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Fei Tan

13 accepted papers

2026

MathSmith: Towards Extremely Hard Mathematical Reasoning by Forging Synthetic Problems with a Reinforced Policy

AAAI 2026technical

Large language models have achieved substantial progress in mathematical reasoning, yet their advancement is limited by the scarcity of high-quality, high-difficulty training data. Existing synthesis methods largely rely on transforming human-written templates, limiting both diversity and scalabilit

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Consultant Decoding: Yet Another Synergistic Mechanism

ACL 2025finding

The synergistic mechanism based on Speculative Decoding (SD) has garnered considerable attention as a simple yet effective approach for accelerating the inference of large language models (LLMs). Nonetheless, the high rejection rates require repeated LLMs calls to validate draft tokens, undermining…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

ReSURE: Regularizing Supervision Unreliability for Multi-turn Dialogue Fine-tuning

EMNLP 2025

Fine-tuning multi-turn dialogue systems requires high-quality supervision but often suffers from degraded performance when exposed to low-quality data. Supervision errors in early turns can propagate across subsequent turns, undermining coherence and response quality. Existing methods typically addr

2025

daDPO: Distribution-Aware DPO for Distilling Conversational Abilities

ACL 2025finding

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various applications, but their conversational abilities decline sharply as model size decreases, presenting a barrier to their deployment in resource-constrained environments. Knowledge distillation (KD) with Direct Prefe…

2024

Balancing Speciality and Versatility: a Coarse to Fine Framework for Supervised Fine-tuning Large Language Model

ACL 2024findings

Aligned Large Language Models (LLMs) showcase remarkable versatility, capable of handling diverse real-world tasks. Meanwhile, aligned LLMs are also expected to exhibit speciality, excelling in specific applications. However, fine-tuning with extra data, a common practice to gain speciality, often l…

2024

CMR Scaling Law: Predicting Critical Mixture Ratios for Continual Pre-training of Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in diverse tasks but often underperform in specialized fields due to limited domain-specific or proprietary corpus. Continual pre-training (CPT) enhances LLM capabilities by imbuing new domain-specific or proprietary knowledge while replaying general corpus to prev…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Reward Difference Optimization For Sample Reweighting In Offline RLHF

EMNLP 2024finding

With the wide deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs), aligning LLMs with human values becomes increasingly important. Although Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) proves effective, it is complicated and highly resource-intensive. As such, offline RLHF has been introduced as an alte…

2024

SDA: Simple Discrete Augmentation for Contrastive Sentence Representation Learning

COLING 2024main

Contrastive learning has recently achieved compelling performance in unsupervised sentence representation. As an essential element, data augmentation protocols, however, have not been well explored. The pioneering work SimCSE resorting to a simple dropout mechanism (viewed as continuous augmentation…

2023

Deeply Coupled Cross-Modal Prompt Learning

ACL 2023findings

Recent advancements in multimodal foundation models (e.g., CLIP) have excelled in zero-shot generalization. Prompt tuning involved in the knowledge transfer from foundation models to downstream tasks has gained significant attention recently. Existing prompt-tuning methods in cross-modal learning, h…

2023

PUnifiedNER: A Prompting-Based Unified NER System for Diverse Datasets

AAAI 2023technical

Much of named entity recognition (NER) research focuses on developing dataset-specific models based on data from the domain of interest, and a limited set of related entity types. This is frustrating as each new dataset requires a new model to be trained and stored. In this work, we present a ``vers…

2023

What Makes Pre-trained Language Models Better Zero-shot Learners?

ACL 2023long

Current methods for prompt learning in zero-shot scenarios widely rely on a development set with sufficient human-annotated data to select the best-performing prompt template a posteriori. This is not ideal because in a real-world zero-shot scenario of practical relevance, no labelled data is availa…