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9 papers

cs.LG2026

Focal Reward: Balanced Reinforcement Learning under Rubric-Based Rewards

Yu Huang, Zihua Zhao, Zhaoxin Huan +9

The open-ended generation in LLMs usually requires multi-dimensional rubrics to adequately assess quality and guide the improvement of reinforcement learning. However, a critical d…

cs.CL2026

Roll Out and Roll Back: Diffusion LLMs are Their Own Efficiency Teachers

Fanqin Zeng, Feng Hong, Geng Yu +6

Diffusion Large Language Models (DLLMs) promise fast parallel generation, yet open-source DLLMs still face a severe quality-speed trade-off: accelerating decoding by revealing mult…

cs.LG2026

TriSpec: Ternary Speculative Decoding via Lightweight Proxy Verification

Haoyun Jiang, Junqi He, Feng Hong +8

Inference efficiency in Large Language Models (LLMs) is fundamentally limited by their serial, autoregressive generation, especially as reasoning becomes a key capability and respo…

cs.LG2025

Innovator: Scientific Continued Pretraining with Fine-grained MoE Upcycling

Ning Liao, Xiaoxing Wang, Zehao Lin +18

A large language model (LLM) with knowledge in both scientific and general tasks is the foundation of science general intelligence. However, directly continued pretraining an LLM u…

cs.CV2025

Learning to Instruct for Visual Instruction Tuning

Zhihan Zhou, Feng Hong, Jiaan Luo +5

We propose L2T, an advancement of visual instruction tuning (VIT). While VIT equips Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) with promising multimodal capabilities, the current design choices for V…

cs.LG2025

Dual-granularity Sinkhorn Distillation for Enhanced Learning from Long-tailed Noisy Data

Feng Hong, Yu Huang, Zihua Zhao +5

Real-world datasets for deep learning frequently suffer from the co-occurring challenges of class imbalance and label noise, hindering model performance. While methods exist for ea…