collaborators

5 papers

cs.CL2026

AFMRL: Attribute-Enhanced Fine-Grained Multi-Modal Representation Learning in E-commerce

Biao Zhang, Lixin Chen, Bin Zhang +3

Multimodal representation is crucial for E-commerce tasks such as identical product retrieval. Large representation models (e.g., VLM2Vec) demonstrate strong multimodal understandi…

cs.CL2025

T5Gemma 2: Seeing, Reading, and Understanding Longer

Biao Zhang, Paul Suganthan, Gaël Liu +17

We introduce T5Gemma 2, the next generation of the T5Gemma family of lightweight open encoder-decoder models, featuring strong multilingual, multimodal and long-context capabilitie…

cs.CL2025

Encoder-Decoder or Decoder-Only? Revisiting Encoder-Decoder Large Language Model

Biao Zhang, Yong Cheng, Siamak Shakeri +3

Recent large language model (LLM) research has undergone an architectural shift from encoder-decoder modeling to nowadays the dominant decoder-only modeling. This rapid transition,…

cs.CL2025

SMEC: Rethinking Matryoshka Representation Learning for Retrieval Embedding Compression

Biao Zhang, Lixin Chen, Tong Liu +1

Large language models (LLMs) generate high-dimensional embeddings that capture rich semantic and syntactic information. However, high-dimensional embeddings exacerbate computationa…

cs.CL2025

Encoder-Decoder Gemma: Improving the Quality-Efficiency Trade-Off via Adaptation

Biao Zhang, Fedor Moiseev, Joshua Ainslie +7

While decoder-only large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive results, encoder-decoder models are still widely adopted in real-world applications for their inference effici…