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6 papers

cs.LG2026

Can Decision Trees Teach Large Language Models? Distilling Verbalized Knowledge for Molecular Property Prediction

Khiem Le, Sreejata Dey, Marcos Martínez Galindo +4

Molecular Property Prediction (MPP) is a fundamental problem in drug discovery that has recently attracted growing attention. Large Language Models (LLMs), known for their impressi…

cs.LG2026

Transformation-Augmented GRPO for Enhancing Exploration in Reasoning of Large Language Models

Khiem Le, Phuc Nguyen, Youssef Mroueh +4

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has become the dominant method for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards in large language models, but it suffers from two critic…

cs.CL2026

Dynamic Noise Preference Optimization: Self-Improvement of Large Language Models with Self-Synthetic Data

Haoyan Yang, Khiem Le, Ting Hua +7

Although LLMs have achieved significant success, their reliance on large volumes of human-annotated data has limited their potential for further scaling. In this situation, utilizi…

cs.CV2026

MolX: Enhancing Large Language Models for Molecular Understanding With A Multi-Modal Extension

Khiem Le, Zhichun Guo, Kaiwen Dong +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) with their strong task-handling capabilities have shown remarkable advancements across a spectrum of fields, moving beyond natural language understandi…

cs.LG2025

FLAME: Towards Federated Fine-Tuning Large Language Models Through Adaptive SMoE

Khiem Le, Tuan Tran, Ting Hua +1

Existing resource-adaptive LoRA federated fine-tuning methods enable clients to fine-tune models using compressed versions of global LoRA matrices, in order to accommodate various…

cs.HC2025

Bridging the AI Adoption Gap: Designing an Interactive Pedagogical Agent for Higher Education Instructors

Si Chen, Reid Metoyer, Khiem Le +6

Instructors play a pivotal role in integrating AI into education, yet their adoption of AI-powered tools remains inconsistent. Despite this, limited research explores how to design…