Papers by Zhaoye Li

5 papers
Balanced Data Sampling for Language Model Training with Clustering (2024.findings-acl)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) are a fundamental part of the training process.
Approach: They propose to use clustering to balance the text distribution of training data for better model training.
Outcome: Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of ClusterClip Sampling under various training datasets and large language models.
WESR: A Benchmark and Strong Baseline for Word-level Event-Speech Recognition (2026.findings-acl)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: aaron carroll: the precise localization of non-verbal vocal events remains a critical yet under-explored challenge. carroll says current methods suffer from insufficient task definitions with limited category coverage. carrol: knowing exactly where an event occurred is not enough; knowing exactly what it happened is.
Approach: They propose a taxonomy of 21 vocal events with a new categorization into discrete versus continuous types.
Outcome: The proposed model disentangles ASR errors from event detection while maintaining ASR quality.
Turn Waste into Worth: Rectifying Top-k Router of MoE (2024.emnlp-main)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Top-k router suffers from redundancy computation and memory costs due to unbalanced routing . some experts are overflow, where exceeding tokens are dropped, while others are empty, which are padded with zeros, negatively impacting model performance.
Approach: They propose a top-k router that is unbalanced and uses a multi-gPU system to handle dropped tokens and padding.
Outcome: The proposed model surpasses the top-1 router by 4.7% in terms of performance . the top-k router suffers from redundancy computation and memory costs .
XY-Tokenizer: Mitigating the Semantic-Acoustic Conflict in Low-Bitrate Speech Codecs (2026.acl-long)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing speech codecs struggle to balance these objectives at low bitrates . XY-Tokenizer achieves stronger semantic alignment than representative semantic-distillation codec .
Approach: They propose a low-bitrate speech codec that aligns discrete speech representations with text while preserving fine-grained acoustic details for reconstruction.
Outcome: The proposed codec outperforms existing low-bitrate speech codecs in speech understanding and generation tasks.
JPU: Bridging Jailbreak Defense and Unlearning via On-Policy Path Rectification (2026.acl-long)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to diverse jailbreak attacks despite extensive safety alignment .
Approach: They propose a method to rectify dynamic jailbreak paths towards safety anchors by dynamically mining on-policy adversarial samples to expose vulnerabilities and identify jailbreak path.
Outcome: The proposed model significantly improves jailbreak resistance against dynamic attacks while maintaining its utility.

What is GenGO?

GenGO is an NLP powered publication search system. It currenctly indexes 30k+ papers from ACL Anthology, and implements multi-aspect summarization, semantic search, and more!

Information

About
Limitations