14 papers
Adapt-Pruner: Adaptive Structural Pruning for Efficient Small Language Model Training
Rui Pan, Shivanshu Shekhar, Boyao Wang +5
Small language models (SLMs) have attracted considerable attention from both academia and industry due to their broad range of applications in edge devices. To obtain SLMs with str…
Generalizable Geometric Image Caption Synthesis
Yue Xin, Wenyuan Wang, Rui Pan +5
Multimodal large language models have various practical applications that demand strong reasoning abilities. Despite recent advancements, these models still struggle to solve compl…
VL-GenRM: Enhancing Vision-Language Verification via Vision Experts and Iterative Training
Jipeng Zhang, Kehao Miao, Renjie Pi +4
Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) with verifiable rewards has advanced large language models but remains underexplored for Vision-Language (VL) models. The Vision-Language Reward Mod…
ScaleBiO: Scalable Bilevel Optimization for LLM Data Reweighting
Rui Pan, Dylan Zhang, Hanning Zhang +6
Bilevel optimization has shown its utility across various machine learning settings, yet most algorithms in practice require second-order information, making it challenging to scal…
LISA: Layerwise Importance Sampling for Memory-Efficient Large Language Model Fine-Tuning
Rui Pan, Xiang Liu, Shizhe Diao +4
The machine learning community has witnessed impressive advancements since large language models (LLMs) first appeared. Yet, their massive memory consumption has become a significa…
Bridge-Coder: Unlocking LLMs' Potential to Overcome Language Gaps in Low-Resource Code
Jipeng Zhang, Jianshu Zhang, Yuanzhe Li +5
Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong proficiency in generating code for high-resource programming languages (HRPLs) like Python but struggle significantly with low-resou…