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8 papers

cs.AI2026

Difficulty-Aware Semantic-ID Optimization for Generative Recommendation

Xin Yu, Stephen Li, Sina Aghaei +6

Semantic-ID-based generative recommendation casts retrieval and ranking as autoregressive generation over hierarchical item identifiers. A common recipe is SFT followed by GRPO, ye…

cs.CR2026

Composition for Pufferfish Privacy

Jiamu Bai, Guanlin He, Xin Gu +2

When creating public data products out of confidential datasets, inferential/posterior-based privacy definitions, such as Pufferfish, provide compelling privacy semantics for data…

cs.LG2026

Towards General Preference Alignment: Diffusion Models at Nash Equilibrium

Jiaming Hu, Jiamu Bai, Haoyu Wang +2

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has been popular for aligning text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models with human preferences. As a mainstream branch of RLHF, Direct…

cs.DB2026

Accurate and Scalable Matrix Mechanisms via Divide and Conquer

Guanlin He, Yingtai Xiao, Jiamu Bai +4

Matrix mechanisms are often used to provide unbiased differentially private query answers when publishing statistics or creating synthetic data. Recent work has developed matrix me…

cs.LG2026

Correlating Cross-Iteration Noise for DP-SGD using Model Curvature

Xin Gu, Yingtai Xiao, Guanlin He +3

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) offers the promise of training deep learning models while mitigating many privacy risks. However, there is currently a l…

cs.CL2025

FlowerTune: A Cross-Domain Benchmark for Federated Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

Yan Gao, Massimo Roberto Scamarcia, Javier Fernandez-Marques +18

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art results across diverse domains, yet their development remains reliant on vast amounts of publicly available data, raisin…