activity
20242026
collaborators

35 papers

cs.LG2026

ARMOR: Stabilizing On-Policy LLM RL with Off-Policy Anchor Samples

Kexin Huang, Junkang Wu, Jinda Lu +7

Reinforcement learning (RL) has significantly enhanced the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet the training process remains notoriously fragile. In this wor…

cs.IR2026

DynamicPO: Dynamic Preference Optimization for Recommendation

Xingyu Hu, Kai Zhang, Jiancan Wu +7

In large language model (LLM)-based recommendation systems, direct preference optimization (DPO) effectively aligns recommendations with user preferences, requiring multi-negative…

cs.CL2026

Confidence Before Answering: A Paradigm Shift for Efficient LLM Uncertainty Estimation

Changcheng Li, Jiancan Wu, Hengheng Zhang +5

Reliable deployment of large language models (LLMs) requires accurate uncertainty estimation. Existing methods are predominantly answer-first, producing confidence only after gener…

cs.AI2026

Teaching Large Language Models When Not to Know: Learning Temporal Critique for Ex-Ante Reasoning

Chenlu Ding, Jiancan Wu, Yanchen Luo +3

Large language models (LLMs) often fail to reason under temporal cutoffs: when prompted to answer from the standpoint of an earlier time, they exploit knowledge that became availab…

cs.AI2026

Scaling Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning with Parallel Search and Explicit Merging

Jiabei Liu, Wenyu Mao, Junfei Tan +4

Deep search agents have proven effective in enhancing LLMs by retrieving external knowledge during multi-step reasoning. However, existing methods often generate a single query for…

cs.MA2026

Joint Optimization of Multi-agent Memory System

Wenyu Mao, Haoyang Liu, Haosong Tan +4

Memory systems are critical for LLMs, mitigating context window limitations and supporting long-horizon user-LLM interactions. Such systems typically comprise multiple agents respo…