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most citedYour Mixture-of-Experts LLM Is Secretly an Embedding Model For Free

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cs.LG2026

Skip a Layer or Loop It? Learning Program-of-Layers in LLMs

Ziyue Li, Yang Li, Tianyi Zhou

Large language models (LLMs) perform inference by following a fixed depth and order, non-recurrent execution of all layers. We reveal the wide existence of training-free, flexible,…

cs.LG2025

Routing Manifold Alignment Improves Generalization of Mixture-of-Experts LLMs

Zhongyang Li, Ziyue Li, Tianyi Zhou

Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) have been widely adopted in recent large language models since it can efficiently scale up the model capability without increasing the inference cos…

cs.LG2025

Skip a Layer or Loop it? Test-Time Depth Adaptation of Pretrained LLMs

Ziyue Li, Yang Li, Tianyi Zhou

Can a pretrained neural network adapt its architecture to different inputs without any finetuning? Do we need all layers for simple tasks, and are they adequate for challenging tas…

cs.LG2025

Grokking in LLM Pretraining? Monitor Memorization-to-Generalization without Test

Ziyue Li, Chenrui Fan, Tianyi Zhou

This paper presents the first study of grokking in practical LLM pretraining. Specifically, we investigate when an LLM memorizes the training data, when its generalization on downs…

cs.AI2025

Missing Premise exacerbates Overthinking: Are Reasoning Models losing Critical Thinking Skill?

Chenrui Fan, Ming Li, Lichao Sun +1

We find that the response length of reasoning LLMs, whether trained by reinforcement learning or supervised learning, drastically increases for ill-posed questions with missing pre…

cs.LG2025

C3PO: Critical-Layer, Core-Expert, Collaborative Pathway Optimization for Test-Time Expert Re-Mixing

Zhongyang Li, Ziyue Li, Tianyi Zhou

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Large Language Models (LLMs) suffer from severely sub-optimal expert pathways-our study reveals that naive expert selection learned from pretraining leaves…

cs.LG2025

How Instruction and Reasoning Data shape Post-Training: Data Quality through the Lens of Layer-wise Gradients

Ming Li, Yanhong Li, Ziyue Li +1

As the post-training of large language models (LLMs) advances from instruction-following to complex reasoning tasks, understanding how different data affect finetuning dynamics rem…

cs.CV2025

ColorBench: Can VLMs See and Understand the Colorful World? A Comprehensive Benchmark for Color Perception, Reasoning, and Robustness

Yijun Liang, Ming Li, Chenrui Fan +7

Color plays an important role in human perception and usually provides critical clues in visual reasoning. However, it is unclear whether and how vision-language models (VLMs) can…

cs.LG2025

R2-T2: Re-Routing in Test-Time for Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts

Zhongyang Li, Ziyue Li, Tianyi Zhou

In large multimodal models (LMMs), the perception of non-language modalities (e.g., visual representations) is usually not on par with the large language models (LLMs)' powerful re…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Your Mixture-of-Experts LLM Is Secretly an Embedding Model For Free

Ziyue Li, Tianyi Zhou

While large language models (LLMs) excel on generation tasks, their decoder-only architecture often limits their potential as embedding models if no further representation finetuni…