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9 papers

cs.AI2026

Making Your LLMs More Objective: Stabilizing LLM Safety Behavior Across Traits with Trait-Invariant Safety Tuning

Lang Cao

Aligned large language models (LLMs) are expected to exhibit safety behavior based on the content of the user request: they should refuse unsafe requests and comply with safe ones.…

cs.RO2026

Z-1: Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models

Lang Cao, Renhong Chen, Luyi Li +3

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a promising framework for robotic manipulation by connecting language instructions, visual observations, and continuous control. However,…

cs.AI2026

SupChain-Bench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Real-World Supply Chain Management

Shengyue Guan, Yihao Liu, Lang Cao

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in complex reasoning and tool-based decision making, motivating their application to real-world supply chain management. However, su…

cs.CL2026

TableMaster: A Recipe to Advance Table Understanding with Language Models

Lang Cao, Hanbing Liu

Tables serve as a fundamental format for representing structured relational data. While current language models (LMs) excel at many text-based tasks, they still face challenges in…

cs.LG2026

TreeAdv: Tree-Structured Advantage Redistribution for Group-Based RL

Lang Cao, Hui Ruan, Yongqian Li +5

Reinforcement learning with group-based objectives, such as Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), is a common framework for aligning large language models on complex reasoning…

cs.LG2026

More Bang for the Buck: Process Reward Modeling with Entropy-Driven Uncertainty

Lang Cao, Renhong Chen, Yingtian Zou +9

We introduce the Entropy-Driven Uncertainty Process Reward Model (EDU-PRM), a novel entropy-driven training framework for process reward modeling that enables dynamic, uncertainty-…