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Derek Li

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arxivcs.LG2026-07-23

Best-of-Evidence: Best-of-N Selection under Partial Verification

Cenwei Zhang, Teng Fang, Yuxia Wang, Derek Li, Bryan Dai, Lei You

BoN improves model outputs by sampling several candidates and selecting one with a proxy score, but it assumes that complete candidates can be evaluated reliably. Many vision-language tasks instead provide only partial verification: a finding, span, value, region, or relation may…

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arxivcs.DCcs.AI2026-07-19

Talaria: Session-Aware Serverless Serving of Hundred-Billion-Parameter LLMs

Utopia Meng, Unicornt Zhao, Derek Li, Goalen Gao, Frank Du

Serverless multi-model LLM systems multiplex popularity-skewed model catalogs over shared GPU pools, yet typically schedule each request independently. Tool-using agents break this abstraction: a session repeatedly calls an LLM across short tool gaps, carries a long reusable KV p…

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