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SEAD: Competence-Aware On-Policy Distillation via Entropy-Guided Supervision
Chia-Hsuan Lee, Zelei Cheng, Yu Wang +4
On-policy distillation (OPD) has a property absent in offline distillation and RL: teacher supervision quality depends on student competence. Incoherent rollouts yield noisy gradie…
Ask, Don't Judge: Binary Questions for Interpretable LLM Evaluation and Self-Improvement
Sangwoo Cho, Kushal Chawla, Pengshan Cai +4
Evaluating LLM outputs remains a major bottleneck in NLP: human evaluation is expensive and slow, lexical metrics correlate poorly with human judgments on open-ended generation, an…
SAFARI: Scaling Long Horizon Agentic Fault Attribution via Active Investigation
Chenyang Zhu, Jiayu Yao, Kushal Chawla +10
As autonomous agents tackle increasingly complex multi-step, multi-agent tasks, their execution trajectories have scaled beyond the constraints of even the largest context windows.…
Decomposing the Delta: What Do Models Actually Learn from Preference Pairs?
Chia-Hsuan Lee, Mingyang Zhou, Renkun Ni +6
Preference optimization methods such as DPO and KTO are widely used for aligning language models, yet little is understood about what properties of preference data drive downstream…
DIAL-SUMMER: A Structured Evaluation Framework of Hierarchical Errors in Dialogue Summaries
Sahana Ramnath, Nima Chitsazan, Mingyang Zhou +8
Dialogues are a predominant mode of communication for humans, and it is immensely helpful to have automatically generated summaries of them (e.g., to revise key points discussed in…
SPARC-RAG: Adaptive Sequential-Parallel Scaling with Context Management for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Yuxin Yang, Gangda Deng, Ömer Faruk Akgül +6
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounds large language model outputs in external evidence, but remains challenged on multi-hop question answering that requires long reasoning.…