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Juntao Tan

10 accepted papers

2026

Entropy-Based Block Pruning for Efficient Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

As large language models continue to scale, their growing computational and storage demands pose significant challenges for real-world deployment. In this work, we investigate redundancy within Transformer-based models and propose an entropy-based pruning strategy to enhance efficiency while maintai…

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2026

Position: Vector Prompt Interfaces Should Be Exposed to Enable Customization of Large Language Models

ICML 2026poster

As large language models (LLMs) transition from research prototypes to real-world systems, customization has emerged as a central bottleneck. While text prompts can already customize LLM behavior, we argue that text-only prompting does not constitute a suitable control interface for scalable, stable…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

ActionStudio: A Lightweight Framework for Data and Training of Large Action Models

EMNLP 2025

Large Action models are essential for enabling autonomous agents to perform complex tasks. However, training such models remains challenging due to the diversity of agent environments and the complexity of noisy agentic data. Existing infrastructure offers limited support for scalable, agent-specifi

2025

LATTE: Learning to Think with Vision Specialists

EMNLP 2025

While open-source vision-language models perform well on simple question-answering, they still struggle with complex questions that require both perceptual and reasoning capabilities. We propose LATTE, a family of vision-language models that have LeArned to Think wiTh vision spEcialists. By offloadi

2025

PersonaBench: Evaluating AI Models on Understanding Personal Information through Accessing (Synthetic) Private User Data

ACL 2025finding

Personalization is essential for AI assistants, especially in private AI settings where models are expected to interpret users’ personal data (e.g., conversations, app usage) to understand their background, preferences, and social context. However, due to privacy concerns, existing academic research…

Cited by 23SourcePDFScholar
2025

xLAM: A Family of Large Action Models to Empower AI Agent Systems

NAACL 2025long

Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have attracted significant research interest. However, the open-source community faces many challenges in developing specialized models for agent tasks, driven by the scarcity of high-quality agent datasets and the absence of standard protoco…

2024

APIGen: Automated PIpeline for Generating Verifiable and Diverse Function-Calling Datasets

NeurIPS 2024poster

The advancement of function-calling agent models requires diverse, reliable, and high-quality datasets. This paper presents APIGen, an automated data generation pipeline designed to synthesize high-quality datasets for function-calling applications. We leverage APIGen and collect 3,673 executable AP…

2023

VIP5: Towards Multimodal Foundation Models for Recommendation

EMNLP 2023long findings

Computer Vision (CV), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Recommender Systems (RecSys) are three prominent AI applications that have traditionally developed independently, resulting in disparate modeling and engineering methodologies. This has impeded the ability for these fields to directly bene…

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2021

A Self-supervised Learning System for Object Detection in Videos Using Random Walks on Graphs

ICRA 2021poster

This paper presents a new self-supervised system for learning to detect novel and previously unseen categories of objects in images. The proposed system receives as input several unlabeled videos of scenes containing various objects. The frames of the videos are segmented into objects using depth in…

Cited by 2SourcecodeScholar