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New DIRECT framework boosts LLM efficiency for sequence labeling tasks

Researchers have introduced DIRECT, a novel framework designed to enhance the efficiency and domain alignment of large language models (LLMs) for sequence labeling tasks. The framework incorporates Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) post-supervised fine-tuning to better align with human preferences and employs a controlled decoding process that enforces specific output formats and restricts predictions to predefined candidate sets. Additionally, DIRECT utilizes a template-filling mechanism to optimize inference speed by having the model generate only label tokens, thereby reducing computational overhead through KV cache reuse. Experiments across eight datasets indicate that DIRECT significantly outperforms existing methods in both performance and efficiency. AI

IMPACT This framework could lead to more efficient and accurate information extraction from text using LLMs.

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New DIRECT framework boosts LLM efficiency for sequence labeling tasks

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Yilei Wang, Jiaxin Gan, Kexuan Zhang, Ling Li, Wentao Zhang, Peichao Lai ·

    DIRECT: Direct Decoding for Efficient and Aligned Sequence Labeling with Large Language Models

    arXiv:2607.26891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequence labeling is a fine-grained information extraction task, yet existing large language model-based approaches suffer from insufficient domain alignment and low inference efficiency. To address these issues, we propose DIRECT, …