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Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge: Representation-as-a-Judge with Small Language Models via Semantic Capacity Asymmetry

Zhuochun Li, Yong Zhang, Ming Li +8

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as reference-free evaluators via prompting, but this "LLM-as-a-Judge" paradigm is costly, opaque, and sensitive to prompt design. In th…

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Swift-SVD: Theoretical Optimality Meets Practical Efficiency in Low-Rank LLM Compression

Ruoling Qi, Yirui Liu, Xuaner Wu +6

The deployment of Large Language Models is constrained by the memory and bandwidth demands of static weights and dynamic Key-Value cache. SVD-based compression provides a hardware-…

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Schoenfeld's Anatomy of Mathematical Reasoning by Language Models

Ming Li, Chenrui Fan, Yize Cheng +2

Large language models increasingly expose reasoning traces, yet their underlying cognitive structure and steps remain difficult to identify and analyze beyond surface-level statist…

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Can LLMs Estimate Student Struggles? Human-AI Difficulty Alignment with Proficiency Simulation for Item Difficulty Prediction

Ming Li, Han Chen, Yunze Xiao +3

Accurate estimation of item (question or task) difficulty is critical for educational assessment but suffers from the cold start problem. While Large Language Models demonstrate su…

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Mitigating Lost in Multi-turn Conversation via Curriculum RL with Verifiable Accuracy and Abstention Rewards

Ming Li, Pei Chen, Zhenhao Zhang +10

Large Language Models demonstrate strong capabilities in single-turn instruction following but suffer from Lost-in-Conversation (LiC), a degradation in performance as information i…

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On the Predictive Power of Representation Dispersion in Language Models

Yanhong Li, Ming Li, Karen Livescu +1

We show that a language model's ability to predict text is tightly linked to the breadth of its embedding space: models that spread their contextual representations more widely ten…