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Meimingwei Li

4 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Temperature: Hyperfitting as a Late-Stage Geometric Expansion

ICML 2026poster

Recent work has identified a counterintuitive phenomenon termed “Hyperfitting", where fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) to near-zero training loss on small datasets surprisingly enhances open-ended generation quality and mitigates repetition in greedy decoding. While effective, the underlying…

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2025

Decoding Decoded: Understanding Hyperparameter Effects in Open-Ended Text Generation

COLING 2025main

Decoding strategies for generative large language models (LLMs) are a critical but often underexplored aspect of text generation tasks. Guided by specific hyperparameters, these strategies aim to transform the raw probability distributions produced by language models into coherent, fluent text. In t…

2025

GUARD: Glocal Uncertainty-Aware Robust Decoding for Effective and Efficient Open-Ended Text Generation

EMNLP 2025

Open-ended text generation faces a critical challenge: balancing coherence with diversity in LLM outputs. While contrastive search-based decoding strategies have emerged to address this trade-off, their practical utility is often limited by hyperparameter dependence and high computational costs. We

2024

Adaptive Contrastive Search: Uncertainty-Guided Decoding for Open-Ended Text Generation

EMNLP 2024finding

Despite the remarkable capabilities of large language models, generating high-quality text remains a challenging task. Numerous decoding strategies—such as beam search, sampling with temperature, top‐k sampling, nucleus (top‐p) sampling, typical decoding, contrastive decoding, and contrastive search…