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20242026
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11 papers

cs.LG2026

Sparse-RL: Breaking the Memory Wall in LLM Reinforcement Learning via Stable Sparse Rollouts

Sijia Luo, Xiaokang Zhang, Yuxuan Hu +6

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become essential for eliciting complex reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the substantial memory overhead of storing K…

cs.CL2026

Scaling Agentic Verifier for Competitive Coding

Zeyao Ma, Jing Zhang, Xiaokang Zhang +9

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong coding capabilities but still struggle to solve competitive programming problems correctly in a single attempt. Execution-base…

cs.CL2025

OmniSQL: Synthesizing High-quality Text-to-SQL Data at Scale

Haoyang Li, Shang Wu, Xiaokang Zhang +9

Text-to-SQL, the task of translating natural language questions into SQL queries, plays a crucial role in enabling non-experts to interact with databases. While recent advancements…

cs.CL2025

CoT-based Synthesizer: Enhancing LLM Performance through Answer Synthesis

Bohan Zhang, Xiaokang Zhang, Jing Zhang +3

Current inference scaling methods, such as Self-consistency and Best-of-N, have proven effective in improving the accuracy of LLMs on complex reasoning tasks. However, these method…

cs.AI2025

P Law: Scaling Law for Post-Training After Model Pruning

Xiaodong Chen, Yuxuan Hu, Xiaokang Zhang +4

Pruning has become a widely adopted technique for reducing the hardware requirements of large language models (LLMs). To recover model performance after pruning, post-training is c…

cs.CL2025

Uncovering the Impact of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Direct Preference Optimization: Lessons from Text-to-SQL

Hanbing Liu, Haoyang Li, Xiaokang Zhang +5

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has proven effective in complex reasoning tasks like math word problems and code generation. However, when applied to Text-to-SQL datasets, it…