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7 papers

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

Sentinel: Decoding Context Utilization via Attention Probing for Efficient LLM Context Compression

Yong Zhang, Heng Li, Yanwen Huang +6

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) often suffers from long and noisy retrieved contexts. Existing context compression methods typically rely on heuristic relevance estimation or…

cs.CL2026

Astra: Activation-Space Tail-Eigenvector Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

Kainan Liu, Yong Zhang, Ning Cheng +4

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods, especially LoRA, are widely used for adapting pre-trained models to downstream tasks due to their computational and storage efficien…

cs.CL2026

GRASP: Replace Redundant Layers with Adaptive Singular Parameters for Efficient Model Compression

Kainan Liu, Yong Zhang, Ning Cheng +3

Recent studies have demonstrated that many layers are functionally redundant in large language models (LLMs), enabling model compression by removing these layers to reduce inferenc…

cs.CL2025

Dynamic Attention-Guided Context Decoding for Mitigating Context Faithfulness Hallucinations in Large Language Models

Yanwen Huang, Yong Zhang, Ning Cheng +3

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit Context Faithfulness Hallucinations, where outputs deviate from retrieved information due to incomplete context integration. Our analysis…

cs.CL2025

Self-Enhanced Reasoning Training: Activating Latent Reasoning in Small Models for Enhanced Reasoning Distillation

Yong Zhang, Bingyuan Zhang, Zhitao Li +7

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced their reasoning abilities, enabling increasingly complex tasks. However, these capabilities often d…