About Me 🤗
I’m a second-year master student at Southeast University and a member of the PALM Lab.
My research interest focuses on Retrieval-Augmented Generation(RAG), Conversational Search, and Natural Language Processing. I am also very interested in LLM-based Agents, Efficient Methods of LLM (e.g., Speculative Decoding, KV cache compression…), Multimodal LLM.
I am always open to potential collaborations or research opportunities. Feel free to contact me at yilong.lai@seu.edu.cn.
News
- Three papers are accepted by COLING 2025, see in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪!
Publications
- SCOPE: Optimizing Key-Value Cache Compression in Long-context Generation, Jialong Wu, Zhenglin Wang, Linhai Zhang, Yilong Lai, Yulan He, Deyu Zhou. (preprint) [Papers, Codes]
- AdaCQR: Enhancing Query Reformulation for Conversational Search via Sparse and Dense Retrieval Alignment, Yilong Lai\(^*\), Jialong Wu\(^*\), Congzhi Zhang, Haowen Sun, Deyu Zhou. (COLING 2025) [Papers, Codes]
- SeeD: Accelerating Reasoning Tree Construction via Scheduled Speculative Decoding, Zhenglin Wang, Jialong Wu, Yilong Lai, CongZhi Zhang, Deyu Zhou. (COLING 2025, NIPS 2024 Compression Workshop)[Papers]
- LASS: A Novel and Economical Data Augmentation Framework Based on Language Models for Debiasing Opinion Summarization, Yanyue Zhang, Pengfei Li, Yilong Lai, Deyu Zhou, Yulan He. (COLING 2025)[Papers]
- Opinions Are Not Always Positive: Debiasing Opinion Summarization with Model-Specific and Model-Agnostic Methods, Yanyue Zhang, Yilong Lai, Zhenglin Wang, Pengfei Li, Deyu Zhou, Yulan He. (LREC-COLING 2024) [Papers]
Education
- M.S. in Software Engineering, Southeast University, 2023-2026 (Expected)
- B.S. in Electronic Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, 2019-2023
Intern
- Zoom Video Communication(Hefei), SDE intern, 2022.11-2023.2
Service
- ARR December(ACL) 2024, ARR October(NAACL) 2024 Reviewer
Other Stuff
- I am a music fan of Khalil Fong, Utada Hikaru, and Fujii Kaze.
- My best collaborators: Jialong Wu, Congzhi Zhang, Zhenglin Wang