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11 papers

cs.LG2026

MiniOpt: Reasoning to Model and Solve General Optimization Problems with Limited Resources

Ke Zhao, Zixiang Di, Hong Qian +9

Achieving strong optimization generalization across diverse optimization problems while requiring limited training resources remains a challenging problem for optimization-oriented…

cs.CL2026

PolicyAlign: Direct Policy-Based Safety Alignment for Large Language Models

Chang Wu, Junfeng Fang, Houcheng Jiang +5

Safety alignment of large language models (LLMs) typically depends on high-quality supervision data, such as safe demonstrations or preference pairs. However, in real-world deploym…

cs.LG2026

DEFINED: A Data-Efficient Computational Framework for Fine-Grained Creativity Assessment in Debate Scenarios

Tongzhou Yu, Mingjia Li, Hong Qian +6

Human creativity has emerged as a critical competency in the era of large language models. Assessing creativity in complex, open-ended environments is a grand challenge in data min…

cs.AI2026

IntElicit: Eliciting and Assessing Contextualized Creativity via Dialogue Policy Optimization

Mingjia Li, Jin Wu, Hong Qian +7

Contextualized assessment offers high ecological validity for evaluating creativity but introduces a critical challenge: observed performance may be confounded with cognitive profi…

cs.CL2026

CollabBench: Benchmarking and Unleashing Collaborative Ability of LLMs with Diverse Players via Proactive Engagement

Hong Qian, Yuanhao Liu, Zihan Zhou +7

While LLM-based agents excel at individual tasks, effective collaboration with realistic human partners remains challenging. Most of the existing conversation-level collaborative s…

cs.CL2026

Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameters

Ailin Huang, Ang Li, Aobo Kong +213

We introduce Step 3.5 Flash, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that bridges frontier-level agentic intelligence and computational efficiency. We focus on what matters most wh…