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8 papers

cs.LG2026

Learning a Zeroth-Order Optimizer for Fine-Tuning LLMs

Kairun Zhang, Haoyu Li, Yanjun Zhao +2

Zeroth-order optimizers have recently emerged as an attractive approach for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs), as they avoid backpropagation and can substantially reduce mem…

eess.SY2026

Bridging Control with Neural Network Verifier alpha-beta-CROWN: A Tutorial

Haoyu Li, Xiangru Zhong, Hao Cheng +2

Learning-based methods for synthesizing controllers have gained popularity due to their high expressiveness and strong empirical performance. However, in safety-critical scenarios…

cs.LG2026

DecepChain: Inducing Deceptive Reasoning in Large Language Models

Wei Shen, Han Wang, Haoyu Li +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been demonstrating strong reasoning capability with their chain-of-thoughts (CoT), which are routinely used by humans to judge answer quality. Thi…

cs.LG2026

Certified Training with Branch-and-Bound for Lyapunov-stable Neural Control

Zhouxing Shi, Haoyu Li, Cho-Jui Hsieh +1

We study the problem of learning verifiably Lyapunov-stable neural controllers that provably satisfy the Lyapunov asymptotic stability condition within a region-of-attraction (ROA)…

cs.CR2026

On The Fragility of Benchmark Contamination Detection in Reasoning Models

Han Wang, Haoyu Li, Brian Ko +1

Leaderboards for LRMs have turned evaluation into a competition, incentivizing developers to optimize directly on benchmark suites. A shortcut to achieving higher rankings is to in…

cs.LG2025

Two-Stage Learning of Stabilizing Neural Controllers via Zubov Sampling and Iterative Domain Expansion

Haoyu Li, Xiangru Zhong, Bin Hu +1

Learning-based neural network (NN) control policies have shown impressive empirical performance. However, obtaining stability guarantees and estimates of the region of attraction o…