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most citedTowards Analyzing and Understanding the Limitations of DPO: A Theoretical Perspective

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cs.LG2026

Concordia: Self-Improving Synthetic Tables for Federated LLMs

Jimin Huang, Duanyu Feng, Nuo Chen +8

Federated learning (FL) enables training large language models (LLMs) without sharing raw data, but adapting LLMs under strict data isolation and non-IID client distributions remai…

cs.IR2026

Unlocking Biological Workflows for Robust Protein-Text Question Answering: A Dual-Dimensional RAG Framework

Li Ding, Duanyu Feng, Chen Huang +4

Protein-Text Question Answering (QA) is crucial for interpreting biological sequences through natural language. The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with Retrieval-Augme…

cs.LG2026

Advancing Edge Classification through High-Dimensional Causal Modeling of Node-Edge Interplay

Duanyu Feng, Li Ding, Hongru Liang +1

Edge classification, a crucial task for graph applications, remains relatively under-explored compared to link prediction. Current methods often overlook the potential causal influ…

cs.IR2026

STAR: Semantic-Tuned and Tail-Adaptive Retriever for Graph-Augmented Generation

Shuai Li, Chen Huang, Duanyu Feng +2

To augment Large Language Models (LLMs) for multi-hop question answering, a mainstream solution within Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) leverages lightweight retriev…

cs.CL2025

AMaPO: Adaptive Margin-attached Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment

Ruibo Deng, Duanyu Feng, Wenqiang Lei

Offline preference optimization offers a simpler and more stable alternative to RLHF for aligning language models. However, their effectiveness is critically dependent on ranking a…

cs.AI2025

Beyond Solving Math Quiz: Evaluating the Ability of Large Reasoning Models to Ask for Information

Youcheng Huang, Bowen Qin, Chen Huang +3

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable problem-solving abilities in mathematics, as evaluated by existing benchmarks exclusively on well-defined problems. Howev…

cs.CL2025

Cross-model Transferability among Large Language Models on the Platonic Representations of Concepts

Youcheng Huang, Chen Huang, Duanyu Feng +2

Understanding the inner workings of Large Language Models (LLMs) is a critical research frontier. Prior research has shown that a single LLM's concept representations can be captur…

cs.CL2024

Dishonesty in Helpful and Harmless Alignment

Youcheng Huang, Jingkun Tang, Duanyu Feng +4

People tell lies when seeking rewards. Large language models (LLMs) are aligned to human values with reinforcement learning where they get rewards if they satisfy human preference.…

cs.CL2024

Legend: Leveraging Representation Engineering to Annotate Safety Margin for Preference Datasets

Duanyu Feng, Bowen Qin, Chen Huang +3

The success of the reward model in distinguishing between responses with subtle safety differences depends critically on the high-quality preference dataset, which should capture t…

cs.CL2024

Towards Understanding the Influence of Reward Margin on Preference Model Performance

Bowen Qin, Duanyu Feng, Xi Yang

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a widely used framework for the training of language models. However, the process of using RLHF to develop a language model tha…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Towards Analyzing and Understanding the Limitations of DPO: A Theoretical Perspective

Duanyu Feng, Bowen Qin, Chen Huang +2

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), which derives reward signals directly from pairwise preference data, has shown its effectiveness on aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

DREditor: An Time-efficient Approach for Building a Domain-specific Dense Retrieval Model

Chen Huang, Duanyu Feng, Wenqiang Lei +1

Deploying dense retrieval models efficiently is becoming increasingly important across various industries. This is especially true for enterprise search services, where customizing…