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Anhao Zhao

7 accepted papers

2026

ProactiveLLM: Learning Active Interaction for Streaming Large Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Standard Large Language Models (LLMs) operate on a ''read-then-generate'' paradigm, incurring avoidable latency and computational redundancy. Recently, streaming LLMs have attempted to overcome these bottlenecks by allowing input and output to unfold synchronously. However, this introduces a critica…

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2026

StreamingThinker: Large Language Models Can Think While Reading

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in chain of thought (CoT) reasoning. However, the current LLM reasoning paradigm initiates thinking only after the entire input is available, which introduces unnecessary latency and weakens attention to earlier information in dy…

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2026

What Do Visual Tokens Really Encode? Uncovering Sparsity and Redundancy in Multimodal Large Language Models

CVPR 2026

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) project visual tokens into the embedding space of language models, yet the internal structuring and processing of visual semantics remain poorly understood. In this work, we introduce a two-fold analytical framework featuring a novel probing tool, EmbedLens,

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2025

LLM as Effective Streaming Processor: Bridging Streaming-Batch Mismatches with Group Position Encoding

ACL 2025finding

Large Language Models (LLMs) are primarily designed for batch processing. Existing methods for adapting LLMs to streaming rely either on expensive re-encoding or specialized architectures with limited scalability. This work identifies three key mismatches in adapting batch-oriented LLMs to streaming…

2025

SkipGPT: Each Token is One of a Kind

ICML 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance across tasks but incur substantial computational costs due to their deep, multi-layered architectures. Layer pruning has emerged as a strategy to alleviate these inefficiencies, but conventional static pruning methods overlook two critical…

2025

VisiPruner: Decoding Discontinuous Cross-Modal Dynamics for Efficient Multimodal LLMs

EMNLP 2025

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance across vision-language tasks, but suffer from significant computational overhead due to the quadratic growth of attention computations with the number of multimodal tokens. Though efforts have been made to prune tokens in MLLM

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2024

Unveiling In-Context Learning: A Coordinate System to Understand Its Working Mechanism

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable in-context learning (ICL) capabilities. However, the underlying working mechanism of ICL remains poorly understood. Recent research presents two conflicting views on ICL: One emphasizes the impact of similar examples in the demonstrations, stressing th…