collaborators

18 papers

cs.LG2026

Federated Large Language Models: Current Progress and Future Directions

Yuhang Yao, Jianyi Zhang, Junda Wu +11

Large Language Models have achieved impressive performance across diverse applications, yet their training typically depends on centralized data collection, raising serious privacy…

cs.LG2026

Simultaneous Multi-objective Alignment Across Verifiable and Non-verifiable Rewards

Yiran Shen, Yu Xia, Jonathan Chang +1

Aligning large language models to human preferences is inherently multidimensional, yet most pipelines collapse heterogeneous signals into a single objective. We seek to answer wha…

cs.LG2026

Learning to Hint for Reinforcement Learning

Yu Xia, Canwen Xu, Zhewei Yao +2

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is widely used for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, but it often suffers from advantage collapse: when all rollouts in a gr…

cs.IR2026

Evaluation on Entity Matching in Recommender Systems

Zihan Huang, Rohan Surana, Zhouhang Xie +3

Entity matching is a crucial component in various recommender systems, including conversational recommender systems (CRS) and knowledge-based recommender systems. However, the lack…

cs.CL2026

Multi-Agent Collaborative Filtering: Orchestrating Users and Items for Agentic Recommendations

Yu Xia, Sungchul Kim, Tong Yu +2

Agentic recommendations cast recommenders as large language model (LLM) agents that can plan, reason, use tools, and interact with users of varying preferences in web applications.…

cs.LG2026

Mitigating Visual Knowledge Forgetting in MLLM Instruction-tuning via Modality-decoupled Gradient Descent

Junda Wu, Yuxin Xiong, Xintong Li +9

Recent MLLMs have shown emerging visual understanding and reasoning abilities after being pre-trained on large-scale multimodal datasets. Unlike pre-training, where MLLMs receive r…