3 papers
cs.LG2026
LoOPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation with Looped Teachers
Wei Fan, Qingyue Yang, Chao-Hong Tan +6
On-policy self-distillation improves a model using guidance from the model itself, but it still requires a teacher that provides more useful predictions than the student. Existing…
cs.CL2026
Why Attention Patterns Exist: A Unifying Temporal Perspective Analysis
Qingyue Yang, Jie Wang, Xing Li +6
Attention patterns play a crucial role in both training and inference of large language models (LLMs). Prior works have identified individual patterns such as retrieval heads, sink…
cs.CL2025
AttentionPredictor: Temporal Patterns Matter for KV Cache Compression
Qingyue Yang, Jie Wang, Xing Li +8
With the development of large language models (LLMs), efficient inference through Key-Value (KV) cache compression has attracted considerable attention, especially for long-context…