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14 papers

cs.CL2026

TextCloak: Thwarting Unauthorized LLM Exploitation via RL-Driven Unlearnable Text

Chengshuai Zhao, Pingchuan Ma, Dawei Li +4

The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to significant advances across a wide range of language tasks, while simultaneously raising growing concerns about una…

cs.CR2026

To See is Not to Learn: Protecting Multimodal Data from Unauthorized Fine-Tuning of Large Vision-Language Model

Chengshuai Zhao, Zhen Tan, Dawei Li +2

The rapid advancement of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) is increasingly accompanied by unauthorized scraping and training on multimodal web data, posing severe copyright and…

cs.AI2026

Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens

Chengshuai Zhao, Zhen Tan, Pingchuan Ma +5

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has been shown to be effective in eliciting structured reasoning (i.e., CoT reasoning) from large language models (LLMs). Regardless of its popular…

cs.CY2026

REC-CBM: Rubric-Aware Error-Correction Concept Bottleneck Models for Trustworthy Open-Ended Grading

Chengshuai Zhao, Fan Zhang, Kumar Satvik Chaudhary +4

Open-ended grading is central to equitable and personalized education, yet manual grading remains time-consuming and costly, underscoring the need for automated grading systems. Al…

cs.CL2026

EssayCBM: Rubric-Aligned Concept Bottleneck Models for Transparent Essay Grading

Kumar Satvik Chaudhary, Chengshuai Zhao, Fan Zhang +3

Automated essay scoring (AES) has advanced significantly with neural language models, yet most systems remain opaque, offering little visibility into how grades are produced. In ed…

cs.CL2026

Probing to Refine: Reinforcement Distillation of LLMs via Explanatory Inversion

Zhen Tan, Chengshuai Zhao, Song Wang +3

Distilling robust reasoning capabilities from large language models (LLMs) into smaller, computationally efficient student models remains an unresolved challenge. Despite recent ad…