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most citedThe Lazy Neuron Phenomenon: On Emergence of Activation Sparsity in Transformers

10 citations · 27 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2025

Spark Transformer: Reactivating Sparsity in FFN and Attention

Chong You, Kan Wu, Zhipeng Jia +16

The discovery of the lazy neuron phenomenon in trained Transformers, where the vast majority of neurons in their feed-forward networks (FFN) are inactive for each token, has spurre…

cs.LG2025

Bipartite Ranking From Multiple Labels: On Loss Versus Label Aggregation

Michal Lukasik, Lin Chen, Harikrishna Narasimhan +7

Bipartite ranking is a fundamental supervised learning problem, with the goal of learning a ranking over instances with maximal Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) against a single bina…

cs.CL2024

Regression-aware Inference with LLMs

Michal Lukasik, Harikrishna Narasimhan, Aditya Krishna Menon +2

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong results on a range of applications, including regression and scoring tasks. Typically, one obtains outputs from an LLM via autoregres…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

ReST meets ReAct: Self-Improvement for Multi-Step Reasoning LLM Agent

Renat Aksitov, Sobhan Miryoosefi, Zonglin Li +10

Answering complex natural language questions often necessitates multi-step reasoning and integrating external information. Several systems have combined knowledge retrieval with a…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

Large Language Models with Controllable Working Memory

Daliang Li, Ankit Singh Rawat, Manzil Zaheer +5

Large language models (LLMs) have led to a series of breakthroughs in natural language processing (NLP), owing to their excellent understanding and generation abilities. Remarkably…

cs.CL2022★ 8 cited

Two-stage LLM Fine-tuning with Less Specialization and More Generalization

Yihan Wang, Si Si, Daliang Li +5

Pretrained large language models (LLMs) are general purpose problem solvers applicable to a diverse set of tasks with prompts. They can be further improved towards a specific task…

cs.LG2022★ 10 cited

The Lazy Neuron Phenomenon: On Emergence of Activation Sparsity in Transformers

Zonglin Li, Chong You, Srinadh Bhojanapalli +8

This paper studies the curious phenomenon for machine learning models with Transformer architectures that their activation maps are sparse. By activation map we refer to the interm…

cs.CL2021

InFillmore: Frame-Guided Language Generation with Bidirectional Context

Jiefu Ou, Nathaniel Weir, Anton Belyy +2

We propose a structured extension to bidirectional-context conditional language generation, or "infilling," inspired by Frame Semantic theory (Fillmore, 1976). Guidance is provided…