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Ting Hua

13 accepted papers

2026

Adaptive Testing for LLM Evaluation: A Psychometric Alternative to Static Benchmarks

ICML 2026spotlight

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) typically requires thousands of benchmark items, making the process expensive, slow, and increasingly impractical at scale. Existing evaluation protocols rely on average accuracy over fixed item sets, treating all items as equally informative despite substanti…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

ToMoE: Converting Dense Large Language Models to Mixture-of-Experts through Dynamic Structural Pruning

ICML 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities but face deployment challenges due to their high computational demands. Traditional pruning methods reduce these costs by permanently removing parameters, which inevitably leads to performance degradation. To mitigate this issue, we pr…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

AgentDrug: Utilizing Large Language Models in an Agentic Workflow for Zero-Shot Molecular Editing

EMNLP 2025

Molecular editing—modifying a given molecule to improve desired properties—is a fundamental task in drug discovery. While LLMs hold the potential to solve this task using natural language to drive the editing, straightforward prompting achieves limited accuracy. In this work, we propose AgentDrug, a

2024

Adaptive Rank Selections for Low-Rank Approximation of Language Models

NAACL 2024long

Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) or its weighted variants has significantly progressed in compressing language models. Previous works assume the same importance for all operations and assign the same number of ranks for different layers in a language model. However, such a uniform rank selection i…

2024

DISP-LLM: Dimension-Independent Structural Pruning for Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various natural language processing tasks, including language modeling, understanding, and generation. However, the increased memory and computational costs associated with these models pose significant challenges for deployment on res…

2023

Dynamic Low-rank Estimation for Transformer-based Language Models

EMNLP 2023long findings

Matrix decomposition methods, such as Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and its importance-weighted variants, have been widely used for compressing Transformer-based language models. While importance-weighted decomposition methods alleviate the strong assumption of equal importance for each paramet…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

TrojLLM: A Black-box Trojan Prompt Attack on Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2023poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) are progressively being utilized as machine learning services and interface tools for various applications. However, the security implications of LLMs, particularly in relation to adversarial and Trojan attacks, remain insufficiently examined. In this paper, we propose T…

2022

Language model compression with weighted low-rank factorization

ICLR 2022poster

Factorizing a large matrix into small matrices is a popular strategy for model compression. Singular value decomposition (SVD) plays a vital role in this compression strategy, approximating a learned matrix with fewer parameters. However, SVD minimizes the squared error toward reconstructing the ori…

Cited by 113SourcePDFScholar
2022

Numerical Optimizations for Weighted Low-rank Estimation on Language Models

EMNLP 2022main

Singular value decomposition (SVD) is one of the most popular compression methods that approximate a target matrix with smaller matrices. However, standard SVD treats the parameters within the matrix with equal importance, which is a simple but unrealistic assumption. The parameters of a trained neu…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2021

Automatic Mixed-Precision Quantization Search of BERT

IJCAI 2021poster

Pre-trained language models such as BERT have shown remarkable effectiveness in various natural language processing tasks. However, these models usually contain millions of parameters, which prevent them from the practical deployment on resource-constrained devices. Knowledge distillation, Weight pr…

2021

Hyperparameter-free Continuous Learning for Domain Classification in Natural Language Understanding

NAACL 2021long

Domain classification is the fundamental task in natural language understanding (NLU), which often requires fast accommodation to new emerging domains. This constraint makes it impossible to retrain all previous domains, even if they are accessible to the new model. Most existing continual learning…