Papers by Zaifu Zhan
The Efficiency vs. Accuracy Trade-off: Optimizing RAG-Enhanced LLM Recommender Systems Using Multi-Head Early Exit (2025.acl-long)
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Huixue Zhou, Hengrui Gu, Zaifu Zhan, Xi Liu, Kaixiong Zhou, Yongkang Xiao, Mingfu Liang, Srinivas Prasad Govindan, Piyush Chawla, Jiyan Yang, Xiangfei Meng, Huayu Li, Buyun Zhang, Liang Luo, Wen-Yen Chen, Yiping Han, Bo Long, Rui Zhang, Tianlong Chen
| Challenge: | Existing frameworks for Large Language Models (LLMs) for Click-Through Rate prediction require a careful balance between computational efficiency and predictive accuracy. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates Retrieval-Augmented Generation with a novel multi-head early exit architecture to address both challenges. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces retrieval time while maintaining high model performance. |
Towards Better Multi-task Learning: A Framework for Optimizing Dataset Combinations in Large Language Models (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Using a neural network, large language models can be trained on multiple tasks, allowing them to perform tasks efficiently. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that leverages a neural network to select the best dataset combinations for enhancing multi-task learning (MTL) They propose to iteratively refine the selection, greatly improving efficiency while being model-, dataset-, and domain-independent. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework iteratively refines the selection, greatly improving efficiency, while being model-, dataset-, and domain-independent. |