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most citedEfficient Prompting Methods for Large Language Models: A Survey

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cs.LG2026

Learning from Environmental Feedback: Credit Assignment across Multiple Timescales for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Yifu Huo, Shunjie Xing, Chenglong Wang +8

Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) often suffers from delayed and sparse rewards in real-world environments. A promising solution to this challenge is credit assignment, which aim…

cs.LG2026

RRC: Unlocking Generative Reward Models in LLM Reinforcement Learning via Ranking-Based Reward Construction

Chenglong Wang, Ziming Zhu, Yifu Huo +9

Recent advances in reward modeling show a paradigm shift from discriminative reward models to generative reward models. However, despite their strong capabilities in response ranki…

cs.LG2026

FlowCTS: On-policy Continuous Trajectory Supervision of Flow Models

Kaiyang Ye, Yuan Ge, Junxiang Zhang +8

While on-policy distillation (OPD) effectively addresses sparse rewards and exposure bias in large language model post-training, its extension to flow models remains underexplored.…

cs.CL2026

ToFu: A White-Box, Token-Efficient Agent Harness for Researchers

Junhao Ruan, Yuan Ge, Bei Li +7

Agentic coding tools present new opportunities to transform research workflows. The performance of agent systems built depends on both large language models (LLMs) and the harness…

cs.CL2026

HybridThinker: Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Compressed Memory and Transient Thought Steps

Xin Liu, Runsong Zhao, Xinyu Liu +8

Extended chain-of-thought (CoT) traces improve LLM reasoning but incur substantial computational and memory costs. While existing CoT compression methods mitigate this by condensin…

cs.LG2026

Teacher-Guided Policy Optimization for On-Policy Reasoning Distillation under Large Policy Divergence

Xinyu Liu, Kechen Jiao, Chunyang Xiao +10

On-policy distillation (OPD) has become a promising paradigm for reasoning-oriented post-training of large language models (LLMs), especially when combined with reinforcement learn…

cs.AI2026

MemoSight: Unifying Context Compression and Multi Token Prediction for Reasoning Acceleration

Xinyu Liu, Xin Liu, Bo Jin +8

While chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning enables LLMs to solve challenging reasoning tasks, the linear growth of the KV cache leads to substantial memory and inference overhead. Exis…

cs.CL2026

RouteLMT: Learned Sample Routing for Hybrid LLM Translation Deployment

Yingfeng Luo, Hongyu Liu, Dingyang Lin +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance in Machine Translation (MT), but deploying them at scale remains prohibitively expensive. A widely adopted remedy…

cs.CL2026

SPS: Steering Probability Squeezing for Better Exploration in Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models

Yifu Huo, Chenglong Wang, Ziming Zhu +9

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for training reasoning-oriented models by leveraging rule-based reward signals. However, RL training typically tends…

cs.CV2026

MSRL: Scaling Generative Multimodal Reward Modeling via Multi-Stage Reinforcement Learning

Chenglong Wang, Yifu Huo, Yang Gan +8

Recent advances in multimodal reward modeling have been largely driven by a paradigm shift from discriminative to generative approaches. Building on this progress, recent studies h…

cs.CL2026

On the Emotion Understanding of Synthesized Speech

Yuan Ge, Haishu Zhao, Aokai Hao +10

Emotion is a core paralinguistic feature in voice interaction. It is widely believed that emotion understanding models learn fundamental representations that transfer to synthesize…

cs.SD2026

When Scaling Fails: Mitigating Audio Perception Decay of LALMs via Multi-Step Perception-Aware Reasoning

Ruixiang Mao, Xiangnan Ma, Dan Chen +12

Test-Time Scaling has shown notable efficacy in addressing complex problems through scaling inference compute. However, within Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs), an unintuitive p…

cs.CL2026

APR: Penalizing Structural Redundancy in Large Reasoning Models via Anchor-based Process Rewards

Kaiyan Chang, Chenwei Zhu, Yingfeng Luo +7

Test-Time Scaling (TTS) has significantly enhanced the capabilities of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) but introduces a critical side-effect known as Overthinking. We conduct a preli…

cs.CL2026

RM-Distiller: Exploiting Generative LLM for Reward Model Distillation

Hongli Zhou, Hui Huang, Wei Liu +8

Reward models (RMs) play a pivotal role in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. Due to the difficulty of obtaining high-quality human preference annotation…

cs.CL2026

SERM: Self-Evolving Relevance Model with Agent-Driven Learning from Massive Query Streams

Chenglong Wang, Canjia Li, Xingzhao Zhu +9

Due to the dynamically evolving nature of real-world query streams, relevance models struggle to generalize to practical search scenarios. A sophisticated solution is self-evolutio…

cs.CL2025

Probing Preference Representations: A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation and Analysis Method for Reward Models

Chenglong Wang, Yifu Huo, Yang Gan +10

Previous methods evaluate reward models by testing them on a fixed pairwise ranking test set, but they typically do not provide performance information on each preference dimension…

cs.CL2025

MRO: Enhancing Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models via Multi-Reward Optimization

Chenglong Wang, Yang Gan, Hang Zhou +10

Recent advances in diffusion language models (DLMs) have presented a promising alternative to traditional autoregressive large language models (LLMs). However, DLMs still lag behin…

cs.CL2025

GRAM-R: Self-Training Generative Foundation Reward Models for Reward Reasoning

Chenglong Wang, Yongyu Mu, Hang Zhou +10

Significant progress in reward modeling over recent years has been driven by a paradigm shift from task-specific designs towards generalist reward models. Despite this trend, devel…

cs.CL2025

HEAL: A Hypothesis-Based Preference-Aware Analysis Framework

Yifu Huo, Chenglong Wang, Qiren Zhu +5

Preference optimization methods like DPO have achieved remarkable performance in LLM alignment. However, the evaluation for these methods relies on a single response and overlooks…

cs.CL2025

SageLM: A Multi-aspect and Explainable Large Language Model for Speech Judgement

Yuan Ge, Junxiang Zhang, Xiaoqian Liu +10

Speech-to-Speech (S2S) Large Language Models (LLMs) are foundational to natural human-computer interaction, enabling end-to-end spoken dialogue systems. However, evaluating these m…

cs.CL2025

LaTeXTrans: Structured LaTeX Translation with Multi-Agent Coordination

Ziming Zhu, Chenglong Wang, Haosong Xv +8

Despite the remarkable progress of modern machine translation (MT) systems on general-domain texts, translating structured LaTeX-formatted documents remains a significant challenge…

cs.CL2025

Step-level Verifier-guided Hybrid Test-Time Scaling for Large Language Models

Kaiyan Chang, Yonghao Shi, Chenglong Wang +7

Test-Time Scaling (TTS) is a promising approach to progressively elicit the model's intelligence during inference. Recently, training-based TTS methods, such as continued reinforce…

cs.CL2025

GRAM: A Generative Foundation Reward Model for Reward Generalization

Chenglong Wang, Yang Gan, Yifu Huo +8

In aligning large language models (LLMs), reward models have played an important role, but are standardly trained as discriminative models and rely only on labeled human preference…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Effective Length Extrapolation via Dimension-Wise Positional Embeddings Manipulation

Yi Lu, Wanxu Zhao, Xin Zhou +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle to process and generate coherent context when the number of input tokens exceeds the pre-trained length. Recent advancements in long-con…