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Evaluating Music Context Preservation: A Multi-facet Framework for Music Editing Systems
Yash Vishe, Eric Xue, Xunyi Jiang +4
Music editing plays a vital role in modern music production, with applications in film, broadcasting, and game development. Recent advances in music editing systems have enabled di…
Listwise Preference Diffusion Optimization for User Behavior Trajectories Prediction
Hongtao Huang, Chengkai Huang, Junda Wu +3
Forecasting multi-step user behavior trajectories requires reasoning over structured preferences across future actions, a challenge overlooked by traditional sequential recommendat…
Importance Sampling for Multi-Negative Multimodal Direct Preference Optimization
Xintong Li, Chuhan Wang, Junda Wu +4
Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has recently been extended from text-only models to vision-language models. However, existing methods rely on oversimplified pairwise compariso…
Pluralistic Off-policy Evaluation and Alignment
Chengkai Huang, Junda Wu, Zhouhang Xie +6
Personalized preference alignment for LLMs with diverse human preferences requires evaluation and alignment methods that capture pluralism. Most existing preference alignment datas…
MusiCRS: Benchmarking Audio-Centric Conversational Recommendation
Rohan Surana, Amit Namburi, Gagan Mundada +4
Conversational recommendation has advanced rapidly with large language models (LLMs), yet music remains a uniquely challenging domain in which effective recommendations require rea…
WildScore: Benchmarking MLLMs in-the-Wild Symbolic Music Reasoning
Gagan Mundada, Yash Vishe, Amit Namburi +4
Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various vision-language tasks. However, their reasoning abilities in th…
Explainable Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: An Empirical Analysis on State-Aware Reasoning Dynamics
Sheldon Yu, Yuxin Xiong, Junda Wu +6
Recent advances in chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting have enabled large language models (LLMs) to perform multi-step reasoning. However, the explainability of such reasoning remains…
SAND: Boosting LLM Agents with Self-Taught Action Deliberation
Yu Xia, Yiran Shen, Junda Wu +5
Large Language Model (LLM) agents are commonly tuned with supervised finetuning on ReAct-style expert trajectories or preference optimization over pairwise rollouts. Most of these…
DICE: Dynamic In-Context Example Selection in LLM Agents via Efficient Knowledge Transfer
Ruoyu Wang, Junda Wu, Yu Xia +4
Large language model-based agents, empowered by in-context learning (ICL), have demonstrated strong capabilities in complex reasoning and tool-use tasks. However, existing works ha…
PDB-Eval: An Evaluation of Large Multimodal Models for Description and Explanation of Personalized Driving Behavior
Junda Wu, Jessica Echterhoff, Kyungtae Han +3
Understanding a driver's behavior and intentions is important for potential risk assessment and early accident prevention. Safety and driver assistance systems can be tailored to i…
CTRLS: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Latent State-Transition
Junda Wu, Yuxin Xiong, Xintong Li +7
Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning enables large language models (LLMs) to break down complex problems into interpretable intermediate steps, significantly enhancing model transparen…
Weakly-supervised VLM-guided Partial Contrastive Learning for Visual Language Navigation
Ruoyu Wang, Tong Yu, Junda Wu +3
Visual Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental task within the field of Embodied AI, focusing on the ability of agents to navigate complex environments based on natural language…
A Survey of Foundation Model-Powered Recommender Systems: From Feature-Based, Generative to Agentic Paradigms
Chengkai Huang, Hongtao Huang, Tong Yu +6
Recommender systems (RS) have become essential in filtering information and personalizing content for users. RS techniques have traditionally relied on modeling interactions betwee…
A Survey on Personalized and Pluralistic Preference Alignment in Large Language Models
Zhouhang Xie, Junda Wu, Yiran Shen +9
Personalized preference alignment for large language models (LLMs), the process of tailoring LLMs to individual users' preferences, is an emerging research direction spanning the a…
CachePrune: Teaching LLMs What Not to Follow via KV-Cache Editing
Rui Wang, Junda Wu, Yu Xia +6
Large Language Models (LLMs) are susceptible to indirect prompt injection attacks, where the model inadvertently responds to instructions injected into the prompt context. This vul…
In-context Ranking Preference Optimization
Junda Wu, Rohan Surana, Zhouhang Xie +6
Recent developments in Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) allow large language models (LLMs) to function as implicit ranking models by maximizing the margin between preferred and…
Interacting Chern insulator transition on the sphere: revealing the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa criticality
Zhi-Qiang Gao, Taige Wang, Dung-Hai Lee
In two spatial dimensions, the transition between topological and trivial Chern insulators exemplifies a class of beyond-Landau critical phenomena. We show that the interaction-dri…
Towards Agentic Recommender Systems in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Models
Chengkai Huang, Junda Wu, Yu Xia +9
Recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to the emergence of agentic AI systems that extend beyond the capabilities of standalone models. By empowering LLMs to…
Active Learning for Direct Preference Optimization
Branislav Kveton, Xintong Li, Julian McAuley +4
Direct preference optimization (DPO) is a form of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) where the policy is learned directly from preferential feedback. Although many m…
From Selection to Generation: A Survey of LLM-based Active Learning
Yu Xia, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Zhouhang Xie +31
Active Learning (AL) has been a powerful paradigm for improving model efficiency and performance by selecting the most informative data points for labeling and training. In recent…
Mitigating Visual Knowledge Forgetting in MLLM Instruction-tuning via Modality-decoupled Gradient Descent
Junda Wu, Yuxin Xiong, Xintong Li +9
Recent MLLMs have shown emerging visual understanding and reasoning abilities after being pre-trained on large-scale multimodal datasets. Unlike pre-training, where MLLMs receive r…