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5 papers

cs.LG2026

On the Benefits of Weight Normalization for Overparameterized Matrix Sensing

Yudong Wei, Liang Zhang, Bingcong Li +1

While normalization techniques are widely used in deep learning, their theoretical understanding remains relatively limited. In this work, we establish the benefits of (generalized…

cs.LG2026

SALAAD: Sparse And Low-Rank Adaptation via ADMM for Large Language Model Inference

Hao Ma, Melis Ilayda Bal, Liang Zhang +4

Modern large language models are increasingly deployed under compute and memory constraints, making flexible control of model capacity a central challenge. While sparse and low-ran…

cs.CL2026

TLoRA: Task-aware Low Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

Weicheng Lin, Yi Zhang, Jiawei Dang +1

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a widely adopted parameter-efficient fine-tuning method for large language models, with its effectiveness largely influenced by the allocation…

cs.LG2026

ConMeZO: Adaptive Descent-Direction Sampling for Gradient-Free Finetuning of Large Language Models

Lejs Deen Behric, Liang Zhang, Bingcong Li +1

Zeroth-order or derivative-free optimization (MeZO) is an attractive strategy for finetuning large language models (LLMs) because it eliminates the memory overhead of backpropagati…

cs.IR2026

Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Adaptive Test-Time Augmentation for Sequential Recommendation

Xibo Li, Liang Zhang

Test-time augmentation (TTA) has become a promising approach for mitigating data sparsity in sequential recommendation by improving inference accuracy without requiring costly mode…