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most citedRethinking the Role of Prompting Strategies in LLM Test-Time Scaling: A Perspective of Probability Theory

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15 papers

cs.AI2026

WorldSolver: Can LLM Agents Simulate the Physical Dynamics via Solver Generation?

Siru Jiang, Yongzhe Lyu, Shuo Lu +6

LLM-based agents are increasingly advancing scientific and engineering problem solving, with physics simulation emerging as a challenging yet practical testbed for reproducing comp…

cs.CV2026

To Adapt or Not to Adapt? Selective Adaptation for Vision-Language Models

Siru Jiang, Yuwei Liang, Jian Liang +2

Test-time adaptation (TTA) has emerged as a prominent strategy for adapting vision-language models to distribution shifts during inference. We conduct a per-sample analysis of mode…

cs.AI2026

AgentStream: How Well Do Self-Evolving LLM Agents Perform Under Streaming Tasks?

Dong Yan, Jian Liang, Dapeng Hu +4

Large language model (LLM) agents can self-evolve by continually improving from their own accumulated experience. However, existing studies predominantly adopt independent evaluati…

cs.CV2026

USE: A Unified Self-Ensembling Framework for Test-Time Prompt Tuning

Siru Jiang, Jian Liang, Ran He +1

Test-time adaptation (TTA) has emerged as a popular paradigm for improving the performance of vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) on downstream tasks. Among existing CLIP-based TTA…

cs.LG2026

On the Vulnerability of Parameter-Level Defenses to Model Merging

Kuangpu Guo, Qingyan Zheng, Jian Liang +4

The training-free integration of expert models via model merging has exposed significant security risks, enabling free-riders to combine specialized models without authorization. R…

cs.LG2026

What If Consensus Lies? Selective-Complementary Reinforcement Learning at Test Time

Dong Yan, Jian Liang, Yanbo Wang +3

Test-Time Reinforcement Learning (TTRL) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance reasoning capabilities on unlabeled test streams by deriving pseudo-rewards from majority vo…

cs.LG2026

Taming Momentum: Rethinking Optimizer States Through Low-Rank Approximation

Zhengbo Wang, Jian Liang, Ran He +2

Modern optimizers like Adam and Muon are central to training large language models, but their reliance on first- and second-order momenta introduces significant memory overhead, wh…

cs.CR2026

Stop Tracking Me! Proactive Defense Against Attribute Inference Attack in LLMs

Dong Yan, Jian Liang, Ran He +1

Recent studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) can infer private user attributes (e.g., age, location, gender) from user-generated text shared online, enabling rapid a…

cs.LG2025

The Illusion of Progress? A Critical Look at Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models

Lijun Sheng, Jian Liang, Ran He +2

Test-time adaptation (TTA) methods have gained significant attention for enhancing the performance of vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP during inference, without requiring…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

Rethinking the Role of Prompting Strategies in LLM Test-Time Scaling: A Perspective of Probability Theory

Yexiang Liu, Zekun Li, Zhi Fang +3

Recently, scaling test-time compute on Large Language Models (LLM) has garnered wide attention. However, there has been limited investigation of how various reasoning prompting str…

cs.CV2024

Towards Compatible Fine-tuning for Vision-Language Model Updates

Zhengbo Wang, Jian Liang, Lijun Sheng +3

So far, efficient fine-tuning has become a popular strategy for enhancing the capabilities of foundation models on downstream tasks by learning plug-and-play modules. However, exis…

cs.LG2024

LoRA-Pro: Are Low-Rank Adapters Properly Optimized?

Zhengbo Wang, Jian Liang, Ran He +2

Low-rank adaptation, also known as LoRA, has emerged as a prominent method for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of foundation models. Despite its computational efficiency, LoRA stil…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

A Hard-to-Beat Baseline for Training-free CLIP-based Adaptation

Zhengbo Wang, Jian Liang, Lijun Sheng +3

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has gained popularity for its remarkable zero-shot capacity. Recent research has focused on developing efficient fine-tuning methods,…

cs.CR2024

Protecting Model Adaptation from Trojans in the Unlabeled Data

Lijun Sheng, Jian Liang, Ran He +2

Model adaptation tackles the distribution shift problem with a pre-trained model instead of raw data, which has become a popular paradigm due to its great privacy protection. Exist…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Exploring Vacant Classes in Label-Skewed Federated Learning

Kuangpu Guo, Yuhe Ding, Jian Liang +3

Label skews, characterized by disparities in local label distribution across clients, pose a significant challenge in federated learning. As minority classes suffer from worse accu…