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20162025
most citedDistilling Task-Specific Knowledge from BERT into Simple Neural Networks

335 citations · 526 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CL2025

Drawing Conclusions from Draws: Rethinking Preference Semantics in Arena-Style LLM Evaluation

Raphael Tang, Crystina Zhang, Wenyan Li +3

In arena-style evaluation of large language models (LLMs), two LLMs respond to a user query, and the user chooses the winning response or deems the "battle" a draw, resulting in an…

cs.CL2025

Benford's Curse: Tracing Digit Bias to Numerical Hallucination in LLMs

Jiandong Shao, Yao Lu, Jianfei Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive performance on complex reasoning tasks, yet they frequently fail on basic numerical problems, producing incorrect outputs. Inspired…

cs.CL2025

Multilingual Language Model Pretraining using Machine-translated Data

Jiayi Wang, Yao Lu, Maurice Weber +5

High-resource languages such as English, enables the pretraining of high-quality large language models (LLMs). The same can not be said for most other languages as LLMs still under…

cs.CL2024

Multilingual Pretraining Using a Large Corpus Machine-Translated from a Single Source Language

Jiayi Wang, Yao Lu, Maurice Weber +4

English, as a very high-resource language, enables the pretraining of high-quality large language models (LLMs). The same cannot be said for most other languages, as leading LLMs s…

cs.LG2024

Jet Expansions of Residual Computation

Yihong Chen, Xiangxiang Xu, Yao Lu +2

We introduce a framework for expanding residual computational graphs using jets, operators that generalize truncated Taylor series. Our method provides a systematic approach to dis…

cs.CL2023

Strings from the Library of Babel: Random Sampling as a Strong Baseline for Prompt Optimisation

Yao Lu, Jiayi Wang, Raphael Tang +2

Recent prompt optimisation approaches use the generative nature of language models to produce prompts -- even rivaling the performance of human-curated prompts. In this paper, we d…