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Why Sample What You Can Enumerate? Exact Policy Optimization for Genomic Tool Selection
Haoyue Liu, Xiaoyu Ma, Ye Chen +2
Reinforcement learning over a frozen reasoner has become a common recipe for teaching a policy which external tools to invoke. We show that this recipe becomes structurally mismatc…
SEPO: Evidence-Grounded Prompt Optimization via Structural Editing
Xiaoyu Ma, Haoyue Liu, Yiwen Li +4
Existing API-only prompt optimisers are often described as interpretable, but in practice, this usually means only post-hoc inspectability: each iteration still rewrites the prompt…
Which Negatives Matter? Ask Your Text Encoder: Adaptive Similarity Margins for Dense-Caption Retrieval
Haoyue Liu, Ye Chen, Zhichao Wang +1
Dense-caption retrieval has recently been improved by introducing segmentation, edge maps, LLM-filtered captions, and cross-modal modules into contrastive fine-tuning. However, the…
Select Smarter, Not More: Prompt-Aware Evaluation Scheduling with Submodular Guarantees
Xiaoyu Ma, Yiwen Li, Haoyue Liu +4
Automatic prompt optimization (APO) hinges on the quality of its evaluation signal, yet scoring every prompt candidate on the full training set is prohibitively expensive. Existing…