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most citedVisRAG: Vision-based Retrieval-augmented Generation on Multi-modality Documents

6 citations · 18 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

math.PR2026

Supercritical sharpness for Ising double random currents

Trishen S. Gunaratnam, Christoforos Panagiotis, Romain Panis +1

We show that the percolation model induced by the double random current representation of the Ising model on , with , satisfies local uniqueness of the macros…

cs.CL2026

CheckRLM: Effective Knowledge-Thought Coherence Checking in Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning

Dingling Xu, Ruobing Wang, Qingfei Zhao +8

Reasoning Language Models (RLMs) have significantly improved performance on complex tasks by extending the reasoning chain. However, these chains are prone to containing factual er…

cs.CL2026

Student-in-the-Loop Chain-of-Thought Distillation via Generation-Time Selection

Chaoqun He, Yingfa Chen, Chaojun Xiao +2

Large reasoning models achieve strong performance on complex tasks through long chain-of-thought (CoT) trajectories, but directly transferring such reasoning processes to smaller m…

cs.CV2026

Cheers: Decoupling Patch Details from Semantic Representations Enables Unified Multimodal Comprehension and Generation

Yichen Zhang, Da Peng, Zonghao Guo +19

A recent cutting-edge topic in multimodal modeling is to unify visual comprehension and generation within a single model. However, the two tasks demand mismatched decoding regimes…

cs.CL2026

Hybrid Linear Attention Done Right: Efficient Distillation and Effective Architectures for Extremely Long Contexts

Yingfa Chen, Zhen Leng Thai, Zihan Zhou +6

Hybrid Transformer architectures, which combine softmax attention blocks and recurrent neural networks (RNNs), have shown a desirable performance-throughput tradeoff for long-conte…

cs.CV2026

APB-V: Accelerating Long-Video Understanding via Sequence-Parallelism-aware Approximate Attention

Yuxiang Huang, Mingye Li, Xu Han +7

The efficiency of long-video inference remains a critical bottleneck, mainly due to the dense computation in the prefill stage of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). Existing methods e…

cs.CL2025

NOSA: Native and Offloadable Sparse Attention

Yuxiang Huang, Pengjie Wang, Jicheng Han +9

Decoding throughput improvements from larger inference batches are limited by GPU memory, which is largely consumed by the key-value (KV) cache. Prior training-free KV cache offloa…

cs.CL2025

StateX: Enhancing RNN Recall via Post-training State Expansion

Xingyu Shen, Yingfa Chen, Zhen Leng Thai +3

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs), such as linear attention and state-space models, have gained popularity due to their constant per-token complexity when processing long contexts.…

cs.LG2025

BlockFFN: Towards End-Side Acceleration-Friendly Mixture-of-Experts with Chunk-Level Activation Sparsity

Chenyang Song, Weilin Zhao, Xu Han +5

To alleviate the computational burden of large language models (LLMs), architectures with activation sparsity, represented by mixture-of-experts (MoE), have attracted increasing at…

cs.LG2025

AutoTriton: Automatic Triton Programming with Reinforcement Learning in LLMs

Shangzhan Li, Zefan Wang, Ye He +8

Kernel development in deep learning requires optimizing computational units across hardware while balancing memory management, parallelism, and hardware-specific optimizations thro…

cs.CL2025

A*-Thought: Efficient Reasoning via Bidirectional Compression for Low-Resource Settings

Xiaoang Xu, Shuo Wang, Xu Han +6

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve superior performance by extending the thought length. However, a lengthy thinking trajectory leads to reduced efficiency. Most of the existing…

cs.AI2025

AutoReproduce: Automatic AI Experiment Reproduction with Paper Lineage

Xuanle Zhao, Zilin Sang, Yuxuan Li +7

Efficient reproduction of research papers is pivotal to accelerating scientific progress. However, the increasing complexity of proposed methods often renders reproduction a labor-…

cs.CL2025

FR-Spec: Accelerating Large-Vocabulary Language Models via Frequency-Ranked Speculative Sampling

Weilin Zhao, Tengyu Pan, Xu Han +9

Speculative sampling has emerged as an important technique for accelerating the auto-regressive generation process of large language models (LLMs) by utilizing a draft-then-verify…

cs.CL2025

Cost-Optimal Grouped-Query Attention for Long-Context Modeling

Yingfa Chen, Yutong Wu, Chenyang Song +5

Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) is a widely adopted strategy for reducing the computational cost of attention layers in large language models (LLMs). However, current GQA configurati…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

TritonBench: Benchmarking Large Language Model Capabilities for Generating Triton Operators

Jianling Li, Shangzhan Li, Zhenye Gao +9

Triton, a high-level Python-like language designed for building efficient GPU kernels, is widely adopted in deep learning frameworks due to its portability, flexibility, and access…

cs.LG2025

APB: Accelerating Distributed Long-Context Inference by Passing Compressed Context Blocks across GPUs

Yuxiang Huang, Mingye Li, Xu Han +7

While long-context inference is crucial for advancing large language model (LLM) applications, its prefill speed remains a significant bottleneck. Current approaches, including seq…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Process Reinforcement through Implicit Rewards

Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Zefan Wang +22

Dense process rewards have proven a more effective alternative to the sparse outcome-level rewards in the inference-time scaling of large language models (LLMs), particularly in ta…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

KBAlign: Efficient Self Adaptation on Specific Knowledge Bases

Zheni Zeng, Yuxuan Chen, Shi Yu +7

Although retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) remains essential for knowledge-based question answering (KBQA), current paradigms face critical challenges under specific domains. Ex…

cs.LG2024

Sparsing Law: Towards Large Language Models with Greater Activation Sparsity

Yuqi Luo, Chenyang Song, Xu Han +7

Activation sparsity denotes the existence of substantial weakly-contributed elements within activation outputs that can be eliminated, benefiting many important applications concer…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

LLMMapReduce: Simplified Long-Sequence Processing using Large Language Models

Zihan Zhou, Chong Li, Xinyi Chen +11

Enlarging the context window of large language models (LLMs) has become a crucial research area, particularly for applications involving extremely long texts. In this work, we prop…

cs.IR2024★ 6 cited

VisRAG: Vision-based Retrieval-augmented Generation on Multi-modality Documents

Shi Yu, Chaoyue Tang, Bokai Xu +8

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is an effective technique that enables large language models (LLMs) to utilize external knowledge sources for generation. However, current RAG…

cs.CL2024

DeepNote: Note-Centric Deep Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Ruobing Wang, Qingfei Zhao, Yukun Yan +9

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates factual errors and hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) for question-answering (QA) by incorporating external knowledge. Ho…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Stuffed Mamba: Oversized States Lead to the Inability to Forget

Yingfa Chen, Xinrong Zhang, Shengding Hu +3

Recent advancements in recurrent architectures, such as Mamba and RWKV, have showcased strong language capabilities. Unlike transformer-based models, these architectures encode all…

cs.CL2024

Locret: Enhancing Eviction in Long-Context LLM Inference with Trained Retaining Heads on Consumer-Grade Devices

Yuxiang Huang, Binhang Yuan, Xu Han +2

Scaling the input context length of a large language model (LLM) incurs a significant increase in computation cost and memory footprint to maintain the attention key-value (KV) cac…