Zhigeng Liu
Author directory2026
Beyond Homogeneous Attention: Memory-Efficient LLMs via Fourier-Approximated KV Cache
Qiqi Wang | Siyang He | Xiaoran Liu | Ruixiao Li | Yuerong Song | Zhigeng Liu | Mianqiu Huang | Zengfeng Huang | Qipeng Guo | Ziwei He | Xipeng Qiu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Qiqi Wang | Siyang He | Xiaoran Liu | Ruixiao Li | Yuerong Song | Zhigeng Liu | Mianqiu Huang | Zengfeng Huang | Qipeng Guo | Ziwei He | Xipeng Qiu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large Language Models struggle with memory demands from the growing Key-Value (KV) cache as context lengths increase. Existing compression methods homogenize head dimensions or rely on attention-guided token pruning, often sacrificing accuracy or introducing computational overhead. We propose FourierAttention, a training-free framework that exploits the heterogeneous roles of transformer head dimensions: lower dimensions prioritize local context, while upper ones capture long-range dependencies. By projecting the long-context-insensitive dimensions onto orthogonal Fourier bases, FourierAttention approximates their temporal evolution with fixed-length spectral coefficients. Evaluations on Llama and Qwen models show FourierAttention achieves the best long-context accuracy on LongBench and Needle-In-A-Haystack (NIAH). Besides, a custom Triton kernel, FlashFourierAttention, is designed to optimize memory via streamlined read-write operations, enabling efficient deployment without performance compromise.
2024
AnyGPT: Unified Multimodal LLM with Discrete Sequence Modeling
Jun Zhan | Junqi Dai | Jiasheng Ye | Yunhua Zhou | Dong Zhang | Zhigeng Liu | Xin Zhang | Ruibin Yuan | Ge Zhang | Linyang Li | Hang Yan | Jie Fu | Tao Gui | Tianxiang Sun | Yu-Gang Jiang | Xipeng Qiu
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Jun Zhan | Junqi Dai | Jiasheng Ye | Yunhua Zhou | Dong Zhang | Zhigeng Liu | Xin Zhang | Ruibin Yuan | Ge Zhang | Linyang Li | Hang Yan | Jie Fu | Tao Gui | Tianxiang Sun | Yu-Gang Jiang | Xipeng Qiu
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
We introduce AnyGPT, an any-to-any multimodal language model that utilizes discrete representations for the unified processing of various modalities, including speech, text, images, and music. AnyGPT can be trained stably without any alterations to the current large language model (LLM) architecture or training paradigms. Instead, it relies exclusively on data-level preprocessing, facilitating the seamless integration of new modalities into LLMs, akin to the incorporation of new languages.We build a multimodal text-centric dataset for multimodal alignment pre-training. Utilizing generative models, we synthesize the first large-scale any-to-any multimodal instruction dataset. It consists of 108k samples of multi-turn conversations that intricately interweave various modalities, thus equipping the model to handle arbitrary combinations of multimodal inputs and outputs.Experimental results demonstrate that AnyGPT is capable of facilitating any-to-any multimodal conversation while achieving performance comparable to specialized models across all modalities, proving that discrete representations can effectively and conveniently unify multiple modalities within a language model. Demos are shown in https://junzhan2000.github.io/AnyGPT.github.io/.