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Shijie Cao

9 accepted papers

2026

DynaSchedBench: Calibrated Dynamic Scheduling Benchmarks and Observability Paradox in LLM-based Scheduling Agents

ICML 2026poster

Progress in neural combinatorial optimization for Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (DFJSP) is currently hindered by a methodological tension: static benchmarks encourage benchmark overfitting, while uncalibrated generators obscure algorithmic difficulty with stochastic noise. To resolve …

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2026

Harmonizing Real-Time Constraints and Long-Horizon Reasoning: An Asynchronous Agentic Framework for Dynamic Scheduling

IJCAI 2026

The Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (DFJSP) necessitates a trade-off between instant reaction to stochastic disturbances and global optimization of production goals. Conventional priority rules are insufficiently flexible to handle complex disruptions, whereas learning-based approaches

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2026

Less Is More: Fast and Accurate Reasoning with Cross-Head Unified Sparse Attention

ICML 2026poster

Large reasoning models achieve strong performance through test-time scaling, but this incurs substantial computational overhead due to long decoding from short prompts. While sparse attention can reduce latency and memory usage, existing methods often degrade reasoning accuracy because selection err…

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2026

Sparse Attention Adaptation for Long Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

We introduce SeerAttention-R, a sparse attention framework specifically tailored for the long decoding of reasoning models. Extended from SeerAttention, SeerAttention-R retains the design of learning attention sparsity through a self-distilled gating mechanism, while removing query pooling to accomm…

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2025

Bitnet.cpp: Efficient Edge Inference for Ternary LLMs

ACL 2025long

The advent of 1-bit large language models (LLMs), led by BitNet b1.58, has spurred interest in ternary LLMs. Despite this, research and practical applications focusing on efficient edge inference for ternary LLMs remain scarce. To bridge this gap, we introduce Bitnet.cpp, an inference system optimiz…

2025

SeerAttention: Self-distilled Attention Gating for Efficient Long-context Prefilling

NeurIPS 2025poster

Attention is the cornerstone of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet its quadratic complexity hinders efficiency and scalability, especially for long-context processing. A promising approach is to leverage sparsity in attention. However, existing sparsity-based solutions predominantly rely on p…

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2024

AFPQ: Asymmetric Floating Point Quantization for LLMs

ACL 2024findings

Large language models (LLMs) show great performance in various tasks, but face deployment challenges from limited memory capacity and bandwidth.Low-bit weight quantization can save memory and accelerate inference.Although floating-point (FP) formats show good performance in LLM quantization, they te…

2024

BitDistiller: Unleashing the Potential of Sub-4-Bit LLMs via Self-Distillation

ACL 2024long

The upscaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has yielded impressive advances in natural language processing, yet it also poses significant deployment challenges. Weight quantization has emerged as a widely embraced solution to reduce memory and computational demands. This paper introduces BitDistil…

2019

SeerNet: Predicting Convolutional Neural Network Feature-Map Sparsity Through Low-Bit Quantization

CVPR 2019poster

In this paper we present a novel and general method to accelerate convolutional neural network (CNN) inference by taking advantage of feature map sparsity. We experimentally demonstrate that a highly quantized version of the original network is sufficient in predicting the output sparsity accurately…

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