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cs.LG2026

BatCoder: Self-Supervised Bidirectional Code-Documentation Learning via Back-Translation

Jingwen Xu, Yiyang Lu, Zisu Huang +9

Training LLMs for code-related tasks typically depends on high-quality code-documentation pairs, which are costly to curate and often scarce for niche programming languages. We int…

cs.PL2026

CSSG: Measuring Code Similarity with Semantic Graphs

Yiyang Lu, Jingwen Xu, Changze Lv +6

Existing code similarity metrics, such as BLEU, CodeBLEU, and TSED, largely rely on surface-level string overlap or abstract syntax tree structures, and often fail to capture deepe…

cs.CL2026

Benchmark^2: Systematic Evaluation of LLM Benchmarks

Qi Qian, Chengsong Huang, Jingwen Xu +13

The rapid proliferation of benchmarks for evaluating large language models (LLMs) has created an urgent need for systematic methods to assess benchmark quality itself. We propose B…

cs.CV2026

VIB-Probe: Detecting and Mitigating Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models via Variational Information Bottleneck

Feiran Zhang, Yixin Wu, Zhenghua Wang +4

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in multimodal tasks, but remain susceptible to hallucinations, where generated text deviates from the underlying…

cs.DC2025

SATER: A Self-Aware and Token-Efficient Approach to Routing and Cascading

Yuanzhe Shen, Yide Liu, Zisu Huang +3

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable performance across diverse tasks, yet their effectiveness frequently depends on costly commercial APIs or cloud services. Model…

cs.NE2025

Biologically Plausible Learning via Bidirectional Spike-Based Distillation

Changze Lv, Yifei Wang, Yanxun Zhang +7

Developing biologically plausible learning algorithms that can achieve performance comparable to error backpropagation remains a longstanding challenge. Existing approaches often c…

cs.AI2025

IntentionReasoner: Facilitating Adaptive LLM Safeguards through Intent Reasoning and Selective Query Refinement

Yuanzhe Shen, Zisu Huang, Zhengkang Guo +5

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has driven their adoption across diverse domains, yet their ability to generate harmful content poses significant safety chall…

cs.LG2025

Enhancing Model Privacy in Federated Learning with Random Masking and Quantization

Zhibo Xu, Jianhao Zhu, Jingwen Xu +7

The primary goal of traditional federated learning is to protect data privacy by enabling distributed edge devices to collaboratively train a shared global model while keeping raw…

cs.AI2025

TripTailor: A Real-World Benchmark for Personalized Travel Planning

Yuanzhe Shen, Kaimin Wang, Changze Lv +2

The continuous evolution and enhanced reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have elevated their role in complex tasks, notably in travel planning, where demand for…

cs.CL2025

Improving Continual Pre-training Through Seamless Data Packing

Ruicheng Yin, Xuan Gao, Changze Lv +3

Continual pre-training has demonstrated significant potential in enhancing model performance, particularly in domain-specific scenarios. The most common approach for packing data b…

cs.AI2025

RECAST: Expanding the Boundaries of LLMs' Complex Instruction Following with Multi-Constraint Data

Zhengkang Guo, Wenhao Liu, Mingchen Xie +13

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly expected to tackle complex tasks, driven by their expanding applications and users' growing proficiency in crafting sophisticated prom…

cs.CL2025

Layer-Specific Scaling of Positional Encodings for Superior Long-Context Modeling

Zhenghua Wang, Yiran Ding, Changze Lv +5

Although large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant progress in handling long-context inputs, they still suffer from the ``lost-in-the-middle'' problem, where crucial i…

cs.CV2025

Explainable Synthetic Image Detection through Diffusion Timestep Ensembling

Yixin Wu, Feiran Zhang, Tianyuan Shi +7

Recent advances in diffusion models have enabled the creation of deceptively real images, posing significant security risks when misused. In this study, we empirically show that di…

cs.NE2025

Toward Relative Positional Encoding in Spiking Transformers

Changze Lv, Yansen Wang, Dongqi Han +4

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are bio-inspired networks that mimic how neurons in the brain communicate through discrete spikes, which have great potential in various tasks due to…

cs.NE2025

Dendritic Localized Learning: Toward Biologically Plausible Algorithm

Changze Lv, Jingwen Xu, Yiyang Lu +7

Backpropagation is the foundational algorithm for training neural networks and a key driver of deep learning's success. However, its biological plausibility has been challenged due…

cs.AI2024

Tell Me What You Don't Know: Enhancing Refusal Capabilities of Role-Playing Agents via Representation Space Analysis and Editing

Wenhao Liu, Siyu An, Junru Lu +8

Role-Playing Agents (RPAs) have shown remarkable performance in various applications, yet they often struggle to recognize and appropriately respond to hard queries that conflict w…

cs.CL2024

Enhancing the Capability and Robustness of Large Language Models through Reinforcement Learning-Driven Query Refinement

Xiaohua Wang, Zisu Huang, Feiran Zhang +5

The capacity of large language models (LLMs) to generate honest, harmless, and helpful responses heavily relies on the quality of user prompts. However, these prompts often tend to…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

Searching for Best Practices in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Xiaohua Wang, Zhenghua Wang, Xuan Gao +11

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) techniques have proven to be effective in integrating up-to-date information, mitigating hallucinations, and enhancing response quality, partic…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Promoting Data and Model Privacy in Federated Learning through Quantized LoRA

JianHao Zhu, Changze Lv, Xiaohua Wang +7

Conventional federated learning primarily aims to secure the privacy of data distributed across multiple edge devices, with the global model dispatched to edge devices for paramete…

cs.NE2024★ 1 cited

Advancing Spiking Neural Networks for Sequential Modeling with Central Pattern Generators

Changze Lv, Dongqi Han, Yansen Wang +3

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) represent a promising approach to developing artificial neural networks that are both energy-efficient and biologically plausible. However, applying…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Decoding Continuous Character-based Language from Non-invasive Brain Recordings

Cenyuan Zhang, Xiaoqing Zheng, Ruicheng Yin +8

Deciphering natural language from brain activity through non-invasive devices remains a formidable challenge. Previous non-invasive decoders either require multiple experiments wit…

cs.LG2024

Advancing Parameter Efficiency in Fine-tuning via Representation Editing

Muling Wu, Wenhao Liu, Xiaohua Wang +7

Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) techniques have drawn significant attention due to their ability to yield competitive results while updating only a small portion of the adju…

cs.NE2024★ 5 cited

Efficient and Effective Time-Series Forecasting with Spiking Neural Networks

Changze Lv, Yansen Wang, Dongqi Han +3

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), inspired by the spiking behavior of biological neurons, provide a unique pathway for capturing the intricacies of temporal data. However, applying S…

cs.CL2024

Revisiting Jailbreaking for Large Language Models: A Representation Engineering Perspective

Tianlong Li, Zhenghua Wang, Wenhao Liu +6

The recent surge in jailbreaking attacks has revealed significant vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) when exposed to malicious inputs. While various defense strategies…