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most citedSecrets of RLHF in Large Language Models Part II: Reward Modeling

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28 papers

cs.LG2026

A Few More Tokens Ahead: Reinforcing Parallelism in Diffusion LLMs

Jiahao Kuang, Yangfan Gao, Tao Gui +4

Parallel generation is widely regarded as an inherent advantage of diffusion large language models. Yet our fixed-quota evaluation of four representative models reveals severe degr…

cs.LG2026

MLAfication: Efficiently Enabling High-Fidelity MLA for Modern LLMs

Zile Wang, Zhide Xie, Tao Ji

Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) compresses the KV cache into a latent representation, reducing inference memory and bandwidth. Existing MHA2MLA/TransMLA methods do not support QK…

cs.AI2026

Atria Dawn: The Dawn of Agentic Superintelligence

Honglin Guo, Tao Gui, Yicheng Chen +139

As AI agents become participants in the development of their successors, they reshape both the production of intelligence and the role of human researchers. We introduce Atria Dawn…

cs.CL2026

Looped GPT-BERT: Trading Parameters for Computation in Small Language Modeling

Tingshuo Fan, Hongtao Mu, Tianyu Zhou +2

When training data are limited, increasing parameter count is not the only way to improve language-model performance. A small parameter set, when repeatedly applied, can also deliv…

cs.SD2026

MuseCritic: Learning Multi-Aspect Song Rewards through Natural-Language Aesthetic Critiques

Jiabao Zhuang, Changhao Jiang, Hanchen Wang +11

Long-form song generation models continue to improve in duration, structural coherence, and acoustic complexity, increasing the need for reliable aesthetic rewards aligned with hum…

cs.CL2026

CL-bench Life: Can Language Models Learn from Real-Life Context?

Shihan Dou, Yujiong Shen, Chenhao Huang +35

Today's AI assistants such as OpenClaw are designed to handle context effectively, making context learning an increasingly important capability for models. As these systems move be…

cs.CV2026

MHA2MLA-VLM: Enabling DeepSeek's Economical Multi-Head Latent Attention across Vision-Language Models

Xiaoran Fan, Zhichao Sun, Tao Ji +2

As vision-language models (VLMs) tackle increasingly complex and multimodal tasks, the rapid growth of Key-Value (KV) cache imposes significant memory and computational bottlenecks…

cs.SD2026

Muse: Towards Reproducible Long-Form Song Generation with Fine-Grained Style Control

Changhao Jiang, Jiahao Chen, Zhenghao Xiang +14

Recent commercial systems such as Suno demonstrate strong capabilities in long-form song generation, while academic research remains largely non-reproducible due to the lack of pub…

cs.CV2025

The Role of Entropy in Visual Grounding: Analysis and Optimization

Shuo Li, Jiajun Sun, Zhihao Zhang +10

Recent advances in fine-tuning multimodal large language models (MLLMs) using reinforcement learning have achieved remarkable progress, particularly with the introduction of variou…

cs.CL2025

AgentPRM: Process Reward Models for LLM Agents via Step-Wise Promise and Progress

Zhiheng Xi, Chenyang Liao, Guanyu Li +12

Despite rapid development, large language models (LLMs) still encounter challenges in multi-turn decision-making tasks (i.e., agent tasks) like web shopping and browser navigation,…

cs.SD2025

From Scores to Preferences: Redefining MOS Benchmarking for Speech Quality Reward Modeling

Yifei Cao, Changhao Jiang, Jiabao Zhuang +11

Assessing the perceptual quality of synthetic speech is crucial for guiding the development and refinement of speech generation models. However, it has traditionally relied on huma…

cs.SD2025

CMDAR: A Chinese Multi-scene Dynamic Audio Reasoning Benchmark with Diverse Challenges

Hui Li, Changhao Jiang, Hongyu Wang +11

The ability to reason from audio, including speech, environmental sounds, and music, is essential for AI agents to interact effectively in real-world scenarios. Existing benchmarks…

cs.CL2025

SpeechRole: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Evaluating Speech Role-Playing Agents

Changhao Jiang, Jiajun Sun, Yifei Cao +15

Speech is essential for realistic role-playing, yet existing work on role-playing agents largely centers on text, leaving Speech Role-Playing Agents (SRPAs) underexplored and witho…

cs.CL2025

BMMR: A Large-Scale Bilingual Multimodal Multi-Discipline Reasoning Dataset

Zhiheng Xi, Guanyu Li, Yutao Fan +13

In this paper, we introduce BMMR, a large-scale bilingual, multimodal, multi-disciplinary reasoning dataset for the community to develop and evaluate large multimodal models (LMMs)…

cs.CL2025

Why Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Enables MLLMs Preserve Prior Knowledge Better: A Data Perspective

Zhihao Zhang, Qiaole Dong, Qi Zhang +12

Post-training algorithms such as Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) are widely used to adapt (multimodal) large language models to downstream tasks. W…

cs.CL2025

What Makes a Good Speech Tokenizer for LLM-Centric Speech Generation? A Systematic Study

Xiaoran Fan, Zhichao Sun, Yangfan Gao +19

Speech-language models (SLMs) offer a promising path toward unifying speech and text understanding and generation. However, challenges remain in achieving effective cross-modal ali…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Effective Length Extrapolation via Dimension-Wise Positional Embeddings Manipulation

Yi Lu, Wanxu Zhao, Xin Zhou +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle to process and generate coherent context when the number of input tokens exceeds the pre-trained length. Recent advancements in long-con…

cs.CV2025

Mitigating Object Hallucinations in MLLMs via Multi-Frequency Perturbations

Shuo Li, Jiajun Sun, Guodong Zheng +10

Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in visual-language tasks. However, the authenticity of the responses generated by MLLMs…

cs.CL2025

Towards Economical Inference: Enabling DeepSeek's Multi-Head Latent Attention in Any Transformer-based LLMs

Tao Ji, Bin Guo, Yuanbin Wu +6

Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) is an innovative architecture proposed by DeepSeek, designed to ensure efficient and economical inference by significantly compressing the Key-Val…

cs.CL2024

Enhancing LLM Reasoning via Critique Models with Test-Time and Training-Time Supervision

Zhiheng Xi, Dingwen Yang, Jixuan Huang +21

Training large language models (LLMs) to spend more time thinking and reflection before responding is crucial for effectively solving complex reasoning tasks in fields such as scie…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Multi-Programming Language Sandbox for LLMs

Shihan Dou, Jiazheng Zhang, Jianxiang Zang +25

We introduce MPLSandbox, an out-of-the-box multi-programming language sandbox designed to provide unified and comprehensive feedback from compiler and analysis tools for Large Lang…

cs.CV2024

Have the VLMs Lost Confidence? A Study of Sycophancy in VLMs

Shuo Li, Tao Ji, Xiaoran Fan +10

In the study of LLMs, sycophancy represents a prevalent hallucination that poses significant challenges to these models. Specifically, LLMs often fail to adhere to original correct…

cs.CL2024

Length Generalization of Causal Transformers without Position Encoding

Jie Wang, Tao Ji, Yuanbin Wu +5

Generalizing to longer sentences is important for recent Transformer-based language models. Besides algorithms manipulating explicit position features, the success of Transformers…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

LongHeads: Multi-Head Attention is Secretly a Long Context Processor

Yi Lu, Xin Zhou, Wei He +5

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance in numerous domains but often struggle to process lengthy inputs effectively and efficiently due to limited length…