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most citedWhat Matters in Transformers? Not All Attention is Needed

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18 papers

cs.AI2026

ARC-KV: Amortizing Anchor Search for Reconstruction-Based KV Cache Compaction

Zheyu Shen, Guanhua Wang, Dezhan Tu +5

Long-context large language model inference is bottlenecked by KV caches that grow linearly with sequence length. This burden is especially severe for long, reusable context prefix…

cs.CL2026

Ling and Ring 2.6 Technical Report: Efficient and Instant Agentic Intelligence at Trillion-Parameter Scale

Ang Li, Ben Liu, Bin Han +215

Efficient and scalable agentic intelligence requires models that can deliver both low-latency responses and strong reasoning capabilities while remaining practical to train, serve,…

cs.LG2026

Multi-Token Residual Prediction

Yufeng Xu, Zishuo Bao, Qian Wang +6

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising masked token sequences, offering a tradeoff between parallelism and quality compared to autoregressive model…

cs.CL2026

HiMed: Incentivizing Hindi Reasoning in Medical LLMs

Dingfeng Jiang, Han Yan, Chenze Ma +12

Medical large language models hold promise for reducing healthcare disparities, yet Hindi remains severely underrepresented. While medical LLMs excel in high-resource languages, th…

cs.LG2026

Spectral-Sphere-Constrained Hyper-Connections

Zhaoyi Liu, Haichuan Zhang, Ang Li

Hyper-Connections (HC) extend residual connections into multiple streams, employing residual matrices for cross-stream mixing to enrich model expressivity. However, unconstrained m…

cs.DC2026

MoEless: Efficient MoE LLM Serving with Serverless Experts

Hanfei Yu, Bei Ouyang, Shwai He +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly adopt Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures to scale efficiently under stringent resource constraints. However, MoE's sparse activation c…

cs.CL2026

Demystifying When Pruning Works via Representation Hierarchies

Shwai He, Guoheng Sun, Haichao Zhang +2

Network pruning, which removes less important parameters or architectures, is often expected to improve efficiency while preserving performance. However, this expectation does not…

cs.CV2026

ThinkJEPA: Empowering Latent World Models with Large Vision-Language Reasoning Model

Haichao Zhang, Yijiang Li, Shwai He +5

Recent progress in latent world models (e.g., V-JEPA2) has shown promising capability in forecasting future world states from video observations. Nevertheless, dense prediction fro…

cs.IR2025

Making Large Language Models Efficient Dense Retrievers

Yibin Lei, Shwai He, Ang Li +1

Recent work has shown that directly fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for dense retrieval yields strong performance, but their substantial parameter counts make them computa…

cs.CV2025

Understanding and Harnessing Sparsity in Unified Multimodal Models

Shwai He, Chaorui Deng, Ang Li +1

Large multimodal models have achieved remarkable progress in both understanding and generation. Recent efforts pursue unified multimodal models that integrate heterogeneous compone…

cs.CV2025

Dense Video Understanding with Gated Residual Tokenization

Haichao Zhang, Wenhao Chai, Shwai He +2

High temporal resolution is essential for capturing fine-grained details in video understanding. However, current video large language models (VLLMs) and benchmarks mostly rely on…

cs.LG2025

DualSparse-MoE: Coordinating Tensor/Neuron-Level Sparsity with Expert Partition and Reconstruction

Weilin Cai, Le Qin, Shwai He +3

Mixture of Experts (MoE) has become a mainstream architecture for building Large Language Models (LLMs) by reducing per-token computation while enabling model scaling. It can be vi…

cs.IR2025

Hierarchical Interaction Summarization and Contrastive Prompting for Explainable Recommendations

Yibin Liu, Ang Li, Shijian Li

Explainable recommendations, which use the information of user and item with interaction to generate a explanation for why the user would interact with the item, are crucial for im…

cs.LG2025

Capacity-Aware Inference: Mitigating the Straggler Effect in Mixture of Experts

Shwai He, Weilin Cai, Jiayi Huang +1

The Mixture of Experts (MoE) is an effective architecture for scaling large language models by leveraging sparse expert activation to balance performance and efficiency. However, u…

cs.CL2024

Router-Tuning: A Simple and Effective Approach for Enabling Dynamic-Depth in Transformers

Shwai He, Tao Ge, Guoheng Sun +3

Traditional transformer models often allocate a fixed amount of computational resources to every input token, leading to inefficient and unnecessary computation. To address this, t…

cs.DC2024★ 2 cited

Domino: Eliminating Communication in LLM Training via Generic Tensor Slicing and Overlapping

Guanhua Wang, Chengming Zhang, Zheyu Shen +2

Given the popularity of generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs) often consume hundreds or thousands of GPUs for parallelizing and accelerating the training process. Communicati…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

What Matters in Transformers? Not All Attention is Needed

Shwai He, Guoheng Sun, Zheyu Shen +1

While scaling Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) has demonstrated promising performance across various tasks, it also introduces redundant architectures, posing efficie…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Towards Efficient Mixture of Experts: A Holistic Study of Compression Techniques

Shwai He, Daize Dong, Liang Ding +1

Scaling large language models has driven remarkable advancements across various domains, yet the continual increase in model size presents significant challenges for real-world dep…