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20222026
most citedAnnoLLM: Making Large Language Models to Be Better Crowdsourced Annotators

34 citations · 57 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CL2026

Improving Data and Reward Design for Scientific Reasoning in Large Language Models

Zijie Chen, Zhenghao Lin, Xiao Liu +3

Solving open-ended science questions remains challenging for large language models, particularly due to inherently unreliable supervision and evaluation. The bottleneck lies in the…

cs.CL2026

Training LLMs for Divide-and-Conquer Reasoning Elevates Test-Time Scalability

Xiao Liang, Zhong-Zhi Li, Zhenghao Lin +7

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities through step-by-step chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. Nevertheless, at the limits of model capability,…

cs.CL2025

Sigma-MoE-Tiny Technical Report

Qingguo Hu, Zhenghao Lin, Ziyue Yang +12

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has emerged as a promising paradigm for foundation models due to its efficient and powerful scalability. In this work, we present Sigma-MoE-Tiny, an MoE la…

cs.DC2025

SIGMA: An AI-Empowered Training Stack on Early-Life Hardware

Lei Qu, Lianhai Ren, Peng Cheng +12

An increasing variety of AI accelerators is being considered for large-scale training. However, enabling large-scale training on early-life AI accelerators faces three core challen…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Length: Quantifying Long-Range Information for Long-Context LLM Pretraining Data

Haoran Deng, Yingyu Lin, Zhenghao Lin +4

Long-context language models unlock advanced capabilities in reasoning, code generation, and document summarization by leveraging dependencies across extended spans of text. Howeve…

cs.CL2025

Learning from the Best, Differently: A Diversity-Driven Rethinking on Data Selection

Hongyi He, Xiao Liu, Zhenghao Lin +6

High-quality pre-training data is crutial for large language models, where quality captures factual reliability and semantic value, and diversity ensures broad coverage and distrib…

cs.CL2025

LayerNorm Induces Recency Bias in Transformer Decoders

Junu Kim, Xiao Liu, Zhenghao Lin +3

Causal self-attention provides positional information to Transformer decoders. Prior work has shown that stacks of causal self-attention layers alone induce a positional bias in at…

cs.CL2025

Generalized Category Discovery in Event-Centric Contexts: Latent Pattern Mining with LLMs

Yi Luo, Qiwen Wang, Junqi Yang +5

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify both known and novel categories using partially labeled data that contains only known classes. Despite achieving strong perfor…

cs.CL2025

Sigma: Differential Rescaling of Query, Key and Value for Efficient Language Models

Zhenghao Lin, Zihao Tang, Xiao Liu +31

We introduce Sigma, an efficient large language model specialized for the system domain, empowered by a novel architecture including DiffQKV attention, and pre-trained on our metic…

cs.DB2024

Revolutionizing Database Q&A with Large Language Models: Comprehensive Benchmark and Evaluation

Yihang Zheng, Bo Li, Zhenghao Lin +6

The development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized QA across various industries, including the database domain. However, there is still a lack of a comprehensive be…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Rho-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need

Zhenghao Lin, Zhibin Gou, Yeyun Gong +8

Previous language model pre-training methods have uniformly applied a next-token prediction loss to all training tokens. Challenging this norm, we posit that "9l training". Our ini…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Ensuring Safe and High-Quality Outputs: A Guideline Library Approach for Language Models

Yi Luo, Zhenghao Lin, Yuhao Zhang +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities but also present risks such as biased content generation and privacy issues. One of the current alignment techniques in…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Competition-Level Problems are Effective LLM Evaluators

Yiming Huang, Zhenghao Lin, Xiao Liu +8

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities, yet there is ongoing debate about these abilities and the potential data contamination problem rec…

cs.CL2023★ 34 cited

AnnoLLM: Making Large Language Models to Be Better Crowdsourced Annotators

Xingwei He, Zhenghao Lin, Yeyun Gong +7

Many natural language processing (NLP) tasks rely on labeled data to train machine learning models with high performance. However, data annotation is time-consuming and expensive,…

cs.CL2022★ 16 cited

Text Generation with Diffusion Language Models: A Pre-training Approach with Continuous Paragraph Denoise

Zhenghao Lin, Yeyun Gong, Yelong Shen +5

In this paper, we introduce a novel dIffusion language modEl pre-training framework for text generation, which we call GENIE. GENIE is a large-scale pretrained diffusion language m…

cs.CL2022

Sentiment-Aware Word and Sentence Level Pre-training for Sentiment Analysis

Shuai Fan, Chen Lin, Haonan Li +6

Most existing pre-trained language representation models (PLMs) are sub-optimal in sentiment analysis tasks, as they capture the sentiment information from word-level while under-c…