Academic research sometimes risks to be disconnected from real-world applications. Research from our group demonstrated significant real-world impact across multiple domains, from improving the efficiency of LLM inference and training to new state-of-the-art evaluation protocols, and contributing to several industry products.
Industry Adoption
KV Cache Compression
Our work on KV cache compression, presented at EMNLP 2024 as an oral presentation (top 9% of papers), has been directly adopted by NVIDIA’s KV Press library. This library is now widely used across the industry for reducing the inference footprint of LLMs
MMLU-Redux
Our MMLU-Redux benchmark, presented at NAACL 2025, is being widely adopted for evaluating LLMs across multiple frontier labs. After identifying a concerning 57% error rate in the original MMLU benchmark’s Virology subset, we created a manually curated, expert-verified dataset of 5,700 questions. Some industry adopters include DeepSeek, Alibaba Qwen, Tencent Hunyuan, Moonshot KIMI, NVIDIA NeMo Skills, and LG AI Research EXAONE.
Frontier Model Pre-Training
One of our pre-training techniques from “Analysing The Impact of Sequence Composition on Language Model Pre-Training” (ACL 2024), specifically intra-document causal masking, was adopted by Meta in training Llama3, their flagship line of LLMs.
Complex Query Answering
Our work on answering complex queries on large and incomplete Knowledge Graphs (“Complex Query Answering with Neural Link Predictors”, which received an Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2021), is also having some impact beyond academia. Based on personal communications, our complex query answering techniques are being adopted by several tech companies to develop their AI products (I am happy to discuss this verbally). We are now continuing this line of research – for example, see our NeurIPS 2023 and ICML 2025 papers on this topic.
Media Coverage
Our research regularly reaches beyond academic circles. For example, our work “Lost in Time: Clock and Calendar Understanding Challenges in Multimodal LLMs” received extensive media coverage, including The New York Times, VICE, Gizmodo, The Engineer, and Yahoo! News.
The trajectory from academic research to real-world impact isn’t always straightforward, but these examples demonstrate that rigorous scientific investigation can and should lead to practical solutions. Our work continues to bridge the gap between theoretical advances and practical applications, whether that’s making AI more efficient, robust, and trustworthy.