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Songming Zhang

8 accepted papers

2025

AlignDistil: Token-Level Language Model Alignment as Adaptive Policy Distillation

ACL 2025long

In modern large language models (LLMs), LLM alignment is of crucial importance and is typically achieved through methods such as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and direct preference optimization (DPO). However, in most existing methods for LLM alignment, all tokens in the response…

2025

CM-Align: Consistency-based Multilingual Alignment for Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Current large language models (LLMs) generally show a significant performance gap in alignment between English and other languages.To bridge this gap, existing research typically leverages the model’s responses in English as a reference to select the best/worst responses in other languages, which ar

2025

Less, but Better: Efficient Multilingual Expansion for LLMs via Layer-wise Mixture-of-Experts

ACL 2025long

Continually expanding new languages for existing large language models (LLMs) is a promising yet challenging approach to building powerful multilingual LLMs.The biggest challenge is to make the model continuously learn new languages while preserving the proficient ability of old languages.To achieve…

2025

Multilingual Knowledge Editing with Language-Agnostic Factual Neurons

COLING 2025main

Multilingual knowledge editing (MKE) aims to simultaneously update factual knowledge across multiple languages within large language models (LLMs). Previous research indicates that the same knowledge across different languages within LLMs exhibits a degree of shareability. However, most existing MKE…

2024

Dual-Space Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

Knowledge distillation (KD) is known as a promising solution to compress large language models (LLMs) via transferring their knowledge to smaller models. During this process, white-box KD methods usually minimize the distance between the output distributions of the two models so that more knowledge…

2023

A Quality-based Syntactic Template Retriever for Syntactically-Controlled Paraphrase Generation

EMNLP 2023long main

Existing syntactically-controlled paraphrase generation (SPG) models perform promisingly with human-annotated or well-chosen syntactic templates. However, the difficulty of obtaining such templates actually hinders the practical application of SPG models. For one thing, the prohibitive cost makes it…

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2023

Towards Understanding and Improving Knowledge Distillation for Neural Machine Translation

ACL 2023long

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a promising technique for model compression in neural machine translation. However, where the knowledge hides in KD is still not clear, which may hinder the development of KD. In this work, we first unravel this mystery from an empirical perspective and show that the k…

2022

Conditional Bilingual Mutual Information Based Adaptive Training for Neural Machine Translation

ACL 2022long

Token-level adaptive training approaches can alleviate the token imbalance problem and thus improve neural machine translation, through re-weighting the losses of different target tokens based on specific statistical metrics (e.g., token frequency or mutual information). Given that standard translat…