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Nikhita Vedula

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preprint2026arXiv

Breaking the Autoregressive Chain: Hyper-Parallel Decoding for Efficient LLM-Based Attribute Value Extraction

Some text generation tasks, such as Attribute Value Extraction (AVE), require decoding multiple independent sequences from the same document context. While standard autoregressive decoding is slow due to its sequential nature, the independence between output sequences offers an opportunity for parallelism. We present Hyper-Parallel Decoding, a novel decoding algorithm that accelerates offline decoding by leveraging both shared memory and computation across batches. HPD enables out-of-order token generation through position ID manipulation, significantly improving efficiency. Experiments on AVE show that attribute-value pairs are conditionally independent, enabling us to parallelize value generation within each prompt. By further stacking multiple documents within a single prompt, we can decode in parallel up to 96 tokens per prompt. HPD works with all LLMs, and reduces both inference costs and total inference time by up to 13.8X without compromising output quality, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of dollars on industry AVE tasks. Although designed for attribute extraction, HPD makes no assumptions unique to the AVE domain and can in theory be applied to other scenarios with independent output structures.

preprint2026arXiv

From Unstructured to Structured: LLM-Guided Attribute Graphs for Entity Search and Ranking

Entity search, i.e., finding the most similar entities to a query entity, faces unique challenges in e-commerce, where product similarity varies across categories and contexts. Traditional embedding-based approaches often struggle to capture nuanced context-specific attribute relevance. In this paper, we present a two-stage approach combining Large Language Model (LLM)-driven attribute graph construction with graph-aware LLM ranking. In the offline stage, we extract structured product attributes from unstructured text, and construct a reusable attribute graph with category-aware schemas. In the online stage, we rank retrieved candidates by reasoning over this structured representation rather than raw text, reducing per-product token usage by 57% while improving ranking precision. Experiments show that our approach outperforms multiple baselines under zero-shot scenarios, achieving a over 5% improvement in average precision without requiring training data, generalizes robustly across diverse product categories, and shows immense potential for real-world deployment.

preprint2020arXiv

Automatic Discovery of Novel Intents & Domains from Text Utterances

One of the primary tasks in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is to recognize the intents as well as domains of users' spoken and written language utterances. Most existing research formulates this as a supervised classification problem with a closed-world assumption, i.e. the domains or intents to be identified are pre-defined or known beforehand. Real-world applications however increasingly encounter dynamic, rapidly evolving environments with newly emerging intents and domains, about which no information is known during model training. We propose a novel framework, ADVIN, to automatically discover novel domains and intents from large volumes of unlabeled data. We first employ an open classification model to identify all utterances potentially consisting of a novel intent. Next, we build a knowledge transfer component with a pairwise margin loss function. It learns discriminative deep features to group together utterances and discover multiple latent intent categories within them in an unsupervised manner. We finally hierarchically link mutually related intents into domains, forming an intent-domain taxonomy. ADVIN significantly outperforms baselines on three benchmark datasets, and real user utterances from a commercial voice-powered agent.