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Zihan Liu

43 accepted papers

2026

ASTRAEA: A Token-wise Acceleration Framework for Video Diffusion Transformers

ICLR 2026poster

Video diffusion transformers (vDiTs) have made tremendous progress in text-to-video generation, but their high computational demands pose a major challenge for practical deployment. While existing studies propose acceleration methods to reduce workload at various granularities, they often rely on he…

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2026

AceReason-Nemotron 1.1: Advancing Math and Code Reasoning through SFT and RL Synergy

ICLR 2026poster

In this work, we investigate the synergy between supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) in developing strong reasoning models. We begin by curating the SFT training data through two scaling strategies: increasing the number of collected prompts and the number of generated respo…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Grouter: Decoupling Routing from Representation for Accelerated MoE Training

ICML 2026poster

Traditional Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) training typically proceeds without any structural priors, effectively requiring the model to simultaneously train expert weights while searching for an optimal routing policy within a vast combinatorial space. This entanglement often leads to sluggish convergenc…

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2026

MetroGS: Efficient and Stable Reconstruction of Geometrically Accurate High-Fidelity Large-Scale Scenes

CVPR 2026

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting and its derivatives have achieved significant breakthroughs in large-scale scene reconstruction. However, how to efficiently and stably achieve high-quality geometric fidelity remains a core challenge. To address this issue, we introduce MetroGS, a novel Gaussian Spla

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2026

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards Implicitly Incentivizes Correct Reasoning in Base LLMs

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advancements in long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, particularly through the Group Relative Policy Optimization algorithm used by DeepSeek-R1, have led to significant interest in the potential of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for Large Language Models (LLMs). While…

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2026

ResMAS: Resilience Optimization in LLM-based Multi-agent Systems

AAAI 2026technical

Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Systems (LLM-based MAS), where multiple LLM agents collaborate to solve complex tasks, have shown impressive performance in many areas. However, MAS are typically distributed across different devices or environments, making them vulnerable to perturbations such

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2026

STAR-Bench: Probing Deep Spatio-Temporal Reasoning as Audio 4D Intelligence

ICLR 2026poster

Despite rapid progress in Multi-modal Large Language Models and Large Audio-Language Models, existing audio benchmarks largely test semantics that can be recovered from text captions, masking deficits in fine-grained perceptual reasoning. We formalize audio 4D intelligence that is defined as reasoni…

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2026

Seele: A Unified Acceleration Framework for Real-Time Gaussian Splatting on Mobile Devices

CVPR 2026

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a crucial rendering technique for many real-time applications. How- ever, the limited hardware resources on today's mobile platforms hinder these applications, as they struggle to achieve real-time performance. In this paper, we propose SEELE, a general framew

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

UALM: Unified Audio Language Model for Understanding, Generation and Reasoning

ICLR 2026oral

Recent advances in the audio language modeling (ALM) domain tackle audio understanding and text-to-audio generation as separate tasks. Very few studies attempt to unify these tasks -- an essential step toward advanced multimodal reasoning. This paper introduces Unified Audio Language Model (UALM), w…

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2025

AceMath: Advancing Frontier Math Reasoning with Post-Training and Reward Modeling

ACL 2025finding

In this paper, we introduce AceMath, a suite of frontier math models that excel in solving complex math problems, along with highly effective reward models capable of evaluating generated solutions and reliably identifying the correct ones. To develop the instruction-tuned math models, we propose a…

2025

AceReason-Nemotron: Advancing Math and Code Reasoning through Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Despite recent progress in large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) for reasoning, the training recipe for building high-performing reasoning models remains elusive. Key implementation details of frontier models, such as DeepSeek-R1, including data curation strategies and RL training recipe, are ofte…

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2025

Activation Control for Efficiently Eliciting Long Chain-of-thought Ability of Language Models

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Despite the remarkable reasoning performance, eliciting the long chain-of-thought(CoT) ability in large language models(LLMs) typically requires costly reinforcement learning or supervised fine-tuning on high-quality distilled data. We investigate the internal mechanisms behind this capability and s…

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2025

ChatQA 2: Bridging the Gap to Proprietary LLMs in Long Context and RAG Capabilities

ICLR 2025poster

In this work, we introduce ChatQA 2, an Llama 3.0-based model with a 128K context window, designed to bridge the gap between open-source LLMs and leading proprietary models (e.g., GPT-4-Turbo-2024-04-09) in long context un- derstanding and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities. These two…

2025

ClusterFusion: Expanding Operator Fusion Scope for LLM Inference via Cluster-Level Collective Primitive

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large language model (LLM) decoding suffers from high latency due to fragmented execution across operators and heavy reliance on off-chip memory for data exchange and reduction. This execution model limits opportunities for fusion and incurs significant memory traffic and kernel launch overhead. Wh…

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2025

DualGuard: A Parameter Space Transformation Approach for Bidirectional Defense in Split-Based LLM Fine-Tuning

ACL 2025long

Integrating split learning with large language model fine-tuning (LLM-FT) enables secure collaboration between a trusted local client and a well-equipped remote server, but it is vulnerable to data reconstruction attacks (DRAs) that exploit transmitted activations and gradients. Current defense meth…

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2025

Learning to Predict the Future from Monocular Vision for Efficient Human-Aware Navigation

ICRA 2025

Human-aware navigation (HAN) aims to build autonomous agents that robustly and naturally navigate in human-centered environments. Due to the complex and dynamic nature of this task, existing approaches typically rely on sophisticated pipelines that separately process perception and decision-making t

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2025

Learning-Based Passive Fault-Tolerant Control of a Quadrotor with Rotor Failure

IROS 2025

This paper proposes a learning-based passive fault-tolerant control (PFTC) method for quadrotor capable of handling arbitrary single-rotor failures, including conditions ranging from fault-free to complete rotor failure, without requiring any rotor fault information or controller switching. Unlike e

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2025

SongComposer: A Large Language Model for Lyric and Melody Generation in Song Composition

ACL 2025long

Creating lyrics and melodies for the vocal track in a symbolic format, known as song composition, demands expert musical knowledge of melody, an advanced understanding of lyrics, and precise alignment between them. Despite achievements in sub-tasks such as lyric generation, lyric-to-melody, and melo…

2025

SongGen: A Single Stage Auto-regressive Transformer for Text-to-Song Generation

ICML 2025poster

Text-to-song generation, the task of creating vocals and accompaniment from textual inputs, poses significant challenges due to domain complexity and data scarcity. Existing approaches often employ multi-stage generation procedures, leading to cumbersome training and inference pipelines, as well as…

2025

Yggdrasil: Bridging Dynamic Speculation and Static Runtime for Latency-Optimal Tree-Based LLM Decoding

NeurIPS 2025poster

Speculative decoding improves LLM inference by generating and verifying multiple tokens in parallel, but existing systems suffer from suboptimal performance due to a mismatch between dynamic speculation and static runtime assumptions. We present Yggdrasil, a co-designed system that enables latency-o…

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2024

An NCDE-based Framework for Universal Representation Learning of Time Series

IJCAI 2024poster

Exploiting self-supervised learning (SSL) to extract the universal representations of time series could not only capture the natural properties of time series but also offer huge help to the downstream tasks. Nevertheless, existing time series representation learning (TSRL) methods face challenges i…

2024

ChatQA: Surpassing GPT-4 on Conversational QA and RAG

NeurIPS 2024poster

In this work, we introduce ChatQA, a suite of models that outperform GPT-4 on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and conversational question answering (QA). To enhance generation, we propose a two-stage instruction tuning method that significantly boosts the performance of RAG. For effective ret…

Cited by 35SourcePDFScholar
2024

Protein 3D Graph Structure Learning for Robust Structure-Based Protein Property Prediction

AAAI 2024technical

Protein structure-based property prediction has emerged as a promising approach for various biological tasks, such as protein function prediction and sub-cellular location estimation. The existing methods highly rely on experimental protein structure data and fail in scenarios where these data are u…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2024

RankRAG: Unifying Context Ranking with Retrieval-Augmented Generation in LLMs

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) typically utilize the top-k contexts from a retriever in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). In this work, we propose a novel method called RankRAG, which instruction-tunes a single LLM for both context ranking and answer generation in RAG. In particular, the instruc…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2024

Retrieval meets Long Context Large Language Models

ICLR 2024poster

Extending the context window of large language models (LLMs) is getting popular recently, while the solution of augmenting LLMs with retrieval has existed for years. The natural questions are: i) Retrieval-augmentation versus long context window, which one is better for downstream tasks? ii) Can bot…

Cited by 171SourcePDFScholar
2023

RHO: Reducing Hallucination in Open-domain Dialogues with Knowledge Grounding

ACL 2023findings

Dialogue systems can leverage large pre-trained language models and knowledge to generate fluent and informative responses. However, these models are still prone to produce hallucinated responses not supported by the input source, which greatly hinders their application. The heterogeneity between ex…

2023

Re-ViLM: Retrieval-Augmented Visual Language Model for Zero and Few-Shot Image Captioning

EMNLP 2023long findings

Augmenting pretrained language models (LMs) with a vision encoder~(e.g., Flamingo) has obtained state-of-the-art results in image-to-text generation. However, these models store all the knowledge within their parameters, thus often requiring enormous model parameters to model the abundant visual con…

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2023

SUT: Active Defects Probing for Transcompiler Models

EMNLP 2023short main

Automatic Program translation has enormous application value and hence has been attracting significant interest from AI researchers. However, we observe that current program translation models still make elementary syntax errors, particularly, when the target language does not have syntax elements i…

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2023

Shall We Pretrain Autoregressive Language Models with Retrieval? A Comprehensive Study

EMNLP 2023long main

Large decoder-only language models (LMs) can be largely improved in terms of perplexity by retrieval (e.g., RETRO), but its impact on text generation quality and downstream task accuracy is unclear. Thus, it is still an open question: shall we pretrain large autoregressive LMs with retrieval? To ans…

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2022

AutoMix: Unveiling the Power of Mixup for Stronger Classifiers

ECCV 2022poster

"Data mixing augmentation have proved to be effective for improving the generalization ability of deep neural networks. While early methods mix samples by hand-crafted policies (\textit{e.g.}, linear interpolation), recent methods utilize saliency information to match the mixed samples and labels vi…

2022

Exploiting Sentiment and Common Sense for Zero-shot Stance Detection

COLING 2022main

The stance detection task aims to classify the stance toward given documents and topics. Since the topics can be implicit in documents and unseen in training data for zero-shot settings, we propose to boost the transferability of the stance detection model by using sentiment and commonsense knowledg…

2022

Multi-Stage Prompting for Knowledgeable Dialogue Generation

ACL 2022findings

Existing knowledge-grounded dialogue systems typically use finetuned versions of a pretrained language model (LM) and large-scale knowledge bases. These models typically fail to generalize on topics outside of the knowledge base, and require maintaining separate potentially large checkpoints each ti…

2022

Towards Reasonable Budget Allocation in Untargeted Graph Structure Attacks via Gradient Debias

NeurIPS 2022accept

It has become cognitive inertia to employ cross-entropy loss function in classification related tasks. In the untargeted attacks on graph structure, the gradients derived from the attack objective are the attacker's basis for evaluating a perturbation scheme. Previous methods use negative cross-entr…

2021

AdaptSum: Towards Low-Resource Domain Adaptation for Abstractive Summarization

NAACL 2021long

State-of-the-art abstractive summarization models generally rely on extensive labeled data, which lowers their generalization ability on domains where such data are not available. In this paper, we present a study of domain adaptation for the abstractive summarization task across six diverse target…

2021

CrossNER: Evaluating Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition

AAAI 2021technical

Cross-domain named entity recognition (NER) models are able to cope with the scarcity issue of NER samples in target domains. However, most of the existing NER benchmarks lack domain-specialized entity types or do not focus on a certain domain, leading to a less effective cross-domain evaluation. To…

2021

Multimodal End-to-End Sparse Model for Emotion Recognition

NAACL 2021long

Existing works in multimodal affective computing tasks, such as emotion recognition and personality recognition, generally adopt a two-phase pipeline by first extracting feature representations for each single modality with hand crafted algorithms, and then performing end-to-end learning with extrac…

2021

On the Importance of Word Order Information in Cross-lingual Sequence Labeling

AAAI 2021technical

Cross-lingual models trained on source language tasks possess the capability to directly transfer to target languages. However, since word order variances generally exist in different languages, cross-lingual models that overfit into the word order of the source language could have sub-optimal perfo…

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2021

Powering Comparative Classification with Sentiment Analysis via Domain Adaptive Knowledge Transfer

EMNLP 2021main

We study Comparative Preference Classification (CPC) which aims at predicting whether a preference comparison exists between two entities in a given sentence and, if so, which entity is preferred over the other. High-quality CPC models can significantly benefit applications such as comparative quest…

2021

Vision Guided Generative Pre-trained Language Models for Multimodal Abstractive Summarization

EMNLP 2021main

Multimodal abstractive summarization (MAS) models that summarize videos (vision modality) and their corresponding transcripts (text modality) are able to extract the essential information from massive multimodal data on the Internet. Recently, large-scale generative pre-trained language models (GPLM…

2020

Lightweight and Efficient End-To-End Speech Recognition Using Low-Rank Transformer

ICASSP 2020accepted

Highly performing deep neural networks come at the cost of computational complexity that limits their practicality for deployment on portable devices. We propose the low-rank transformer (LRT), a memory-efficient and fast neural architecture that significantly reduces the parameters and boosts the s…

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