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SPEAR: Distilling Domain-Adaptive Reasoning Skeletons via Sequential Symbolic Alignment in Reinforcement Learning
Zhuochun Li, Yuelyu Ji, Yiming Zeng +1
Reinforcement learning-based knowledge distillation has the potential to transfer complex reasoning from teacher to student models, yet it currently faces a critical dilemma: resea…
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Retrieval--Reasoning Processes for Multi-hop Question Answering: A Four-Axis Design Framework and Empirical Trends
Yuelyu Ji, Zhuochun Li, Rui Meng +1
Multi-hop question answering (QA) requires systems to iteratively retrieve evidence and reason across multiple hops. While recent RAG and agentic methods report strong results, the…
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Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge: Representation-as-a-Judge with Small Language Models via Semantic Capacity Asymmetry
Zhuochun Li, Yong Zhang, Ming Li +8
Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as reference-free evaluators via prompting, but this "LLM-as-a-Judge" paradigm is costly, opaque, and sensitive to prompt design. In th…