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Toward Skill-Native LLMs: Skill Entropy for Benchmarking and Training Long-Horizon Reasoning

Yinghui He, Ling Yang, Jiarui Liu +6

Long-horizon reasoning in recent LLMs demands that the model switch between distinct skills inside a reasoning chain, such as first doing a math derivation, then using the result t…

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MixSD: Mixed Contextual Self-Distillation for Knowledge Injection

Jiarui Liu, Lechen Zhang, Yongjin Yang +5

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is widely used to inject new knowledge into language models, but it often degrades pretrained capabilities such as reasoning and general-domain perform…

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Re-Centering Humans in LLM Personalization

Lechen Zhang, Jiarui Liu, Tal August

Despite growing interest, most evaluations of large language models' (LLMs') personalization abilities have relied on synthetic data. It remains unclear how well current personaliz…

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Logit Arithmetic Elicits Long Reasoning Capabilities Without Training

Yunxiang Zhang, Muhammad Khalifa, Lechen Zhang +5

Large reasoning models exhibit long chain-of-thought reasoning with complex strategies such as backtracking and self-verification. Yet, these capabilities typically require resourc…

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SPRIG: Improving Large Language Model Performance by System Prompt Optimization

Lechen Zhang, Tolga Ergen, Lajanugen Logeswaran +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in many scenarios, but their performance depends, in part, on the choice of prompt. Past research has focused on opt…

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Skill-Aware Data Selection and Fine-Tuning for Data-Efficient Reasoning Distillation

Lechen Zhang, Yunxiang Zhang, Wei Hu +1

Large reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1 and their distilled variants achieve strong performance on complex reasoning tasks. Yet, distilling these models often demands large-scal…