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most citedCoAnnotating: Uncertainty-Guided Work Allocation between Human and Large Language Models for Data Annotation

43 citations · 53 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.LG2026

Skill Reuse as Compression in Agentic RL

Zhikun Xu, Yu Feng, Jacob Dineen +3

Large language model agents trained with reinforcement learning (RL) often learn brittle, task-specific shortcuts. We hypothesize that agents generalize better when their successfu…

cs.CR2026

The Blind Spot of Agent Safety: How Benign User Instructions Expose Critical Vulnerabilities in Computer-Use Agents

Xuwei Ding, Skylar Zhai, Linxin Song +6

Computer-use agents (CUAs) can now autonomously complete complex tasks in real digital environments, but when misled, they can also be used to automate harmful actions programmatic…

cs.CL2026

Self-Evolving LLM Memory Extraction Across Heterogeneous Tasks

Yuqing Yang, Tengxiao Liu, Wang Bill Zhu +3

As LLM-based assistants become persistent and personalized, they must extract and retain useful information from past conversations as memory. However, the types of information wor…

cs.CV2026

Video-Based Reward Modeling for Computer-Use Agents

Linxin Song, Jieyu Zhang, Huanxin Sheng +6

Computer-using agents (CUAs) are becoming increasingly capable; however, it remains difficult to scale evaluation of whether a trajectory truly fulfills a user instruction. In this…

cs.CL2026

DP-RFT: Learning to Generate Synthetic Text via Differentially Private Reinforcement Fine-Tuning

Fangyuan Xu, Sihao Chen, Zinan Lin +13

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation plays a pivotal role in developing large language models (LLMs) on private data, where data owners cannot provide eyes-on acce…

cs.LG2026

Experiential Reinforcement Learning

Taiwei Shi, Sihao Chen, Bowen Jiang +3

Reinforcement learning has become the central approach for language models (LMs) to learn from environmental reward or feedback. In practice, the environmental feedback is usually…

cs.CL2026

One Model, All Roles: Multi-Turn, Multi-Agent Self-Play Reinforcement Learning for Conversational Social Intelligence

Bowen Jiang, Taiwei Shi, Ryo Kamoi +5

This paper introduces OMAR: One Model, All Roles, a reinforcement learning framework that enables AI to develop social intelligence through multi-turn, multi-agent conversational s…

cs.CL2025

CoAct-1: Computer-using Multi-Agent System with Coding Actions

Linxin Song, Yutong Dai, Viraj Prabhu +9

Autonomous agents that operate computers via Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) often struggle with efficiency and reliability on complex, long-horizon tasks. While augmenting these…

cs.CL2025

STEER-BENCH: A Benchmark for Evaluating the Steerability of Large Language Models

Kai Chen, Zihao He, Taiwei Shi +1

Steerability, or the ability of large language models (LLMs) to adapt outputs to align with diverse community-specific norms, perspectives, and communication styles, is critical fo…

cs.CL2025

The Hallucination Tax of Reinforcement Finetuning

Linxin Song, Taiwei Shi, Jieyu Zhao

Reinforcement finetuning (RFT) has become a standard approach for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, its impact on model trustworthiness…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Efficient Reinforcement Finetuning via Adaptive Curriculum Learning

Taiwei Shi, Yiyang Wu, Linxin Song +2

Reinforcement finetuning (RFT) has shown great potential for enhancing the mathematical reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but it is often sample- and compute-…

cs.CL2025

Discovering Knowledge Deficiencies of Language Models on Massive Knowledge Base

Linxin Song, Xuwei Ding, Jieyu Zhang +6

Large language models (LLMs) possess impressive linguistic capabilities but often fail to faithfully retain factual knowledge, leading to hallucinations and unreliable outputs. Und…

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

On the Trustworthiness of Generative Foundation Models: Guideline, Assessment, and Perspective

Yue Huang, Chujie Gao, Siyuan Wu +63

Generative Foundation Models (GenFMs) have emerged as transformative tools. However, their widespread adoption raises critical concerns regarding trustworthiness across dimensions.…

cs.LG2025

Detecting and Filtering Unsafe Training Data via Data Attribution with Denoised Representation

Yijun Pan, Taiwei Shi, Jieyu Zhao +1

Large language models (LLMs) are highly sensitive to even small amounts of unsafe training data, making effective detection and filtering essential for trustworthy model developmen…

cs.CL2024

WildFeedback: Aligning LLMs With In-situ User Interactions And Feedback

Taiwei Shi, Zhuoer Wang, Longqi Yang +12

As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, aligning these models with human preferences has emerged as a critical challenge. Traditional alignment methods, relying on hum…

cs.CL2024

How Susceptible are Large Language Models to Ideological Manipulation?

Kai Chen, Zihao He, Jun Yan +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) possess the potential to exert substantial influence on public perceptions and interactions with information. This raises concerns about the societal i…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Can Language Model Moderators Improve the Health of Online Discourse?

Hyundong Cho, Shuai Liu, Taiwei Shi +8

Conversational moderation of online communities is crucial to maintaining civility for a constructive environment, but it is challenging to scale and harmful to moderators. The inc…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Safer-Instruct: Aligning Language Models with Automated Preference Data

Taiwei Shi, Kai Chen, Jieyu Zhao

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is a vital strategy for enhancing model capability in language models. However, annotating preference data for RLHF is a resource-…

cs.CL2023★ 43 cited

CoAnnotating: Uncertainty-Guided Work Allocation between Human and Large Language Models for Data Annotation

Minzhi Li, Taiwei Shi, Caleb Ziems +4

Annotated data plays a critical role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) in training models and evaluating their performance. Given recent developments in Large Language Models (L…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Neural Story Planning

Anbang Ye, Christopher Cui, Taiwei Shi +1

Automated plot generation is the challenge of generating a sequence of events that will be perceived by readers as the plot of a coherent story. Traditional symbolic planners plan…