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most citedCan ChatGPT Understand Too? A Comparative Study on ChatGPT and Fine-tuned BERT

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cs.CL2025

KaFT: Knowledge-aware Fine-tuning for Boosting LLMs' Domain-specific Question-Answering Performance

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Xiantao Cai +3

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a common approach to improve the domain-specific question-answering (QA) performance of large language models (LLMs). However, recent literature rev…

cs.CL2024

Learning from Imperfect Data: Towards Efficient Knowledge Distillation of Autoregressive Language Models for Text-to-SQL

Qihuang Zhong, Kunfeng Chen, Liang Ding +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in text-to-SQL, which involves translating natural language questions into SQL queries. However, current text-to-SQL L…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Iterative Data Generation with Large Language Models for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

Qihuang Zhong, Haiyun Li, Luyao Zhuang +2

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) is an important sentiment analysis task, which aims to determine the sentiment polarity towards an aspect in a sentence. Due to the expensive…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Achieving >97% on GSM8K: Deeply Understanding the Problems Makes LLMs Better Solvers for Math Word Problems

Qihuang Zhong, Kang Wang, Ziyang Xu +3

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has enhanced the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) across various reasoning tasks. However, CoT still falls short in dealing with complex…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

When ControlNet Meets Inexplicit Masks: A Case Study of ControlNet on its Contour-following Ability

Wenjie Xuan, Yufei Xu, Shanshan Zhao +4

ControlNet excels at creating content that closely matches precise contours in user-provided masks. However, when these masks contain noise, as a frequent occurrence with non-exper…

cs.CL2024

Revisiting Knowledge Distillation for Autoregressive Language Models

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Li Shen +3

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a common approach to compress a teacher model to reduce its inference cost and memory footprint, by training a smaller student model. However, in the…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

ROSE Doesn't Do That: Boosting the Safety of Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models with Reverse Prompt Contrastive Decoding

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu +2

With the development of instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs), improving the safety of LLMs has become more critical. However, the current approaches for aligning the LLMs…

cs.CL2023

Zero-Shot Sharpness-Aware Quantization for Pre-trained Language Models

Miaoxi Zhu, Qihuang Zhong, Li Shen +4

Quantization is a promising approach for reducing memory overhead and accelerating inference, especially in large pre-trained language model (PLM) scenarios. While having no access…

cs.CV2023★ 7 cited

PNT-Edge: Towards Robust Edge Detection with Noisy Labels by Learning Pixel-level Noise Transitions

Wenjie Xuan, Shanshan Zhao, Yu Yao +5

Relying on large-scale training data with pixel-level labels, previous edge detection methods have achieved high performance. However, it is hard to manually label edges accurately…

cs.CL2023

Self-Evolution Learning for Discriminative Language Model Pretraining

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu +2

Masked language modeling, widely used in discriminative language model (e.g., BERT) pretraining, commonly adopts a random masking strategy. However, random masking does not conside…

cs.CL2023

Revisiting Token Dropping Strategy in Efficient BERT Pretraining

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu +4

Token dropping is a recently-proposed strategy to speed up the pretraining of masked language models, such as BERT, by skipping the computation of a subset of the input tokens at s…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

Scalable Mask Annotation for Video Text Spotting

Haibin He, Jing Zhang, Mengyang Xu +3

Video text spotting refers to localizing, recognizing, and tracking textual elements such as captions, logos, license plates, signs, and other forms of text within consecutive vide…

cs.CL2023★ 148 cited

Can ChatGPT Understand Too? A Comparative Study on ChatGPT and Fine-tuned BERT

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu +2

Recently, ChatGPT has attracted great attention, as it can generate fluent and high-quality responses to human inquiries. Several prior studies have shown that ChatGPT attains rema…

cs.CL2023★ 10 cited

Bag of Tricks for Effective Language Model Pretraining and Downstream Adaptation: A Case Study on GLUE

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Keqin Peng +5

This technical report briefly describes our JDExplore d-team's submission Vega v1 on the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) leaderboard, where GLUE is a collection of…

cs.CL2022★ 14 cited

Toward Efficient Language Model Pretraining and Downstream Adaptation via Self-Evolution: A Case Study on SuperGLUE

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Yibing Zhan +11

This technical report briefly describes our JDExplore d-team's Vega v2 submission on the SuperGLUE leaderboard. SuperGLUE is more challenging than the widely used general language…

cs.CV2022★ 7 cited

Diff-Font: Diffusion Model for Robust One-Shot Font Generation

Haibin He, Xinyuan Chen, Chaoyue Wang +4

Font generation is a difficult and time-consuming task, especially in those languages using ideograms that have complicated structures with a large number of characters, such as Ch…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

DeepSolo: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points Solo for Text Spotting

Maoyuan Ye, Jing Zhang, Shanshan Zhao +4

End-to-end text spotting aims to integrate scene text detection and recognition into a unified framework. Dealing with the relationship between the two sub-tasks plays a pivotal ro…

cs.CL2022

Improving Sharpness-Aware Minimization with Fisher Mask for Better Generalization on Language Models

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Li Shen +4

Fine-tuning large pretrained language models on a limited training corpus usually suffers from poor generalization. Prior works show that the recently-proposed sharpness-aware mini…

cs.CL2022★ 14 cited

PANDA: Prompt Transfer Meets Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Model Adaptation

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu +2

Prompt Transfer (PoT) is a recently-proposed approach to improve prompt-tuning, by initializing the target prompt with the existing prompt trained on similar source tasks. However,…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

DPText-DETR: Towards Better Scene Text Detection with Dynamic Points in Transformer

Maoyuan Ye, Jing Zhang, Shanshan Zhao +3

Recently, Transformer-based methods, which predict polygon points or Bezier curve control points for localizing texts, are popular in scene text detection. However, these methods b…

cs.CL2022★ 27 cited

E2S2: Encoding-Enhanced Sequence-to-Sequence Pretraining for Language Understanding and Generation

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu +2

Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) learning is a popular fashion for large-scale pretraining language models. However, the prior seq2seq pretraining models generally focus on reconstru…

cs.CL2022★ 145 cited

Knowledge Graph Augmented Network Towards Multiview Representation Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu +3

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a fine-grained task of sentiment analysis. To better comprehend long complicated sentences and obtain accurate aspect-specific information…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Visual Semantics Allow for Textual Reasoning Better in Scene Text Recognition

Yue He, Chen Chen, Jing Zhang +4

Existing Scene Text Recognition (STR) methods typically use a language model to optimize the joint probability of the 1D character sequence predicted by a visual recognition (VR) m…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

Unified Instance and Knowledge Alignment Pretraining for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

Juhua Liu, Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding +3

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) aims to determine the sentiment polarity towards an aspect. Because of the expensive and limited labelled data, the pretraining strategy has…