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cs.CL2026

Towards Valid Student Simulation with Large Language Models

Zhihao Yuan, Yunze Xiao, Ming Li +4

This paper presents a conceptual and methodological framework for large language model (LLM) based student simulation in educational settings. The authors identify a core failure m…

cs.CL20251 cited

Text-Based Approaches to Item Difficulty Modeling in Large-Scale Assessments: A Systematic Review

Sydney Peters, Nan Zhang, Hong Jiao +3

Item difficulty plays a crucial role in test performance, interpretability of scores, and equity for all test-takers, especially in large-scale assessments. Traditional approaches…

cs.CL2025

What makes Reasoning Models Different? Follow the Reasoning Leader for Efficient Decoding

Ming Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Xiyao Wang +4

Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve strong reasoning performance by emitting long chains of thought. Yet, these verbose traces slow down inference and often drift into unnecessar…

cs.CL2025

DISCO Balances the Scales: Adaptive Domain- and Difficulty-Aware Reinforcement Learning on Imbalanced Data

Yuhang Zhou, Jing Zhu, Shengyi Qian +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly aligned with human preferences through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). Among RLHF methods, Group Relative Policy Op…

cs.CL2025

ATLaS: Agent Tuning via Learning Critical Steps

Zhixun Chen, Ming Li, Yuxuan Huang +3

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities across multi-domain tasks. Existing agent tuning approaches typically employ supervised f…

cs.CL2025

Self-Enhanced Reasoning Training: Activating Latent Reasoning in Small Models for Enhanced Reasoning Distillation

Yong Zhang, Bingyuan Zhang, Zhitao Li +7

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced their reasoning abilities, enabling increasingly complex tasks. However, these capabilities often d…