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13 papers

cs.AI2026

Grounded Chess Reasoning in Language Models via Master Distillation

Zhenwei Tang, Qianfeng Wen, Seth Grief-Albert +4

Language models often lack grounded reasoning capabilities in specialized domains where training data is scarce but bespoke systems excel. We introduce a general framework for dist…

cs.IR2026

SafeGEO: Understanding Generative Engine Optimization Risks in Recommendation Agents

Qianfeng Wen, Yifan Simon Liu, Xin Liu +4

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) lets content owners rewrite web content to increase their visibility in generative systems. In recommendation agents, this creates a risk that…

cs.LG2026

Level Up: Defining and Exploiting Transitional Problems for Curriculum Learning

Amogh Inamdar, Zhenwei Tang, Ashton Anderson +1

Curriculum learning--ordering training examples in a sequence to aid machine learning--takes inspiration from human learning, but has not gained widespread acceptance. Static strat…

cs.CL2026

MineDraft: A Framework for Batch Parallel Speculative Decoding

Zhenwei Tang, Arun Verma, Zijian Zhou +4

Speculative decoding (SD) accelerates large language model inference by using a smaller draft model to propose draft tokens that are subsequently verified by a larger target model.…

cs.CL2026

RankJudge: A Multi-Turn LLM-as-a-Judge Synthetic Benchmark Generator

Zhenwei Tang, Zhaoyan Liu, Rasa Hosseinzadeh +3

As interactive LLM-based applications are created and refined, model developers need to evaluate the quality of generated text along many possible axes. For simpler systems, human…

cs.LG2026

Chessformer: A Unified Architecture for Chess Modeling

Daniel Monroe, George Eilender, Philip Chalmers +2

Chess has long served as a canonical testbed for artificial intelligence, but modeling approaches for its central tasks have diverged. Maximizing playing strength, predicting human…