15 papers
Are We Measuring Strategy or Phrasing? The Gap Between Surface- and Approach-Level Diversity in LLM Math Reasoning
Sangmook Lee, Minbeom Kim, Jeonghye Kim +3
Diversity in LLM mathematical reasoning is critical for exploration, but common diversity metrics mostly capture surface-level variation rather than differences in how a problem is…
Beyond Normalization: Rethinking the Partition Function as a Difficulty Scheduler for RLVR
Dohyung Kim, Minbeom Kim, Jeonghye Kim +3
Reward-maximizing RL methods have shown to be capable of enhancing the reasoning performance of LLMs, but often lead to reduced generation diversity. Recent works address this issu…
Understanding Reasoning in LLMs through Strategic Information Allocation under Uncertainty
Jeonghye Kim, Xufang Luo, Minbeom Kim +3
LLMs often exhibit Aha moments such as self-correction after tokens like "Wait," yet the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Standard LLMs collapse mainly through silent divergen…
Why Does Self-Distillation (Sometimes) Degrade the Reasoning Capability of LLMs?
Jeonghye Kim, Xufang Luo, Minbeom Kim +5
Self-distillation has emerged as an effective post-training paradigm for LLMs, often improving performance while shortening reasoning traces. However, in mathematical reasoning, we…
LiSA: Lifelong Safety Adaptation via Conservative Policy Induction
Minbeom Kim, Lesly Miculicich, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra +6
As AI agents move from chat interfaces to systems that read private data, call tools, and execute multi-step workflows, guardrails become a last line of defense against concrete de…
ReflectCAP: Detailed Image Captioning with Reflective Memory
Kyungmin Min, Minbeom Kim, Kang-il Lee +2
Detailed image captioning demands both factual grounding and fine-grained coverage, yet existing methods have struggled to achieve them simultaneously. We address this tension with…