collaborators

11 papers

eess.AS2026

Step-Audio-R1.5 Technical Report

Yuxin Zhang, Xiangyu Tony Zhang, Daijiao Liu +16

Recent advancements in large audio language models have extended Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning into the auditory domain, enabling models to tackle increasingly complex acoustic…

eess.AS2026

StepAudio 2.5 Technical Report

Bin Lin, Bo Zhao, Boyong Wu +98

Unified audio-language modeling has emerged as a prominent trend in modern speech systems, promising to bring the reasoning capabilities of large language models to auditory tasks.…

cs.AI2026

HyMem: Hybrid Memory Architecture with Dynamic Retrieval Scheduling

Xiaochen Zhao, Kaikai Wang, Xiaowen Zhang +2

Large language model (LLM) agents demonstrate strong performance in short-text contexts but often underperform in extended dialogues due to inefficient memory management. Existing…

cs.CL2026

Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameters

Ailin Huang, Ang Li, Aobo Kong +213

We introduce Step 3.5 Flash, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that bridges frontier-level agentic intelligence and computational efficiency. We focus on what matters most wh…

cs.CL2026

PRIME: A Process-Outcome Alignment Benchmark for Verifiable Reasoning in Mathematics and Engineering

Xiangfeng Wang, Hangyu Guo, Yanlin Lai +11

While model-based verifiers are essential for scaling Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), current outcome-centric verification paradigms primarily focus on the c…

cs.CL2026

R-Align: Enhancing Generative Reward Models through Rationale-Centric Meta-Judging

Yanlin Lai, Mitt Huang, Hangyu Guo +11

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) remains indispensable for aligning large language models (LLMs) in subjective domains. To enhance robustness, recent work shifts t…