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cs.CV2026

MM-OPD: Towards One More Bottleneck Between Perception and Reasoning

Jintao Tong, Yujing Lou, Zhanming Shen +6

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) advance visual reasoning by strengthening both perception and reasoning, implicitly assuming a process that transitions seamlessly f…

cs.LG2026

Frozen Cores Need Task Signal: Fisher-Whitened Cross-Covariance for Low-Resource LLM Adaptation

Wentao Ye, Zhanming Shen, Zhiqing Xiao +3

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning is usually framed as a question of how many parameters to update. Under a severe trainable-state budget, however, where those coefficients act is eq…

cs.AI2026

TailSieve: Partial-Rollout-Guided Tail Routing for LLM Rollouts

Tianqi Xu, Lu Lv, Haoyang Huang +15

Large-scale rollouts have become a core component of modern LLM systems, spanning reinforcement learning (RL) post-training, on-policy distillation (OPD), and sampling-heavy evalua…

cs.CL2026

Reasoning Error from Known Fact: Step-Level Self-Consistency Group Relative Policy Optimization for LLMs

Xiaomeng Hu, Jiaqi Hu, Hao Chen +4

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), modern systems not only possess strong foundational capabilities and extensive knowledge, but can also solve complex pro…

cs.AI2026

Purified OPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation Without Losing How to Think

Zhanming Shen, Jintao Tong, Shaotian Yan +9

On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving LLM reasoning, where a privileged teacher with access to reference solutions provides token-lev…

cs.AI2026

Momentum for Reasoning: Dense Intrinsic Signals in Policy Optimization

Hao Chen, Zhanming Shen, Liyao Li +8

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for eliciting long-chain reasoning in large language models. However, existing methods base…

cs.LG2026

FLaG: Fine-Grained Latent Grouping for Hallucination Detection

Wentao Ye, Liyao Li, Zhiqing Xiao +6

Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) arise from heterogeneous failure mechanisms, making reliable detection difficult for any single global uncertainty score. In this wor…

cs.LG2026

From Parameters to Data: A Task-Parameter-Guided Fine-Tuning Pipeline for Efficient LLM Alignment

Hao Chen, Qi Zhang, Liyao Li +7

Adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to specialized domains typically incurs high data and computational overhead. While prior efficiency efforts have largely treated data selecti…

cs.CL2026

Backtracking When It Strays: Mitigating Dual Exposure Biases in LLM Reasoning Distillation

Bing Wang, Shaotian Yan, Chen Shen +7

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks via long chain-of-thought (CoT), yet their immense computational overhead hinders real-worl…

cs.LG2026

FedSDR: Federated Self-Distillation with Rectification

Ziheng Ren, Zhanming Shen, Hao Wang +2

Federated fine-tuning of Large Language Models faces severe statistical heterogeneity. However, existing model-level defenses often overlook the root cause: intrinsic data distribu…

cs.CL2026

Supervised Fine-Tuning Needs to Unlock the Potential of Token Priority

Zhanming Shen, Zeyu Qin, Jiaqi Hu +7

The transition from fitting empirical data to achieving true human utility is fundamentally constrained by a granularity mismatch, where fine-grained autoregressive generation is o…

cs.CL2026

Training-Trajectory-Aware Token Selection

Zhanming Shen, Jiaqi Hu, Zeyu Qin +7

Efficient distillation is a key pathway for converting expensive reasoning capability into deployable efficiency, yet in the frontier regime where the student already has strong re…

cs.LG2025

Merge-of-Thought Distillation

Zhanming Shen, Zeyu Qin, Zenan Huang +6

Efficient reasoning distillation for long chain-of-thought (CoT) models is increasingly constrained by the assumption of a single oracle teacher, despite the practical availability…

cs.CL2025

CYCLE-INSTRUCT: Fully Seed-Free Instruction Tuning via Dual Self-Training and Cycle Consistency

Zhanming Shen, Hao Chen, Yulei Tang +6

Instruction tuning is vital for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human intent, but current methods typically rely on costly human-annotated seed data or powerful external…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Reinforcement Learning with Rubric Anchors

Zenan Huang, Yihong Zhuang, Guoshan Lu +18

Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs), exemplified by the success of OpenAI's o-series…