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most citedA Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models: Principles, Taxonomy, Challenges, and Open Questions

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cs.CL2026

ACTD: Anchor-Based Cross-Tokenizer Distillation with Residual Regularization

Huiyi Zhang, Zijian Li, Xiaocheng Feng +4

Knowledge distillation effectively transfers reasoning capabilities from large language models to lightweight student models. To enable knowledge transfer across disparate model fa…

cs.AI2026

SAVOIR: Learning Social Savoir-Faire via Shapley-based Reward Attribution

Xiachong Feng, Yi Jiang, Xiaocheng Feng +9

Social intelligence, the ability to navigate complex interpersonal interactions, presents a fundamental challenge for language agents. Training such agents via reinforcement learni…

cs.AI2026

Stratagem: Learning Transferable Reasoning via Trajectory-Modulated Game Self-Play

Xiachong Feng, Deyi Yin, Xiaocheng Feng +9

Games offer a compelling paradigm for developing general reasoning capabilities in language models, as they naturally demand strategic planning, probabilistic inference, and adapti…

cs.CL2026

x1: Learning to Think Adaptively Across Languages and Cultures

Yangfan Ye, Xiaocheng Feng, Xiachong Feng +8

Languages encode distinct abstractions and inductive priors, yet most large language models (LLMs) overlook this diversity by reasoning in a single dominant language. In this work,…

cs.AI2026

ImplicitMemBench: Measuring Unconscious Behavioral Adaptation in Large Language Models

Chonghan Qin, Xiachong Feng, Weitao Ma +2

Existing memory benchmarks for LLM agents evaluate explicit recall of facts, yet overlook implicit memory where experience becomes automated behavior without conscious retrieval. T…

cs.CL2026

Silence the Judge: Reinforcement Learning with Self-Verifier via Latent Geometric Clustering

Nonghai Zhang, Weitao Ma, Zhanyu Ma +5

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) significantly enhances the reasoning performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, this success heavily relies on expensive extern…

cs.CL2026

Fine-Mem: Fine-Grained Feedback Alignment for Long-Horizon Memory Management

Weitao Ma, Xiaocheng Feng, Lei Huang +7

Effective memory management is essential for large language model agents to navigate long-horizon tasks. Recent research has explored using Reinforcement Learning to develop specia…

cs.CV2025

Causal Tracing of Object Representations in Large Vision Language Models: Mechanistic Interpretability and Hallucination Mitigation

Qiming Li, Zekai Ye, Xiaocheng Feng +3

Despite the remarkable advancements of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), the mechanistic interpretability remains underexplored. Existing analyses are insufficiently comprehens…

cs.CL2025

LangGPS: Language Separability Guided Data Pre-Selection for Joint Multilingual Instruction Tuning

Yangfan Ye, Xiaocheng Feng, Xiachong Feng +7

Joint multilingual instruction tuning is a widely adopted approach to improve the multilingual instruction-following ability and downstream performance of large language models (LL…

cs.CR2025

Adaptive Backtracking for Privacy Protection in Large Language Models

Zhihao Yao, Yuxuan Gu, Xiachong Feng +3

The preservation of privacy has emerged as a critical topic in the era of artificial intelligence. However, current work focuses on user-oriented privacy, overlooking severe enterp…

cs.CL2025

CC-Tuning: A Cross-Lingual Connection Mechanism for Improving Joint Multilingual Supervised Fine-Tuning

Yangfan Ye, Xiaocheng Feng, Zekun Yuan +11

Current large language models (LLMs) often exhibit imbalanced multilingual capabilities due to their English-centric training corpora. To address this, existing fine-tuning approac…

cs.CL2025

One for All: Update Parameterized Knowledge Across Multiple Models

Weitao Ma, Xiyuan Du, Xiaocheng Feng +8

Large language models (LLMs) encode vast world knowledge but struggle to stay up-to-date, often leading to errors and hallucinations. Knowledge editing offers an efficient alternat…

cs.AI2025

From Hypothesis to Publication: A Comprehensive Survey of AI-Driven Research Support Systems

Zekun Zhou, Xiaocheng Feng, Lei Huang +11

Research is a fundamental process driving the advancement of human civilization, yet it demands substantial time and effort from researchers. In recent years, the rapid development…

cs.CL2025

Improving Contextual Faithfulness of Large Language Models via Retrieval Heads-Induced Optimization

Lei Huang, Xiaocheng Feng, Weitao Ma +9

Ensuring contextual faithfulness in retrieval-augmented large language models (LLMs) is crucial for building trustworthy information-seeking systems, particularly in long-form ques…

cs.CL2024

Exploring Cross-lingual Latent Transplantation: Mutual Opportunities and Open Challenges

Yangfan Ye, Xiaocheng Feng, Xiachong Feng +11

Current large language models (LLMs) often exhibit imbalances in multilingual capabilities and cultural adaptability, largely attributed to their English-centric pre-training data.…

cs.CL2024

Advancing Large Language Model Attribution through Self-Improving

Lei Huang, Xiaocheng Feng, Weitao Ma +7

Teaching large language models (LLMs) to generate text with citations to evidence sources can mitigate hallucinations and enhance verifiability in information-seeking systems. Howe…

cs.CL2024

GlobeSumm: A Challenging Benchmark Towards Unifying Multi-lingual, Cross-lingual and Multi-document News Summarization

Yangfan Ye, Xiachong Feng, Xiaocheng Feng +6

News summarization in today's global scene can be daunting with its flood of multilingual content and varied viewpoints from different sources. However, current studies often negle…

cs.CL2024

Learning Fine-Grained Grounded Citations for Attributed Large Language Models

Lei Huang, Xiaocheng Feng, Weitao Ma +8

Despite the impressive performance on information-seeking tasks, large language models (LLMs) still struggle with hallucinations. Attributed LLMs, which augment generated text with…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Investigating and Mitigating the Multimodal Hallucination Snowballing in Large Vision-Language Models

Weihong Zhong, Xiaocheng Feng, Liang Zhao +6

Though advanced in understanding visual information with human languages, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) still suffer from multimodal hallucinations. A natural concern is tha…

cs.CL2024

Unveiling Entity-Level Unlearning for Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Analysis

Weitao Ma, Xiaocheng Feng, Weihong Zhong +4

Large language model unlearning has garnered increasing attention due to its potential to address security and privacy concerns, leading to extensive research in the field. However…

cs.CL2023★ 8 cited

Trends in Integration of Knowledge and Large Language Models: A Survey and Taxonomy of Methods, Benchmarks, and Applications

Zhangyin Feng, Weitao Ma, Weijiang Yu +7

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit superior performance on various natural language tasks, but they are susceptible to issues stemming from outdated data and domain-specific limi…

cs.CL2023★ 2.1k cited

A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models: Principles, Taxonomy, Challenges, and Open Questions

Lei Huang, Weijiang Yu, Weitao Ma +8

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has marked a significant breakthrough in natural language processing (NLP), fueling a paradigm shift in information acquisition. Never…