Papers by Yehui Tang
Multi-Granularity Semantic Revision for Large Language Model Distillation (2026.acl-long)
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Xiaoyu Liu, Yun Zhang, Wei Li, Simiao Li, Xudong Huang, Hanting Chen, Yehui Tang, Jie Hu, Zhiwei Xiong, Yunhe Wang
| Challenge: | Existing methods for generating large language models rely on student-generated outputs, which introduce generation errors and misguide the distillation process. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-granularity semantic revision method for LLM distillation that corrects errors using teacher-generated tokens and re-generates the sequence to minimize errors. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces errors and misguides distillation on student models and improves consistency between teacher and student outputs. |
DenseSSM: State Space Models with Dense Hidden Connection for Efficient Large Language Models (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) face excessive computational and memory requirements due to the commonly used Transformer architecture. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to enhance the flow of hidden information between layers in large language models by selectively integrating shallow-layer hidden states into deeper layers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method maintains parallelizability and inference efficiency of SSMs while significantly boosting performance on public benchmarks. |
EMS-SD: Efficient Multi-sample Speculative Decoding for Accelerating Large Language Models (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Speculative decoding is a key technique for enhancing the inference speed of Large Language Models. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that adds padding tokens to ensure that the number of new tokens remains consistent across samples. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can handle the issue of inconsistent prediction tokens without adding padding tokens. |