3 papers
cs.LG2026
Merging Beyond: Streaming LLM Updates via Activation-Guided Rotations
Yuxuan Yao, Haonan Sheng, Qingsong Lv +11
The escalating scale of Large Language Models (LLMs) necessitates efficient adaptation techniques. Model merging has gained prominence for its efficiency and controllability. Howev…
cs.CL2026
OVD: On-policy Verbal Distillation
Jing Xiong, Hui Shen, Shansan Gong +7
Knowledge distillation offers a promising path to transfer reasoning capabilities from large teacher models to efficient student models; however, existing token-level on-policy dis…
cs.CL2025
DeepDiver: Adaptive Search Intensity Scaling via Open-Web Reinforcement Learning
Wenxuan Shi, Haochen Tan, Chuqiao Kuang +7
Information seeking demands iterative evidence gathering and reflective reasoning, yet large language models (LLMs) still struggle with it in open-web question answering. Existing…