collaborators

13 papers

cs.CL2026

Peer-Predictive Self-Training for Language Model Reasoning

Shi Feng, Hanlin Zhang, Fan Nie +2

Mechanisms for continued self-improvement of language models without external supervision remain an open challenge. We propose Peer-Predictive Self-Training (PST), a label-free fin…

cs.LG2026

Prescriptive Scaling Reveals the Evolution of Language Model Capabilities

Hanlin Zhang, Jikai Jin, Vasilis Syrgkanis +1

Machine learning model performance improvements tend to arise from competition and application. For deployment, we consider prescriptive scaling laws: given a pre-training compute…

eess.AS2026

SpeechEditBench: A Bilingual Multi-Attribute Benchmark for Instruction-Guided Speech Editing

Hanlin Zhang, Daxin Tan, Dehua Tao +3

Instruction-guided speech editing requires a model to modify specified speech attributes while preserving unrelated characteristics. Despite rapid progress in Speech Large Language…

cs.LG2026

Weight Decay Improves Language Model Plasticity

Tessa Han, Sebastian Bordt, Hanlin Zhang +1

Large language models are typically trained in two broad phases: pretraining to produce a base model, followed by further training to improve downstream performance. However, hyper…

cs.LG2026

Scaling Reward Modeling without Human Supervision

Jingxuan Fan, Yueying Li, Zhenting Qi +4

Learning from feedback is an instrumental process for advancing the capabilities and safety of frontier models, yet its effectiveness is often constrained by cost and scalability.…

cs.CL2025

EvoLM: In Search of Lost Language Model Training Dynamics

Zhenting Qi, Fan Nie, Alexandre Alahi +6

Modern language model (LM) training has been divided into multiple stages, making it difficult for downstream developers to evaluate the impact of design choices made at each stage…