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cs.CL2026

Probing Cultural Awareness in LLMs: A Case Study of Cross-Culture Aesthetic Stylistics

Jiashuo Wang, Fenggang Yu, Jian Wang +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in diverse cultural contexts, yet their ability to master aesthetic stylistics, i.e., the strategic use of language to evoke…

cs.AI2026

Finding RELIEF: Shaping Reasoning Behavior without Reasoning Supervision via Belief Engineering

Chak Tou Leong, Dingwei Chen, Heming Xia +4

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have achieved remarkable success in complex problem-solving, yet they often suffer from computational redundancy or reasoning unfaithfulness. Current…

cs.AI2025

Refusal Falls off a Cliff: How Safety Alignment Fails in Reasoning?

Qingyu Yin, Chak Tou Leong, Linyi Yang +7

Large reasoning models (LRMs) with multi-step reasoning capabilities have shown remarkable problem-solving abilities, yet they exhibit concerning safety vulnerabilities that remain…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Scaling over Scaling: Exploring Test-Time Scaling Plateau in Large Reasoning Models

Jian Wang, Boyan Zhu, Chak Tou Leong +2

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have exhibited the capacity of enhancing reasoning performance via internal test-time scaling. Building upon this, a promising direction is to further…

cs.CL2025

SPA-RL: Reinforcing LLM Agents via Stepwise Progress Attribution

Hanlin Wang, Chak Tou Leong, Jiashuo Wang +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) holds significant promise for training LLM agents to handle complex, goal-oriented tasks that require multi-step interactions with external environments…

cs.LG2025

STeCa: Step-level Trajectory Calibration for LLM Agent Learning

Hanlin Wang, Jian Wang, Chak Tou Leong +1

Large language model (LLM)-based agents have shown promise in tackling complex tasks by interacting dynamically with the environment. Existing work primarily focuses on behavior cl…

cs.CL2025

Why Safeguarded Ships Run Aground? Aligned Large Language Models' Safety Mechanisms Tend to Be Anchored in The Template Region

Chak Tou Leong, Qingyu Yin, Jian Wang +1

The safety alignment of large language models (LLMs) remains vulnerable, as their initial behavior can be easily jailbroken by even relatively simple attacks. Since infilling a fix…

cs.CL2025

Training Turn-by-Turn Verifiers for Dialogue Tutoring Agents: The Curious Case of LLMs as Your Coding Tutors

Jian Wang, Yinpei Dai, Yichi Zhang +3

Intelligent tutoring agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly explored to deliver personalized knowledge in areas such as language learning and science…

cs.AI2024

Constrain Alignment with Sparse Autoencoders

Qingyu Yin, Chak Tou Leong, Minjun Zhu +7

The alignment of large language models (LLMs) with human preferences remains a key challenge. While post-training techniques like Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)…

cs.CL2024

E2CL: Exploration-based Error Correction Learning for Embodied Agents

Hanlin Wang, Chak Tou Leong, Jian Wang +1

Language models are exhibiting increasing capability in knowledge utilization and reasoning. However, when applied as agents in embodied environments, they often suffer from misali…