Papers by Zhenhua An
Resonant Context Anchoring: Decoupling Attention Routing and Signal Gain at Inference Time (2026.findings-acl)
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Mingkuan Zhao, Yide Gao, Wentao Hu, Suquan Chen, Tianchen Huang, Zhenhua An, Zetao Chang, Xiayu Sun, Yuheng Min
| Challenge: | Existing mitigation strategies rely on suppressing specific neuron activations or employing computationally expensive contrastive decoding mechanisms, which often result in increased perplexity or significantly elevated inference latency. |
| Approach: | They propose a lightweight inference-time intervention method grounded in the perspective of residual stream signal dynamics to resolve the signal attenuation of external evidence during its propagation through deep networks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves contextual faithfulness across multiple factual consistency and strong knowledge-conflict tasks while maintaining the model’s general language understanding capabilities. |