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cs.CL2026

On the Predictive Power of Representation Dispersion in Language Models

Yanhong Li, Ming Li, Karen Livescu +1

We show that a language model's ability to predict text is tightly linked to the breadth of its embedding space: models that spread their contextual representations more widely ten…

cs.CL2025

Distilling to Hybrid Attention Models via KL-Guided Layer Selection

Yanhong Li, Songlin Yang, Shawn Tan +4

Distilling pretrained softmax attention Transformers into more efficient hybrid architectures that interleave softmax and linear attention layers is a promising approach for improv…

cs.CL2025

OKBench: Democratizing LLM Evaluation with Fully Automated, On-Demand, Open Knowledge Benchmarking

Yanhong Li, Tianyang Xu, Kenan Tang +3

Knowledge-intensive question answering is central to large language models (LLMs) and is typically assessed using static benchmarks derived from sources like Wikipedia and textbook…

cs.CL2025

Text or Pixels? It Takes Half: On the Token Efficiency of Visual Text Inputs in Multimodal LLMs

Yanhong Li, Zixuan Lan, Jiawei Zhou

Large language models (LLMs) and their multimodal variants can now process visual inputs, including images of text. This raises an intriguing question: can we compress textual inpu…

cs.CL2025

Context-Efficient Retrieval with Factual Decomposition

Yanhong Li, David Yunis, David McAllester +1

There has recently been considerable interest in incorporating information retrieval into large language models (LLMs). Retrieval from a dynamically expanding external corpus of te…

cs.CL2024

Chunk-Distilled Language Modeling

Yanhong Li, Karen Livescu, Jiawei Zhou

We introduce Chunk-Distilled Language Modeling (CD-LM), an approach to text generation that addresses two challenges in current large language models (LLMs): the inefficiency of to…