3 papers
cs.CL2026
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…
cs.CL2026
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…
cs.CL2026
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…