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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.16694

When Expert Disagreement Hurts: Prestige and Selectivity in LLM Decision Revision

Yupeng Tang, Mingfeng Lin

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When language models revise a decision after another agent disagrees, neither reversal counts nor final accuracy shows whether they are fixing mistakes or abandoning correct answers. We introduce a controlled two-pass audit that holds the question, the evidence, and the model's initial answer fixed and varies only the revision context: neutral reflection, anonymous disagreement, or disagreement attributed to a domain expert. For binary decisions the accounting is exact: revision raises accuracy only if it is selective enough, reversing wrong answers more than $a/(1-a)$ times as often as correct ones, where $a$ is initial accuracy (nine times at 90%). Across five models and 1,989 evidence-grounded decisions in medicine, science, and law, no model clears this bar under expert disagreement, and accuracy falls by up to 16.1 points. The expert label, a prestige cue, adds reversals for four of the five models, yet its effect on accuracy ranges from a 5.2-point loss to a 2.4-point gain, so reversal counts are a poor proxy for harm. With identical arguments from both sources, the label still raises reversal for three proprietary models and in a pooled analysis of four newer models. Models also respond to stated source reliability. Revision pipelines should therefore be evaluated with paired, conditional metrics, per model and protocol.

cs.AI · cs.CL

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.16433

daVinci-Prover: Agent-Native Mid-Training for Formal Theorem Proving

Wenhong Zhu, Xuefeng Li, Jiashuo Zhang, Yu Chen, Tiantian Mi, Qipeng Guo, Pengfei Liu

原文摘要

Advances in large language models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming formal theorem proving. Yet further progress remains constrained by the lack of a transparent and effective data recipe for systematically improving theorem-proving models. In this work, we argue that effective agentic provers require strong mathematical skill priors to ground theorem proving and agentic trajectories to enable long-horizon, interactive proof construction. To this end, we synthesize an agent-native 33.7B-token mid-training corpus covering decomposition, search, self-verification, and revision, together with verifier-grounded agentic trajectories. We further introduce the daVinci-Prover harness, which enables models to construct proofs and interact with a Lean verifier in an isolated workspace, and use it to collect approximately 36K high-quality agent trajectories for supervised fine-tuning. Our mid-training recipe yields an average improvement of 13.7 points over the matched Qwen3-8B SFT-only baseline across MiniF2F, FATE-M, and ProofNet. When applied to the Qwen3.5 series, our approach also yields strong performance across theorem-proving benchmarks and achieves near-saturating MiniF2F performance with memory compaction. The results highlight agent-native mid-training as an effective foundation for developing stronger interactive theorem-proving agents.

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版本更新 · v5arXiv:2606.03021

Hint-Guided Diversified Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning

Zhiyu Cao, Kaixin Wu, Mingjie Zhong, Peifeng Li, Can Ye, Qiaoming Zhu

原文摘要

Recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased impressive reasoning capabilities, with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) being a promising enhancement strategy. However, existing reward mechanisms are constrained to the outcome-level correctness and lack explicit signals to guide the model to consider diverse solutions. In contrast, human problem solving typically involves evaluating multiple potential approaches and selecting the most reliable solution, a cognitive process that current RLVR frameworks do not explicitly incentivize. Inspired by this, we propose Hint-Guided Diversified Policy Optimization (HDPO), allowing the model to first list all potential candidate solution outlines as hints and then select the most reliable one for further reasoning. HDPO comprises two stages of Cold Start for Structured Reasoning and Hint-Guided Diversified Reinforcement Learning to incentivize the model to generate diverse and reliable solutions following the ``propose-select-think'' trajectory. Experimental results show that HDPO effectively boosts LLM reasoning and enhances the diversity of candidate solutions as well as the LLM's ability to identify reliable solutions.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.06414

Twists and Turns: A Graph-Based Benchmark and Framework for Long-Term Memory in Exploration Tasks

Chongyuan Dai, Yaling Shen, Zirui Song, Junfeng Liao, Jinpeng Hu, Xiuying Chen

原文摘要

Long-term problem-solving processes, such as scientific research and software development, proceed along an evolving trial-and-error trajectory toward a central goal. We term these \textit{exploration tasks}, which require models to remember not only facts but also how solutions are tested against intermediate outcomes and early attempts are continually revised or revived. However, existing long-term memory research focuses on factual recall and updates, overlooking the interconnected nature of exploration. We observe that exploration processes naturally form graphs, with branching approaches linked by revisions and reconsiderations. Motivated by this, we propose \textsc{LExMem}, a graph-guided benchmark designed to evaluate \underline{\textsc{Mem}}ory in \underline{\textsc{L}}ong-term \underline{\textsc{Ex}}ploration tasks. We model exploration processes as graphs and introduce an evolutionary mechanism to increase their structural complexity, yielding 224 dialogues and 2,018 question-answer instances derived from graph structures. Building on the same insight, we propose \textsc{LExGraph}, a graph-based memory framework that incrementally organizes dialogues into interconnected memory nodes and retrieves evidence through hybrid retrieval and neighbor expansion. Extensive experiments demonstrate that \textsc{LExMem} poses a significant challenge to existing retrieval- and memory-based systems, whereas \textsc{LExGraph} achieves superior performance and generalizes effectively to external benchmarks. Codes and datasets are available at https://github.com/mbzuai-nlp/LExMem.

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2611.02791

PGuard: A Native, Streaming, and Plug-in Guardrail for Multimodal Large Language Models

Junyu Lin, Mengjie Wu, Yonghao Dong, Yuchuan Fu, Jinfeng Li, Xiaodan Li, Xiaohan Yuan, Yicheng Liu 等 14 位作者

原文摘要

As streaming generation becomes the dominant serving paradigm for both text-only and multimodal large language models, ensuring safety throughout the generation process has become a critical challenge. We introduce PGuard, a native, streaming, and plug-in guardrail that transforms safety monitoring from an external serving dependency into an integrated capability of the backbone model. PGuard directly leverages the backbone's intermediate representations for token-level safety detection, without altering its original inference pathway or generation behavior. Specifically, dynamic layer gating selectively aggregates residual-stream representations across layers to extract safety-relevant signals during both prefill and autoregressive decoding. To balance detection accuracy and computational efficiency, PGuard supports multiple representation-modeling architectures, including a lightweight stateless variant and sequence-aware variants built on multi-scale causal EMA-attention and GRU-based recurrent modules. Its design also accounts for the execution characteristics of LLM serving frameworks, such as SGLang, optimizing computation and data access to minimize additional runtime and synchronization overhead. As a result, PGuard incurs only 0.82-2.26% end-to-end overhead on the hundred-billion-parameter backbone Qwen3.5-122B-A10B served by SGLang. Extensive evaluations across more than 30 benchmarks spanning text and multimodal safety, jailbreaks, cyber and CBRN risks, multilingual scenarios, and real-world traffic demonstrate state-of-the-art performance among native guardrails. On text queries with Qwen3.5-9B, PGuard achieves an average F1 score of 0.836, approaching dedicated external guardrails, while supporting deployment-time configuration of category-specific thresholds and enforcement actions.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.01778

MemRole: From Memories to Decisions for Long-Horizon Reasoning in Role-Playing Agents

Mengting Li, Xilong Cheng, Zhihao Xiao, Zhenhua Xu, Jingyuan Zhou, Linfeng Li, Long Zhang, Borui Cai 等 9 位作者

原文摘要

LLM-based role-playing agents are fluent at imitating a character's style, yet struggle to make role-consistent decisions over long narrative horizons. Such decisions are shaped by experiences spanning many prior scenes, which are often partial and may point in different directions. Existing methods inject cross-scene memories as context, but do not reason about how past events shape a character's current motivations and behavior. We propose MemRole, a framework that makes this memory-to-decision process explicit. It introduces Long-Horizon Memory Thinking (LHMT), a reasoning schema that decomposes hidden reasoning into context understanding, memory activation, and response strategy planning, trained on a novel-derived dataset whose character-grounded, timeline-constrained memory pools limit each character to what it could plausibly know at the current narrative point. Beyond supervised fine-tuning, we propose Self-Refining On-Policy Self-Distillation (SR-OPSD): the model critiques its own rollouts against the reference under a data-driven rubric, and a critique-conditioned teacher view of the same model distills token-level guidance back into the policy. MemRole-32B improves over its backbone by 15.2 points on memory-grounded role-playing, performs on par with frontier LLMs such as GPT-5.4, and achieves the best character-motivation recognition accuracy on CroSS-MR.

cs.CL · cs.AI

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2606.24033

Block-GTQ: RoPE-Block Rate Allocation for KV-Cache Quantization

Fengfeng Liang, Yuechen Zhang, Jiaya Jia

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Larger models and longer contexts make the KV cache a memory and bandwidth bottleneck. We introduce Block-GTQ, a framework that uses the two-dimensional frequency blocks of rotary position embeddings (RoPE) to allocate cached-key precision. A blockwise logit-error bound motivates a label-free query-key energy score, which we combine with codec-dependent rate penalties. Under equal-cost budgets and diminishing marginal gains, largest-marginal-gain allocation exactly minimizes the separable integer proxy. We instantiate Block-GTQ with TurboQuant-MSE (TQ-MSE), grouping equal-rate blocks to support attention over packed caches without materializing a decoded fp16 KV cache. Across ten model configurations, K-only diagnostics reduce layer-averaged logit mean absolute error by about 32-80% relative to uniform TQ-MSE, improving all 367 layers at both 2- and 3-bit average logical key rates. At K2V2 (2 average logical bits per K/V coordinate) on Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, Block-GTQ raises the six-task needle-in-a-haystack (NIAH) average from 70.6 to 97.4 and LongBench-EN from 33.7 to 44.9; K2V2 gains also hold on the tested 32B and 70B models. On DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B at K3V2, without fp16 sink or recent-token buffers, it achieves 49.6/38.8% avg@8 on AIME 2024/2025 versus fp16's 54.2/37.9%, where uniform TQ-MSE scores zero on both. On Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct, packed K3V3 serving on one H800 reduces resident KV footprint by a factor of 3.24 and retains perplexity close to fp16 at 128K, while uniform TQ-MSE degrades severely.

cs.LG · cs.CL

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.38015

Measured or Real? When Model-Derived Measurements Can Be Corrected or Compared

Yifeng Li, Ziang Ni

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Numbers computed from trained models, such as an example's difficulty or a model's benchmark lead, change with seed and prompt. We ask when such measurements can be corrected or compared. Noise shrinks correlations, and the textbook correction divides by the square root of two estimated reliabilities. On two CIFAR-100 difficulty scores, it returned correlations above one in 70 of 100 classes. We prove that its mean squared error is infinite even when the correlation and the reliabilities use separate seeds. Our rule corrects only when both reliabilities pass a significance test, then divides by their upper confidence bounds. Its output is always bounded, and its coverage guarantees assume Gaussian noise. It helps once reliability is well estimated, more than halving the error with 500 simulated units. Prompt settings can reverse rankings. On ARC, Qwen2-1.5B trails Llama-3.2-3B by 3.8 points with no examples in the prompt and leads by 16.6 with two. Across four benchmarks, averaging the two settings names one winner for 15 of 16 such reversals. We compare models within each setting, controlling family-wise error asymptotically in the number of items for a fixed prompt grid. Aligning embedding coordinates across seeds raises held-out per-dimension reliability from 0.003 to 0.813.

cs.LG · cs.CL

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.37211

Uncovering Shortcut Amplification in Video RLVR through the Lens of Perceptual Uncertainty Collapse

Jiafeng Liang, Xianhao Ou, Tao Ren, Rongchuan Mu, Runxuan Liu, Dandan Tu, Ming Liu, See-Kiong Ng 等 9 位作者

原文摘要

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as an effective post-training paradigm for enhancing the video reasoning capability of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). Despite its empirical effectiveness, we show that outcome-level optimization can introduce an undesirable shortcut amplification effect, whereby models increasingly favor text-prior answers even when they are not supported by the visual evidence. To characterize this behavior, we investigate the training dynamics of video RLVR through the lens of perceptual uncertainty, analyzing how predictive uncertainty evolves under video-conditioned and text-only contexts. Our analysis identifies a perceptual uncertainty collapse phenomenon, in which RL training continuously sharpens the model's answer distribution while the uncertainty reduction attributable to visual evidence progressively diminishes. A further gradient-direction analysis reveals that such confidence enhancement becomes increasingly less aligned with visually grounded uncertainty reduction and is instead dominated by text-prior compression. Motivated by these findings, we propose Bifocal Self-distillation Policy Optimization (BSPO), a self-distillation framework that regulates policy updates with two complementary distributional signals. Specifically, BSPO derives empirical reasoning principles from intra-group correct and incorrect rollouts to identify reasoning-sensitive tokens, and introduces shortcut-aware visual perturbation to penalize predictions that remain invariant when task-relevant visual evidence is weakened. By adaptively reweighting the original RL advantage, BSPO preserves the task-solving benefits of RLVR while promoting updates that are both reasoning-sensitive and visually grounded. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of BSPO in improving video reasoning performance and strengthening visual faithfulness.

cs.CV · cs.CL

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.36813

Words or Deeds? How LLMs Predict Users' Decisions in Human-Agent Dialogue

Baiqiao Zhang, Shuai Ma, Zhifeng Liao, Chao Zhou, Jianshu Wang, Yuhan Zhao, Chaoyue Zhang, Tongjun Si 等 12 位作者

原文摘要

Web systems increasingly predict users' decisions from what users say, yet when interests partly conflict, users may promise to cooperate to win the other side's cooperation and then not do so. Sales or service agents that rely on such promises may grant concessions to users who then do not keep their promises, at a cost to the party they represent. We test how LLMs combine users' statements with decision records to predict users' decisions, using 1,260 rounds in which 42 users played a repeated prisoner's dilemma-style game with five agents, each prompted to express a dominant Big Five trait, and could talk with the agent before every decision. Across eight open-weight LLMs, predictions from decision records separated cooperation from defection well (AUC = .80), and adding dialogue brought no detectable gain. With dialogue, predictions agreed with users' statements more often, and errors concentrated on rounds in which users broke their statements: accuracy on rounds with a statement barely changed (.73 to .74), while it rose on kept statements (.76 to .95) and fell sharply on broken ones (.65 to .17). Predictions weighted statements more heavily than users' behavior warranted: when users stated a decision they had not yet made in that game, the predicted probability of keeping it rose from .13 to .69, whereas users kept .40 of such statements. Users' decisions also varied with the agent they faced, but predictions hardly reflected this: users cooperated more with the Agreeableness agent than with the Extraversion agent (70.6% vs. 54.5%), whereas predicted cooperation was nearly identical (64.5% vs. 63.1%). Users also cooperated more with an agent when they themselves scored higher on that agent's trait, whereas predicted cooperation barely changed with these scores. Dialogue-based predictions should therefore weigh users' statements by their earlier decisions and the agent they face.

cs.CL · cs.HC

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.35201

DTCA: Denoising Token Credit Assignment for Reinforcement Learning in Diffusion Language Models

Hongze Chen, Miao Pan, Lizhou Liang, Qinfeng Li, Xinyin Ma, Yongliang Shen, Weishi Wang, Daniel Dahlmeier 等 10 位作者

原文摘要

Diffusion language models (DLMs) generate text through iterative denoising, enabling bidirectional context modeling and parallel token refinement. Recent studies have applied reinforcement learning (RL) to DLMs and improved their reasoning performance. However, the iterative denoising process makes credit assignment more challenging, as final outcome rewards provide limited information about how different tokens contribute to the final output. In this paper, we propose Denoising Token Credit Assignment (DTCA), a framework for token-level credit assignment in reinforcement learning for diffusion language models. DTCA estimates token contributions by measuring the improvement in prediction confidence of remaining masked positions after token commitment and groups these signals according to part-of-speech (POS) categories. These contribution weights are used to select informative denoising timesteps and assign token-level learning signals during RL training. DTCA further calibrates these learning signals according to token-level entropy changes induced by policy updates. Experiments on LLaDA-8B-Instruct show that DTCA consistently improves mathematical reasoning performance across different generation budgets, with gains of up to 9.0 points on MATH500 and 5.3 points on GSM8K over the base model.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.34537

STEP: Soft Trajectory Estimation of Prediction Correctness via Per-Step Probability Scoring

Chenyang Yu, Zifan Zeng, Qunli Zhang, Feng Liu

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Estimating the correctness of large language model (LLM) predictions without access to ground truth is critical for reliable deployment in high-stakes settings. Existing approaches, such as entropy and perplexity, operate solely on final output statistics, discarding the rich information encoded in intermediate reasoning steps. To address this limitation, we propose STEP (Soft Trajectory Estimation of Prediction correctness), a training-free framework that scores each reasoning step via lightweight forward passes to obtain a soft probability distribution qi over candidate answers, from which we derive a set of soft trajectory features capturing per-step confidence and its progression toward the final answer. Extensive experiments on various benchmarks demonstrate consistent and substantial improvements, particularly in AUROC, over output-based baselines and hard-indicator trajectory methods. Notably, Temporally-Weighted Consistency, which assigns higher importance to later reasoning steps where answer distributions have stabilized, contributes the largest gains, highlighting the importance of temporal structure in reasoning trajectories. These results further validate the advantage of preserving continuous probability signals over binary discretization.

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From Synthesis to Clinical Assistance: A Strategy-Aware Agent Framework for Autism Intervention based on Real Clinical Dataset

Junhong Lai, Shuzhong Lai, Yanhao Yu, Wanlin Chen Hangzhou City University, Chenyu Yan Zhejiang University, Haifeng Li Zhejiang University, Lin Yao Zhejiang University, Yueming Wang Zhejiang University

原文摘要

The development of AI-assisted Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is severely constrained by data scarcity. Furthermore, while Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) serves as the gold standard for clinical intervention, general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to strictly adhere to its standardized procedures, often resulting in interactions that are linguistically fluent but strategically inconsistent. To address these challenges, we introduce ASDAgent, a strategy-aware framework designed to unify high-fidelity intervention dialogue synthesis and clinical decision support. ASDAgent incorporates two specialized components to solve distinct problems: (i) a DoctorAgent equipped with an Observe-Think-Act-Correct (O-T-A-C) reasoning loop, which resolves the issue of strategy collapse in LLMs by making ABA execution explicit and controllable; and (ii) a ChildAgent that utilizes probabilistic behavior modeling to mitigate data homogeneity, simulating diverse and non-deterministic ASD response patterns. Experiments demonstrate that dialogues generated by ASDAgent closely mirror the strategy distribution of human therapists (KL divergence: 0.083). In real autism intervention, ASDAgent achieves nearly 80% strategic consistency with human experts. Moreover, we show that synthetic data produced by ASDAgent effectively distills professional clinical knowledge into small language models (SLMs), significantly enhancing their therapeutic capabilities.

cs.CL

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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Incorporating Temporal Coherence to Cross-Document Event Coreference Resolution

Xinyu Chen Soochow University, Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu Soochow University

原文摘要

Previous work on cross-document event coreference resolution (CDECR) primarily focused on enhancing semantic coherence between event mentions, largely overlooking the critical aspect of temporal coherence. To address this issue, we propose CohTP, a novel Temporal Cohorence-driven event coreference framework. CohTP explicitly models and enforces temporal constraints by first constructing a temporal event graph via a fine-tuned natural language inference (NLI) model. The graph is then refined using an Edge-Aware GNN to resolve conflicts and partitioned into ordered time segments, where undirected edges group contemporaneous events. Event coreference resolution is subsequently performed within these temporally coherent segments, where event representations are further augmented with temporally consistent contexts. Experiments on the ECB+, GVC, WEC, and ECB+META datasets show that CohTP outperforms several state-of-the-art baselines.

cs.CL

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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ReviewGrounder: Improving Review Substantiveness with Rubric-Guided, Tool-Integrated Agents

Zhuofeng Li, Yi Lu University of Waterloo and Texas A&M University - College Station, Dongfu Jiang, Haoxiang Zhang, Yuyang Bai, Chuan Li Lambda, Yu Wang University of Oregon and Vanderbilt University, Shuiwang Ji Texas A&M University 等 10 位作者

原文摘要

The rapid rise in AI conference submissions has driven increasing exploration of large language models (LLMs) for peer review support. However, LLM-based reviewers often generate superficial, formulaic comments lacking substantive, evidence-grounded feedback. We attribute this to the underutilization of two key components of human reviewing: explicit rubrics and contextual grounding in existing work. To address this, we introduce ReviewBench, a benchmark evaluating review text according to paper-specific rubrics derived from official guidelines, the paper’s content, and human-written reviews. We further propose ReviewGrounder, a rubric-guided, tool-integrated multi-agent framework that decomposes reviewing into drafting and grounding stages, enriching shallow drafts via targeted evidence consolidation. Experiments on ReviewBench show that ReviewGrounder, using a Phi-4-14B-based drafter and a GPT-OSS-120B-based grounding stage, consistently outperforms baselines with substantially stronger/larger backbones (e.g., GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-R1-670B) in both alignment with human judgments and rubric-based review quality across 8 dimensions. The code is available at https://github.com/EigenTom/ReviewGrounder.

cs.CL · cs.MA

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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MARS^2: Scaling Multi-Agent Tree Search via Reinforcement Learning for Code Generation

Pengfei Li, Shijie Wang, Fangyuan Li, Yikun Fu, Kaifeng Liu, Kaiyan Zhang, Dazhi Zhang Harbin Institute of Technology, Yuqiang Li 等 10 位作者

原文摘要

Reinforcement learning (RL) paradigms have demonstrated strong performance on reasoning-intensive tasks such as code generation. However, limited trajectory diversity often leads to diminishing returns, which constrains the achievable performance ceiling. Search-enhanced RL alleviates this issue by introducing structured exploration, which remains constrained by the single-agent policy priors. Meanwhile, leveraging multiple interacting policies can acquire more diverse exploratory signals, but existing approaches are typically decoupled from structured search. We propose MARS^2 (Multi-Agent Reinforced Tree-Search Scaling), a unified RL framework in which multiple independently-optimized agents collaborate within a shared tree-structured search environment. MARS^2 models the search tree as a learnable multi-agent interaction environment, enabling heterogeneous agents to collaboratively generate and refine candidate solutions within a shared search topology. To support effective learning, we introduce a path-level group advantage formulation based on tree-consistent reward shaping, which facilitates effective credit assignment across complex search trajectories. Experiments on code generation benchmarks show that MARS^2 consistently improves performance across diverse model combinations and training settings, demonstrating the effectiveness of coupling multi-agent collaboration with tree search for enhancing reinforcement learning. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/TsinghuaC3I/MARTI.

cs.CL · cs.MA

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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Graph Reasoning Paradigm: Structured and Symbolic Reasoning with Topology-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models

Runxuan Liu, Xianhao Ou Harbin Institute of Technology, Xinyan Ma Harbin Institute of Technology, Jiyuan Wang, Jiafeng Liang Harbin Institute of Technology, Jiaqi Li Tianjin Normal University, Tao He Harbin Institute of Technology, Zheng Chu Harbin Institute of Technology 等 16 位作者

原文摘要

Long Chain-of-Thought (LCoT), achieved by Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), has proven effective in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, reasoning in current LLMs is primarily generated as plain text, where performing semantic evaluation on such unstructured data creates a computational bottleneck during training. Despite RLVR-based optimization, existing methods still suffer from coarse-grained supervision, reward hacking, high training costs, and poor generalization.To address these issues, we propose the Graph Reasoning Paradigm (GRP), which realizes structured and symbolic reasoning, implemented via graph-structured representations with step-level cognitive labels. Building upon GRP, we further design Process-Aware Stratified Clipping Group Relative Policy Optimization (PASC-GRPO), which leverages structured evaluation to replace semantic evaluation, achieves process-aware verification through graph-structured outcome rewards, and mitigates reward hacking via stratified clipping advantage estimation. Experiments demonstrate significant improvements across mathematical reasoning and code generation tasks. Data, models, and code will be released later.

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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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METER: Evaluating Multi-Level Contextual Causal Reasoning in Large Language Models

Pengfeng Li, Chen Huang National University of Singapore, Chaoqun Hao, Hongyao Chen, Xiao-Yong Wei, Wenqiang Lei Sichuan University, See-Kiong Ng National University of Singapore

原文摘要

Contextual causal reasoning is a critical yet challenging capability for Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing benchmarks, however, often evaluate this skill in fragmented settings, failing to ensure context consistency or cover the full causal hierarchy. To address this, we pioneer METER to systematically benchmark LLMs across all three levels of the causal ladder under a unified context setting. Our extensive evaluation of various LLMs reveals a significant decline in proficiency as tasks ascend the causal hierarchy. To diagnose this degradation, we conduct a deep mechanistic analysis via both error pattern identification and internal information flow tracing. Our analysis reveals two primary failure modes: (1) LLMs are susceptible to distraction by causally irrelevant but factually correct information at lower level of causality; and (2) as tasks ascend the causal hierarchy, faithfulness to the provided context degrades, leading to a reduced performance. We belive our work advances our understanding of the mechanisms behind LLM contextual causal reasoning and establishes a critical foundation for future research. Our code and dataset are available at https://github.com/SCUNLP/METER.

cs.CL

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Large Language Models via Inference-Time Activation Energy

Eric Hanchen Jiang, Weixuan Ou, Run Liu, Shengyuan Pang, Guancheng Wan WanFlow AI and Wuhan University, Ranjie Duan Tencent, Wei Dong Nanyang Technological University, Kai-Wei Chang University of California, Los Angeles and Amazon 等 11 位作者

原文摘要

Safety alignment of large language models currently faces a central challenge: existing alignment techniques often prioritize mitigating responses to harmful prompts at the expense of overcautious behavior, leading models to incorrectly refuse benign requests. A key goal of safe alignment is therefore to improve safety while simultaneously minimizing false refusals. In this work, we introduce Energy Landscape Steering (ELS), a novel, fine-tuning free framework designed to resolve this challenge through dynamic, inference-time intervention. We trained a lightweight, external Energy-Based Model (EBM) to assign high energy to undesirable (false refusal or jailbreak) states and low energy to desirable (helpful response or safe reject) ones. During inference, the EBM maps the LLM’s internal activations to an energy landscape, and we use the gradient of the energy function to steer the hidden states toward low-energy regions in real time. This dynamically guides the model toward desirable behavior without modifying its parameters. By decoupling behavioral control from the model’s core knowledge, ELS provides a flexible and computationally efficient solution. Extensive experiments across diverse models demonstrate its effectiveness: raising compliance on the ORB-H benchmark from 57.3% to 82.6% while maintaining the baseline safety performance. Our work establishes a promising paradigm for building LLMs that simultaneously achieve high safety and low false refusal rates.

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Dynamic Generation of Multi LLM Agents Communication Topologies with Graph Diffusion Models

Eric Hanchen Jiang, Levina Li, Frank Wan, Xiao Liang, Sophia Yin, Yuchen Wu University of Washington, Xinfeng Li Nanyang Technological University, Yizhou Sun University of California, Los Angeles and Amazon 等 11 位作者

原文摘要

The efficiency of multi-agent systems driven by large language models (LLMs) largely hinges on their communication topology. However, designing an optimal topology is a non-trivial challenge, as it requires balancing competing objectives such as task performance, communication cost, and robustness. Existing frameworks often rely on static or hand-crafted topologies, which inherently fail to adapt to diverse task requirements, leading to either excessive token consumption for simple problems or performance bottlenecks for complex ones. To address this challenge, we introduce a novel generative framework called Guided Topology Diffusion (GTD). Inspired by conditional discrete graph diffusion models, GTD formulates topology synthesis as an iterative construction process. At each step, the generation is steered by a lightweight proxy model that predicts multi-objective rewards (e.g., accuracy, utility, cost), enabling real-time, gradient-free optimization towards task-adaptive topologies. This iterative, guided synthesis process distinguishes GTD from single-step generative frameworks, enabling it to better navigate complex design trade-offs. We validated GTD across multiple benchmarks, and experiments show that this framework can generate highly task-adaptive, sparse, and efficient communication topologies, significantly outperforming existing methods in LLM agent collaboration. Our code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/diffusion_agent-953C.

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DetectRL-X: Towards Reliable Multilingual and Real-World LLM-Generated Text Detection

Junchao Wu University of Macau, Yefeng Liu, Chenyu Zhu, Hao Zhang, Zeyu Wu, Tianqi Shi, Yichao Du, Longyue Wang Alibaba Group 等 11 位作者

原文摘要

The effective detection and governance of Large Language Model (LLM) generated content has become increasingly critical due to the growing risk of misuse. Despite the impressive performance of existing detectors, their reliability and potential in multilingual, real-world scenarios remain largely underexplored.In this study, we introduce DetectRL-X, a comprehensive multilingual benchmark designed to evaluate advanced detectors across 8 dimensions. The benchmark encompasses 8 languages commonly used in commercial contexts and collects human-written texts from 6 domains highly susceptible to LLM misuse. To better aligned with real-world applications, We create LLM-generated texts using 4 popular commercial LLMs, and include typical AI-assisted writing operations such as polishing, expanding, and condensing to capture authentic usage patterns. Furthermore, we develop a multilingual framework for paraphrasing and perturbation attacks to simulate diverse human modifications and writing noise, enabling stress testing of detectors across languages.Experimental results on DetectRL-X reveal the strengths and limitations of current state-of-the-art detectors when applied to diverse linguistic resources. We further analyze how domains, generators, attack strategies, text length, and refinement operations influence performance in different languages, underscoring DetectRL-X as an effective benchmark for strengthening multilingual and language-specific detectors.

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CTTA-T: Continual Test-Time Adaptation for Text Understanding via Teacher-Student with a Domain-aware and Generalized Teacher

Tianlun Liu National University of Defense Technology, Zhiliang Tian National University of Defense Technology, Zhen Huang National University of Defense Technology, Xingzhi Zhou Huawei Technologies Ltd., Wanlong Yu, Tianle Liu, Feng Liu National University of Defense Technology, Dongsheng Li National University of Defense Technology

原文摘要

Text understanding application often suffers from domain shifts. To handle testing domains, domain adaptation (DA) is trained to adapt to a fixed and observed testing domain; a more challenging paradigm, test-time adaptation (TTA), cannot access the testing domain during training and online adapts to the testing samples during testing, where the samples are from a fixed domain. We aim to explore a more practical and underexplored scenario, continual test-time adaptation (CTTA) for text understanding, which involves a sequence of testing (unobserved) domains in testing. Current CTTA methods struggle in reducing error accumulation over domains and enhancing generalization to handle unobserved domains: 1) Noise-filtering reduces accumulated errors but discards useful information, and 2) accumulating historical domains enhances generalization, but it is hard to achieve adaptive accumulation. In this paper, we propose a CTTA-T (continual test-time adaptation for text understanding) framework adaptable to evolving target domains: CTTA-T adopts a teacher-student framework, where the teacher is equipped with domain awareness and generalization for evolving domains. To improve teacher predictions, we propose a refine-then-filter based on dropout-driven consistency, which calibrates predictions and removes unreliable guidance. For the adaptation–generalization trade-off, we construct a domain-aware teacher by dynamically accumulating cross-domain semantics via incremental PCA, which continuously tracks domain shifts. Experiments show CTTA-T excels baselines.

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Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup: A New Axis of Sparsity for Large Language Models

Xin Cheng Peking University, Wangding Zeng DeepSeek, Damai Dai, Qinyu Chen, Bingxuan Wang, Zhenda Xie DeepSeek AI, Kezhao Huang, Xingkai Yu DeepSeek AI 等 14 位作者

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Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) scales capacity via conditional computation, but Transformers lack a native knowledge lookup primitive. We introduce conditional memory, instantiated via Deep Sparse Embedding (DSE), which indexes a massive embedding table using local n-grams for retrieval. We formalize sparsity allocation problem—how to split a fixed parameter budget between MoE experts and DSE memory—and find a U-shaped scaling law that identifies an optimal balance. Scaling to 27B parameters, DSE outperform an iso-parameter and iso-FLOPs MoE baseline across knowledge and reasoning benchmarks, and achieve markedly stronger long-context performance. Mechanistic analyses show that DSE offloads early-layer static recall into memory, freeing effective depth and attention for higher-level reasoning. DSE is also infrastructure-efficient: its deterministic hashing enables offloading massive parameters into host memory during inference with negligible throughput overhead.

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Enhancing the Transferability of Jailbreak Attacks on Large Language Models via Exploiting Reparameterization Invariance

Ao Wang China University of Petroleum (East China), Xinghao Yang, Yongshun Gong Shandong University, Wei Liu University of Technology Sydney, Bao-di Liu, Weifeng Liu China University of Petroleum (East China)

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Jailbreak attacks serve as a pivotal technique for evaluating the safety alignment of Large language models. Current token-level attacks have shown remarkable efficacy on open-source models by leveraging gradient-based optimization. However, these attacks suffer from poor cross-model transferability, severely limiting their utility on proprietary ones. To address this limitation, we propose Reparameterization Invariance Gradient-based Jailbreak (RIGJ), a natural gradient based framework designed to improve cross-model transferability. Unlike prior token-level methods whose optimization paths are constrained by model-specific Euclidean geometry, RIGJ defines update directions according to differences in output distributions rather than parameter-space distances. Since language models are trained to capture similar dependency structures of natural language, their output distributions share common geometry across architectures, yielding intrinsically model-agnostic optimization trajectories and substantially stronger jailbreak transferability. Extensive experiments demonstrate superior performance, increasing the cross-model Attack Success Rate and Average Harmfulness Score by 14.9 and 1.23, respectively. Our code is provided https://github.com/nohuma/AISafety_transfer_jailbreak_RIGJ_2026.

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Scaling Law for Multimodal Large Language Model Supervised Fine-Tuning

YiFan Zhang, Tao Yu, Feng Li, Chaoyou Fu Nanjing University, Yibo Hu Taobao, Kun Wang, Qingsong Wen, Zhang Zhang Institute of automation, Chinese academy of science, Chinese Academy of Sciences 等 10 位作者

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The supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage is crucial for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet a comprehensive scaling law to guide the optimal model-data configuration remains lacking. In this paper, we make an initial attempt to address this gap. First, we theoretically demonstrate that directly computing the optimal computation frontier for MLLM-SFT, as we can for traditional LLMs, is a challenging task. This complexity arises because MLLM-SFT is influenced by a broader range of factors, including model size, LLM pre-training tokens, and MLLM SFT tokens. To tackle this issue, we propose two scaling laws based on LLM paradigms: one applicable when training data volumes are well defined by researchers, and another for cases where models are sourced from open communities with unknown training data. Through theoretical modeling and approximations, we provide researchers with valuable recommendations for optimal resource allocation. Furthermore, we establish a strong correlation ( R^2 = 0.98) between training loss and downstream performance, enabling accurate performance estimation without the need for exhaustive benchmarking. To validate our scaling laws, we construct a testbed of 60 models ranging from 50 million to 8 billion parameters, totaling 1,560 checkpoints. Each checkpoint is evaluated on than 10 MLLM benchmarks, ensuring robust fitting of our formulations.

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Evaluating the Impact of Verbal Multiword Expressions on Machine Translation

Linfeng Liu University of Cincinnati, Saptarshi Ghosh, Tianyu Jiang University of Cincinnati

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Verbal multiword expressions (VMWEs) remain difficult for machine translation because their meanings are often not recoverable from their component words. In this study, we analyze the impact of three VMWE categories—verbal idioms, verb-particle constructions, and light verb constructions—on machine translation quality from English to multiple languages. Using both established multiword expression datasets and standard machine translation datasets, we evaluate how state-of-the-art translation systems handle these expressions. Our experimental results consistently show that VMWEs negatively affect translation quality, with deeper analysis indicating that this degradation is primarily attributable to the VMWE itself rather than general sentence-level difficulty. We release our code and evaluation framework to test new MT systems for the community.

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Discourse Coherence and Response-Guided Context Rewriting for Multi-Party Dialogue Generation

Zhiyu Cao, Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu Soochow University

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Previous research on multi-party dialogue generation has predominantly leveraged structural information inherent in dialogues to directly inform the generation process. However, the prevalence of colloquial expressions and incomplete utterances in dialogues often impedes comprehension and weakens the fidelity of dialogue structure representations, which is particularly pronounced in multi-party dialogues. In this work, we propose a novel framework DRCR (Discourse coherence and Response-guided Context Rewriting) to improve multi-party dialogue generation through dialogue context rewriting. Specifically, DRCR employs two complementary feedback signals, discourse coherence and response quality, to construct preference data for both context rewriting and response generation. Moreover, we propose a dynamic self-evolution learning method that allows the rewriter and responder to continuously enhance their capabilities through mutual interaction in an iterative training loop. Comprehensive experiments conducted on four multi-party dialogue datasets substantiate the effectiveness of DRCR.

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Uncovering Sentiment Analysis Circuit in Large Language Model

Shichen Li, Zhouyang Wang, Zhongqing Wang Soochow University, China, Peifeng Li

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Large Language Models (LLMs) can perform sentiment analysis via natural language instructions, yet their predictions are highly sensitive to prompt phrasing. Prior work has shown that sentiment is encoded linearly in LLM representations, but the model’s ability to utilize this information remains surprisingly fragile to prompt variations. We leverage Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) and circuit-level analysis to uncover causal mechanisms underlying sentiment prediction. We identify a sentiment analysis circuit and find that prompt sensitivity may stem from task activation failure. The model encodes the sentiment feature consistently, but different prompts trigger varying degrees of circuit activation. Based on this insight, we propose a simple inference-time intervention method that amplifies circuit features to compensate for insufficient activation. Experiments across diverse datasets, templates, and languages show consistent improvements, offering an interpretable and training-free alternative to manual prompt engineering.

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Qwen3 Technical Report

An Yang, Anfeng Li, Baosong Yang, Beichen Zhang, Binyuan Hui, Bo Zheng, Bowen Yu, Chang Gao 等 60 位作者

原文摘要

In this work, we present Qwen3, the latest version of the Qwen model family. Qwen3 comprises a series of large language models (LLMs) designed to advance performance, efficiency, and multilingual capabilities. The Qwen3 series includes models of both dense and Mixture-of-Expert (MoE) architectures, with parameter scales ranging from 0.6 to 235 billion. A key innovation in Qwen3 is the integration of thinking mode (for complex, multi-step reasoning) and non-thinking mode (for rapid, context-driven responses) into a unified framework. This eliminates the need to switch between different models--such as chat-optimized models (e.g., GPT-4o) and dedicated reasoning models (e.g., QwQ-32B)--and enables dynamic mode switching based on user queries or chat templates. Meanwhile, Qwen3 introduces a thinking budget mechanism, allowing users to allocate computational resources adaptively during inference, thereby balancing latency and performance based on task complexity. Moreover, by leveraging the knowledge from the flagship models, we significantly reduce the computational resources required to build smaller-scale models, while ensuring their highly competitive performance. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that Qwen3 achieves state-of-the-art results across diverse benchmarks, including tasks in code generation, mathematical reasoning, agent tasks, etc., competitive against larger MoE models and proprietary models. Compared to its predecessor Qwen2.5, Qwen3 expands multilingual support from 29 to 119 languages and dialects, enhancing global accessibility through improved cross-lingual understanding and generation capabilities. To facilitate reproducibility and community-driven research and development, all Qwen3 models are publicly accessible under Apache 2.0.

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