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21 papers

cs.CL2026

OPERA: Aligning Open-Ended Reasoning via Objective Perplexity-based Reinforcement Learning

Wenxuan Jiang, Zining Fan, Zijian Zhang +6

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has enabled LLMs to excel in objective reasoning tasks such as mathematics and code generation. However, applying RL to open-ended tasks, such as creati…

cs.IR2026

SAERec: Constructing Fine-grained Interpretable Intents Priors via Sparse Autoencoders for Recommendation

Jiangnan Xia, Xuansheng Wu, Yu Yang +2

Intent-based recommender systems have gained significant attention for improving accuracy and interpretability by modeling the underlying motivations behind user behaviors. Most ex…

cs.AI2026

Trust the Right Teacher: Quality-Aware Self-Distillation for GUI Grounding

Jingyuan Huang, Zuming Huang, Yucheng Shi +4

Graphical user interface (GUI) grounding requires vision-language models (VLMs) to identify small target elements in high-resolution screenshots and predict precise screen coordina…

cs.CL2026

Learnable Assessment Skills for LLM-based Automated Scoring: Rubric Construction via Iterative Optimization

Yun Wang, Xin Xia, Xuansheng Wu +2

LLM-based automated scoring approaches near-human performance, but scaling to new tasks remains bottlenecked by the per-item human configuration of upstream stages such as rubric c…

cs.CL2026

BRIDGE the Gap: Mitigating Bias Amplification in Automated Scoring of English Language Learners via Inter-group Data Augmentation

Yun Wang, Xuansheng Wu, Jingyuan Huang +3

In the field of educational assessment, automated scoring systems increasingly rely on deep learning and large language models (LLMs). However, these systems face significant risks…

cs.CV2026

Common Inpainted Objects In-N-Out of Context

Tianze Yang, Tyson Jordan, Ruitong Sun +2

We present Common Inpainted Objects In-N-Out of Context (COinCO), a novel dataset addressing the scarcity of out-of-context examples in existing vision datasets. By systematically…