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cs.CL2026

Trust Your Guide Only When Certain: Uncertainty-Aware Sparse Alignment at Inference Time

Zeen Zhu, Zhuo Li, Weiyang Guo +4

A prominent paradigm in inference-time alignment employs lightweight supervisors to steer Large Language Models (LLMs). Through empirical analysis, we identify a structural mismatc…

cs.LG2026

Temper and Tilt Lead to SLOP: Reward Hacking Mitigation with Inference-Time Alignment

Ye Wang, Jing Liu, Toshiaki Koike-Akino

Inference-time alignment techniques offer a lightweight alternative or complement to costly reinforcement learning, while enabling continual adaptation as alignment objectives and…

cs.CL2026

Mitigating Context-Memory Conflicts in LLMs through Dynamic Cognitive Reconciliation Decoding

Yigeng Zhou, Wu Li, Yifan Lu +6

Large language models accumulate extensive parametric knowledge through pre-training. However, knowledge conflicts occur when outdated or incorrect parametric knowledge conflicts w…

cs.CL2026

Team-Based Self-Play With Dual Adaptive Weighting for Fine-Tuning LLMs

Wu Li, Yigeng Zhou, Zesheng Shi +3

While recent self-training approaches have reduced reliance on human-labeled data for aligning LLMs, they still face critical limitations: (i) sensitivity to synthetic data quality…

cs.CV2026

LocateEdit-Bench: A Benchmark for Instruction-Based Editing Localization

Shiyu Wu, Shuyan Li, Jing Li +2

Recent advancements in image editing have enabled highly controllable and semantically-aware alteration of visual content, posing unprecedented challenges to manipulation localizat…