Papers by Xuefeng Jiang
ZoFia: Zero-Shot Fake News Detection with Entity-Guided Retrieval and Multi-LLM Interaction (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are limited by knowledge cutoff and can generate factual hallucinations when handling time-sensitive news. |
| Approach: | They propose a two-stage zero-shot fake news detection framework that uses a hierarchical salience and saliency-calibrated minimum margin of relevance algorithm to extract core entities accurately. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing zero-shot baselines and even most few-shot methods on two public datasets. |
HeteroCache: A Dynamic Retrieval Approach to Heterogeneous KV Cache Compression for Long-Context LLM Inference (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing static compression methods suffer from coarse-grained caching and high I/O overhead. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free dynamic compression framework that uses a sparse attention mechanism to categorize attention heads based on stability and similarity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on long-context benchmarks and accelerates decoding by up to 3 compared to the original model with a 224K context. |
HD-PiSSA: High-Rank Distributed Orthogonal Adaptation (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for large language models constrain update to low-rank subspaces, limiting expressiveness and performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a distributed PEFT approach that initializes adapters across different devices and aggregates their delta updates collectively on (W) Empirically, HD-PiSSA provides 16 higher effective updated ranks than data-parallel LoRA or PiSSA when fine-tuning on 8 GPUs with the same per-device adapter rank. |
| Outcome: | Empirically, HD-PiSSA outperforms LoRA and PiSSA in math, code, and multi-task learning tasks. |