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Mingkuan Zhao

4 accepted papers

2026

Making Every Head Count: Sparse Attention Without the Speed-Performance Trade-off

AAAI 2026technical

The design of Large Language Models (LLMs) has long been hampered by a fundamental conflict within their core attention mechanism: its remarkable expressivity is built upon a computational complexity of O(H·N²) that grows quadratically with the context size (N) and linearly with the number of heads

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2026

Mosaic Pruning: A Hierarchical Framework for Generalizable Pruning of Mixture-of-Experts Models

AAAI 2026technical

Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) architectures have enabled a new frontier in scaling Large Language Models (LLMs), offering superior performance by activating only a fraction of their total parameters during inference. However, their practical deployment is severely hampered by substantial static m

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2026

RaGEP: Rank-aware Geometric Expert Pruning for Mixture-of-Experts Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures scale model capacity efficiently but suffer from massive static parameter footprints, creating significant deployment burdens on memory-constrained hardware. Existing post-training pruning methods often rely on scalar statistics, ignoring the representat…

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2026

Regret Pre-training: Bridging Prior and Posterior Views for Enhanced Knowledge Grounding

ICML 2026poster

Causal language models factorize sequence probabilities using only preceding context, leaving future information unexploited during training despite its availability in the training data. This paper introduces Regret Pre-training, a self-supervised framework grounded in the Learning Using Privileged…

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