Aref Jafari

20 papers A* 1A 2B 1Journal 12Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 A* conf
Balcony: A Lightweight Approach to Dynamic Inference of Generative Language Models.
EMNLP
Benyamin Jamialahmadi, Parsa Kavehzadeh, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Parsa Farinneya, Hossein Rajabzadeh, Aref Jafari, Boxing Chen, Marzieh S. Tahaei
2025 J jnl
Balcony: A Lightweight Approach to Dynamic Inference of Generative Language Models.
CoRR
Benyamin Jamialahmadi, Parsa Kavehzadeh, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Parsa Farinneya, Hossein Rajabzadeh, Aref Jafari, Boxing Chen, Marzieh S. Tahaei
2025 J jnl
DTRNet: Dynamic Token Routing Network to Reduce Quadratic Costs in Transformers.
CoRR
Aman Sharma, Saeed Najafi, Parsa Farinneya, Benyamin Jamialahmadi, Marzieh S. Tahaei, Yuhe Fan, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Boxing Chen, Aref Jafari
2025 J jnl
SCOUT: Toward Sub-Quadratic Attention via Segment Compression for Optimized Utility in Transformers.
CoRR
Aref Jafari, Yuhe Fan, Benyamin Jamialahmadi, Parsa Farinneya, Boxing Chen, Marzieh S. Tahaei
2024 — conf
EchoAtt: Attend, Copy, then Adjust for More Efficient Large Language Models.
ENLSP
Hossein Rajabzadeh, Aref Jafari, Aman Sharma, Benyamin Jami, Hyock Ju Kwon, Ali Ghodsi, Boxing Chen, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh
2024 J jnl
EchoAtt: Attend, Copy, then Adjust for More Efficient Large Language Models.
CoRR
Hossein Rajabzadeh, Aref Jafari, Aman Sharma, Benyamin Jami, Hyock Ju Kwon, Ali Ghodsi, Boxing Chen, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh
2024 — conf
Efficient Citer: Tuning Large Language Models for Enhanced Answer Quality and Verification.
NAACL-HLT (Findings)
Marzieh S. Tahaei, Aref Jafari, Ahmad Rashid, David Alfonso-Hermelo, Khalil Bibi, Yimeng Wu, Ali Ghodsi, Boxing Chen, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh
2023 A conf
Do we need Label Regularization to Fine-tune Pre-trained Language Models?
EACL
Ivan Kobyzev, Aref Jafari, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Tianda Li, Alan Do-Omri, Peng Lu, Pascal Poupart, Ali Ghodsi
2023 J jnl
HAGRID: A Human-LLM Collaborative Dataset for Generative Information-Seeking with Attribution.
CoRR
Ehsan Kamalloo, Aref Jafari, Xinyu Zhang, Nandan Thakur, Jimmy Lin
2023 J jnl
Improved knowledge distillation by utilizing backward pass knowledge in neural networks.
CoRR
Aref Jafari, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Ali Ghodsi
2022 — conf
Continuation KD: Improved Knowledge Distillation through the Lens of Continuation Optimization.
EMNLP (Findings)
Aref Jafari, Ivan Kobyzev, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Pascal Poupart, Ali Ghodsi
2022 J jnl
Continuation KD: Improved Knowledge Distillation through the Lens of Continuation Optimization.
CoRR
Aref Jafari, Ivan Kobyzev, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Pascal Poupart, Ali Ghodsi
2022 B conf
Pro-KD: Progressive Distillation by Following the Footsteps of the Teacher.
COLING
Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Aref Jafari, Puneeth S. M. Saladi, Pranav Sharma, Ali Saheb Pasand, Ali Ghodsi
2022 J jnl
Towards Understanding Label Regularization for Fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models.
CoRR
Ivan Kobyzev, Aref Jafari, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Tianda Li, Alan Do-Omri, Peng Lu, Ali Ghodsi, Pascal Poupart
2021 A conf
Annealing Knowledge Distillation.
EACL
Aref Jafari, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Pranav Sharma, Ali Ghodsi
2021 J jnl
Annealing Knowledge Distillation.
CoRR
Aref Jafari, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Pranav Sharma, Ali Ghodsi
2021 — conf
How to Select One Among All ? An Empirical Study Towards the Robustness of Knowledge Distillation in Natural Language Understanding.
EMNLP (Findings)
Tianda Li, Ahmad Rashid, Aref Jafari, Pranav Sharma, Ali Ghodsi, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh
2021 J jnl
How to Select One Among All? An Extensive Empirical Study Towards the Robustness of Knowledge Distillation in Natural Language Understanding.
CoRR
Tianda Li, Ahmad Rashid, Aref Jafari, Pranav Sharma, Ali Ghodsi, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh
2021 J jnl
Pro-KD: Progressive Distillation by Following the Footsteps of the Teacher.
CoRR
Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Aref Jafari, Puneeth Salad, Pranav Sharma, Ali Saheb Pasand, Ali Ghodsi
2020 J jnl
Segmentation Approach for Coreference Resolution Task.
CoRR
Aref Jafari, Ali Ghodsi