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most citedFolding Attention: Memory and Power Optimization for On-Device Transformer-based Streaming Speech Recognition

2 citations · 4 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2026

TopoCompress: Long Context Compression via Graph-Wired Semantic Trajectories

Daniel Agyei Asante, Yang Li

Long-context compression is essential for reducing the cost and latency of large language model inference. However, existing methods can fragment important evidence, require additi…

cs.LG2026

The Safety Relay in Roleplay Jailbreaks: A Component-Resolved Causal Analysis of Harm Recognition and Refusal

Md Mokarram Chowdhury, Ernie Chang, Yang Li

Large language models are trained to follow instructions while refusing harmful requests. Jailbreaks exploit this balance to elicit content a model would ordinarily reject. Rolepla…

cs.LG2026

Importance-Guided Basis Selection for Low-Rank Decomposition of Large Language Models

Daniel Agyei Asante, Ernie Chang, Yang Li

Low-rank decomposition is a compelling approach for compressing large language models, but its effectiveness hinges on selecting which singular-vector bases to retain for a target…

cs.LG2025

IMPACT: Importance-Aware Activation Space Reconstruction

Md Mokarram Chowdhury, Daniel Agyei Asante, Ernie Chang +1

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse domains but remain difficult to deploy in resource-constrained environments due to their size. Low-rank compr…

cs.CL2025

AutoMixer: Checkpoint Artifacts as Automatic Data Mixers

Ernie Chang, Yang Li, Patrick Huber +4

In language model training, it is desirable to equip models with capabilities from various tasks. However, it is not clear how to directly obtain the right data mixtures for these…

cs.CL2024

Scaling Parameter-Constrained Language Models with Quality Data

Ernie Chang, Matteo Paltenghi, Yang Li +7

Scaling laws in language modeling traditionally quantify training loss as a function of dataset size and model parameters, providing compute-optimal estimates but often neglecting…

cs.CL2024

Target-Aware Language Modeling via Granular Data Sampling

Ernie Chang, Pin-Jie Lin, Yang Li +6

Language model pretraining generally targets a broad range of use cases and incorporates data from diverse sources. However, there are instances where we desire a model that excels…

cs.LG2024

Basis Selection: Low-Rank Decomposition of Pretrained Large Language Models for Target Applications

Yang Li, Daniel Agyei Asante, Changsheng Zhao +3

Large language models (LLMs) significantly enhance the performance of various applications, but they are computationally intensive and energy-demanding. This makes it challenging t…

cs.SD2024

Breaking Down Power Barriers in On-Device Streaming ASR: Insights and Solutions

Yang Li, Yuan Shangguan, Yuhao Wang +5

Power consumption plays a crucial role in on-device streaming speech recognition, significantly influencing the user experience. This study explores how the configuration of weight…

cs.SD2023★ 1 cited

In-Context Prompt Editing For Conditional Audio Generation

Ernie Chang, Pin-Jie Lin, Yang Li +6

Distributional shift is a central challenge in the deployment of machine learning models as they can be ill-equipped for real-world data. This is particularly evident in text-to-au…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Folding Attention: Memory and Power Optimization for On-Device Transformer-based Streaming Speech Recognition

Yang Li, Liangzhen Lai, Yuan Shangguan +5

Transformer-based models excel in speech recognition. Existing efforts to optimize Transformer inference, typically for long-context applications, center on simplifying attention s…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

GPU-based Private Information Retrieval for On-Device Machine Learning Inference

Maximilian Lam, Jeff Johnson, Wenjie Xiong +11

On-device machine learning (ML) inference can enable the use of private user data on user devices without revealing them to remote servers. However, a pure on-device solution to pr…