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20222025
most citedThe Rise and Potential of Large Language Model Based Agents: A Survey

256 citations · 435 across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

cs.CL2025

Critique-RL: Training Language Models for Critiquing through Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning

Zhiheng Xi, Jixuan Huang, Xin Guo +15

Training critiquing language models to assess and provide feedback on model outputs is a promising way to improve LLMs for complex reasoning tasks. However, existing approaches typ…

cs.CL2025

What Makes a Good Speech Tokenizer for LLM-Centric Speech Generation? A Systematic Study

Xiaoran Fan, Zhichao Sun, Yangfan Gao +19

Speech-language models (SLMs) offer a promising path toward unifying speech and text understanding and generation. However, challenges remain in achieving effective cross-modal ali…

cs.CL2025

Better Process Supervision with Bi-directional Rewarding Signals

Wenxiang Chen, Wei He, Zhiheng Xi +9

Process supervision, i.e., evaluating each step, is critical for complex large language model (LLM) reasoning and test-time searching with increased inference compute. Existing app…

cs.CL2024

Enhancing LLM Reasoning via Critique Models with Test-Time and Training-Time Supervision

Zhiheng Xi, Dingwen Yang, Jixuan Huang +21

Training large language models (LLMs) to spend more time thinking and reflection before responding is crucial for effectively solving complex reasoning tasks in fields such as scie…

cs.CV2024

Have the VLMs Lost Confidence? A Study of Sycophancy in VLMs

Shuo Li, Tao Ji, Xiaoran Fan +10

In the study of LLMs, sycophancy represents a prevalent hallucination that poses significant challenges to these models. Specifically, LLMs often fail to adhere to original correct…

cs.CL2024

RMB: Comprehensively Benchmarking Reward Models in LLM Alignment

Enyu Zhou, Guodong Zheng, Binghai Wang +11

Reward models (RMs) guide the alignment of large language models (LLMs), steering them toward behaviors preferred by humans. Evaluating RMs is the key to better aligning LLMs. Howe…

cs.SE2024★ 6 cited

What's Wrong with Your Code Generated by Large Language Models? An Extensive Study

Shihan Dou, Haoxiang Jia, Shenxi Wu +14

The increasing development of LLMs in code generation has drawn significant attention among researchers. To enhance LLM-based code generation ability, current efforts are predomina…

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.AI2024★ 3 cited

AgentGym: Evolving Large Language Model-based Agents across Diverse Environments

Zhiheng Xi, Yiwen Ding, Wenxiang Chen +17

Building generalist agents that can handle diverse tasks and evolve themselves across different environments is a long-term goal in the AI community. Large language models (LLMs) a…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

SafeAligner: Safety Alignment against Jailbreak Attacks via Response Disparity Guidance

Caishuang Huang, Wanxu Zhao, Rui Zheng +11

As the development of large language models (LLMs) rapidly advances, securing these models effectively without compromising their utility has become a pivotal area of research. How…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

SPA-VL: A Comprehensive Safety Preference Alignment Dataset for Vision Language Model

Yongting Zhang, Lu Chen, Guodong Zheng +10

The emergence of Vision Language Models (VLMs) has brought unprecedented advances in understanding multimodal information. The combination of textual and visual semantics in VLMs i…

cs.LG2024

MetaRM: Shifted Distributions Alignment via Meta-Learning

Shihan Dou, Yan Liu, Enyu Zhou +9

The success of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) in language model alignment is critically dependent on the capability of the reward model (RM). However, as the tra…

cs.LG2024

Subspace Defense: Discarding Adversarial Perturbations by Learning a Subspace for Clean Signals

Rui Zheng, Yuhao Zhou, Zhiheng Xi +3

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are notoriously vulnerable to adversarial attacks that place carefully crafted perturbations on normal examples to fool DNNs. To better understand such…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

EasyJailbreak: A Unified Framework for Jailbreaking Large Language Models

Weikang Zhou, Xiao Wang, Limao Xiong +18

Jailbreak attacks are crucial for identifying and mitigating the security vulnerabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). They are designed to bypass safeguards and elicit prohibi…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

Training Large Language Models for Reasoning through Reverse Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

Zhiheng Xi, Wenxiang Chen, Boyang Hong +18

In this paper, we propose R: Learning Reasoning through Reverse Curriculum Reinforcement Learning (RL), a novel method that employs only outcome supervision to achieve the bene…

cs.SE2024★ 3 cited

StepCoder: Improve Code Generation with Reinforcement Learning from Compiler Feedback

Shihan Dou, Yan Liu, Haoxiang Jia +14

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly propelled the field of code generation. Previous work integrated reinforcement learning (RL) with compiler feedbac…

cs.CV2024

MouSi: Poly-Visual-Expert Vision-Language Models

Xiaoran Fan, Tao Ji, Changhao Jiang +21

Current large vision-language models (VLMs) often encounter challenges such as insufficient capabilities of a single visual component and excessively long visual tokens. These issu…

cs.AI2024★ 8 cited

Secrets of RLHF in Large Language Models Part II: Reward Modeling

Binghai Wang, Rui Zheng, Lu Chen +24

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become a crucial technology for aligning language models with human values and intentions, enabling models to produce more hel…

cs.CL2024

Linear Alignment: A Closed-form Solution for Aligning Human Preferences without Tuning and Feedback

Songyang Gao, Qiming Ge, Wei Shen +9

The success of AI assistants based on Language Models (LLMs) hinges on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) to comprehend and align with user intentions. However, trad…

cs.CL2023★ 8 cited

LoRAMoE: Alleviate World Knowledge Forgetting in Large Language Models via MoE-Style Plugin

Shihan Dou, Enyu Zhou, Yan Liu +13

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a crucial step for large language models (LLMs), enabling them to align with human instructions and enhance their capabilities in downstream tasks.…

cs.CL2023

Loose lips sink ships: Mitigating Length Bias in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Wei Shen, Rui Zheng, Wenyu Zhan +5

Reinforcement learning from human feedback serves as a crucial bridge, aligning large language models with human and societal values. This alignment requires a vast corpus of human…

cs.CL2023

Rescue: Ranking LLM Responses with Partial Ordering to Improve Response Generation

Yikun Wang, Rui Zheng, Haoming Li +3

Customizing LLMs for a specific task involves separating high-quality responses from lower-quality ones. This skill can be developed using supervised fine-tuning with extensive hum…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Orthogonal Subspace Learning for Language Model Continual Learning

Xiao Wang, Tianze Chen, Qiming Ge +6

Benefiting from massive corpora and advanced hardware, large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities in language understanding and generation. However, their perform…