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6 papers

cs.CL2026

SocialPersona: Benchmarking Personalized Profiling and Response with Multimodal Social-Media Context

Qinkai Zhang, Yanyan Zhao, Xin Lu +3

Personalized language-model assistants are often evaluated through a memory lens: can a model recall preferences users have explicitly stated in dialogue? More comprehensive person…

cs.AI2026

Self-Foveate: Enhancing Diversity and Difficulty of Synthesized Instructions from Unsupervised Text via Multi-Level Foveation

Mingzhe Li, Xin Lu, Yanyan Zhao

Synthesizing high-quality instruction data from unsupervised text is a promising paradigm for training large language models (LLMs), yet automated methods for this task still exhib…

cs.AI2026

STAR-S: Improving Safety Alignment through Self-Taught Reasoning on Safety Rules

Di Wu, Yanyan Zhao, Xin Lu +2

Defending against jailbreak attacks is crucial for the safe deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent research has attempted to improve safety by training models to reason…

cs.CL2025

Improving the Downstream Performance of Mixture-of-Experts Transformers via Weak Vanilla Transformers

Xin Lu, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin +1

Recently, Mixture of Experts (MoE) Transformers have garnered increasing attention due to their advantages in model capacity and computational efficiency. However, studies have ind…

cs.CL2025

How Does Sequence Modeling Architecture Influence Base Capabilities of Pre-trained Language Models? Exploring Key Architecture Design Principles to Avoid Base Capabilities Degradation

Xin Lu, Yanyan Zhao, Si Wei +3

Pre-trained language models represented by the Transformer have been proven to possess strong base capabilities, and the representative self-attention mechanism in the Transformer…

cs.CL2025

Separate the Wheat from the Chaff: A Post-Hoc Approach to Safety Re-Alignment for Fine-Tuned Language Models

Di Wu, Xin Lu, Yanyan Zhao +1

Although large language models (LLMs) achieve effective safety alignment at the time of release, they still face various safety challenges. A key issue is that fine-tuning often co…