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Zhengqi Gao

11 accepted papers

2025

KVCOMM: Online Cross-context KV-cache Communication for Efficient LLM-based Multi-agent Systems

NeurIPS 2025poster

Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems are increasingly adopted for complex language processing tasks that require communication and coordination among agents. However, these systems often suffer substantial overhead from repeated reprocessing of overlapping contexts across agents. In typica…

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2025

REG: Rectified Gradient Guidance for Conditional Diffusion Models

ICML 2025poster

Guidance techniques are simple yet effective for improving conditional generation in diffusion models. Albeit their empirical success, the practical implementation of guidance diverges significantly from its theoretical motivation. In this paper, we reconcile this discrepancy by replacing the scaled…

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2025

RL Tango: Reinforcing Generator and Verifier Together for Language Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a compelling approach for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), where an LLM generator serves as a policy guided by a verifier (reward model). However, current RL post-training methods for LLMs typically use verifier…

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2024

Improving Neural ODE Training with Temporal Adaptive Batch Normalization

NeurIPS 2024poster

Neural ordinary differential equations (Neural ODEs) is a family of continuous-depth neural networks where the evolution of hidden states is governed by learnable temporal derivatives. We identify a significant limitation in applying traditional Batch Normalization (BN) to Neural ODEs, due to a fund…

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2023

Nominality Score Conditioned Time Series Anomaly Detection by Point/Sequential Reconstruction

NeurIPS 2023poster

Time series anomaly detection is challenging due to the complexity and variety of patterns that can occur. One major difficulty arises from modeling time-dependent relationships to find contextual anomalies while maintaining detection accuracy for point anomalies. In this paper, we propose a framewo…

2023

The Modality Focusing Hypothesis: Towards Understanding Crossmodal Knowledge Distillation

ICLR 2023top-5%

Crossmodal knowledge distillation (KD) extends traditional knowledge distillation to the area of multimodal learning and demonstrates great success in various applications. To achieve knowledge transfer across modalities, a pretrained network from one modality is adopted as the teacher to provide su…

2022

A Simple Data Mixing Prior for Improving Self-Supervised Learning

CVPR 2022poster

Data mixing (e.g., Mixup, Cutmix, ResizeMix) is an essential component for advancing recognition models. In this paper, we focus on studying its effectiveness in the self-supervised setting. By noticing the mixed images that share the same source images are intrinsically related to each other, we he…

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2022

Co-Advise: Cross Inductive Bias Distillation

CVPR 2022poster

The inductive bias of vision transformers is more relaxed that cannot work well with insufficient data. Knowledge distillation is thus introduced to assist the training of transformers. Unlike previous works, where merely heavy convolution-based teachers are provided, in this paper, we delve into th…

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2022

Learning from Multiple Annotator Noisy Labels via Sample-Wise Label Fusion

ECCV 2022poster

"Data lies at the core of modern deep learning. The impressive performance of supervised learning is built upon a base of massive accurately labeled data. However, in some real-world applications, accurate labeling might not be viable; instead, multiple noisy labels (instead of one accurate label) a…

2022

NeurOLight: A Physics-Agnostic Neural Operator Enabling Parametric Photonic Device Simulation

NeurIPS 2022accept

Optical computing has become emerging technology in next-generation efficient artificial intelligence (AI) due to its ultra-high speed and efficiency. Electromagnetic field simulation is critical to the design, optimization, and validation of photonic devices and circuits. However, costly numerical…