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cs.LG2026

Progress-Aware Distillation for Mitigating Stagnation in Small Language Model Agents

Yuanpu Cao, Saket Sathe, Hanyu Wang +3

While LLM-based agent systems have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in reasoning and solving complex real-world tasks, they also come with substantial token consumption and infe…

cs.LG2026

Looped Transformers with Layer Normalization Provably Learn the Power Method

Lyumin Wu, Chenyang Zhang, Yuan Cao

Transformers have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of applications, and a growing body of work suggests that part of their strength comes from their ability to learn…

cs.LG2026

ForecastCompass: Guiding Agentic Forecasting with Adaptive Factor Memory

Yurui Chang, Yongkang Du, Yuanpu Cao +2

Agentic forecasting is important for decision-making in dynamic environments, but it remains challenging because agents must reason from incomplete, time-limited evidence and produ…

cs.LG2026

Restoring the Sweet Spot: Pass-Rate Weighted Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning

Zehao Liu, Yuanpu Cao, Jinghui Chen +1

Self-Distillation Policy Optimization (SDPO) provides dense token-level credit assignment for reinforcement learning with large language models by leveraging the model's own feedba…

cs.LG2026

The Illusion of Reasoning: Exposing Evasive Data Contamination in LLMs via Zero-CoT Truncation

Yifan Lan, Yuanpu Cao, Hanyu Wang +2

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning abilities across a wide range of tasks, but data contamination undermines the objective evaluation of these capa…

cs.LG2025

ParaBlock: Communication-Computation Parallel Block Coordinate Federated Learning for Large Language Models

Yujia Wang, Yuanpu Cao, Jinghui Chen

Federated learning (FL) has been extensively studied as a privacy-preserving training paradigm. Recently, federated block coordinate descent scheme has become a popular option in t…

cs.LG2025

Phi: Preference Hijacking in Multi-modal Large Language Models at Inference Time

Yifan Lan, Yuanpu Cao, Weitong Zhang +2

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have gained significant attention across various domains. However, their widespread adoption has also raised serious safety conce…

cs.LG2024

Adversarially Robust Industrial Anomaly Detection Through Diffusion Model

Yuanpu Cao, Lu Lin, Jinghui Chen

Deep learning-based industrial anomaly detection models have achieved remarkably high accuracy on commonly used benchmark datasets. However, the robustness of those models may not…

cs.LG2024

WordGame: Efficient & Effective LLM Jailbreak via Simultaneous Obfuscation in Query and Response

Tianrong Zhang, Bochuan Cao, Yuanpu Cao +3

The recent breakthrough in large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has revolutionized production processes at an unprecedented pace. Alongside this progress also comes mountin…

cs.LG2023

Federated Learning with Projected Trajectory Regularization

Tiejin Chen, Yuanpu Cao, Yujia Wang +2

Federated learning enables joint training of machine learning models from distributed clients without sharing their local data. One key challenge in federated learning is to handle…