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10 papers

cs.CL2026

Distilling the Essence: Efficient Reasoning Distillation via Sequence Truncation

Wei-Rui Chen, Vignesh Kothapalli, Ata Fatahibaarzi +5

Distilling the capabilities from a large reasoning model (LRM) to a smaller student model often involves training on substantial amounts of reasoning data. However, knowledge disti…

cs.AI2026

Reasoning Models Can be Accurately Pruned Via Chain-of-Thought Reconstruction

Ryan Lucas, Kayhan Behdin, Zhipeng Wang +3

Reasoning language models such as DeepSeek-R1 produce long chain-of-thought traces during inference time which make them costly to deploy at scale. We show that using compression t…

cs.CL2026

Your Agent is More Brittle Than You Think: Uncovering Indirect Injection Vulnerabilities in Agentic LLMs

Wenhui Zhu, Xuanzhao Dong, Xiwen Chen +7

The rapid deployment of open-source frameworks has significantly advanced the development of modern multi-agent systems. However, expanded action spaces, including uncontrolled pri…

cs.CV2026

Bridging Restoration and Diagnosis: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Retinal Fundus Enhancement

Xuanzhao Dong, Wenhui Zhu, Xiwen Chen +8

Over the past decade, generative models have demonstrated success in enhancing fundus images. However, the evaluation of these models remains a challenge. A benchmark for fundus im…

cs.CV2026

OTPrune: Distribution-Aligned Visual Token Pruning via Optimal Transport

Xiwen Chen, Wenhui Zhu, Gen Li +9

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong visual-language reasoning but suffer from high inference cost due to redundant visual tokens. Recent work explores visual t…

cs.CV2026

LLaDA-MedV: Exploring Large Language Diffusion Models for Biomedical Image Understanding

Xuanzhao Dong, Wenhui Zhu, Xiwen Chen +5

Autoregressive models (ARMs) have long dominated the landscape of biomedical vision-language models (VLMs). Recently, masked diffusion models such as LLaDA have emerged as promisin…