Papers by Zheyu Ye
Towards the Law of Capacity Gap in Distilling Language Models (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Language model (LM) distillation aims at distilling knowledge in a large teacher LM to a small student one. |
| Approach: | They propose to use the law of capacity gap to distill knowledge from a large teacher to a small student model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms other language models on a larger scale by using the law of capacity gap inducted from a preliminary study on small-scale (3B) LMs. |
DetectBench: Can Large Language Model Detect and Piece Together Implicit Evidence? (2024.findings-emnlp)
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Zhouhong Gu, Lin Zhang, Xiaoxuan Zhu, Jiangjie Chen, Wenhao Huang, Yikai Zhang, Shusen Wang, Zheyu Ye, Yan Gao, Hongwei Feng, Yanghua Xiao
| Challenge: | Existing LLMs' abilities to detect evidence in long contexts are far inferior to humans. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to assess LLMs' abilities in evidence and multi-step commonsense reasoning within a long context. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the performance of LLMs in evidence detection and commonsense reasoning. |
MoDification: Mixture of Depths Made Easy (2025.naacl-long)
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Chen Zhang, Meizhi Zhong, Qimeng Wang, Xuantao Lu, Zheyu Ye, Chengqiang Lu, Yan Gao, Yao Hu, Kehai Chen, Min Zhang, Dawei Song
| Challenge: | Long-context efficiency is a trending topic in large language model (LLM) serving. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to combine long-context efficiency and mixture of depths to bring down both latency and memory. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves 1.2 speedup in latency and 1.8 reduction in memory compared to original LLMs especially in long-context applications. |
RedOne: Revealing Domain-specific LLM Post-Training in Social Networking Services (2025.emnlp-industry)
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Fei Zhao, Chonggang Lu, null Wangyue, Zheyong Xie, Ziyan Liu, Haofu Qian, Jianzhao Huang, Fangcheng Shi, Zijie Meng, Hongcheng Guo, Mingqian He, Xinze Lyu, Zheyu Ye, Weiting Liu, Boyang Wang, Shaosheng Cao
| Challenge: | Social networking services (SNS) have experienced rapid growth, which has proposed significant challenges for platform content management and interaction quality improvement. |
| Approach: | They propose a domain-specific LLM to break the performance bottleneck of single-task baselines and establish a comprehensive foundation for social networking services. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves an average improvement of 14.02% across 8 major tasks and 7.56% in bilingual evaluation benchmark, compared with baseline models. |
MIRAGE: Exploring How Large Language Models Perform in Complex Social Interactive Environments (2025.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in environmental perception, reasoning-based decision-making, and simulating complex human behaviors, particularly in interactive role-playing contexts. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to assess LLMs' proficiency in portraying advanced human behaviors through murder mystery games using eight intricately crafted scripts. |
| Outcome: | The framework evaluates LLMs' performance in portraying advanced human behaviors through murder mystery games. |
iPET: An Interactive Emotional Companion Dialogue System with LLM-Powered Virtual Pet World Simulation (2025.acl-demo)
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Zheyong Xie, Shaosheng Cao, Zuozhu Liu, Zheyu Ye, Zihan Niu, Chonggang Lu, Tong Xu, Enhong Chen, Zhe Xu, Yao Hu, Wei Lu
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to role-playing emotional companion products lack sustained personalization and contextual adaptability, limiting their effectiveness in real-world settings. |
| Approach: | They propose a virtual pet agent that can enhance user engagement through rich, dynamic pet behaviors and interactions tailored to individual preferences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system has been deployed in a real-world, non-commercial product for 200 days and has demonstrated its effectiveness in practical applications. |