Huiyi Zhang
Author directory2026
ACTD: Anchor-Based Cross-Tokenizer Distillation with Residual Regularization
Huiyi Zhang | Zijian Li | Xiaocheng Feng | Weitao Ma | Xiaoliang Yang | Yichong Huang | Bing Qin
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Huiyi Zhang | Zijian Li | Xiaocheng Feng | Weitao Ma | Xiaoliang Yang | Yichong Huang | Bing Qin
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Knowledge distillation effectively transfers reasoning capabilities from large language models to lightweight student models. To enable knowledge transfer across disparate model families, researchers increasingly explore cross-tokenizer distillation. However, cross-tokenizer distillation remains challenging due to vocabulary and sequence misalignment, while approximate vocabulary alignment can introduce additional noise into distillation. To address these challenges, we propose Anchor-Based Cross-Tokenizer Distillation with Residual Regularization (ACTD). ACTD bridges structural heterogeneity through vocabulary and sequence alignment, while mitigating alignment noise via a novel anchor loss with residual regularization. We further extend this framework to a multi-teacher setting. Evaluated across five reasoning benchmarks with three distinct teacher models, ACTD achieves state-of-the-art performance. Moreover, its multi-teacher extension outperforms the strongest single-teacher and multi-teacher baselines, further demonstrating the robustness of our method.
2025
One for All: Update Parameterized Knowledge Across Multiple Models with Once Edit
Weitao Ma | Xiyuan Du | Xiaocheng Feng | Lei Huang | Yichong Huang | Huiyi Zhang | Xiaoliang Yang | Baohang Li | Xiachong Feng | Ting Liu | Bing Qin
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Weitao Ma | Xiyuan Du | Xiaocheng Feng | Lei Huang | Yichong Huang | Huiyi Zhang | Xiaoliang Yang | Baohang Li | Xiachong Feng | Ting Liu | Bing Qin
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large language models (LLMs) encode vast world knowledge but struggle to stay up-to-date, often leading to errors and hallucinations. Knowledge editing offers an efficient alternative to retraining, enabling targeted modifications by updating specific model parameters. However, existing methods primarily focus on individual models, posing challenges in efficiently updating multiple models and adapting to new models. To address this, we propose OnceEdit, a novel ensemble-based approach that employs a plug-in model as the editing module, enabling stable knowledge updates across multiple models. Building on the model ensemble, OnceEdit introduces two key mechanisms to enhance its effectiveness. First, we introduce a dynamic weight mechanism through a weight token for distinguishing between edit-related and non-edit-related instances, ensuring the appropriate utilization of knowledge from integrated models. Second, we incorporate an ensemble enhancement mechanism to mitigate the excessive reliance on the central model inherent in the model ensemble technique, making it more suitable for knowledge editing. Extensive experiments on diverse LLMs demonstrate that OnceEdit consistently outperforms existing methods while achieving superior editing efficiency. Further analysis confirms its adaptability and stability in multi-model editing scenarios.