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most citedQDyLoRA: Quantized Dynamic Low-Rank Adaptation for Efficient Large Language Model Tuning

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cs.LG2025

SCOUT: Toward Sub-Quadratic Attention via Segment Compression for Optimized Utility in Transformers

Aref Jafari, Yuhe Fan, Benyamin Jamialahmadi +3

Transformers have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of sequence modeling tasks, but their quadratic attention complexity limits scalability to long sequences. Lin…

cs.LG2025

DTRNet: Dynamic Token Routing Network to Reduce Quadratic Costs in Transformers

Aman Sharma, Saeed Najafi, Parsa Farinneya +6

Transformers achieve state-of-the-art results across many tasks, but their uniform application of quadratic self-attention to every token at every layer makes them computationally…

cs.CL2025

Balcony: A Lightweight Approach to Dynamic Inference of Generative Language Models

Benyamin Jamialahmadi, Parsa Kavehzadeh, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh +5

Deploying large language models (LLMs) in real-world applications is often hindered by strict computational and latency constraints. While dynamic inference offers the flexibility…

cs.CL2025

ReGLA: Refining Gated Linear Attention

Peng Lu, Ivan Kobyzev, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh +2

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have set themselves apart with their exceptional performance in complex language modelling tasks. However, these models are also…

cs.LG2025

ZETA: Leveraging Z-order Curves for Efficient Top-k Attention

Qiuhao Zeng, Jerry Huang, Peng Lu +4

Over recent years, the Transformer has become a fundamental building block for sequence modeling architectures. Yet at its core is the use of self-attention, whose memory and compu…

cs.CL2024

Batch-Max: Higher LLM Throughput using Larger Batch Sizes and KV Cache Compression

Michael R. Metel, Boxing Chen, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Several works have developed eviction policies to remove key-value (KV) pairs from the KV cache for more efficient inference. The focus has been on compressing the KV cache after t…

cs.CL2024

Do Robot Snakes Dream like Electric Sheep? Investigating the Effects of Architectural Inductive Biases on Hallucination

Jerry Huang, Prasanna Parthasarathi, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh +2

The growth in prominence of large language models (LLMs) in everyday life can be largely attributed to their generative abilities, yet some of this is also owed to the risks and co…

cs.CL2024

Draft on the Fly: Adaptive Self-Speculative Decoding using Cosine Similarity

Michael R. Metel, Peng Lu, Boxing Chen +2

We present a simple on the fly method for faster inference of large language models. Unlike other (self-)speculative decoding techniques, our method does not require fine-tuning or…

cs.CL2024

EchoAtt: Attend, Copy, then Adjust for More Efficient Large Language Models

Hossein Rajabzadeh, Aref Jafari, Aman Sharma +5

Large Language Models (LLMs), with their increasing depth and number of parameters, have demonstrated outstanding performance across a variety of natural language processing tasks.…

cs.CL2024

S2D: Sorted Speculative Decoding For More Efficient Deployment of Nested Large Language Models

Parsa Kavehzadeh, Mohammadreza Pourreza, Mojtaba Valipour +5

Deployment of autoregressive large language models (LLMs) is costly, and as these models increase in size, the associated costs will become even more considerable. Consequently, di…

cs.CL2024

EWEK-QA: Enhanced Web and Efficient Knowledge Graph Retrieval for Citation-based Question Answering Systems

Mohammad Dehghan, Mohammad Ali Alomrani, Sunyam Bagga +12

The emerging citation-based QA systems are gaining more attention especially in generative AI search applications. The importance of extracted knowledge provided to these systems i…

cs.CL2024

OTTAWA: Optimal TransporT Adaptive Word Aligner for Hallucination and Omission Translation Errors Detection

Chenyang Huang, Abbas Ghaddar, Ivan Kobyzev +3

Recently, there has been considerable attention on detecting hallucinations and omissions in Machine Translation (MT) systems. The two dominant approaches to tackle this task invol…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

CHIQ: Contextual History Enhancement for Improving Query Rewriting in Conversational Search

Fengran Mo, Abbas Ghaddar, Kelong Mao +4

In this paper, we study how open-source large language models (LLMs) can be effectively deployed for improving query rewriting in conversational search, especially for ambiguous qu…

cs.CL2024

CHARP: Conversation History AwaReness Probing for Knowledge-grounded Dialogue Systems

Abbas Ghaddar, David Alfonso-Hermelo, Philippe Langlais +3

In this work, we dive deep into one of the popular knowledge-grounded dialogue benchmarks that focus on faithfulness, FaithDial. We show that a significant portion of the FaithDial…

eess.AS2024

An Efficient End-to-End Approach to Noise Invariant Speech Features via Multi-Task Learning

Heitor R. Guimarães, Arthur Pimentel, Anderson R. Avila +3

Self-supervised speech representation learning enables the extraction of meaningful features from raw waveforms. These features can then be efficiently used across multiple downstr…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

QDyLoRA: Quantized Dynamic Low-Rank Adaptation for Efficient Large Language Model Tuning

Hossein Rajabzadeh, Mojtaba Valipour, Tianshu Zhu +5

Finetuning large language models requires huge GPU memory, restricting the choice to acquire Larger models. While the quantized version of the Low-Rank Adaptation technique, named…

cs.CL2024

On the importance of Data Scale in Pretraining Arabic Language Models

Abbas Ghaddar, Philippe Langlais, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh +1

Pretraining monolingual language models have been proven to be vital for performance in Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive st…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

"Knowing When You Don't Know": A Multilingual Relevance Assessment Dataset for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Nandan Thakur, Luiz Bonifacio, Xinyu Zhang +8

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounds Large Language Model (LLM) output by leveraging external knowledge sources to reduce factual hallucinations. However, prior work lacks…

cs.CL2023

Sorted LLaMA: Unlocking the Potential of Intermediate Layers of Large Language Models for Dynamic Inference

Parsa Kavehzadeh, Mojtaba Valipour, Marzieh Tahaei +3

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP) by excelling at understanding and generating human-like text. However, their widespread deploymen…

cs.LG2023

SortedNet: A Scalable and Generalized Framework for Training Modular Deep Neural Networks

Mojtaba Valipour, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Hossein Rajabzadeh +4

Deep neural networks (DNNs) must cater to a variety of users with different performance needs and budgets, leading to the costly practice of training, storing, and maintaining nume…