6 papers
Know When to Stop: Segment-Level Credit Assignment for Reducing Overthinking
Chia-Hsuan Lee, Sihui Dai, Mingyang Zhou +5
Reasoning language models frequently overthink: generating extended chains of behaviors such as hedging, approach abandonment, and self contradiction that consume tokens without im…
Structured Thoughts For Improved Reasoning And Context Pruning
Zain Sarwar, Supriyo Chakraborty, Berkcan Kapusuzoglu +5
Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating long chains of thought, but long reasoning traces are often verbose and memory-inefficient. In this work, we introduce Structured T…
SEAD: Competence-Aware On-Policy Distillation via Entropy-Guided Supervision
Chia-Hsuan Lee, Zelei Cheng, Yu Wang +4
On-policy distillation (OPD) has a property absent in offline distillation and RL: teacher supervision quality depends on student competence. Incoherent rollouts yield noisy gradie…
Decomposing the Delta: What Do Models Actually Learn from Preference Pairs?
Chia-Hsuan Lee, Mingyang Zhou, Renkun Ni +6
Preference optimization methods such as DPO and KTO are widely used for aligning language models, yet little is understood about what properties of preference data drive downstream…
DIAL-SUMMER: A Structured Evaluation Framework of Hierarchical Errors in Dialogue Summaries
Sahana Ramnath, Nima Chitsazan, Mingyang Zhou +8
Dialogues are a predominant mode of communication for humans, and it is immensely helpful to have automatically generated summaries of them (e.g., to revise key points discussed in…
Critique-Guided Distillation for Robust Reasoning via Refinement
Berkcan Kapusuzoglu, Supriyo Chakraborty, Zain Sarwar +2
Supervised fine-tuning with expert demonstrations often produces models that imitate outputs without internalizing the reasoning processes needed for robust generalization. While c…