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cs.CL2026

Teaching Thinking Models to Reason with Tools: A Full-Pipeline Recipe for Tool-Integrated Reasoning

Qianjia Cheng, Yuchen Zhang, Zhilin Wang +9

Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) offers a direct way to extend thinking models beyond the limits of text-only reasoning. Paradoxically, we observe that tool-enabled evaluation can d…

cs.CL2024

UltraFeedback: Boosting Language Models with Scaled AI Feedback

Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Ning Ding +9

Learning from human feedback has become a pivot technique in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, acquiring vast and premium human feedback is bot…

cs.AI2025

PhysicsMinions: Winning Gold Medals in the Latest Physics Olympiads with a Coevolutionary Multimodal Multi-Agent System

Fangchen Yu, Junchi Yao, Ziyi Wang +10

Physics is central to understanding and shaping the real world, and the ability to solve physics problems is a key indicator of real-world physical intelligence. Physics Olympiads,…

cs.CL2025

A Survey of Efficient Reasoning for Large Reasoning Models: Language, Multimodality, and Beyond

Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li, Zhao-Chen Su +15

Recent Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), such as DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI o1, have demonstrated strong performance gains by scaling up the length of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning dur…

cs.LG2024

Noise Contrastive Alignment of Language Models with Explicit Rewards

Huayu Chen, Guande He, Lifan Yuan +3

User intentions are typically formalized as evaluation rewards to be maximized when fine-tuning language models (LMs). Existing alignment methods, such as Direct Preference Optimiz…

cs.AI2025

SCI-Verifier: Scientific Verifier with Thinking

Shenghe Zheng, Chenyu Huang, Fangchen Yu +8

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to scientific reasoning, the complexity of answer formats and the diversity of equivalent expressions make answer verificat…

cs.SE2025

V-GameGym: Visual Game Generation for Code Large Language Models

Wei Zhang, Jack Yang, Renshuai Tao +9

Code large language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in programming tasks, yet current benchmarks primarily focus on single modality rather than visual game develop…

cs.LG2025

Process Reinforcement through Implicit Rewards

Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Zefan Wang +22

Dense process rewards have proven a more effective alternative to the sparse outcome-level rewards in the inference-time scaling of large language models (LLMs), particularly in ta…

cs.CL2022

Exploring the Universal Vulnerability of Prompt-based Learning Paradigm

Lei Xu, Yangyi Chen, Ganqu Cui +2

Prompt-based learning paradigm bridges the gap between pre-training and fine-tuning, and works effectively under the few-shot setting. However, we find that this learning paradigm…

cs.LG2026

Post-Trained MoE Can Skip Half Experts via Self-Distillation

Xingtai Lv, Li Sheng, Kaiyan Zhang +12

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) scales language models efficiently through sparse expert activation, and its dynamic variant further reduces computation by adjusting the activated experts…

cs.LG2025

MiniCPM-V 4.5: Cooking Efficient MLLMs via Architecture, Data, and Training Recipe

Tianyu Yu, Zefan Wang, Chongyi Wang +31

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are undergoing rapid progress and represent the frontier of AI development. However, their training and inference efficiency have emerged a…

cs.LG2025

The Entropy Mechanism of Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning Language Models

Ganqu Cui, Yuchen Zhang, Jiacheng Chen +14

This paper aims to overcome a major obstacle in scaling RL for reasoning with LLMs, namely the collapse of policy entropy. Such phenomenon is consistently observed across vast RL r…

cs.CL2024

Scalable Efficient Training of Large Language Models with Low-dimensional Projected Attention

Xingtai Lv, Ning Ding, Kaiyan Zhang +3

Improving the effectiveness and efficiency of large language models (LLMs) simultaneously is a critical yet challenging research goal. In this paper, we find that low-rank pre-trai…

cs.AI2024

Advancing LLM Reasoning Generalists with Preference Trees

Lifan Yuan, Ganqu Cui, Hanbin Wang +12

We introduce Eurus, a suite of large language models (LLMs) optimized for reasoning. Finetuned from Mistral-7B and CodeLlama-70B, Eurus models achieve state-of-the-art results amon…

cs.CL2023

From Adversarial Arms Race to Model-centric Evaluation: Motivating a Unified Automatic Robustness Evaluation Framework

Yangyi Chen, Hongcheng Gao, Ganqu Cui +10

Textual adversarial attacks can discover models' weaknesses by adding semantic-preserved but misleading perturbations to the inputs. The long-lasting adversarial attack-and-defense…

cs.CL2025

The Right Time Matters: Data Arrangement Affects Zero-Shot Generalization in Instruction Tuning

Bingxiang He, Ning Ding, Cheng Qian +10

Understanding alignment techniques begins with comprehending zero-shot generalization brought by instruction tuning, but little of the mechanism has been understood. Existing work…

cs.CL2022

Why Should Adversarial Perturbations be Imperceptible? Rethink the Research Paradigm in Adversarial NLP

Yangyi Chen, Hongcheng Gao, Ganqu Cui +4

Textual adversarial samples play important roles in multiple subfields of NLP research, including security, evaluation, explainability, and data augmentation. However, most work mi…

cs.CL2024

MiniCPM: Unveiling the Potential of Small Language Models with Scalable Training Strategies

Shengding Hu, Yuge Tu, Xu Han +22

The burgeoning interest in developing Large Language Models (LLMs) with up to trillion parameters has been met with concerns regarding resource efficiency and practical expense, pa…

cs.AI2026

Teaching Large Reasoning Models Effective Reflection

Hanbin Wang, Jingwei Song, Jinpeng Li +5

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have recently shown impressive performance on complex reasoning tasks, often by engaging in self-reflective behaviors such as self-critique and backtr…

cs.AI2026

Achieving Gold-Medal-Level Olympiad Reasoning via Simple and Unified Scaling

Yafu Li, Runzhe Zhan, Haoran Zhang +25

Recent progress in reasoning models has substantially advanced long-horizon mathematical and scientific problem solving, with several systems now reaching gold-medal-level performa…

cs.LG2026

Intern-S1-Pro: Scientific Multimodal Foundation Model at Trillion Scale

Yicheng Zou, Dongsheng Zhu, Lin Zhu +174

We introduce Intern-S1-Pro, the first one-trillion-parameter scientific multimodal foundation model. Scaling to this unprecedented size, the model delivers a comprehensive enhancem…

cs.LG2025

Learning to Reason under Off-Policy Guidance

Jianhao Yan, Yafu Li, Zican Hu +5

Recent advances in large reasoning models (LRMs) demonstrate that sophisticated behaviors such as multi-step reasoning and self-reflection can emerge via reinforcement learning wit…

cs.CL2026

Draft-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for Speculative Draft Models

Haodi Lei, Yafu Li, Haoran Zhang +8

Speculative decoding accelerates large language model inference by pairing a target model with a lightweight draft model whose proposed tokens are verified in parallel. A common wa…

cs.LG2026

TEMPO: Scaling Test-time Training for Large Reasoning Models

Qingyang Zhang, Xinke Kong, Haitao Wu +7

Test-time training (TTT) adapts model parameters on unlabeled test instances during inference time, which continuously extends capabilities beyond the reach of offline training. De…

cs.LG2022

Evaluating Modules in Graph Contrastive Learning

Ganqu Cui, Yufeng Du, Cheng Yang +5

The recent emergence of contrastive learning approaches facilitates the application on graph representation learning (GRL), introducing graph contrastive learning (GCL) into the li…

cs.CL2025

JustRL: Scaling a 1.5B LLM with a Simple RL Recipe

Bingxiang He, Zekai Qu, Zeyuan Liu +9

Recent advances in reinforcement learning for large language models have converged on increasing complexity: multi-stage training pipelines, dynamic hyperparameter schedules, and c…

cs.RO2025

SimpleVLA-RL: Scaling VLA Training via Reinforcement Learning

Haozhan Li, Yuxin Zuo, Jiale Yu +18

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for robotic manipulation. Despite substantial progress enabled by large-scale pretraining and super…

cs.CL2026

Think Longer to Explore Deeper: Learn to Explore In-Context via Length-Incentivized Reinforcement Learning

Futing Wang, Jianhao Yan, Yun Luo +6

Achieving effective test-time scaling requires models to engage in In-Context Exploration -- the intrinsic ability to generate, verify, and refine multiple reasoning hypotheses wit…

cs.AI2025

Wisdom of the Crowd: Reinforcement Learning from Coevolutionary Collective Feedback

Wenzhen Yuan, Shengji Tang, Weihao Lin +8

Reinforcement learning (RL) has significantly enhanced the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but its reliance on expensive human-labeled data or complex rewar…

cs.CL2024

Tool Learning with Foundation Models

Yujia Qin, Shengding Hu, Yankai Lin +38

Humans possess an extraordinary ability to create and utilize tools, allowing them to overcome physical limitations and explore new frontiers. With the advent of foundation models,…

cs.CL2022

Prototypical Verbalizer for Prompt-based Few-shot Tuning

Ganqu Cui, Shengding Hu, Ning Ding +2

Prompt-based tuning for pre-trained language models (PLMs) has shown its effectiveness in few-shot learning. Typically, prompt-based tuning wraps the input text into a cloze questi…

cs.LG2025

FlowRL: Matching Reward Distributions for LLM Reasoning

Xuekai Zhu, Daixuan Cheng, Dinghuai Zhang +20

We propose FlowRL: matching the full reward distribution via flow balancing instead of maximizing rewards in large language model (LLM) reinforcement learning (RL). Recent advanced…

cs.SE2024

INTERVENOR: Prompting the Coding Ability of Large Language Models with the Interactive Chain of Repair

Hanbin Wang, Zhenghao Liu, Shuo Wang +4

This paper introduces INTERVENOR (INTERactiVE chaiN Of Repair), a system designed to emulate the interactive code repair processes observed in humans, encompassing both code diagno…

cs.CL2025

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models

Kaiyan Zhang, Yuxin Zuo, Bingxiang He +36

In this paper, we survey recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for reasoning with Large Language Models (LLMs). RL has achieved remarkable success in advancing the frontie…

cs.CL2024

RLHF-V: Towards Trustworthy MLLMs via Behavior Alignment from Fine-grained Correctional Human Feedback

Tianyu Yu, Yuan Yao, Haoye Zhang +8

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities in multimodal understanding, reasoning, and interaction. However, existing MLLMs prevale…

cs.AI2026

P1-VL: Bridging Visual Perception and Scientific Reasoning in Physics Olympiads

Yun Luo, Futing Wang, Qianjia Cheng +28

The transition from symbolic manipulation to science-grade reasoning represents a pivotal frontier for Large Language Models (LLMs), with physics serving as the critical test ancho…

cs.AI2025

From and to : LLMs Learn New Skills in RL by Composing Old Ones

Lifan Yuan, Weize Chen, Yuchen Zhang +7

Does RL teach LLMs genuinely new skills, or does it merely activate existing ones? This question lies at the core of ongoing debates about the role of RL in LLM post-training. On o…

cs.CL2023

A Close Look into the Calibration of Pre-trained Language Models

Yangyi Chen, Lifan Yuan, Ganqu Cui +2

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) may fail in giving reliable estimates of their predictive uncertainty. We take a close look into this problem, aiming to answer two questions: (1…

cs.LG2022

A Unified Evaluation of Textual Backdoor Learning: Frameworks and Benchmarks

Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Bingxiang He +3

Textual backdoor attacks are a kind of practical threat to NLP systems. By injecting a backdoor in the training phase, the adversary could control model predictions via predefined…

cs.CL2024

Controllable Preference Optimization: Toward Controllable Multi-Objective Alignment

Yiju Guo, Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan +9

Alignment in artificial intelligence pursues the consistency between model responses and human preferences as well as values. In practice, the multifaceted nature of human preferen…

cs.LG2025

P1: Mastering Physics Olympiads with Reinforcement Learning

Jiacheng Chen, Qianjia Cheng, Fangchen Yu +25

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has moved the frontier from puzzle-solving to science-grade reasoning-the kind needed to tackle problems whose answers must stand ag…

cs.LG2026

NFT: Bridging Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Math Reasoning

Huayu Chen, Kaiwen Zheng, Qinsheng Zhang +8

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has played a central role in the recent surge of LLMs' math abilities by enabling self-improvement through binary verifier signals. In contrast, Supervi…

cs.SE2026

InCoder-32B: Code Foundation Model for Industrial Scenarios

Jian Yang, Wei Zhang, Jiajun Wu +25

Recent code large language models have achieved remarkable progress on general programming tasks. Nevertheless, their performance degrades significantly in industrial scenarios tha…

cs.LG2025

RLPR: Extrapolating RLVR to General Domains without Verifiers

Tianyu Yu, Bo Ji, Shouli Wang +9

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) demonstrates promising potential in advancing the reasoning capabilities of LLMs. However, its success remains largely confine…

cs.CL2025

RLAIF-V: Open-Source AI Feedback Leads to Super GPT-4V Trustworthiness

Tianyu Yu, Haoye Zhang, Qiming Li +13

Traditional feedback learning for hallucination reduction relies on labor-intensive manual labeling or expensive proprietary models. This leaves the community without foundational…

cs.CL2025

TTRL: Test-Time Reinforcement Learning

Yuxin Zuo, Kaiyan Zhang, Li Sheng +13

This paper investigates Reinforcement Learning (RL) on data without explicit labels for reasoning tasks in Large Language Models (LLMs). The core challenge of the problem is reward…

cs.LG2021

Graph Neural Networks: A Review of Methods and Applications

Jie Zhou, Ganqu Cui, Shengding Hu +6

Lots of learning tasks require dealing with graph data which contains rich relation information among elements. Modeling physics systems, learning molecular fingerprints, predictin…

cs.AI2025

HiPhO: How Far Are (M)LLMs from Humans in the Latest High School Physics Olympiad Benchmark?

Fangchen Yu, Haiyuan Wan, Qianjia Cheng +14

Recently, the physical capabilities of (M)LLMs have garnered increasing attention. However, existing benchmarks for physics suffer from two major gaps: they neither provide systema…

cs.LG2026

How Far Can Unsupervised RLVR Scale LLM Training?

Bingxiang He, Yuxin Zuo, Zeyuan Liu +18

Unsupervised reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (URLVR) offers a pathway to scale LLM training beyond the supervision bottleneck by deriving rewards without ground trut…

cs.LG2022

A Roadmap for Big Model

Sha Yuan, Hanyu Zhao, Shuai Zhao +97

With the rapid development of deep learning, training Big Models (BMs) for multiple downstream tasks becomes a popular paradigm. Researchers have achieved various outcomes in the c…

cs.LG2022

Few-shot Classification with Hypersphere Modeling of Prototypes

Ning Ding, Yulin Chen, Ganqu Cui +4

Metric-based meta-learning is one of the de facto standards in few-shot learning. It composes of representation learning and metrics calculation designs. Previous works construct c…

cs.LG2024

Free Process Rewards without Process Labels

Lifan Yuan, Wendi Li, Huayu Chen +6

Different from its counterpart outcome reward models (ORMs), which evaluate the entire responses, a process reward model (PRM) scores a reasoning trajectory step by step, providing…

cs.CL2025

UltraIF: Advancing Instruction Following from the Wild

Kaikai An, Li Sheng, Ganqu Cui +4

Instruction-following made modern large language models (LLMs) helpful assistants. However, the key to taming LLMs on complex instructions remains mysterious, for that there are hu…

cs.CL2025

Scaling Physical Reasoning with the PHYSICS Dataset

Shenghe Zheng, Qianjia Cheng, Junchi Yao +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress on advanced reasoning tasks such as mathematics and coding competitions. Meanwhile, physics, despite being both reaso…

cs.CL2025

AIR: A Systematic Analysis of Annotations, Instructions, and Response Pairs in Preference Dataset

Bingxiang He, Wenbin Zhang, Jiaxi Song +11

Preference learning is critical for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values, yet its success hinges on high-quality datasets comprising three core components: Prefe…

cs.CL2024

UltraMedical: Building Specialized Generalists in Biomedicine

Kaiyan Zhang, Sihang Zeng, Ermo Hua +11

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains and are moving towards more specialized areas. Recent advanced proprietary models such…

cs.LG2025

Intern-S1: A Scientific Multimodal Foundation Model

Lei Bai, Zhongrui Cai, Yuhang Cao +173

In recent years, a plethora of open-source foundation models have emerged, achieving remarkable progress in some widely attended fields, with performance being quite close to that…

cs.CL2026

InternAgentHarness: A Scalable Synthetic Environment for Enhancing LLM Agentic Abilities

Peiji Li, Jiasheng Ye, Yongkang Chen +19

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly expected to act as generalist agents capable of solving complex real-world problems. Training such agents, however, requires stable an…

cs.CL2023

Decoder Tuning: Efficient Language Understanding as Decoding

Ganqu Cui, Wentao Li, Ning Ding +3

With the evergrowing sizes of pre-trained models (PTMs), it has been an emerging practice to only provide the inference APIs for users, namely model-as-a-service (MaaS) setting. To…

cs.LG2020

Adaptive Graph Encoder for Attributed Graph Embedding

Ganqu Cui, Jie Zhou, Cheng Yang +1

Attributed graph embedding, which learns vector representations from graph topology and node features, is a challenging task for graph analysis. Recently, methods based on graph co…

cs.CL2025

MiniCPM4: Ultra-Efficient LLMs on End Devices

MiniCPM Team, Chaojun Xiao, Yuxuan Li +80

This paper introduces MiniCPM4, a highly efficient large language model (LLM) designed explicitly for end-side devices. We achieve this efficiency through systematic innovation in…

cs.CL2025

From Drafts to Answers: Unlocking LLM Potential via Aggregation Fine-Tuning

Yafu Li, Zhilin Wang, Tingchen Fu +3

Scaling data and model size has been proven effective for boosting the performance of large language models. In addition to training-time scaling, recent studies have revealed that…

cs.CL2024

Mastering Text, Code and Math Simultaneously via Fusing Highly Specialized Language Models

Ning Ding, Yulin Chen, Ganqu Cui +6

Underlying data distributions of natural language, programming code, and mathematical symbols vary vastly, presenting a complex challenge for large language models (LLMs) that stri…

cs.CL2023

Revisiting Out-of-distribution Robustness in NLP: Benchmark, Analysis, and LLMs Evaluations

Lifan Yuan, Yangyi Chen, Ganqu Cui +6

This paper reexamines the research on out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness in the field of NLP. We find that the distribution shift settings in previous studies commonly lack adequ…