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20242026
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11 papers

cs.CL2026

AlignDiff: Exploiting Model-Intrinsic Information for Better Preference Data Selection

Peng Lai, He Zhu, Zhiwen Ruan +6

Aligning large language models with human preferences remains a challenge, primarily due to the critical role of preference data quality in effective alignment. Existing datasets a…

cs.CL2026

VFA: Empowering Multilingual MLLMs via Vision-Free Adaptation

Yixia Li, Yaqing Shi, Zhiwen Ruan +6

Multimodal large language models have advanced rapidly, yet most remain English-centric, as scaling multilingual multimodal instruction tuning is limited by the scarcity and high c…

cs.CL2026

Bridging the Agent-World Gap: Text World Models for LLM-based Agents

Yixia Li, Hongru Wang, Peng Lai +13

Large language model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly used in interactive textual environments, from web navigation and code editing to tool use and long-horizon dialogue. Yet m…

cs.RO2026

Semantically Structured Mixture-of-Experts for Compositional Robotic Manipulation

Chengyu Deng, Guanqi Chen, Yizhou Chen +4

Diffusion-based policies have established a new standard for precise robotic manipulation but face a critical scalability bottleneck: high-performance models are computationally ex…

cs.CL2026

GIFT: Guided Fine-Tuning and Transfer for Enhancing Instruction-Tuned Language Models

Zhiwen Ruan, Yichao Du, Jianjie Zheng +6

A promising paradigm for adapting instruction-tuned language models is to learn task-specific updates on a pretrained base model and subsequently merge them into the instruction-tu…

cs.CL2025

G2: Guided Generation for Enhanced Output Diversity in LLMs

Zhiwen Ruan, Yixia Li, Yefeng Liu +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across diverse natural language processing tasks. However, these models exhibit a critical limitation in outp…