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11 papers

cs.LG2026

PEARL: Training Socratic Tutors with Pedagogically Aligned Reinforcement Learning

Qikai Chang, Zhenrong Zhang, Linbo Chen +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise as educational tutors, yet effective tutoring requires more than solving problems: it must provide progressive Socratic guidance and…

cs.AI2026

THOR: Tool-Integrated Hierarchical Optimization via RL for Mathematical Reasoning

Qikai Chang, Zhenrong Zhang, Pengfei Hu +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable progress in mathematical reasoning, but still continue to struggle with high-precision tasks like numerical computation and formal…

cs.CV2025

From Structure to Detail: Hierarchical Distillation for Efficient Diffusion Model

Hanbo Cheng, Peng Wang, Kaixiang Lei +4

The inference latency of diffusion models remains a critical barrier to their real-time application. While trajectory-based and distribution-based step distillation methods offer s…

cs.CV2025

See then Tell: Enhancing Key Information Extraction with Vision Grounding

Shuhang Liu, Zhenrong Zhang, Pengfei Hu +5

In the digital era, the ability to understand visually rich documents that integrate text, complex layouts, and imagery is critical. Traditional Key Information Extraction (KIE) me…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing the Geometric Problem-Solving Ability of Multimodal LLMs via Symbolic-Neural Integration

Yicheng Pan, Zhenrong Zhang, Pengfei Hu +6

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in general domains and demonstrated promise in multimodal mathematical reasoning. Howe…

cs.MM2025

MMC: Iterative Refinement of VLM Reasoning via MCTS-based Multimodal Critique

Shuhang Liu, Zhenrong Zhang, Pengfei Hu +7

Visual language models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across diverse multimodal reasoning tasks but still face challenges such as hallucinations, resulting in incorrec…