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most citedVisual Prompting in Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey

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29 papers

cs.CL2026

Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

Kimi Team, Tongtong Bai, Yifan Bai +398

We introduce Kimi K3, a 2.8T parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 104 billion activated parameters, native vision capabilities, and a 1-million-token context window. Kimi K3 is…

cs.LG2026

RRPO: Reference-Relative Policy Optimization with Stratified Conditional Rollouts

Yuxin Xiong, Xunyi Jiang, Rohan Surana +8

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has shown strong effectiveness in reinforcement learning from verifiable feedback, where sampled rollouts can be compared within a group u…

cs.CL2026

Process Reward Informed Tree Rollout for Effective Multi-Turn RL

Xintong Li, Sha Li, Yuwei Zhang +8

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key approach for training LLM agents, yet popular methods such as GRPO/RLOO rely on multiple independently sampled complete trajectories fo…

cs.LG2026

F-GRPO: Factorized Group-Relative Policy Optimization for Unified Candidate Generation and Ranking

Rohan Surana, Gagan Mundada, Junda Wu +9

Traditional retrieval pipelines optimize utility through stages of candidate retrieval and reranking, where ranking operates over a predefined candidate set. Large Language Models…

cs.LG2026

Learning with Rare Success but Rich Feedback via Reflection-Enhanced Self-Distillation

Yuwei Zhang, Sha Li, Changlong Yu +9

Enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to continuously improve from environmental interactions is a central challenge in post-training. While on-policy self-distillation offers a pr…

cs.AI2026

OLIVIA: Online Learning via Inference-time Action Adaptation for Decision Making in LLM ReAct Agents

Sheldon Yu, Junda Wu, Xintong Li +6

Large language model agents interleave reasoning, action selection, and observation to solve sequential decision-making tasks. In deployed settings where agents repeatedly handle r…

cs.LG2026

MASS-DPO: Multi-negative Active Sample Selection for Direct Policy Optimization

Rohan Surana, Xintong Li, Sheldon Yu +7

Multi-negative preference optimization under the Plackett--Luce (PL) model extends Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) by leveraging comparative signals across one preferred and m…

cs.LG2026

Skill-R1: Agent Skill Evolution via Reinforcement Learning

Yash Vishe, Rohan Surana, Xunyi Jiang +8

Agentic large language models often rely on skills, reusable natural language procedures that guide planning, action, and tool use. In practice, skills are typically improved throu…

cs.LG2026

Generate, Filter, Control, Replay: A Comprehensive Survey of Rollout Strategies for LLM Reinforcement Learning

Rohan Surana, Gagan Mundada, Xunyi Jiang +19

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central post-training tool for improving the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). In these systems, the rollout, the trajec…

cs.CL2026

Stepwise Penalization for Length-Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Xintong Li, Sha Li, Rongmei Lin +10

Large reasoning models improve with more test-time computation, but often overthink, producing unnecessarily long chains-of-thought that raise cost without improving accuracy. Prio…

cs.LG2026

WS-GRPO: Weakly-Supervised Group-Relative Policy Optimization for Rollout-Efficient Reasoning

Gagan Mundada, Zihan Huang, Rohan Surana +8

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is effective for training language models on complex reasoning. However, since the objective is defined relative to a group of sampled tra…

cs.LG2026

AMPS: Adaptive Modality Preference Steering via Functional Entropy

Zihan Huang, Xintong Li, Rohan Surana +5

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often exhibit significant modality preference, which is a tendency to favor one modality over another. Depending on the input, they may ove…

cs.CV2026

SceneAlign: Aligning Multimodal Reasoning to Scene Graphs in Complex Visual Scenes

Chuhan Wang, Xintong Li, Jennifer Yuntong Zhang +5

Multimodal large language models often struggle with faithful reasoning in complex visual scenes, where intricate entities and relations require precise visual grounding at each st…

cs.AI2026

EverMemOS: A Self-Organizing Memory Operating System for Structured Long-Horizon Reasoning

Chuanrui Hu, Xingze Gao, Zuyi Zhou +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as long-term interactive agents, yet their limited context windows make it difficult to sustain coherent behavior over extend…

cs.CV2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.LG2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.LG2025

ASRL:A robust loss function with potential for development

Chenyu Hui, Anran Zhang, Xintong Li

In this article, we proposed a partition:wise robust loss function based on the previous robust loss function. The characteristics of this loss function are that it achieves high r…

cs.CL2025

Toward Multi-Session Personalized Conversation: A Large-Scale Dataset and Hierarchical Tree Framework for Implicit Reasoning

Xintong Li, Jalend Bantupalli, Ria Dharmani +2

There has been a surge in the use of large language models (LLM) conversational agents to generate responses based on long-term history from multiple sessions. However, existing lo…

cs.LG2025

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…

cs.LG2025

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…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

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…

cs.AI2024

GUI Agents: A Survey

Dang Nguyen, Jian Chen, Yu Wang +27

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents, powered by Large Foundation Models, have emerged as a transformative approach to automating human-computer interaction. These agents autonomo…