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cs.AI2025

Exploring and Exploiting the Inherent Efficiency within Large Reasoning Models for Self-Guided Efficiency Enhancement

Weixiang Zhao, Jiahe Guo, Yang Deng +7

Recent advancements in large reasoning models (LRMs) have significantly enhanced language models' capabilities in complex problem-solving by emulating human-like deliberative think…

cs.CL2025

MPO: Multilingual Safety Alignment via Reward Gap Optimization

Weixiang Zhao, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng +8

Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly central to AI applications worldwide, necessitating robust multilingual safety alignment to ensure secure deployment across di…

cs.CL2025

How Does Sequence Modeling Architecture Influence Base Capabilities of Pre-trained Language Models? Exploring Key Architecture Design Principles to Avoid Base Capabilities Degradation

Xin Lu, Yanyan Zhao, Si Wei +3

Pre-trained language models represented by the Transformer have been proven to possess strong base capabilities, and the representative self-attention mechanism in the Transformer…

cs.CL2025

Teaching Language Models to Evolve with Users: Dynamic Profile Modeling for Personalized Alignment

Weixiang Zhao, Xingyu Sui, Yulin Hu +6

Personalized alignment is essential for enabling large language models (LLMs) to engage effectively in user-centric dialogue. While recent prompt-based and offline optimization met…

cs.CL2025

When Less Language is More: Language-Reasoning Disentanglement Makes LLMs Better Multilingual Reasoners

Weixiang Zhao, Jiahe Guo, Yang Deng +9

Multilingual reasoning remains a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs), with performance disproportionately favoring high-resource languages. Drawing inspiration f…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

AdaSteer: Your Aligned LLM is Inherently an Adaptive Jailbreak Defender

Weixiang Zhao, Jiahe Guo, Yulin Hu +8

Despite extensive efforts in safety alignment, large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks. Activation steering offers a training-free defense method but re…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Trade-offs in Large Reasoning Models: An Empirical Analysis of Deliberative and Adaptive Reasoning over Foundational Capabilities

Weixiang Zhao, Xingyu Sui, Jiahe Guo +9

Recent advancements in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), such as OpenAI's o1/o3 and DeepSeek-R1, have demonstrated remarkable performance in specialized reasoning tasks through human-…

cs.CL2025

Chain of Strategy Optimization Makes Large Language Models Better Emotional Supporter

Weixiang Zhao, Xingyu Sui, Xinyang Han +9

The growing emotional stress in modern society has increased the demand for Emotional Support Conversations (ESC). While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for ESC, they fac…

cs.CL2025

Beware of Your Po! Measuring and Mitigating AI Safety Risks in Role-Play Fine-Tuning of LLMs

Weixiang Zhao, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng +8

Role-playing enables large language models (LLMs) to engage users in immersive and personalized interactions, but it also introduces significant safety risks. Existing role-play fi…

cs.CL2025

iTool: Reinforced Fine-Tuning with Dynamic Deficiency Calibration for Advanced Tool Use

Yirong Zeng, Xiao Ding, Yuxian Wang +8

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools is a promising approach to enhance their capabilities, especially for complex tasks. Synthesizing tool-use data through…