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Knowledge distillation has emerged as a powerful technique for compressing large language models (LLMs) into efficient, deployable architectures while preserving their advanced capabilities. Recent advances in low-rank knowledge…

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While protein language models (PLMs) are one of the most promising avenues of research for future de novo protein design, the way in which they transform sequences to hidden representations, as well as the information encoded in such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Kosio Beshkov , Anders Malthe-Sørenssen

Protein inverse folding, the design of an amino acid sequence based on a target protein structure, is a fundamental problem of computational protein engineering. Existing methods either generate sequences without leveraging external…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-10 Jin Han , Tianfan Fu , Wu-Jun Li

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in understanding and generating semantic patterns, making them promising candidates for sequential recommendation tasks. However, when combined with conventional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jiongran Wu , Jiahao Liu , Dongsheng Li , Guangping Zhang , Mingzhe Han , Hansu Gu , Peng Zhang , Li Shang , Tun Lu , Ning Gu

Large language models (LLMs) are typically deployed under diverse memory and compute constraints. Existing approaches build model families by training each size independently, which is prohibitively expensive and provides only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sara Kangaslahti , Nihal V. Nayak , Jonathan Geuter , Marco Fumero , Francesco Locatello , David Alvarez-Melis

Designing proteins with desired functions or properties represents a core goal in synthetic biology and drug discovery. Recent advances in protein language models (PLMs) have enabled the generation of highly designable protein sequences,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yulin Zhang , He Cao , Zihao Jiang , Chenyi Zi , Zhipeng Zhou , Zijing Liu , Yu Li , Jia Li , Ziqi Gao

Transformer based large language models have achieved tremendous success. However, the significant memory and computational costs incurred during the inference process make it challenging to deploy large models on resource-constrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Wenxiao Wang , Wei Chen , Yicong Luo , Yongliu Long , Zhengkai Lin , Liye Zhang , Binbin Lin , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

In the realm of large language model (LLM), as the size of large models increases, it also brings higher training costs. There is a urgent need to minimize the data size in LLM training. Compared with data selection method, the data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Rong Yao , Hailin Hu , Yifei Fu , Hanting Chen , Wenyi Fang , Fanyi Du , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang

Predicting protein stability changes induced by single-point mutations has been a persistent challenge over the years, attracting immense interest from numerous researchers. The ability to precisely predict protein thermostability is…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-08 Yijie Zhang , Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Stan Z. Li

The breakthrough performance of large language models (LLMs) comes with major computational footprints and high deployment costs. In this paper, we progress towards resolving this problem by proposing a novel structured compression approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Eldar Kurtic , Elias Frantar , Dan Alistarh

Model pruning is a performance optimization technique for large language models like R1 or o3-mini. However, existing pruning methods often lead to significant performance degradation or require extensive retraining and fine-tuning. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Wei Jiang , Anying Fu , Youling Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success, underpinning diverse AI applications. However, they often suffer from performance degradation due to factors such as catastrophic forgetting during Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Chi Liu , Xin Chen , Xu Zhou , Fangbo Tu , Srinivasan Manoharan

Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to set new standards in knowledge-intensive and complex reasoning tasks, yet their high computational demands limit widespread adoption. While distilling large models into smaller ones offers a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Xiaofeng Zhou , Heyan Huang , Lizi Liao

Protein language models (pLMs) pre-trained on vast protein sequence databases excel at various downstream tasks but often lack the structural knowledge essential for some biological applications. To address this, we introduce a method to…

We present Impossible Distillation, a novel framework for paraphrasing and sentence summarization, that distills a high-quality dataset and model from a low-quality teacher that itself cannot perform these tasks. Unlike prior works that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Jaehun Jung , Peter West , Liwei Jiang , Faeze Brahman , Ximing Lu , Jillian Fisher , Taylor Sorensen , Yejin Choi

Despite the success of distillation in large language models (LLMs), most prior work applies identical loss functions to both teacher- and student-generated data. These strategies overlook the synergy between loss formulations and data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Jongwoo Ko , Tianyi Chen , Sungnyun Kim , Tianyu Ding , Luming Liang , Ilya Zharkov , Se-Young Yun

Knowledge Distillation (KD) compresses computationally expensive pre-trained language models (PLMs) by transferring their knowledge to smaller models, allowing their use in resource-constrained or real-time settings. However, most smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Hayeon Lee , Rui Hou , Jongpil Kim , Davis Liang , Hongbo Zhang , Sung Ju Hwang , Alexander Min

In the past year, distillation has seen a renewed prominence in large language model (LLM) pretraining, exemplified by the Llama-3.2 and Gemma model families. While distillation has historically been shown to improve statistical modeling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sachin Goyal , David Lopez-Paz , Kartik Ahuja

Enhancing computational efficiency and reducing deployment costs for large language models (LLMs) have become critical challenges in various resource-constrained scenarios. In this work, we present DistilQwen2.5, a family of distilled,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chengyu Wang , Junbing Yan , Yuanhao Yue , Jun Huang

In this study, we expand upon the FLIP benchmark-designed for evaluating protein fitness prediction models in small, specialized prediction tasks-by assessing the performance of state-of-the-art large protein language models, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Manuel F. Mollon , Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez , Alicia Lozano-Diez , Daniel Ramos , Doroteo T. Toledano