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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.06728

更新于 2026-11-05

Turns Matter: Advancing Streaming Video RL via Turn-Level Credit

Shuai Dong, Kanghui Tian, Linghan Chen, Wenqi Shao, Hongrui Wu, Haowen Hou, Yongfu Zhu, Xuehui Wang 等 23 位作者

原文摘要

Streaming video understanding requires models to repeatedly decide whether to respond or continue observing. Recently, Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has been applied to this setting, with existing approaches emphasizing reward design while retaining a single trajectory-level advantage across turns. Such shared credit can reinforce redundant replies after earlier successes and discourage useful follow-ups after earlier failures. We propose TurnWise, a turn-level GRPO framework that aligns learning with individual streaming decisions. TurnWise addresses the mismatch between trajectory-level feedback and turn-level interaction, promoting informative responses and reducing redundancy. Specifically, turn-level credit assignment uses silence-completed prefix scoring to construct group-relative advantages from each decision's remaining return, separating its learning signal from earlier rewards. Turn-mean policy optimization averages token losses within each turn and then across turns, giving response and waiting decisions equal weight regardless of output length. These complementary designs improve streaming policy learning without a learned critic or additional rollouts. Extensive experiments show our method outperforms prior RL approaches for streaming video understanding.

cs.CV · cs.CL · cs.LG

版本更新 · v3arXiv:2507.16271

更新于 2026-11-03

Beyond Isolated Dots: Benchmarking Structured Table Construction as Deep Knowledge Extraction

Tianyun Zhong, Guozhao Mo, Yanjiang Liu, Yihan Chen, Lingdi Kong, Xuanang Chen, Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin 等 12 位作者

原文摘要

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly expected to extract and synthesize structured information from complex real-world documents, yet they typically produce unstructured, hard-to-verify paragraph-style outputs. We introduce AOE (Arranged and Organized Extraction), a bilingual benchmark that evaluates LLMs' ability to distill long-form, multi-document inputs (64k to 1.8M tokens) into structured tables. AOE comprises 12 tasks across four domains (academic, financial, legal, and medical), each grounded in genuine analytical needs, with schema guidance provided to isolate extraction quality from formatting variance. We evaluate 12 frontier LLMs (both open-weight and proprietary) under four generation settings of increasing autonomy: direct full-document input, RAG-based retrieval, offline document-browsing agent, and online web-search agent. Even the best-performing model achieves only 42.7% Cell F1, and retrieval-augmented approaches often degrade rather than improve performance, revealing that structured extraction from long contexts remains a fundamental challenge - an "Area of Effect" (AOE) that impacts all tested systems.

cs.CL

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.02244

更新于 2026-11-02

Can AI Reviewers See Your Efforts to Improve Your Paper? A Large-Scale Study of Paper Revision Trajectories

Yaochen Wang, Chenguang Wang, Ming Li, Haomin Zhuang, Xinyue Zeng, Han Chen, Kwesi Adu Cobbina, Dang Nguyen 等 11 位作者

原文摘要

AI reviewers are increasingly used to assess scientific manuscripts, yet it remains unclear whether their judgments reflect the improvements authors make through revision. We investigate this question using PaperTrajectory-2026, the 2026 release of PaperTrajectory, a dataset of 6,959 paper trajectories across five AI conferences, with automatic annotations of changes along 14 dimensions and separate judgments of overall quality. The annotations show that major improvements emphasize empirical evidence and framing, while later revisions tend toward incremental improvement. Using independent assessments of manuscript versions from eight AI reviewers, we examine whether annotated major improvements receive higher scores, which revision dimensions are associated with score changes, and whether user opinions can outweigh observed revision gains. Every reviewer leaves scores unchanged on most major improvements, and agreement on the direction of score changes is weak. Revision dimensions show some reviewer-specific associations with score increases, but provide limited predictive discrimination and no consistent guide across reviewers. Even when a revision earns a higher neutral score, a brief negative user opinion can erase or reverse that advantage, with substantial variation across reviewers. These findings show that substantive revisions are not consistently reflected in review scores and that observed scoring gains can be vulnerable to user framing, motivating assessments that connect manuscript evidence to overall judgments and remain stable when no scientific evidence changes.

cs.CL

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.40031

更新于 2026-10-29

AI Cosmos: An Agentic Infra for Situated Learning

AI Cosmos Team, Jinfeng Zhou, Yuxuan Chen, Fangming Chang, Mingyu Su, Yifan Zhu, Yuan Wang, Bo Zhang 等 35 位作者

原文摘要

Large language models (LLMs) can improve task performance during learning, yet these gains do not necessarily reflect learners' ability to thereafter apply the knowledge and skills independently. We present AI Cosmos, an agentic infrastructure for situated learning that organizes learning around two complementary principles: scenario-based participation and cumulative assets of practice. AI Cosmos organizes learners and role-specialized agents within learning scenarios that integrate task-relevant knowledge and, when needed, executable workbenches. An asset-memory loop preserves the processes and outcomes of practice as reusable assets with explicit provenance and dependencies. We evaluate scenario-based interaction through two preregistered randomized controlled studies examining the acquisition of legal reasoning and programming competence, holding the same underlying LLM across conditions. AI Cosmos achieves greater learning gains than a conventional LLM in legal reasoning and higher mastery of unseen programming problems than an LLM-as-Teacher baseline.

cs.CL

首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-industry.34ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

Teaching LLM to be Persuasive: Reward-Enhanced Policy Optimization for Alignment from Heterogeneous Rewards

Xia Zeng, Yihan Chen, Luhui Liu, Chao Luo, Ye Chen, Zhuangzhuoran

原文摘要

We deploy large language models (LLMs) as business development (BD) agents for persuasive price negotiation in online travel agencies (OTAs). The agent must follow a multi-stage Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and strict guardrails (no over-promising and no hallucinations), while remaining human-like and effective over long, multi-turn dialogues.We propose Reward-Enhanced Policy Optimization (REPO), a reinforcement learning post-training method that combines heterogeneous rewards: a preference-trained reward model (RM), an LLM-as-a-judge (RJ) for nuanced behaviors (e.g., emotional value and SOP compliance), and rule-based reward functions (RF) (mainly regex-based) for deterministic checks on numerics, formatting, and guardrails. In expert consensus evaluation (three human experts; 30 online conversations and 45 curated bad cases), REPO improves average dialogue rating to 4.63 (+0.33 over GRPO) and raises the share of conversations with at least one excellent response to 66.67% (+23.34 pp over GRPO), while achieving a 93.33% bad-case fix rate with 75.56% clean fixes.In a production A/B test on 9,653 real customer conversations (vs. an intent-driven dialogue system), REPO improves response rate by +12.14 pp and task success rate by +5.94 pp (p<0.001).

cs.CL

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track) · 2026 · 正式发表

首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-long.1115ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

Looking Beyond the One: Operationalizing and Eliciting Visual Ambiguity in VLLMs

Yuchong Chen, Bowei Zou A*STAR, Yuhan Chen Soochow University, Yifan Fan, Xinyu Li, Shujun Cao, Yu Hong Suzhou University

原文摘要

Visual questions are often ambiguous: the same image–question pair may admit multiple valid answers depending on which region is referenced. However, current Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems typically collapse this ambiguity, committing to a single interpretation during decoding and evaluation. In this work, we study visual question ambiguity from a grounded, region-centric perspective. We operationalize ambiguity as the existence of multiple distinct answer-supporting regions in an image, each independently yielding a valid answer. This formulation makes ambiguity observable without requiring exhaustive multi-answer annotations. Based on this definition, we conduct a systematic empirical study of state-of-the-art Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs). We find that, under default decoding, VLLMs consistently under-report ambiguity—even when multiple valid visual groundings are present. Importantly, probing model hidden states reveals that ambiguity-related signals are already encoded in their internal representations, despite not being reliably expressed in outputs. Finally, we show that selectively activating multi-focus answering based on these signals can recover additional valid answers while avoiding excessive hallucination. Together, our results suggest that ambiguity in VQA is not merely an annotation artifact or capability limitation, but a property that VLLMs internally recognize yet often fail to surface under standard decoding assumptions.

cs.CL

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

首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-long.1138ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

Unlocking Multilingual Reasoning Capability of LLMs and LVLMs through Representation Engineering

Qiming Li, Xiaocheng Feng, Yixuan Ma Harbin Institute of Technology, Ruihan Chen, Zihe Tong Harbin Institute of Technology, Zekai Ye Harbin Institute of Technology, Xiachong Feng University of Hong Kong, Libo Qin Central South University 等 13 位作者

原文摘要

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate strong reasoning capabilities, yet their performance in English significantly outperforms that in low-resource languages, raising fairness concerns in multilingual applications. Existing approaches either rely on costly multilingual training or employ prompting with external translation tools, both of which are resource-intensive and sensitive to translation quality. To address these limitations, we propose a training-free inference-time method to enhance Multilingual Reasoning capabilities via Representation Engineering (MRRE) without using any additional training data or tools. MRRE sequentially injects two precomputed vectors at specific layers during inference processing: cross-lingual reasoning enhancement vectors, which steer non-English reasoning representations toward English space to unlock multilingual reasoning, and target-language output anchoring vectors, which restore the distribution of the target language to preserve input–output language consistency. Comprehensive experiments across six advanced LLMs and LVLMs on four reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that MRRE consistently enhances non-English reasoning by an average gain of 5.48% and up to 7.54% in low-resource languages (e.g., Thai and Swahili), while improving input-output language consistency by 3.78%.

cs.CL · cs.CV

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

首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-long.1240ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

CoCoNUTS: Concentrating on Content while Neglecting Uninformative Textual Styles for AI-Generated Peer Review Detection

Yihan Chen University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiawei Chen Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guozhao Mo, Xuanang Chen, Ben He, Xianpei Han Institute of Software, CAS, Le Sun Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

原文摘要

The growing use of large language models (LLMs) in peer review threatens scholarly integrity. Recent conference policies allow AI tools for language polishing but prohibit their use for generating substantive content. However, existing detectors mainly rely on stylistic cues, making it difficult to distinguish between surface-level language refinement and genuine content generation. To address this, we advocate a content-based detection paradigm and introduce CoCoNUTS, a comprehensive benchmark containing 315,535 reviews covering leading AI conferences and six human-AI collaboration modes. Our evaluation shows that current detectors struggle to handle these nuanced settings. Consequently, we propose CoCoDet, an AI review detector designed to identify substantive AI-generation. Experiments demonstrate that CoCoDet achieves a macro F1-score of 98.24%. Crucially, on permissible machine-polished reviews, it maintains a low false positive rate of 3.89%, substantially outperforming the strongest baseline (7.84%). Examination on real-world reviews using CoCoDet reveals an escalating trend of substantive AI generation. Our work exposes the inadequacy of current detectors, underscoring the importance of domain-specific solutions.

cs.CL

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

首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-long.1375ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

MPR-GUI: Benchmarking and Enhancing Multilingual Perception and Reasoning in GUI Agents

Ruihan Chen, Qiming Li, Xiaocheng Feng, Weihong Zhong Harbin Institute of Technology, Xiaoliang Yang Harbin Institute of Technology, Yuxuan Gu Harbin Institute of Technology, Zekun Zhou Harbin Institute of Technology, Yunfei Lu Huawei Technologies Ltd. 等 12 位作者

原文摘要

Large Vision–Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong potential as multilingual Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents, as evidenced by existing GUI benchmarks. However, these benchmarks exhibit two primary limitations: (1) although Perception and Reasoning (P R) capabilities are fundamental for GUI agents, current benchmarks lack fine-grained diagnostics to identify which specific capabilities lead to task failures, hindering targeted improvements; (2) existing benchmarks fail to provide a strictly aligned cross-lingual evaluation environment, introducing confounding factors that prevent isolating the language impact on GUI agent performance. To address these issues, we propose the Multilingual P R GUI Benchmark (MPR-GUI-Bench), featuring strictly aligned environments across six languages and eight fine-grained P R tasks. Our benchmark reveals consistent P R gaps between English and non-English settings, particularly on reasoning-intensive tasks. To leverage the superior English P R capabilities for bridging cross-lingual gaps, we identify layers sensitive to language and propose GUI-XLI, a GUI Cross-Lingual Intervention method that aligns non-English hidden states with their English counterparts at these layers during inference. Experiments show that GUI-XLI effectively reduces the cross-lingual gaps, with an average gain of 6.5% in non-English settings.

cs.CL · cs.CV

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

首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-long.1528ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

Rethinking Expert Trajectory Utilization in LLM Post-training for Mathematical Reasoning

Bowen Ding, Yuhan Chen, Jiayang Lyu, Jiyao Yuan, Qi Zhu Huawei Technologies Ltd., Shuangshuang Tian, Dantong Zhu Central South University, Futing Wang Westlake University 等 12 位作者

原文摘要

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) dominate the post-training landscape for mathematical reasoning, yet differ fundamentally in their reliance on expert trajectories. To understand the optimal way to harness these trajectories for maximizing performance, we propose the Plasticity-Ceiling Framework. This framework empirically grounds the post-training landscape by decomposing the final performance ceiling into the foundational SFT performance and the subsequent RL plasticity (i.e., the maximum improvement via RL). Through extensive benchmarking, we establish the Sequential SFT-then-RL pipeline as the superior standard, overcoming the stability and premature convergence deficits inherent in synchronized approaches. Furthermore, we derive precise scaling guidelines: (1) Transitioning to RL at the Stable or Mild Overfitting Regime of SFT maximizes the final ceiling by securing a robust SFT foundation with substantial RL plasticity; (2) Refuting the “Less is More” hypothesis in SFT-then-RL scaling, we demonstrate that Data Scale determines the primary post-training potential, while Trajectory Difficulty acts as a performance multiplier; and (3) The Minimum Validation Loss of SFT serves as a reliable indicator for selecting the expert trajectories that maximize the ultimate performance ceiling. Our findings provide actionable guidelines for extracting maximum value from expert trajectories.

cs.CL

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

首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-long.1851ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

Global Adaptive Momentum Meets Local Personalized Perturbation: Efficient Federated LLM Fine-Tuning with Zeroth-Order Gradients

Zihan Chen Singapore University of Technology and Design, Howard Hao Yang Zhejiang University, Tony Quek Singapore University of Technology and Design, Kai Fong Ernest Chong Singapore University of Technology and Design

原文摘要

Federated fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) provides a privacy-preserving approach to deploying pervasive generative AI services, yet the substantial memory overhead of first-order (FO) gradient computation presents significant practical challenges. While zeroth-order (ZO) optimization methods offer memory-efficient alternatives, they remain susceptible to performance degradation brought by data heterogeneity. Specifically, direct ZO-for-FO substitution is incompatible with existing strategies tailored for cross-client discrepancies. In response, we propose a new federated LLM fine-tuning framework, with a holistic revamped design of the entire ZO gradient processing pipeline. Crucially, with our proposed global adaptive optimization and local personalized perturbation, we present a unified solution for incorporating ZO gradients in federated learning, from local personalized perturbation sampling and ZO gradient transmission, to global ZO gradient reconstruction and aggregation with adaptive momentum, thereby directly addressing the challenges of inefficiencies and cross-client discrepancies. Our convergence analysis and experiment results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed framework over diverse heterogeneous data settings, both in terms of generalization and efficiency.

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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来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

CPT-Agent: A Cognitive Process Theory-driven Framework for Student Simulation in Writing Development

Yuhan Chen Capital Normal University, Zizhuo Shen Beijing Language and Culture University and IFLYTEK CO.LTD., Miaomiao Cheng, Xu Han, Jiefu Gong IFLYTEK CO.LTD., Shijin Wang State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence, Wei Song Capital Normal University

原文摘要

Simulating student writing behavior offers a promising pathway to scalable feedback evaluation and teacher training. However, existing LLM-based approaches tend to model overly capable learners who readily understand and over-apply feedback, resulting in pedagogically implausible behavior. In this work, we introduce pedagogical realism as a guiding principle for student writing simulation, emphasizing bounded cognition, selective feedback comprehension, and developmentally plausible learning processes. To operationalize this idea, we propose CPT-Agent, a cognitively grounded framework that decouples cognitive ability from writing proficiency and models their interaction during writing and revision. CPT-Agent combines probabilistic modeling of cognitive development, proficiency-controlled text generation, and structured memory for skill accumulation. Experiments show that it (1) produces clearly distinguishable proficiency levels, (2) generates cognitively plausible revisions consistent with instructional theories, and (3) achieves strong agreement with expert judgments in evaluating feedback quality. These results highlight the importance of modeling cognitive constraints in LLM-based student simulation and demonstrate the potential of pedagogically realistic agents for automated feedback assessment and teacher development.

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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来源日期 2026-07-01（仅到月份）

The Paradox of Outcome Optimization: A Causal Information-Theoretic Bound on Reasoning Shortcuts in LLMs

Zihan Chen University of Science and Technology of China, Yiming Zhang University of Science and Technology of China, Wenxiang Geng, Zenghui Ding Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yining Sun Institute of Intelligent Machines，Chinese Academy Of Sciences

原文摘要

Large Language Models (LLMs) aligned via outcome-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) frequently exhibit a critical failure mode: they achieve high performance on in-distribution benchmarks while demonstrating brittle reasoning capabilities on out-of-distribution (OOD) tasks. We term this phenomenon Reward-Induced Manifold Collapse. We establish a theoretical framework bridging Structural Causal Models (SCM) and the Information Bottleneck (IB) principle to explain this paradox. We define reasoning as a high-complexity causal process and shortcut learning as the exploitation of low-complexity spurious correlations. Under the implicit inductive bias of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), models optimized for outcome rewards are biased toward shortcut solutions whenever the training distribution allows for a “Markovian Screening” of the true causal mechanism. We derive a new generalization bound based on Semantic Coverage Measure (\eta) rather than sample size, showing why data scaling on homogeneous distributions may fail to correct reasoning flaws. We also show that Process Reward Models (PRMs) function as Topological Filters, enforcing step-wise mutual information constraints that render the low-complexity shortcut manifold inadmissible. These results provide a mathematical grounding for the role of process supervision beyond simple credit assignment.

cs.CL

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