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Jiayu Zhao

Publications 2

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Harness Compilation: Which Decisions Should a Small Vision-Language Model Keep?

Minhao Fan, Yinyi Liu, Jiayu Zhao et al. · 2026

Small vision-language models may be able to read external evidence yet struggle to obtain it. We introduce Harness Compilation (HC), an offline procedure that adapts the division of work between a frozen small VLM and its external harness. A large teacher uses student execution traces to revise reusable content and con …

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SlimKV: Joint Token-Feature KV Cache Compression with Reconstruction-Free Beacon Attention

Zihan Teng, Jiayu Zhao, Wentao Ren et al. · 2026

Long-context LLM serving is increasingly bottlenecked by KV-cache memory, especially in resource-constrained scenarios. Among existing KV-cache compression strategies, token-wise methods reduce cached states but risk information loss through eviction or condensation, while feature-wise methods reduce per-token KV dimen …

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