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most citedA Survey of Large Language Models

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19 papers

cs.LG2026

Continual Learning in Transition

Zhiyan Hou, Dan Zhang, Tao Feng +11

Classical continual learning (CL) has primarily focused on enabling models to update and retain knowledge through parameter-centric mechanisms, e.g., training strategies, architect…

cs.AI2026

DASH: Divergence-Adaptive Supervision Horizons for On-Policy Self-Distillation of Reasoning Models

ZhiYan Hou, Xinyu Tang, Hongyan An +9

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models using automatically verifiable outcome signals, but these signals…

cs.CV2026

ReLoop-UME: Recurrent Depth with Learnable Retrieval Registers for Universal Multimodal Embedding

Shijie Wang, Xiangzhao Hao, Yueti Li +3

Universal multimodal embedding (UME) maps heterogeneous multimodal inputs into a shared embedding space. Existing UME models either form embeddings through single forward encoding…

cs.CL2026

Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning

Xinyu Tang, Qianggang Cao, Yurou Liu +13

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards without human-annotated data, often referred to as zero RL, has emerged as a powerful paradigm for eliciting chain-of-thought reasoni…

cs.CL2026

GraphPO: Graph-based Policy Optimization for Reasoning Models

Yuliang Zhan, Xinyu Tang, Jian Li +7

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a standard paradigm for enhancing the capability of large reasoning models. RLVR typically samples responses indepe…

cs.AI2026

SearchSwarm: Towards Delegation Intelligence in Agentic LLMs for Long-Horizon Deep Research

Xiaochong Lan, Quan Chen, Kun Tao +7

Large language models are increasingly expected to handle complex, long-horizon real-world tasks whose context demands can grow without bound, yet model context windows remain inhe…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Rethinking Sample Polarity in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

Xinyu Tang, Yuliang Zhan, Zhixun Li +5

Large reasoning models (LRMs) are typically trained using reinforcement learning with verifiable reward (RLVR) to enhance their reasoning abilities. In this paradigm, policies are…

cs.CL2025

L2V-CoT: Cross-Modal Transfer of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Latent Intervention

Yuliang Zhan, Xinyu Tang, Han Wan +3

Recently, Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has significantly enhanced the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but Vision-Language Models (VLMs) still struggle with multi-…

cs.LG2025

Towards High Data Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward

Xinyu Tang, Zhenduo Zhang, Yurou Liu +4

Recent advances in large reasoning models have leveraged reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) to improve reasoning capabilities. However, scaling these methods typ…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Cross-task Transfer of Large Language Models via Activation Steering

Xinyu Tang, Zhihao Lv, Xiaoxue Cheng +5

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive abilities in leveraging pretrained knowledge through prompting, but they often struggle with unseen tasks, particularly in data-s…

cs.AI2025

Incentivizing Dual Process Thinking for Efficient Large Language Model Reasoning

Xiaoxue Cheng, Junyi Li, Zhenduo Zhang +4

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have demonstrated strong performance on complex reasoning tasks, but often suffer from overthinking, generating redundant content regardless of task d…

cs.CL2025

Unlocking General Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models via Representation Engineering

Xinyu Tang, Xiaolei Wang, Zhihao Lv +5

Recent advancements in long chain-of-thoughts(long CoTs) have significantly improved the reasoning capabilities of large language models(LLMs). Existing work finds that the capabil…

cs.CL2024

DAWN-ICL: Strategic Planning of Problem-solving Trajectories for Zero-Shot In-Context Learning

Xinyu Tang, Xiaolei Wang, Wayne Xin Zhao +1

Zero-shot in-context learning (ZS-ICL) aims to conduct in-context learning (ICL) without using human-annotated demonstrations. Most ZS-ICL methods use large language models (LLMs)…

cs.CL2024

YuLan: An Open-source Large Language Model

Yutao Zhu, Kun Zhou, Kelong Mao +35

Large language models (LLMs) have become the foundation of many applications, leveraging their extensive capabilities in processing and understanding natural language. While many o…

cs.LG2024

Investigating the Pre-Training Dynamics of In-Context Learning: Task Recognition vs. Task Learning

Xiaolei Wang, Xinyu Tang, Wayne Xin Zhao +1

The emergence of in-context learning (ICL) is potentially attributed to two major abilities: task recognition (TR) for recognizing the task from demonstrations and utilizing pre-tr…

cs.CL2024

Unleashing the Potential of Large Language Models as Prompt Optimizers: Analogical Analysis with Gradient-based Model Optimizers

Xinyu Tang, Xiaolei Wang, Wayne Xin Zhao +3

Automatic prompt optimization is an important approach to improving the performance of large language models (LLMs). Recent research demonstrates the potential of using LLMs as pro…

cs.CL2023★ 15 cited

Improving Conversational Recommendation Systems via Counterfactual Data Simulation

Xiaolei Wang, Kun Zhou, Xinyu Tang +4

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) aim to provide recommendation services via natural language conversations. Although a number of approaches have been proposed for developi…

cs.CL2023★ 78 cited

Rethinking the Evaluation for Conversational Recommendation in the Era of Large Language Models

Xiaolei Wang, Xinyu Tang, Wayne Xin Zhao +2

The recent success of large language models (LLMs) has shown great potential to develop more powerful conversational recommender systems (CRSs), which rely on natural language conv…

cs.CL2023★ 1.5k cited

A Survey of Large Language Models

Wayne Xin Zhao, Kun Zhou, Junyi Li +19

Language is essentially a complex, intricate system of human expressions governed by grammatical rules. It poses a significant challenge to develop capable AI algorithms for compre…