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cs.CL2026

Post-Training Shifts Confidence: A Three-Stage Analysis of How SFT, RL, and OPD Shape CoT Calibration

Shuhao Li, Guodong Du, Anhao Zhao +3

The paper examines how supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and on‑policy distillation affect confidence estimates of large language models during chain‑of‑thought reaso…

cs.IR2026

miniReranker: Efficient Multimodal Reranking through Visual Cache Reuse and Interaction Sparsity

Yingqi Fan, Xuan Lu, Anhao Zhao +6

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently shown strong potential as point-wise rerankers by directly modeling query--document relevance through next-token prediction.…

cs.LG2026

PowerOPD: Stabilizing On-Policy Distillation with Bounded Power Transformation

Anhao Zhao, Junlong Tong, Yingqi Fan +3

Standard on-policy distillation (OPD) for large language models estimates the reverse-KL objective using student-sampled tokens, yielding an unbiased single-sample Monte Carlo esti…

cs.CL2026

AdaSR: Adaptive Streaming Reasoning with Hierarchical Relative Policy Optimization

Junlong Tong, Wenqi Xu, Yingqi Fan +4

Large reasoning models typically follow a read-then-think paradigm: they observe the complete input, reason over a static context, and then produce the answer. Yet many real-world…

cs.LG2026

Escaping the KL Agreement Trap in On-Policy Distillation

Haoran Xin, Anhao Zhao, Ying Sun +3

On-policy distillation (OPD) provides dense token-level supervision by asking a teacher to score student-generated rollouts. However, when the student drifts into an unrecoverable…

cs.LG2026

Beyond FLOPs: Benchmarking Real Inference Acceleration of LLM Pruning under a GEMM-Centric Taxonomy

Haozhe Hu, Hao Wu, Anhao Zhao +4

Pruning has emerged as a dominant paradigm for accelerating large language model (LLM) inference, spanning a broad spectrum of methods that remove computation across tokens, layers…