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cs.CL2026

Is Anyone Enforcing the Cartel? What Reinforcement Learning Teaches LLM Agents in Markets

Hieu Tran, Hong Yu

Evaluations of large language model (LLM) agents report that pricing agents collude at others' expense. Yet collusion is defined by enforcement: a cartel, in which competitors shar…

cs.CL2025

Exploiting Tree Structure for Credit Assignment in RL Training of LLMs

Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu

Reinforcement learning improves LLM reasoning, yet sparse delayed reward over long sequences makes token-level credit assignment the key bottleneck. We study the verifiable-reward…

cs.CL2025

MedReadCtrl: Personalizing medical text generation with readability-controlled instruction learning

Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Won Seok Jang +4

Generative AI has demonstrated strong potential in healthcare, from clinical decision support to patient-facing chatbots that improve outcomes. A critical challenge for deployment…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing LLMs for Identifying and Prioritizing Important Medical Jargons from Electronic Health Record Notes Utilizing Data Augmentation: A Comparative Study

Won Seok Jang, Sharmin Sultana, Zonghai Yao +4

OpenNotes gives patients access to their EHR notes, but dense medical jargon limits comprehension. We evaluate closed-source and open-source LLMs for extracting and prioritizing th…

cs.CL2024

RARE: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Enhancement for Large Language Models

Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Junda Wang +3

This work introduces RARE (Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Enhancement), a versatile extension to the mutual reasoning framework (rStar), aimed at enhancing reasoning accuracy and fa…

cs.CL2024

LEAF: Learning and Evaluation Augmented by Fact-Checking to Improve Factualness in Large Language Models

Hieu Tran, Junda Wang, Yujan Ting +2

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in various natural language processing tasks, yet they often struggle with maintaining factual accuracy, particularl…

cs.CL2024

MultiViewDx: Evidence-Linked Multi-View Clinical Diagnosis

Junda Wang, Yujan Ting, Zonghai Yao +5

Medical multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can perform well on existing medical visual question answering (MedVQA) benchmarks, but their training data often does not match cl…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

ReadCtrl: Personalizing text generation with readability-controlled instruction learning

Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Lingxi Li +1

Content generation conditioning on users's readability is an important application for personalization. In an era of large language models (LLMs), readability-controlled text gener…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

README: Bridging Medical Jargon and Lay Understanding for Patient Education through Data-Centric NLP

Zonghai Yao, Nandyala Siddharth Kantu, Guanghao Wei +6

The advancement in healthcare has shifted focus toward patient-centric approaches, particularly in self-care and patient education, facilitated by access to Electronic Health Recor…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

BioInstruct: Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models for Biomedical Natural Language Processing

Hieu Tran, Zhichao Yang, Zonghai Yao +1

To enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) in biomedical natural language processing (BioNLP) by introducing a domain-specific instruction dataset and examining its…