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cs.LG2025

Tool Zero: Training Tool-Augmented LLMs via Pure RL from Scratch

Yirong Zeng, Xiao Ding, Yutai Hou +9

Training tool-augmented LLMs has emerged as a promising approach to enhancing language models' capabilities for complex tasks. The current supervised fine-tuning paradigm relies on…

cs.AI2025

Exploring and Exploiting the Inherent Efficiency within Large Reasoning Models for Self-Guided Efficiency Enhancement

Weixiang Zhao, Jiahe Guo, Yang Deng +7

Recent advancements in large reasoning models (LRMs) have significantly enhanced language models' capabilities in complex problem-solving by emulating human-like deliberative think…

cs.CL2025

Com: A Causal-Guided Benchmark for Exploring Complex Commonsense Reasoning in Large Language Models

Kai Xiong, Xiao Ding, Yixin Cao +7

Large language models (LLMs) have mastered abundant simple and explicit commonsense knowledge through pre-training, enabling them to achieve human-like performance in simple common…

cs.CL2025

CrossICL: Cross-Task In-Context Learning via Unsupervised Demonstration Transfer

Jinglong Gao, Xiao Ding, Lingxiao Zou +2

In-Context Learning (ICL) enhances the performance of large language models (LLMs) with demonstrations. However, obtaining these demonstrations primarily relies on manual effort. I…

cs.CL2025

ExpeTrans: LLMs Are Experiential Transfer Learners

Jinglong Gao, Xiao Ding, Lingxiao Zou +3

Recent studies provide large language models (LLMs) with textual task-solving experiences via prompts to improve their performance. However, previous methods rely on substantial hu…

cs.CL2025

Self-Route: Automatic Mode Switching via Capability Estimation for Efficient Reasoning

Yang He, Xiao Ding, Bibo Cai +5

While reasoning-augmented large language models (RLLMs) significantly enhance complex task performance through extended reasoning chains, they inevitably introduce substantial unne…

cs.CL2025

Information Gain-Guided Causal Intervention for Autonomous Debiasing Large Language Models

Zhouhao Sun, Xiao Ding, Li Du +5

Despite significant progress, recent studies indicate that current large language models (LLMs) may still capture dataset biases and utilize them during inference, leading to the p…

cs.CL2025

MPO: Multilingual Safety Alignment via Reward Gap Optimization

Weixiang Zhao, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng +8

Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly central to AI applications worldwide, necessitating robust multilingual safety alignment to ensure secure deployment across di…

cs.LG2025

UFO-RL: Uncertainty-Focused Optimization for Efficient Reinforcement Learning Data Selection

Yang Zhao, Kai Xiong, Xiao Ding +9

Scaling RL for LLMs is computationally expensive, largely due to multi-sampling for policy optimization and evaluation, making efficient data selection crucial. Inspired by the Zon…

cs.CL2025

Large Language Models Are Still Misled by Simple Bias Ensembles

Zhouhao Sun, Zhiyuan Kan, Xiao Ding +5

With the evolution of large language models (LLMs), their robustness against individual simple biases has been enhanced. However, we observe that the ensemble of multiple simple bi…

cs.CL2025

Teaching Language Models to Evolve with Users: Dynamic Profile Modeling for Personalized Alignment

Weixiang Zhao, Xingyu Sui, Yulin Hu +6

Personalized alignment is essential for enabling large language models (LLMs) to engage effectively in user-centric dialogue. While recent prompt-based and offline optimization met…

cs.CL2025

When Less Language is More: Language-Reasoning Disentanglement Makes LLMs Better Multilingual Reasoners

Weixiang Zhao, Jiahe Guo, Yang Deng +9

Multilingual reasoning remains a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs), with performance disproportionately favoring high-resource languages. Drawing inspiration f…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

AdaSteer: Your Aligned LLM is Inherently an Adaptive Jailbreak Defender

Weixiang Zhao, Jiahe Guo, Yulin Hu +8

Despite extensive efforts in safety alignment, large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks. Activation steering offers a training-free defense method but re…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Trade-offs in Large Reasoning Models: An Empirical Analysis of Deliberative and Adaptive Reasoning over Foundational Capabilities

Weixiang Zhao, Xingyu Sui, Jiahe Guo +9

Recent advancements in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), such as OpenAI's o1/o3 and DeepSeek-R1, have demonstrated remarkable performance in specialized reasoning tasks through human-…

cs.CL2025

Chain of Strategy Optimization Makes Large Language Models Better Emotional Supporter

Weixiang Zhao, Xingyu Sui, Xinyang Han +9

The growing emotional stress in modern society has increased the demand for Emotional Support Conversations (ESC). While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for ESC, they fac…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Similarity: A Gradient-based Graph Method for Instruction Tuning Data Selection

Yang Zhao, Li Du, Xiao Ding +10

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential across various industries due to their remarkable ability to generalize through instruction tuning. However, the limited ava…

cs.CL2025

Beware of Your Po! Measuring and Mitigating AI Safety Risks in Role-Play Fine-Tuning of LLMs

Weixiang Zhao, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng +8

Role-playing enables large language models (LLMs) to engage users in immersive and personalized interactions, but it also introduces significant safety risks. Existing role-play fi…

cs.CL2025

iTool: Reinforced Fine-Tuning with Dynamic Deficiency Calibration for Advanced Tool Use

Yirong Zeng, Xiao Ding, Yuxian Wang +8

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools is a promising approach to enhance their capabilities, especially for complex tasks. Synthesizing tool-use data through…