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cs.CL2026

ToolSpec: Accelerating Tool Calling via Schema-Aware and Retrieval-Augmented Speculative Decoding

Heming Xia, Yongqi Li, Cunxiao Du +2

Tool calling has greatly expanded the practical utility of large language models (LLMs) by enabling them to interact with external applications. As LLM capabilities advance, effect…

cs.CL2026

Merlin's Whisper: Enabling Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models via Black-box Persuasive Prompting

Heming Xia, Cunxiao Du, Rui Li +3

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in tackling complex tasks through step-by-step thinking. However, this lengthy reasoning process incurs subst…

cs.CL2026

KNN-SSD: Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set Optimization

Mingbo Song, Heming Xia, Jun Zhang +4

Speculative Decoding (SD) has emerged as a widely used paradigm to accelerate the inference of large language models (LLMs) without compromising generation quality. It works by eff…

cs.CL2025

Reasoning Beyond Language: A Comprehensive Survey on Latent Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Xinghao Chen, Anhao Zhao, Heming Xia +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on complex tasks through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, conventional CoT relies on explicitly verbalized…

cs.CL2025

LLM-REVal: Can We Trust LLM Reviewers Yet?

Rui Li, Jia-Chen Gu, Po-Nien Kung +5

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has inspired researchers to integrate them extensively into the academic workflow, potentially reshaping how research is pract…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Single Frames: Can LMMs Comprehend Temporal and Contextual Narratives in Image Sequences?

Xiaochen Wang, Heming Xia, Jialin Song +9

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have achieved remarkable success across various visual-language tasks. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on single-image understanding…