3 papers
cs.CL2026
SENSE: Semantic Embedding Navigation with Soft-gated Evaluation for Retrieval-based Speculative Decoding
Shaowen Chen, Zhicheng Liao, Hongwei Wang
Speculative Decoding (SD) accelerates Large Language Model (LLM) inference by employing a lightweight draft model to propose candidate tokens, which are verified in parallel by the…
cs.CV2026
Beyond Cosine Similarity: Magnitude-Aware CLIP for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment
Zhicheng Liao, Dongxu Wu, Zhenshan Shi +5
Recent efforts have repurposed the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) model for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) by measuring the cosine similarity betwee…
cs.CV2025
Plug In, Grade Right: Psychology-Inspired AGIQA
Zhicheng Liao, Baoliang Chen, Hanwei Zhu +3
Existing AGIQA models typically estimate image quality by measuring and aggregating the similarities between image embeddings and text embeddings derived from multi-grade quality d…