collaborators

5 papers

cs.LG2026

Continual Learning in Transition

Zhiyan Hou, Dan Zhang, Tao Feng +11

Classical continual learning (CL) has primarily focused on enabling models to update and retain knowledge through parameter-centric mechanisms, e.g., training strategies, architect…

cs.AI2026

DASH: Divergence-Adaptive Supervision Horizons for On-Policy Self-Distillation of Reasoning Models

ZhiYan Hou, Xinyu Tang, Hongyan An +9

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models using automatically verifiable outcome signals, but these signals…

cs.CL2026

ResMerge: Residual-based Spectral Merging of Large Language Models

Yandu Sun, Zhiyan Hou, Hongyan An +6

Model merging offers a training-free way to combine multiple post-trained expert models, but merging experts obtained through reinforcement learning (RL) remains challenging. Exist…

cs.LG2026

PASs-MoE: Mitigating Misaligned Co-drift among Router and Experts via Pathway Activation Subspaces for Continual Learning

Zhiyan Hou, Haiyun Guo, Haokai Ma +3

Continual instruction tuning (CIT) requires multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to adapt to a stream of tasks without forgetting prior capabilities. A common strategy is to is…

cs.CL2025

MLLM-CTBench: A Benchmark for Continual Instruction Tuning with Reasoning Process Diagnosis

Haiyun Guo, Zhiyan Hou, Yandu Sun +6

Continual instruction tuning(CIT) during the post-training phase is crucial for adapting multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to evolving real-world demands. However, the progr…