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most citedFrom Handcrafted Features to LLMs: A Brief Survey for Machine Translation Quality Estimation

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35 papers

cs.LG2026

Learning Chaos Without Seeing Chaos: Extrapolation of Global Dynamics in Autoregressive Transformers

Yilun Liu, Yi Zhang, Ganyu Wu +5

Autoregressive models are trained to predict a system's behavior one step at a time, and recursive generation allows the learned dynamics to unfold over long horizons. To what exte…

cs.AI2026

Call Neighbours Yourself: Graph Walks with Destination-Conditioned On-Policy Self-Distillation

Yilun Liu, Boyu Luo, Yanran Tang +2

Reasoning over text-attributed graphs (TAGs) requires large language models (LLMs) to combine a node's text with evidence distributed across its neighbourhood. Existing methods fix…

cs.AI2026

Mendel Gödel Machine: Recursive Self-Improving Coding Agents via Comparative Evolution

Changzhi Liu, Yilun Liu, Sikuan Yan +2

Self-improving coding agents that iteratively rewrite their own source code have demonstrated impressive performance on coding tasks. However, existing solutions generally derive s…

cs.CL2026

Behavioral and Representational Evidence of Binomial Ordering Preferences in Large Language Models

Zhiqing Yang, Yilun Liu, Yunpu Ma +2

Large language models (LLMs) can readily reproduce conventional expressions, yet their ability to model gradient frequency distributions remains underexplored. We investigate this…

cs.CL2026

MADE: Beyond Scoring via a Multilingual Agentic Diagnosing Engine for Fine-Grained Evaluation Insights

Yilun Liu, Miao Zhang, Shimin Tao +9

Multilingual and multicultural benchmarks now cover dozens of languages and model families, but the resulting score landscapes remain metric-rich and insight-poor, necessitating fi…

cs.MA2026

PyraVid: Hierarchical Multimodal Memory for Long-Horizon Video Reasoning

Sikuan Yan, Sicheng Dong, Haotong Wang +8

Memory has become an increasingly important component of agentic systems, as these systems are expected to reason over long-term experience. However, prior work has largely focused…

cs.CL2026

The GaoYao Benchmark: A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating Multilingual and Multicultural Abilities of Large Language Models

Yilun Liu, Chunguang Zhao, Mengyao Piao +14

Evaluating the multilingual and multicultural capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) is essential for their global utility. However, current benchmarks face three critical li…

cs.CL2026

TRN-R1-Zero: Text-rich Network Reasoning via LLMs with Reinforcement Learning Only

Yilun Liu, Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang

Zero-shot reasoning on text-rich networks (TRNs) remains a challenging frontier, as models must integrate textual semantics with relational structure without task-specific supervis…

cs.AI2026

LLM Safety From Within: Detecting Harmful Content with Internal Representations

Difan Jiao, Yilun Liu, Ye Yuan +4

Guard models are widely used to detect harmful content in user prompts and LLM responses. However, state-of-the-art guard models rely solely on terminal-layer representations and o…

cs.CL2026

C-Mining: Unsupervised Discovery of Seeds for Cultural Data Synthesis via Geometric Misalignment

Pufan Zeng, Yilun Liu, Mingchen Dai +12

Achieving cultural alignment in Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly depends on synthetic data generation. For such synthesis, the most vital initial step is seed curation; ho…

cs.LG2026

Routing-Free Mixture-of-Experts

Yilun Liu, Jinru Han, Sikuan Yan +2

Standard Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models rely on centralized routing mechanisms that introduce rigid inductive biases. We propose Routing-Free MoE which eliminates any hard-coded c…

cs.CV2026

Chart Specification: Structural Representations for Incentivizing VLM Reasoning in Chart-to-Code Generation

Minggui He, Mingchen Dai, Jian Zhang +5

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown promise in generating plotting code from chart images, yet achieving structural fidelity remains challenging. Existing approaches largely r…

cs.SE2025

LogPurge: Log Data Purification for Anomaly Detection via Rule-Enhanced Filtering

Shenglin Zhang, Ziang Chen, Zijing Que +5

Log anomaly detection, which is critical for identifying system failures and preempting security breaches, detects irregular patterns within large volumes of log data, and impacts…

cs.AI2025

RationAnomaly: Log Anomaly Detection with Rationality via Chain-of-Thought and Reinforcement Learning

Song Xu, Yilun Liu, Minggui He +10

Logs constitute a form of evidence signaling the operational status of software systems. Automated log anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability of modern software…

cs.SE2025

R-Log: Incentivizing Log Analysis Capability in LLMs via Reasoning-based Reinforcement Learning

Yilun Liu, Ziang Chen, Song Xu +10

The growing complexity of log data in modern software systems has prompted the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for automated log analysis. Current approaches typically rely on…

cs.CL2025

M-DaQ: Retrieving Samples with Multilingual Diversity and Quality for Instruction Fine-Tuning Datasets

Chunguang Zhao, Yilun Liu, Pufan Zeng +10

Multilingual instruction fine-tuning (IFT) empowers large language models to generalize across diverse linguistic and cultural contexts; however, high-quality, systematically curat…

cs.LG2025

Parameter-Efficient Routed Fine-Tuning: Mixture-of-Experts Demands Mixture of Adaptation Modules

Yilun Liu, Yunpu Ma, Yuetian Lu +3

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) benefits from a dynamic routing mechanism among their specialized experts, which existing Parameter- Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) strategies fail to levera…

cs.CL2025

ELSPR: Evaluator LLM Training Data Self-Purification on Non-Transitive Preferences via Tournament Graph Reconstruction

Yan Yu, Yilun Liu, Minggui He +9

Pairwise evaluation of large language models (LLMs) has become the dominant paradigm for benchmarking open-ended tasks, yet non-transitive preferences, where evaluators prefer A ov…

cs.CL2025

MIDB: Multilingual Instruction Data Booster for Enhancing Cultural Equality in Multilingual Instruction Synthesis

Yilun Liu, Chunguang Zhao, Xinhua Yang +9

Despite doubts on data quality, instruction synthesis has been widely applied into instruction tuning (IT) of LLMs as an economic and rapid alternative. Recent endeavors focus on i…

cs.CL2025

R1-T1: Fully Incentivizing Translation Capability in LLMs via Reasoning Learning

Minggui He, Yilun Liu, Shimin Tao +10

Despite recent breakthroughs in reasoning-enhanced large language models (LLMs) like DeepSeek-R1, incorporating inference-time reasoning into machine translation (MT), where human…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Adapting Large Language Models to Log Analysis with Interpretable Domain Knowledge

Yuhe Ji, Yilun Liu, Feiyu Yao +10

Log analysis represents a critical sub-domain within AI applications that facilitates automatic approaches to fault and error management of large-scaled software systems, saving la…

cs.LG2024

PERFT: Parameter-Efficient Routed Fine-Tuning for Mixture-of-Expert Model

Yilun Liu, Yunpu Ma, Shuo Chen +4

The Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) paradigm has emerged as a powerful approach for scaling transformers with improved resource utilization. However, efficiently fine-tuning MoE models re…

cs.SE2024★ 2 cited

LogLM: From Task-based to Instruction-based Automated Log Analysis

Yilun Liu, Yuhe Ji, Shimin Tao +7

Automatic log analysis is essential for the efficient Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of software systems, providing critical insights into system behaviors. However, existing appr…

cs.AI2024

Taming Text-to-Image Synthesis for Novices: User-centric Prompt Generation via Multi-turn Guidance

Yilun Liu, Minggui He, Feiyu Yao +9

The emergence of text-to-image synthesis (TIS) models has significantly influenced digital image creation by producing high-quality visuals from written descriptions. Yet these mod…