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Yu-Yang Qian

5 accepted papers

2026

When Drafts Evolve: Speculative Decoding Meets Online Learning

ICML 2026poster

Speculative decoding has emerged as a widely adopted paradigm for accelerating large language model inference, where a lightweight draft model rapidly generates candidate tokens that are then verified in parallel by a larger target model. However, due to limited model capacity, drafts often struggle…

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2026

d3LLM: Ultra-Fast Diffusion LLM using Pseudo-Trajectory Distillation

ICML 2026poster

Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) offer capabilities beyond those of autoregressive (AR) LLMs, such as parallel decoding and random-order generation. However, realizing these benefits in practice is non-trivial, as dLLMs inherently face an *accuracy-parallelism trade-off*. Despite increasing i…

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2025

TreeLoRA: Efficient Continual Learning via Layer-Wise LoRAs Guided by a Hierarchical Gradient-Similarity Tree

ICML 2025poster

Many real-world applications collect data in a streaming environment, where learning tasks are encountered sequentially. This necessitates *continual learning* (CL) to update models online, enabling adaptation to new tasks while preserving past knowledge to prevent catastrophic forgetting. Nowadays,…

2024

Efficient Non-stationary Online Learning by Wavelets with Applications to Online Distribution Shift Adaptation

ICML 2024poster

Dynamic regret minimization offers a principled way for non-stationary online learning, where the algorithm's performance is evaluated against changing comparators. Prevailing methods often employ a two-layer online ensemble, consisting of a group of base learners with different configurations and a…

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