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Chun-Nam Yu

4 accepted papers

2025

Does Self-Attention Need Separate Weights in Transformers?

NAACL 2025industry

Self-attention has revolutionized natural language processing by capturing long-range dependencies and improving context understanding. However, it comes with high computational costs and struggles with sequential data’s inherent directionality. This paper investigates and presents a simplified appr…

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2025

Predicting Through Generation: Why Generation Is Better for Prediction

ACL 2025long

This paper argues that generating output tokens is more effective than using pooled representations for prediction tasks because token-level generation retains more mutual information. Since LLMs are trained on massive text corpora using next-token prediction, generation aligns naturally with their…

2025

RoCoFT: Efficient Finetuning of Large Language Models with Row-Column Updates

ACL 2025long

We propose Row-Column Fine-Tuning(RoCoFT), a parameter-efficient fine-tuning method for large language models based on updating only a few rows and columns of the weight matrices in transformers. Through extensive experiments with medium-sized LMs like RoBERTa and DeBERTa, and larger LMs like Bloom-…