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20182026
most citedExplainable Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs for Recommendation

80 citations · 211 across the 42 of their papers we have counts for

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45 papers

cs.AI2026

CUSE: Fine-Grained Multimodal Unlearning with Counterfactual Guidance and On-Policy Self-Distillation

Chenlu Ding, Jiancan Wu, Yanchen Luo +4

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can reproduce sensitive, copyrighted, or unsafe information from their training data. Effective unlearning must remove target information w…

cs.AI2026

RePolicy: Reinforcement Learning for Safety-Policy Invocation in Agent Safeguards

Houcheng Jiang, Boxuan Zhang, Qiyong Zhong +3

Safeguarding language model agents requires assessing complete execution trajectories under context-dependent safety policies. Existing policy-aware safeguards mainly rely on promp…

cs.CV2026

PEA-DPO: Perception-Enhanced Alignment Direct Preference Optimization for MLLMs Alignment

Jiawei Feng, Jiancan Wu, Xingyu Zhu +3

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as an effective approach for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, its adaptation to multimodal se…

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.CL2026

R^2-Mem: Reflective Experience for Memory Search

Xinyuan Wang, Wenyu Mao, Junkang Wu +2

Deep search has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling agents to retrieve fine-grained historical information without heavy memory pre-managed. However, existing dee…

cs.CV2026

UniVLR: Unifying Text and Vision in Visual Latent Reasoning for Multimodal LLMs

Houcheng Jiang, Jiajun Fu, Junfeng Fang +4

Multimodal large language models are increasingly expected to perform thinking with images, yet existing visual latent reasoning methods still rely on explicit textual chain-of-tho…

cs.CV2026

Bridging Perception and Reasoning: Token Reweighting for RLVR in Multimodal LLMs

Jinda Lu, Junkang Wu, Jinghan Li +6

Extending Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) to multimodal large language models (MLLMs) faces a fundamental challenge: their responses inherently interleave per…

cs.CV2026

Principled Steering via Null-space Projection for Jailbreak Defense in Vision-Language Models

Xingyu Zhu, Beier Zhu, Shuo Wang +4

As vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in open-world scenarios, they can be easily induced by visual jailbreak attacks to generate harmful content, posing serio…

cs.LG2026

On the Direction of RLVR Updates for LLM Reasoning: Identification and Exploitation

Kexin Huang, Haoming Meng, Junkang Wu +10

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has substantially improved the reasoning capabilities of large language models. While existing analyses identify that RLVR-ind…

cs.CV2026

Enhancing Multi-Modal LLMs Reasoning via Difficulty-Aware Group Normalization

Jinghan Li, Junfeng Fang, Jinda Lu +5

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) have significantly advanced the reasoning capabilities of large language models.…

cs.LG2026

NExT-Guard: Training-Free Streaming Safeguard without Token-Level Labels

Junfeng Fang, Nachuan Chen, Houcheng Jiang +5

Large language models are increasingly deployed in streaming scenarios, rendering conventional post-hoc safeguards ineffective as they fail to interdict unsafe content in real-time…

cs.IR2026

Fine-grained Semantics Integration for Large Language Model-based Recommendation

Jiawei Feng, Xiaoyu Kong, Leheng Sheng +8

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven a shift in recommender systems from the discriminative paradigm to the LLM-based generative paradigm, where the recommen…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

MiniOneRec: An Open-Source Framework for Scaling Generative Recommendation

Xiaoyu Kong, Leheng Sheng, Junfei Tan +5

The recent success of large language models (LLMs) has renewed interest in whether recommender systems can achieve similar scaling benefits. Conventional recommenders, dominated by…

cs.CL2025

Contrastive Weak-to-strong Generalization

Houcheng Jiang, Junfeng Fang, Jiaxin Wu +5

Weak-to-strong generalization provides a promising paradigm for scaling large language models (LLMs) by training stronger models on samples from aligned weaker ones, without requir…

cs.LG2025

MLLMEraser: Achieving Test-Time Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models through Activation Steering

Chenlu Ding, Jiancan Wu, Leheng Sheng +4

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across vision-language tasks, yet their large-scale deployment raises pressing concerns about mem…

cs.CL2025

bi-GRPO: Bidirectional Optimization for Jailbreak Backdoor Injection on LLMs

Wence Ji, Jiancan Wu, Aiying Li +5

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), their robustness against adversarial manipulations, particularly jailbreak backdoor attacks, has become critically impor…

cs.LG2025

Quantile Advantage Estimation: Stabilizing RLVR for LLM Reasoning

Junkang Wu, Kexin Huang, Jiancan Wu +3

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) strengthens LLM reasoning, but training often oscillates between {entropy collapse} and {entropy explosion}. We trace both haz…

cs.CL2025

DualEdit: Mitigating Safety Fallback in LLM Backdoor Editing via Affirmation-Refusal Regulation

Houcheng Jiang, Zetong Zhao, Junfeng Fang +5

Safety-aligned large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Recent model editing-based approaches enable efficient backdoor injection by directly modifying a…

cs.IR2025

Addressing Missing Data Issue for Diffusion-based Recommendation

Wenyu Mao, Zhengyi Yang, Jiancan Wu +4

Diffusion models have shown significant potential in generating oracle items that best match user preference with guidance from user historical interaction sequences. However, the…

cs.CV2025

AdaViP: Aligning Multi-modal LLMs via Adaptive Vision-enhanced Preference Optimization

Jinda Lu, Jinghan Li, Yuan Gao +4

Preference alignment through Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has demonstrated significant effectiveness in aligning multimodal large language models (MLLMs) with human prefere…

cs.LG2025

Route Sparse Autoencoder to Interpret Large Language Models

Wei Shi, Sihang Li, Tao Liang +4

Mechanistic interpretability of large language models (LLMs) aims to uncover the internal processes of information propagation and reasoning. Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have demons…

cs.LG2025

RePO: Understanding Preference Learning Through ReLU-Based Optimization

Junkang Wu, Kexin Huang, Xue Wang +5

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences is critical for real-world deployment, yet existing methods like RLHF face computational and stability challenges. Whil…

cs.LG2025

Larger or Smaller Reward Margins to Select Preferences for Alignment?

Kexin Huang, Junkang Wu, Ziqian Chen +6

Preference learning is critical for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values, with the quality of preference datasets playing a crucial role in this process. While e…

cs.CV2025

DAMA: Data- and Model-aware Alignment of Multi-modal LLMs

Jinda Lu, Junkang Wu, Jinghan Li +6

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has shown effectiveness in aligning multi-modal large language models (MLLM) with human preferences. However, existing methods exhibit an imbal…