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cs.LG2026
The Paradox of Outcome Optimization: A Causal Information-Theoretic Bound on Reasoning Shortcuts in LLMs
Zihan Chen, Yiming Zhang, Wenxiang Geng +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) aligned via outcome-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) frequently exhibit a critical failure mode: they achieve high performance on in-distribution benc…
cs.CV2026
DINORANKCLIP: DINOv3 Distillation and Injection for Vision-Language Pretraining with High-Order Ranking Consistency
Shuyang Jiang, Nan Yu, Yiming Zhang +2
Contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) suffers from two structural weaknesses: the symmetric InfoNCE loss discards the relative ordering among unmatched in-batch pairs, and…