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most citedRephrase and Respond: Let Large Language Models Ask Better Questions for Themselves

12 citations · 32 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.SD2026

Building Enterprise Realtime Voice Agents from Scratch: A Technical Tutorial

Jielin Qiu, Zixiang Chen, Liangwei Yang +11

We present a technical tutorial for building enterprise-grade realtime voice agents from first principles. While end-to-end speech-to-speech models may ultimately provide the best…

cs.LG2025

Group Representational Position Encoding

Yifan Zhang, Zixiang Chen, Yifeng Liu +6

We present GRAPE (Group Representational Position Encoding), a unified framework for positional encoding based on group actions. GRAPE unifies two families of mechanisms: (i) multi…

cs.LG2025

Global Convergence and Rich Feature Learning in -Layer Infinite-Width Neural Networks under P Parametrization

Zixiang Chen, Greg Yang, Qingyue Zhao +1

Despite deep neural networks' powerful representation learning capabilities, theoretical understanding of how networks can simultaneously achieve meaningful feature learning and gl…

cs.LG2024

Convergence of Score-Based Discrete Diffusion Models: A Discrete-Time Analysis

Zikun Zhang, Zixiang Chen, Quanquan Gu

Diffusion models have achieved great success in generating high-dimensional samples across various applications. While the theoretical guarantees for continuous-state diffusion mod…

cs.LG2024

Matching the Statistical Query Lower Bound for -Sparse Parity Problems with Sign Stochastic Gradient Descent

Yiwen Kou, Zixiang Chen, Quanquan Gu +1

The -sparse parity problem is a classical problem in computational complexity and algorithmic theory, serving as a key benchmark for understanding computational classes. In this…

cs.LG2024

Guided Discrete Diffusion for Electronic Health Record Generation

Jun Han, Zixiang Chen, Yongqian Li +4

Electronic health records (EHRs) are a pivotal data source that enables numerous applications in computational medicine, e.g., disease progression prediction, clinical trial design…

cs.LG2024

Self-Play Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models for Text-to-Image Generation

Huizhuo Yuan, Zixiang Chen, Kaixuan Ji +1

Fine-tuning Diffusion Models remains an underexplored frontier in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), especially when compared with the remarkable progress made in fine-tun…

cs.LG2024★ 11 cited

Self-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models

Zixiang Chen, Yihe Deng, Huizhuo Yuan +2

Harnessing the power of human-annotated data through Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) is pivotal for advancing Large Language Models (LLMs). In this paper, we delve into the prospect o…

cs.LG2023

Fast Sampling via Discrete Non-Markov Diffusion Models with Predetermined Transition Time

Zixiang Chen, Huizhuo Yuan, Yongqian Li +3

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality data generation. Despite their success in discrete spaces, such as text generation tasks, the acceleration…

cs.CL2023★ 12 cited

Rephrase and Respond: Let Large Language Models Ask Better Questions for Themselves

Yihe Deng, Weitong Zhang, Zixiang Chen +1

Misunderstandings arise not only in interpersonal communication but also between humans and Large Language Models (LLMs). Such discrepancies can make LLMs interpret seemingly unamb…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent for Two-layer ReLU and Leaky ReLU Networks on Nearly-orthogonal Data

Yiwen Kou, Zixiang Chen, Quanquan Gu

The implicit bias towards solutions with favorable properties is believed to be a key reason why neural networks trained by gradient-based optimization can generalize well. While t…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Why Does Sharpness-Aware Minimization Generalize Better Than SGD?

Zixiang Chen, Junkai Zhang, Yiwen Kou +3

The challenge of overfitting, in which the model memorizes the training data and fails to generalize to test data, has become increasingly significant in the training of large neur…

stat.ML2023★ 1 cited

How Many Pretraining Tasks Are Needed for In-Context Learning of Linear Regression?

Jingfeng Wu, Difan Zou, Zixiang Chen +3

Transformers pretrained on diverse tasks exhibit remarkable in-context learning (ICL) capabilities, enabling them to solve unseen tasks solely based on input contexts without adjus…

cs.LG2023

Understanding Transferable Representation Learning and Zero-shot Transfer in CLIP

Zixiang Chen, Yihe Deng, Yuanzhi Li +1

Multi-modal learning has become increasingly popular due to its ability to leverage information from different data sources (e.g., text and images) to improve the model performance…