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cs.LG2026

Training-Free On-Policy Distillation

Bangji Yang, Jiajun Fan, Zhaoyu Zhu +2

On-policy distillation consolidates specialist models into one student at the price of rollouts, teacher passes and gradient steps for every teacher. We show that the consolidation…

cs.LG2026

: Spectral Null-Space Swap Makes Reasoning Models Efficient

Hongbo Ma, Sansheng Cao, Jiajun Fan +2

LLMs trained with Chain-of-thought excel in reasoning capability, but often come with excessive token cost. We find that the core of reasoning capacity lies in the Thinking model's…

cs.SD2026

SpeechGym: An Audio-Native Gym for Training Voice Agents via Reinforcement Learning

Jiajun Fan, Jingyuan Li, Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar +6

Voice agents must call tools and hold multi-turn dialogue entirely through speech, yet the dominant paradigm trains them in text. Existing frameworks either cascade TTS and ASR aro…

cs.SD2026

Can We Read the Mind of an Audio LLM? A Verbalizable, Multilingual Middle-Layer Workspace

Jiajun Fan, Jingyuan Li, Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar +8

An audio language model is a black box in a specific way: we see what it says, never what it works out on the way there, and chain-of-thought monitoring helps only if the model wri…

cs.CL2026

Constraint-First Reasoning: A Training-Free Protocol for Exploiting Answer-Space Constraints in Mathematical Problem Solving

Hongbo Ma, Bangji Yang, Yunqian Selina Cheng +3

Large language models can derive a plausible mathematical object yet still violate explicit requirements--for example, by omitting a modular reduction, returning a non-integer, or…

cs.AI2026

The Many Faces of On-Policy Distillation: Pitfalls, Mechanisms, and Fixes

Siqi Zhu, Xuyan Ye, Hongyu Lu +2

On-policy distillation (OPD) and on-policy self-distillation (OPSD) have emerged as promising post-training methods for large language models, offering dense token-level supervisio…

cs.AI2026

Retrieval is Cheap, Show Me the Code: Executable Multi-Hop Reasoning for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Jiashuo Sun, Jimeng Shi, Yixuan Xie +10

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a standard approach for knowledge-intensive question answering, but existing systems remain brittle on multi-hop questions, where so…

cs.LG2026

Batched Contextual Reinforcement: A Task-Scaling Law for Efficient Reasoning

Bangji Yang, Hongbo Ma, Jiajun Fan +1

Large Language Models employing Chain-of-Thought reasoning achieve strong performance but suffer from excessive token consumption that inflates inference costs. Existing efficiency…

cs.CL2026

Rethinking the Reranker: Boundary-Aware Evidence Selection for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Jiashuo Sun, Pengcheng Jiang, Saizhuo Wang +13

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems remain brittle under realistic retrieval noise, even when the required evidence appears in the top-K results. A key reason is that retr…