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most citedAdaMMS: Model Merging for Heterogeneous Multimodal Large Language Models with Unsupervised Coefficient Optimization

3 citations · 7 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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40 papers

cs.CL2026

From Candidate Tokens to Final Outcomes: Decoding Relative Long-Horizon Candidate Value from Reasoning Model Representations

Yixin Yang, Yue Wang, Fandong Meng +1

Large reasoning models generate reasoning trajectories token by token. At a given prefix, multiple next-token candidates may be plausible, yet shape subsequent reasoning and differ…

cs.CL2026

Traverse: Learning When to Remember, Reset, and Redirect for Long-Horizon Web Search

Jingyuan Ma, Lynx Aster, He Zhang +5

Long-horizon information-seeking agents often accumulate noisy or misleading context, causing early mistakes to persist and making recovery increasingly difficult. We introduce an…

cs.CL2026

From Refuse to Richness: Rubric Rewards for Long-Form Hallucination Reinforcement Learning

Yudong Wang, Zhe Yang, Wenhan Ma +6

Rewards that penalize unsupported claims can improve grounding in long-form generation, but they can also teach models to answer less. We study this refusal-to-richness trade-off i…

cs.CL2026

MOPD: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Capability Integration in LLM Post-Training

Wenhan Ma, Jianyu Wei, Liang Zhao +10

Modern large language models (LLMs) rely on reinforcement learning during post-training to push specific capabilities, yet integrating multiple capabilities into one model remains…

cs.CL2026

SenseJudge: Human-Centric Preference-Driven Judgment Framework

Rui Li, Junfeng Liu, Xiangwen Kong +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) as judges across various scenarios such as assessing model responses is becoming an increasingly accepted paradigm. However, existing judgment approach…

cs.AI2026

Claw-Eval: Towards Trustworthy Evaluation of Autonomous Agents

Bowen Ye, Rang Li, Qibin Yang +10

Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents for multi-step workflows in real-world software environments. However, existing agent benchmarks are limited by…

cs.CL2026

HistLens: Mapping Idea Change across Concepts and Corpora

Yi Jing, Weiyun Qiu, Yihang Peng +1

Language change both reflects and shapes social processes, and the semantic evolution of foundational concepts provides a measurable trace of historical and social transformation.…

cs.CL2026

Sparse-BitNet: 1.58-bit LLMs are Naturally Friendly to Semi-Structured Sparsity

Di Zhang, Xun Wu, Shaohan Huang +9

Semi-structured N:M sparsity and low-bit quantization (e.g., 1.58-bit BitNet) are two promising approaches for improving the efficiency of large language models (LLMs), yet they ha…

cs.CL2026

Towards Better RL Training Data Utilization via Second-Order Rollout

Zhe Yang, Yudong Wang, Rang Li +1

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has empowered Large Language Models (LLMs) with strong reasoning capabilities, but vanilla RL mainly focuses on generation capability improvement by tra…

cs.CL2026

CoLT: Reasoning with Chain of Latent Tool Calls

Fangwei Zhu, Zhifang Sui

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is a critical technique in enhancing the reasoning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs), and latent reasoning methods have been proposed to accelerate the…

cs.AI2026

Decoding in Geometry: Alleviating Embedding-Space Crowding for Complex Reasoning

Yixin Yang, Qingxiu Dong, Zhifang Sui

Sampling-based decoding underlies complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs), where decoding strategies critically shape model behavior. Temperature- and truncation-based me…

cs.AI2026

TeachBench: A Syllabus-Grounded Framework for Evaluating Teaching Ability in Large Language Models

Zheng Li, Siyao Song, Jingyuan Ma +4

Large language models (LLMs) show promise as teaching assistants, yet their teaching capability remains insufficiently evaluated. Existing benchmarks mainly focus on problem-solvin…

cs.CV2025

GroundingME: Exposing the Visual Grounding Gap in MLLMs through Multi-Dimensional Evaluation

Rang Li, Lei Li, Shuhuai Ren +10

Visual grounding, localizing objects from natural language descriptions, represents a critical bridge between language and vision understanding. While multimodal large language mod…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Reliability across Short and Long-Form QA via Reinforcement Learning

Yudong Wang, Zhe Yang, Wenhan Ma +2

While reinforcement learning has unlocked unprecedented complex reasoning in large language models, it has also amplified their propensity for hallucination, creating a critical tr…

cs.CL2025

Stabilizing MoE Reinforcement Learning by Aligning Training and Inference Routers

Wenhan Ma, Hailin Zhang, Liang Zhao +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a crucial approach for enhancing the capabilities of large language models. However, in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, the routing mech…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

LLM-REVal: Can We Trust LLM Reviewers Yet?

Rui Li, Jia-Chen Gu, Po-Nien Kung +5

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has inspired researchers to integrate them extensively into the academic workflow, potentially reshaping how research is pract…

cs.LG2025

Towards Stable and Effective Reinforcement Learning for Mixture-of-Experts

Di Zhang, Xun Wu, Shaohan Huang +6

Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have substantially improved the training of large-scale language models, leading to significant gains in generation quality and reaso…

cs.CL2025

A Probabilistic Inference Scaling Theory for LLM Self-Correction

Zhe Yang, Yichang Zhang, Yudong Wang +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated the capability to refine their generated answers through self-correction, enabling continuous performance improvement over multiple r…

cs.CL2025

Reinforcement Pre-Training

Qingxiu Dong, Li Dong, Yao Tang +4

In this work, we introduce Reinforcement Pre-Training (RPT) as a new scaling paradigm for large language models and reinforcement learning (RL). Specifically, we reframe next-token…

cs.CR2025

HauntAttack: When Attack Follows Reasoning as a Shadow

Jingyuan Ma, Rui Li, Zheng Li +4

Emerging Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) consistently excel in mathematical and reasoning tasks, showcasing remarkable capabilities. However, the enhancement of reasoning abilities a…

cs.CL2025

From Mathematical Reasoning to Code: Generalization of Process Reward Models in Test-Time Scaling

Zhengyu Chen, Yudong Wang, Teng Xiao +5

Recent advancements in improving the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models have underscored the efficacy of Process Reward Models (PRMs) in addressing intermediate errors…

cs.CL2025

RICo: Refined In-Context Contribution for Automatic Instruction-Tuning Data Selection

Yixin Yang, Qingxiu Dong, Linli Yao +2

Data selection for instruction tuning is crucial for improving the performance of large language models (LLMs) while reducing training costs. In this paper, we propose Refined Cont…

cs.CL2025

Chain-of-Thought Tokens are Computer Program Variables

Fangwei Zhu, Peiyi Wang, Zhifang Sui

Chain-of-thoughts (CoT) requires large language models (LLMs) to generate intermediate steps before reaching the final answer, and has been proven effective to help LLMs solve comp…

cs.CL2025

Towards Harmonized Uncertainty Estimation for Large Language Models

Rui Li, Jing Long, Muge Qi +4

To facilitate robust and trustworthy deployment of large language models (LLMs), it is essential to quantify the reliability of their generations through uncertainty estimation. Wh…