activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

cs.CL2026

Chronos: Learning Temporal Dynamics of Reasoning Chains for Test-Time Scaling

Kai Zhang, Jiayi Liao, Chengpeng Li +3

Test-Time Scaling (TTS) has emerged as an effective paradigm for improving the reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods -- most notably majo…

cs.LG2025

Interpretable Reward Model via Sparse Autoencoder

Shuyi Zhang, Wei Shi, Sihang Li +3

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely deployed across numerous fields. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) leverages reward models (RMs) as proxies for human…

cs.IR2025

Multi-Grained Patch Training for Efficient LLM-based Recommendation

Jiayi Liao, Ruobing Xie, Sihang Li +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a new paradigm for recommendation by converting interacted item history into language modeling. However, constrained by the limited con…

cs.CL2025

More Expressive Attention with Negative Weights

Ang Lv, Ruobing Xie, Shuaipeng Li +5

We propose a novel attention mechanism, named Cog Attention, that enables attention weights to be negative for enhanced expressiveness, which stems from two key factors: (1) Cog At…

cs.IR2024

RosePO: Aligning LLM-based Recommenders with Human Values

Jiayi Liao, Xiangnan He, Ruobing Xie +5

Recently, there has been a growing interest in leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for recommendation systems, which usually adapt a pre-trained LLM to the recommendation scena…

cs.IR2024

LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant

Jiayi Liao, Sihang Li, Zhengyi Yang +4

Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' next interaction with items based on their past engagement sequence. Recently, the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has spark…