3 papers
cs.CL2026
Decoding Text Spans for Efficient and Accurate Named-Entity Recognition
Andrea Maracani, Savas Ozkan, Junyi Zhu +2
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key component in industrial information extraction pipelines, where systems must satisfy strict latency and throughput constraints in addition t…
cs.LG2026
Diffusion Alignment Beyond KL: Variance Minimisation as Effective Policy Optimiser
Zijing Ou, Jacob Si, Junyi Zhu +4
Diffusion alignment adapts pretrained diffusion models to sample from reward-tilted distributions along the denoising trajectory. This process naturally admits a Sequential Monte C…
cs.CL2025
Multi-Task Pre-Finetuning of Lightweight Transformer Encoders for Text Classification and NER
Junyi Zhu, Savas Ozkan, Andrea Maracani +3
Deploying natural language processing (NLP) models on mobile platforms requires models that can adapt across diverse applications while remaining efficient in memory and computatio…