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cs.CL2026

Facts Don't Speak Louder than Words: The Behavioral Essence of Long-CoT Distillation

Yongcan Yu, Jian Liang, Lingxiao He +5

While long chain-of-thought (CoT) distillation significantly improves the reasoning abilities of language models, its underlying mechanism remains poorly understood. Current pipeli…

cs.CL2026

DualStake: Dual-Path Confidence Calibration in Deep Research Agents

Yinuo Xu, Yuwei Liang, Jianjie Cheng +4

Deep Research agents tackle knowledge-intensive tasks through multi-round retrieval and decision-oriented generation. However, these agents suffer from severe overconfidence, makin…

cs.LG2026

On the Vulnerability of Parameter-Level Defenses to Model Merging

Kuangpu Guo, Qingyan Zheng, Jian Liang +4

The training-free integration of expert models via model merging has exposed significant security risks, enabling free-riders to combine specialized models without authorization. R…

cs.AI2026

WorldCoder-Bench: Benchmarking Physically Grounded 3D World Synthesis

Shuo Lu, Yinuo Xu, Kecheng Yu +8

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly asked not only to write static interfaces, but to construct executable interactive worlds from natural language. Browser-native 3D, co…

cs.LG2026

Understanding and Mitigating Spurious Signal Amplification in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Math Reasoning

Yongcan Yu, Lingxiao He, Jian Liang +5

Test-time reinforcement learning (TTRL) always adapts models at inference time via pseudo-labeling, leaving it vulnerable to spurious optimization signals from label noise. Through…

cs.CV2026

One Size, Many Fits: Aligning Diverse Group-Wise Click Preferences in Large-Scale Advertising Image Generation

Shuo Lu, Haohan Wang, Wei Feng +14

Advertising image generation has increasingly focused on online metrics like Click-Through Rate (CTR), yet existing approaches adopt a ``one-size-fits-all" strategy that optimizes…

cs.CR2026

Mitigating the Safety-utility Trade-off in LLM Alignment via Adaptive Safe Context Learning

Yanbo Wang, Minzheng Wang, Jian Liang +3

While reasoning models have achieved remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks, their increasing power necessitates stringent safety measures. For safety alignment, the core ch…

cs.AI2026

Do MLLMs Really Understand Space? A Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation

Shuo Lu, Jianjie Cheng, Yinuo Xu +16

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance on perception-oriented tasks, yet their ability to perform mathematical spatial reasoning, defined as the…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Reassessing the Role of Supervised Fine-Tuning: An Empirical Study in VLM Reasoning

Yongcan Yu, Lingxiao He, Shuo Lu +10

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) reasoning have been largely attributed to the rise of reinforcement Learning (RL), which has shifted the community's focus away fro…

cs.CV2025

Cooperative Pseudo Labeling for Unsupervised Federated Classification

Kuangpu Guo, Lijun Sheng, Yongcan Yu +3

Unsupervised Federated Learning (UFL) aims to collaboratively train a global model across distributed clients without sharing data or accessing label information. Previous UFL work…

cs.CL2025

A Comprehensive Survey on Trustworthiness in Reasoning with Large Language Models

Yanbo Wang, Yongcan Yu, Jian Liang +1

The development of Long-CoT reasoning has advanced LLM performance across various tasks, including language understanding, complex problem solving, and code generation. This paradi…

cs.CR2025

Test-Time Immunization: A Universal Defense Framework Against Jailbreaks for (Multimodal) Large Language Models

Yongcan Yu, Yanbo Wang, Ran He +1

While (multimodal) large language models (LLMs) have attracted widespread attention due to their exceptional capabilities, they remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks. Various defe…

cs.LG2024

STAMP: Outlier-Aware Test-Time Adaptation with Stable Memory Replay

Yongcan Yu, Lijun Sheng, Ran He +1

Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to address the distribution shift between the training and test data with only unlabeled data at test time. Existing TTA methods often focus on impr…