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most citedTowards the Law of Capacity Gap in Distilling Language Models

3 citations · 3 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2026

PruneTIR: Inference-Time Tool Call Pruning for Effective yet Efficient Tool-Integrated Reasoning

Luan Zhang, Dandan Song, Zhijing Wu +8

Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) enables large language models (LLMs) to enhance their capabilities by interacting with external tools, such as code interpreters (CI). Most recent s…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Position Bias: Shifting Context Compression from Position-Driven to Semantic-Driven

Jiwei Tang, Zhijing Huang, Xinyu Zhang +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across diverse tasks. However, their deployment in long-context scenarios faces high computational overhead a…

cs.CL2025

ZigzagAttention: Efficient Long-Context Inference with Exclusive Retrieval and Streaming Heads

Zhuorui Liu, Chen Zhang, Dawei Song

With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), handling long context has become one of the vital abilities in LLMs. Such long-context ability is accompanied by difficu…

cs.CL2025

Bridging External and Parametric Knowledge: Mitigating Hallucination of LLMs with Shared-Private Semantic Synergy in Dual-Stream Knowledge

Yi Sui, Chaozhuo Li, Chen Zhang +2

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) aims to mitigate the hallucination of Large Language Models (LLMs) by retrieving and incorporating relevant external knowledge into the generat…

cs.CL2025

WindowKV: Task-Adaptive Group-Wise KV Cache Window Selection for Efficient LLM Inference

Youhui Zuo, Sibo Wei, Chen Zhang +3

With the advancements in long-context inference capabilities of large language models (LLMs), the KV cache has become one of the foundational components. However, its substantial G…

cs.CL2024

Beyond the Speculative Game: A Survey of Speculative Execution in Large Language Models

Chen Zhang, Zhuorui Liu, Dawei Song

With the increasingly giant scales of (causal) large language models (LLMs), the inference efficiency comes as one of the core concerns along the improved performance. In contrast…

cs.IR2023

On Elastic Language Models

Chen Zhang, Benyou Wang, Dawei Song

Large-scale pretrained language models have achieved compelling performance in a wide range of language understanding and information retrieval tasks. Knowledge distillation offers…

cs.CL2023

Sparse Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings

Ruize An, Chen Zhang, Dawei Song

Recently, SimCSE has shown the feasibility of contrastive learning in training sentence embeddings and illustrates its expressiveness in spanning an aligned and uniform embedding s…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Towards the Law of Capacity Gap in Distilling Language Models

Chen Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Dawei Song +3

Language model (LM) distillation aims at distilling the knowledge in a large teacher LM to a small student one. As a critical issue facing LM distillation, a superior student often…