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20222026
most citedSwitchable Self-attention Module

4 citations · 16 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

cs.CL2026

HoloCosm: Beyond Single-Metric Benchmark Compression Across Multiple Metrics

Yupei Lin, Zhongzhan Huang, Junxin Li +5

Benchmark compression reduces evaluation cost by selecting a small set of samples. Existing methods typically guide selection using a single metric, although benchmarks often asses…

cs.CL2026

Are We Testing Too Much? A Survey of Benchmark Compression for Efficient Evaluation of Large Language Models

Guoming Ling, Yupei Lin, Zhongzhan Huang +5

Benchmarks are essential for evaluating and improving large language models (LLMs). Yet many widely used benchmarks are redundant, making evaluation unnecessarily expensive. Benchm…

cs.AI2026

Rules to Tools: Executable Checks for LLM Agents in Scientific Computing

Jingjie Ning, Guojiang Zhao, Chen Xu +4

Scientific coding agents receive equations, boundary conditions, and output requirements in writing, then must assess the programs they revise. Rules to Tools (R2T) supplies prepar…

cs.CL2026

Zipbench: Low-Cost Framework for Compressing Comprehensive Benchmarks of Large Language Models

Zhongzhan Huang, Junxin Li, Guoming Ling +3

Comprehensive benchmark suites are essential for improving large language models (LLMs), but many widely used benchmarks are redundant, making evaluation unnecessarily expensive. A…

cs.MA2026

Scores Alone Do Not Prove Discovery: The Discovery Certification Protocol for Auditing AI Research Agents

Jingjie Ning, Shanshan Zhong, Xiaochuan Li +1

AI research agents combine public information and experimental feedback to produce measurable results. The Discovery Certification Protocol (DCP) turns an outcome claim into an exe…

cs.MA2026

The Implementation Lottery: Auditing Idea Reliability in Automated Research

Jingjie Ning, Shanshan Zhong, Xiaochuan Li +2

Automated research agents use program scores to judge ideas. We call variation in this evidence across implementations the implementation lottery. We introduce an Idea Reliability…

cs.MA2026

Auto Research for Materials: Auditable AI-Scientist Workflows with Held-Out Transfer

Jingjie Ning, Xiaochuan Li, Shanshan Zhong +2

Auto Research uses language-model agents to propose, implement, and evaluate machine-learning changes in a closed loop, but is usually judged by its terminal pipeline. A terminal s…

cs.MA2026

AgentWebBench: Benchmarking Multi-Agent Coordination in Agentic Web

Shanshan Zhong, Kate Shen, Chenyan Xiong

Agentic Web is an emerging paradigm where autonomous agents help users use online information. As the paradigm develops, content providers are also deploying agents to manage their…

cs.SE2026

Agent Skills: A Data-Driven Analysis of Claude Skills for Extending Large Language Model Functionality

George Ling, Shanshan Zhong, Richard Huang

Agent skills extend large language model (LLM) agents with reusable, program-like modules that define triggering conditions, procedural logic, and tool interactions. As these skill…

cs.CL2026

Neural Chain-of-Thought Search: Searching the Optimal Reasoning Path to Enhance Large Language Models

Guoming Ling, Zhongzhan Huang, Yupei Lin +4

Chain-of-Thought reasoning has significantly enhanced the problem-solving capabilities of Large Language Models. Unfortunately, current models generate reasoning steps sequentially…

cs.IR2025

What Generative Search Engines Like and How to Optimize Web Content Cooperatively

Yujiang Wu, Shanshan Zhong, Yubin Kim +1

By employing large language models (LLMs) to retrieve documents and generate natural language responses, Generative Engines, such as Google AI overview and ChatGPT, provide signifi…

cs.IR2025

Multimodal Representation-disentangled Information Bottleneck for Multimodal Recommendation

Hui Wang, Jinghui Qin, Wushao Wen +3

Multimodal data has significantly advanced recommendation systems by integrating diverse information sources to model user preferences and item characteristics. However, these syst…

cs.CL2025

AssoCiAm: A Benchmark for Evaluating Association Thinking while Circumventing Ambiguity

Yifan Liu, Wenkuan Zhao, Shanshan Zhong +4

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have garnered significant attention, offering a promising pathway toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Amon…

cs.CV2025

4D-Animal: Freely Reconstructing Animatable 3D Animals from Videos

Shanshan Zhong, Jiawei Peng, Zehan Zheng +6

Existing methods for reconstructing animatable 3D animals from videos typically rely on sparse semantic keypoints to fit parametric models. However, obtaining such keypoints is lab…

cs.CL2025

MiniLongBench: The Low-cost Long Context Understanding Benchmark for Large Language Models

Zhongzhan Huang, Guoming Ling, Shanshan Zhong +2

Long Context Understanding (LCU) is a critical area for exploration in current large language models (LLMs). However, due to the inherently lengthy nature of long-text data, existi…

cs.CL2025

RouterEval: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Routing LLMs to Explore Model-level Scaling Up in LLMs

Zhongzhan Huang, Guoming Ling, Yupei Lin +4

Routing large language models (LLMs) is a new paradigm that uses a router to recommend the best LLM from a pool of candidates for a given input. In this paper, our comprehensive an…

cs.AI2025

A Causality-aware Paradigm for Evaluating Creativity of Multimodal Large Language Models

Zhongzhan Huang, Shanshan Zhong, Pan Zhou +3

Recently, numerous benchmarks have been developed to evaluate the logical reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, assessing the equally important creative cap…

cs.CV2024

MoExtend: Tuning New Experts for Modality and Task Extension

Shanshan Zhong, Shanghua Gao, Zhongzhan Huang +3

Large language models (LLMs) excel in various tasks but are primarily trained on text data, limiting their application scope. Expanding LLM capabilities to include vision-language…

cs.IR2024

Mirror Gradient: Towards Robust Multimodal Recommender Systems via Exploring Flat Local Minima

Shanshan Zhong, Zhongzhan Huang, Daifeng Li +3

Multimodal recommender systems utilize various types of information to model user preferences and item features, helping users discover items aligned with their interests. The inte…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

Let's Think Outside the Box: Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation

Shanshan Zhong, Zhongzhan Huang, Shanghua Gao +4

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) guides large language models (LLMs) to reason step-by-step, and can motivate their logical reasoning ability. While effective for logical tasks, CoT is not c…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Understanding Self-attention Mechanism via Dynamical System Perspective

Zhongzhan Huang, Mingfu Liang, Jinghui Qin +2

The self-attention mechanism (SAM) is widely used in various fields of artificial intelligence and has successfully boosted the performance of different models. However, current ex…

cs.CV2023

LSAS: Lightweight Sub-attention Strategy for Alleviating Attention Bias Problem

Shanshan Zhong, Wushao Wen, Jinghui Qin +2

In computer vision, the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) is highly related to the feature extraction ability, i.e., the ability to recognize and focus on key pixel region…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

SUR-adapter: Enhancing Text-to-Image Pre-trained Diffusion Models with Large Language Models

Shanshan Zhong, Zhongzhan Huang, Wushao Wen +2

Diffusion models, which have emerged to become popular text-to-image generation models, can produce high-quality and content-rich images guided by textual prompts. However, there a…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

ASR: Attention-alike Structural Re-parameterization

Shanshan Zhong, Zhongzhan Huang, Wushao Wen +2

The structural re-parameterization (SRP) technique is a novel deep learning technique that achieves interconversion between different network architectures through equivalent param…