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Lin Qu

6 accepted papers

2026

Factored Causal Representation Learning for Robust Reward Modeling in RLHF

ICML 2026poster

A reliable reward model is essential for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences through reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). However, standard reward models are susceptible to spurious features that are not causally related to human labels. This can lead to *rewar…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

MIST: Moment-Aligned Invariant Stability Transform for Robust Flow Matching

ICML 2026poster

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a cornerstone of flow-matching models, significantly enhancing visual quality and prompt adherence. However, high guidance scales inherently violate the optimal transport dynamics, leading to visual artifacts and mode collapse. In this paper, we investigate the mech…

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2026

RT-Lynx: Putting the GEMM Sparsity In a Right Way for Diffusion Models

ICML 2026poster

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) achieve strong performance in image generation but incur substantial inference costs. While prior work has reduced this cost via quantization and distillation, semi-structured sparsity—which can nearly halve FLOPs—remains underexplored. A key reason is that most existing…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

D-CPT Law: Domain-specific Continual Pre-Training Scaling Law for Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Continual Pre-Training (CPT) on Large Language Models (LLMs) has been widely used to expand the model’s fundamental understanding of specific downstream domains (e.g., math and code). For the CPT on domain-specific LLMs, one important question is how to choose the optimal mixture ratio between the g…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2024

DDK: Distilling Domain Knowledge for Efficient Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Despite the advanced intelligence abilities of large language models (LLMs) in various applications, they still face significant computational and storage demands. Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as an effective strategy to improve the performance of a smaller LLM (i.e., the student model)…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2022

GBA: A Tuning-free Approach to Switch between Synchronous and Asynchronous Training for Recommendation Models

NeurIPS 2022accept

High-concurrency asynchronous training upon parameter server (PS) architecture and high-performance synchronous training upon all-reduce (AR) architecture are the most commonly deployed distributed training modes for recommendation models. Although synchronous AR training is designed to have higher…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar