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19 papers

cs.CV2026

DRIFT: Transferring Reasoning Priors for Efficient MLLM Fine-Tuning

Chao Huang, Zeliang Zhang, Jiang Liu +7

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress, yet their reasoning ability often lags behind strong text-only LLMs. Bridging this gap typically requires large-s…

cs.CL2026

Does a Global Perspective Help Prune Sparse MoEs Elegantly?

Zeliang Zhang, Nikhil Ghosh, Jiani Liu +2

Empirical scaling laws for language models have encouraged the development of ever-larger LLMs, despite their growing computational and memory costs. Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE…

cs.CV2026

Can VLMs Truly Forget? Benchmarking Training-Free Visual Concept Unlearning

Zhangyun Tan, Zeliang Zhang, Susan Liang +3

VLMs trained on web-scale data retain sensitive and copyrighted visual concepts that deployment may require removing. Training-based unlearning methods share a structural flaw: fin…

cs.CL2026

Why Instruction-Based Unlearning Fails in Diffusion Models?

Zeliang Zhang, Rui Sun, Jiani Liu +2

Instruction-based unlearning has proven effective for modifying the behavior of large language models at inference time, but whether this paradigm extends to other generative model…

cs.CL2026

OPENXRD: A Comprehensive Benchmark Framework for LLM/MLLM XRD Question Answering

Ali Vosoughi, Ayoub Shahnazari, Yufeng Xi +4

We introduce OPENXRD, a comprehensive benchmarking framework for evaluating large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) in crystallography question answering. The fram…

cs.LG2026

Training Large Reasoning Models Efficiently via Progressive Thought Encoding

Zeliang Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Hao Cheng +3

Large reasoning models (LRMs) excel on complex problems but face a critical barrier to efficiency: reinforcement learning (RL) training requires long rollouts for outcome-based rew…