Papers by Xuanfan Ni
ReFreeKV: Towards Threshold-Free KV Cache Compression (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Towards the KV cache efficiency, we propose a new objective that lifts the threshold constraints for robust KV compression. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that adjusts KV cache budgets while preserving full-cache performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can reduce memory consumption while preserving full-cache performance. |
Multi-Source Multi-Type Knowledge Exploration and Exploitation for Dialogue Generation (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing models focus on identifying specific types of dialogue knowledge and utilizing corresponding datasets for training, but lack generalization capabilities and computational resources. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that explores multi-source multi-type knowledge from LLMs by leveraging diverse datasets and exploits it for response generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework exploits multi-source multi-type knowledge from LLMs to generate coherent, informative, and fluent responses. |
Marco-Bench-MIF: On Multilingual Instruction-Following Capability of Large Language (2025.acl-long)
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Bo Zeng, Chenyang Lyu, Sinuo Liu, Mingyan Zeng, Minghao Wu, Xuanfan Ni, Tianqi Shi, Yu Zhao, Yefeng Liu, Chenyu Zhu, Ruizhe Li, Jiahui Geng, Qing Li, Yu Tong, Longyue Wang, Weihua Luo, Kaifu Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing datasets for instruction-following are monolingual and centered on English . existing data are unable to capture linguistic and cultural subtle differences . |
| Approach: | They propose an extension of IFEval to a localized multilingual version called Marco-Bench-MIF . their benchmark addresses linguistic constraints and cultural references via translation and verification . |
| Outcome: | The proposed extension of IFEval to a localized multilingual version covers 30 languages with varying levels of localization. |
Marco-o1 v2: Towards Widening The Distillation Bottleneck for Reasoning Models (2025.acl-long)
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Huifeng Yin, Yu Zhao, Minghao Wu, Xuanfan Ni, Bo Zeng, Huaiyu.wh Huaiyu.wh, Tianqi Shi, Liangying Shao, Chenyang Lyu, Longyue Wang, Weihua Luo, Kaifu Zhang
| Challenge: | Recent efforts to distill large reasoning models into smaller lightweight models have shown competitive performances. |
| Approach: | They propose to distill long Chain-of-Thought data to improve SFT and RL methods by constructing data from scratch using Monte Carlo Tree Search. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly improves reasoning performance on various benchmarks such as math (GSM8K, MATH, AIME). |