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cs.CL2026

The Bitter Lesson of Diffusion Language Models for Agentic Workflows: A Comprehensive Reality Check

Qingyu Lu, Liang Ding, Kanjian Zhang +2

The pursuit of real-time agentic interaction has driven interest in Diffusion-based Large Language Models (dLLMs) as alternatives to auto-regressive backbones, promising to break t…

cs.CL2025

Reason-KE++: Aligning the Process, Not Just the Outcome, for Faithful LLM Knowledge Editing

Yuchen Wu, Liang Ding, Li Shen +1

Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) to be faithful to new knowledge in complex, multi-hop reasoning tasks is a critical, yet unsolved, challenge. We find that SFT-based methods,…

cs.CL2025

Robust Knowledge Editing via Explicit Reasoning Chains for Distractor-Resilient Multi-Hop QA

Yuchen Wu, Liang Ding, Li Shen +1

Large language models (LLMs) encode vast amounts of world knowledge but remain static once trained, making the timely integration of emerging facts prohibitively expensive via full…

cs.CL2025

Revisiting Overthinking in Long Chain-of-Thought from the Perspective of Self-Doubt

Keqin Peng, Liang Ding, Yuanxin Ouyang +2

Reasoning Large Language Models (RLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on complex tasks, largely due to the adoption of Long Chain-of-Thought (Long CoT) reasoning. Howeve…

cs.CL2025

KaFT: Knowledge-aware Fine-tuning for Boosting LLMs' Domain-specific Question-Answering Performance

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Xiantao Cai +3

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a common approach to improve the domain-specific question-answering (QA) performance of large language models (LLMs). However, recent literature rev…

cs.CL2025

Runaway is Ashamed, But Helpful: On the Early-Exit Behavior of Large Language Model-based Agents in Embodied Environments

Qingyu Lu, Liang Ding, Siyi Cao +4

Agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong planning and decision-making capabilities in complex embodied environments. However, such agents often suffe…

cs.CL2025

Entropy-Guided Watermarking for LLMs: A Test-Time Framework for Robust and Traceable Text Generation

Shizhan Cai, Liang Ding, Dacheng Tao

The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has intensified concerns about content traceability and potential misuse. Existing watermarking schemes for sampled text often…

cs.CL2025

VisuoThink: Empowering LVLM Reasoning with Multimodal Tree Search

Yikun Wang, Siyin Wang, Qinyuan Cheng +5

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models have showcased remarkable capabilities. However, they often falter when confronted with complex reasoning tasks that humans typi…

cs.CL2025

Edit Once, Update Everywhere: A Simple Framework for Cross-Lingual Knowledge Synchronization in LLMs

Yuchen Wu, Liang Ding, Li Shen +1

Knowledge editing allows for efficient adaptation of large language models (LLMs) to new information or corrections without requiring full retraining. However, prior methods typica…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Input-Label Mapping in In-Context Learning with Contrastive Decoding

Keqin Peng, Liang Ding, Yuanxin Ouyang +3

Large language models (LLMs) excel at a range of tasks through in-context learning (ICL), where only a few task examples guide their predictions. However, prior research highlights…

cs.CL2024

Learning from Imperfect Data: Towards Efficient Knowledge Distillation of Autoregressive Language Models for Text-to-SQL

Qihuang Zhong, Kunfeng Chen, Liang Ding +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in text-to-SQL, which involves translating natural language questions into SQL queries. However, current text-to-SQL L…

cs.CL2024

Self-Powered LLM Modality Expansion for Large Speech-Text Models

Tengfei Yu, Xuebo Liu, Zhiyi Hou +3

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable performance across diverse tasks, indicating their potential for expansion into large speech-text models (LSMs) by integrating speec…

cs.CL2024

Exploring and Enhancing the Transfer of Distribution in Knowledge Distillation for Autoregressive Language Models

Jun Rao, Xuebo Liu, Zepeng Lin +4

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique that compresses large teacher models by training smaller student models to mimic them. The success of KD in auto-regressive language mode…

cs.CL2024

MQM-APE: Toward High-Quality Error Annotation Predictors with Automatic Post-Editing in LLM Translation Evaluators

Qingyu Lu, Liang Ding, Kanjian Zhang +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential as judges for Machine Translation (MT) quality assessment, providing both scores and fine-grained feedback. Although a…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Aligning Large Language Models from Self-Reference AI Feedback with one General Principle

Rong Bao, Rui Zheng, Shihan Dou +6

In aligning large language models (LLMs), utilizing feedback from existing advanced AI rather than humans is an important method to scale supervisory signals. However, it is highly…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Uncertainty Aware Learning for Language Model Alignment

Yikun Wang, Rui Zheng, Liang Ding +3

As instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) evolve, aligning pretrained foundation models presents increasing challenges. Existing alignment strategies, which typically lever…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Revisiting Catastrophic Forgetting in Large Language Model Tuning

Hongyu Li, Liang Ding, Meng Fang +1

Catastrophic Forgetting (CF) means models forgetting previously acquired knowledge when learning new data. It compromises the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) during f…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Improving Complex Reasoning over Knowledge Graph with Logic-Aware Curriculum Tuning

Tianle Xia, Liang Ding, Guojia Wan +3

Answering complex queries over incomplete knowledge graphs (KGs) is a challenging job. Most previous works have focused on learning entity/relation embeddings and simulating first-…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Achieving >97% on GSM8K: Deeply Understanding the Problems Makes LLMs Better Solvers for Math Word Problems

Qihuang Zhong, Kang Wang, Ziyang Xu +3

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has enhanced the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) across various reasoning tasks. However, CoT still falls short in dealing with complex…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Take Care of Your Prompt Bias! Investigating and Mitigating Prompt Bias in Factual Knowledge Extraction

Ziyang Xu, Keqin Peng, Liang Ding +2

Recent research shows that pre-trained language models (PLMs) suffer from "prompt bias" in factual knowledge extraction, i.e., prompts tend to introduce biases toward specific labe…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Building Accurate Translation-Tailored LLMs with Language Aware Instruction Tuning

Changtong Zan, Liang Ding, Li Shen +3

Translation-tailored Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable translation capabilities, even competing with supervised-trained commercial translation systems. However, off-t…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

OOP: Object-Oriented Programming Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models

Shuai Wang, Liang Ding, Li Shen +3

Advancing automated programming necessitates robust and comprehensive code generation benchmarks, yet current evaluation frameworks largely neglect object-oriented programming (OOP…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

WisdoM: Improving Multimodal Sentiment Analysis by Fusing Contextual World Knowledge

Wenbin Wang, Liang Ding, Li Shen +3

Sentiment analysis is rapidly advancing by utilizing various data modalities (e.g., text, image). However, most previous works relied on superficial information, neglecting the inc…

cs.CL2024

Revisiting Knowledge Distillation for Autoregressive Language Models

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Li Shen +3

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a common approach to compress a teacher model to reduce its inference cost and memory footprint, by training a smaller student model. However, in the…