Liu, Shuohuan Wang +3

Amidst the rapid advancements in generative language models, the investigation of how training data shapes the performance of GPT models is still emerging. This paper presents GPTf…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Tool-Augmented Reward Modeling

Lei Li, Yekun Chai, Shuohuan Wang +4

Reward modeling (a.k.a., preference modeling) is instrumental for aligning large language models with human preferences, particularly within the context of reinforcement learning f…

cs.SD2023★ 9 cited

ERNIE-Music: Text-to-Waveform Music Generation with Diffusion Models

Pengfei Zhu, Chao Pang, Yekun Chai +5

In recent years, the burgeoning interest in diffusion models has led to significant advances in image and speech generation. Nevertheless, the direct synthesis of music waveforms f…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

ERNIE 3.0 Tiny: Frustratingly Simple Method to Improve Task-Agnostic Distillation Generalization

Weixin Liu, Xuyi Chen, Jiaxiang Liu +4

Task-agnostic knowledge distillation attempts to address the problem of deploying large pretrained language model in resource-constrained scenarios by compressing a large pretraine…

eess.AS2022

ERNIE-SAT: Speech and Text Joint Pretraining for Cross-Lingual Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech

Xiaoran Fan, Chao Pang, Tian Yuan +9

Speech representation learning has improved both speech understanding and speech synthesis tasks for single language. However, its ability in cross-lingual scenarios has not been e…