Papers by Yu-Ang Lee
STAR: Spectral Truncation and Rescale for Model Merging (2025.naacl-short)
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| Challenge: | Model merging is an efficient way of obtaining a multi-task model from several pretrained models without further fine-tuning. |
| Approach: | They propose a model merging technique that aims at mitigating "merging conflicts" by truncating small components in the respective spectral spaces and then an automatic parameter rescaling scheme to retain the nuclear norm of the original matrix. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models on flan-T5 by 4.2% and is robust to hyperparamater choice. |
Compound AI Systems Optimization: A Survey of Methods, Challenges, and Future Directions (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and AI systems have led to a paradigm shift in the design and optimization of complex workflows. |
| Approach: | They propose a systematic review of recent progress in optimizing compound AI systems . they formalize the notion of compound AI system optimization and classify existing methods along several key dimensions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods outperform existing methods in the field of compound AI and highlight open research challenges and future directions. |