Taesik Gong
Author directory2026
ACE: Adapter Consolidation across Experts for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of MoE LLMs
Ahin Lee | Sehyun Yun | Joonha Park | Taesik Gong
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Ahin Lee | Sehyun Yun | Joonha Park | Taesik Gong
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) of mixture-of-experts (MoE) models commonly attaches a separate low-rank adapter to each expert. This expert-wise design fragments adaptation in three ways: capacity is split across narrow low-rank updates, gradient supervision becomes sparse and imbalanced under sparse routing, and execution is decomposed into many small GEMMs. We find that such expert-wise separation is often unnecessary, as subsets of LoRA adapters become functionally similar during fine-tuning, revealing redundancy among expert-specific adapters. Based on this redundancy, we propose ACE (Adapter Consolidation across Experts), which groups redundant experts and replaces their expert-specific adapters with group-shared higher-rank LoRA modules under the same PEFT budget. ACE further introduces grouped adapter execution, which consolidates fragmented expert-wise adapter computations into fewer, larger group-level GEMMs. Across evaluations covering 12 datasets and four MoE backbones, ACE achieves the highest observed mean accuracy among the parameter-matched PEFT methods on the three backbones with complete baseline coverage, while providing 1.31× to 1.48× wall-clock training speedup over expert-wise LoRA without increasing peak memory. Our code is available at https://github.com/UbiquitousAILab/ACE.
ExPerT: Personalizing LLM Responses to Users’ Domain Expertise via Query-Wise Semantic and Keystroke Behavioral Cues
Yeji Park | Jiwon Tark | Taesik Gong
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yeji Park | Jiwon Tark | Taesik Gong
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used by end users, yet existing personalization methods relying on static profiles or text-only signals fail to capture query-specific expertise variation. We present ExPerT, a query-wise personalization framework that adapts LLM responses to users’ query domain expertise by combining semantic and behavioral cues. ExPerT consists of two key components: (i) a semantic–behavioral expertise inference module that jointly interprets query text and keystroke dynamics via in-context LLM prompting, and (ii) an expertise-conditioned response generation that adapts the level of detail, terminology, and conceptual complexity. Our user study with 40 participants and 1270 queries demonstrated that ExPerT reduced expertise inference error by 65.7% compared to the strongest baseline (MAE = 0.398 vs. 1.162) and improved response satisfaction by 17.52% (from 3.71 to 4.36) on a 5-point Likert scale.
2024
By My Eyes: Grounding Multimodal Large Language Models with Sensor Data via Visual Prompting
Hyungjun Yoon | Biniyam Aschalew Tolera | Taesik Gong | Kimin Lee | Sung-Ju Lee
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Hyungjun Yoon | Biniyam Aschalew Tolera | Taesik Gong | Kimin Lee | Sung-Ju Lee
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional abilities across various domains. However, utilizing LLMs for ubiquitous sensing applications remains challenging as existing text-prompt methods show significant performance degradation when handling long sensor data sequences. In this paper, we propose a visual prompting approach for sensor data using multimodal LLMs (MLLMs). Specifically, we design a visual prompt that directs MLLMs to utilize visualized sensor data alongside descriptions of the target sensory task. Additionally, we introduce a visualization generator that automates the creation of optimal visualizations tailored to a given sensory task, eliminating the need for prior task-specific knowledge. We evaluated our approach on nine sensory tasks involving four sensing modalities, achieving an average of 10% higher accuracy compared to text-based prompts and reducing token costs by 15.8 times. Our findings highlight the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of using visual prompts with MLLMs for various sensory tasks. The source code is available at https://github.com/diamond264/ByMyEyes.