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PIVOT:通过在线教师纠正的渐进式干预

PIVOT: Progressive Intervention via Online Teacher Correction

Zhihao Yang, Boyuan Zheng, Puhui Tan, Yukun Chen, Kuan Zhang, Longze Chen, Jiaming Li, Renke Shan 等 10 位作者

AI 速览:PIVOT 将教师生成的纠正片段插入学生 rollout,并对这些片段施加 token 级 KL 监督,与 RLVR 目标联合训练,以缓解困难推理任务中稀疏奖励无学习信号的问题。

Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) is limited by sparse outcome-level feedback on hard reasoning tasks: when all rollouts in a group fail, rewards provide no learning signal. Stronger teachers can provide additional guidance, but this raises a central question: how can such signals be incorporated into RLVR to support successful rollouts while remaining learnable for the student? We distinguish two complementary mechanisms: trajectory-level intervention, which improves access to reward-bearing trajectories, and token-level supervision, which provides dense targets to guide student learning. Our controlled experiments show that either mechanism alone can remain insufficient, motivating their combination. We therefore introduce PIVOT, which inserts teacher-generated corrections into student rollouts and applies token-level KL supervision to these segments alongside the RLVR objective. Beyond their combination, we systematically analyze where to intervene and how to supervise, yielding a recipe for effective guidance. Across hard logic games and mathematical reasoning benchmarks, PIVOT consistently outperforms existing methods, nearly doubling mean avg@8 on logic games from 19.5% for the best-performing baseline to 35.6%.

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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

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.

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CoSTA: Co-Evolving Self-Play Timeline Agents for Complex Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering

Haikun Liu, Zhichao Yan, Shaoru Guo, Jiawei Gu, Victor Gutierrez Basulto, Jiapu Wang, Ru Li

Complex Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering (TKGQA) involves more than retrieving facts: the timestamp or validity interval of one fact can constrain the search for another, while multiple intervals may jointly determine the answer. Existing single-agent TKGQA methods typically investigate these facts within a single reasoning context, where evidence from different event histories can become interleaved and distractors can misdirect subsequent retrieval. Distributing investigations across agents can separate event-specific evidence into distinct contexts, but effective collaboration must still be learned because question decomposition, subtask investigation, and evidence synthesis are interdependent. To address these limitations, we propose \textbf{Co}-Evolving \textbf{S}elf-Play \textbf{T}imeline \textbf{A}gents (CoSTA), which organizes facts into navigable timelines, delegates investigations to workers, and uses a coordinator to synthesize their original timestamped observations. CoSTA initializes a shared policy through role-conditioned distillation and jointly optimizes both roles through co-evolving self-play with final-answer rewards. Across three benchmarks, CoSTA achieves state-of-the-art overall performance, with particularly strong gains on complex multi-fact questions, while its compact variants outperform the evaluated closed-source LLM agents.

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DataArc-SynData-Toolkit: A Unified Closed-Loop Framework for Multi-Path, Multimodal, and Multilingual Data Synthesis

Zhichao Shi UCAS, Cehao Yang The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hao Zhou, Xiaojun Wu The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and IDEA Institution, Huajie Li International Digital Economy Academy, International Digital Economy Academy, Xuhui Jiang International Digital Economy Academy, International Digital Economy Academy, Chengjin Xu International Digital Economy Academy, Yuanzhuo Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences 等 9 位作者

Synthetic data has emerged as a crucial solution to the data scarcity bottleneck in large language models (LLMs), particularly for specialized domains and low-resource languages. However, the broader adoption of existing synthetic data tools is severely hindered by convoluted workflows, fragmented data standards, and limited scalability across modalities.To address these limitations, we develop DataArc-SynData-Toolkit, an open-source framework featuring: (1) a configuration-driven, end-to-end pipeline equipped with an intuitive visual interface and simplified CLI for exceptional usability; (2) a unified, quality-controllable synthesis paradigm that standardizes multi-source data generation to ensure high reusability; and (3) a highly modular architecture designed for seamless multimodal, multilingual, and multi-task adaptation.We apply the toolkit in multiple application scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that our toolkit achieves an optimal balance between generation efficiency and data quality. By offering an end-to-end and visually interactive pipeline, DataArc-SynData-Toolkit significantly lowers the technical barrier to synthetic data generation and subsequent model training, accelerating its practical deployment in real-world applications.

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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations) · 2026 · 正式发表

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Efficient Prior-Guided Reasoning for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation under Conflicts

Xiaowei Yuan, Ziyang Huang, Zhao Yang Meituan, Yequan Wang Peking University and Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Jun Zhao Institute of automation, Chinese academy of science, Kang Liu Institute of automation, Chinese academy of science, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a standard paradigm for grounding Large Language Models (LLMs) with external knowledge. However, RAG performance often degrades substantially when faced with noisy, outdated, or conflicting retrieved information. In this work, we empirically demonstrate that Prior-Guided Reasoning—a strategy that explicitly elicits the model’s parametric knowledge as prior information to guide reasoning on retrieved documents—effectively mitigates the impact of external conflicts. Building on this, we propose BrPr (Bernoulli-gated reinforcement learning for Prior-Guided reasoning), a framework that achieves robust performance across varying degrees of external inconsistency. Furthermore, by employing a Bernoulli-gated dropout mechanism during training, BrPr distills the prior-driven reasoning capability into the model parameters, enabling efficient latent reasoning without explicit prior generation. The experimental results demonstrate that BrPr consistently exhibits superior robustness to external conflicts and noise.

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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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MMTutorBench: The First Multimodal Benchmark for AI Math Tutoring

Tengchao Yang, Sichen Guo, Mengzhao Jia, Jiaming Su, Yuanyang Liu, Zhihan Zhang Amazon, Meng Jiang University of Notre Dame

Effective math tutoring requires not only solving problems but also diagnosing students’ difficulties and guiding them step by step. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) show promise, existing benchmarks largely overlook these tutoring skills. We introduce MMTutorBench, the first benchmark for AI math tutoring, consisting of 770 problems built around pedagogically significant key-steps. Each problem is paired with problem-specific rubrics that enable fine-grained evaluation across six dimensions, and structured into three tasks—Insight Discovery, Operation Formulation, and Operation Execution. We evaluate 12 leading MLLMs and find clear performance gaps between proprietary and open-source systems, substantial room compared to human tutors, and consistent trends across input variants: OCR pipelines degrade tutoring quality, few-shot prompting yields limited gains, and our rubric-based LLM-as-a-Judge proves highly reliable. These results highlight both the difficulty and diagnostic value of MMTutorBench for advancing AI tutoring.

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RRAtention: Dynamic Block Sparse Attention via Per-Head Round-Robin Shifts for Long-Context Inference

Siran Liu, Guoxia Wang, Sa Wang, Jinle Zeng Baidu, Haoyang Xie, Siyu Lou Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, Jiabin Yang, Dianhai Yu 等 10 位作者

The quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms poses a critical bottleneck for large language models processing long contexts. While dynamic sparse attention methods offer input-adaptive efficiency, they face fundamental trade-offs: requiring preprocessing, lacking global evaluation, violating query independence, or incurring high computational overhead. We present RRAttention, a novel dynamic sparse attention method that simultaneously achieves all desirable properties through a head round-robin (RR) sampling strategy. By rotating query sampling positions across attention heads within each stride, RRAttention maintains query independence while enabling efficient global pattern discovery with stride-level aggregation. Our method reduces complexity from O(L^2) to O(L^2/S^2) and employs adaptive Top-\tau selection for optimal sparsity. Extensive experiments on natural language understanding (HELMET) and multimodal video comprehension (Video-MME) demonstrate that RRAttention recovers over 99% of full attention performance while computing only half of the attention blocks, achieving 2.4\times speedup at 128K context length and outperforming existing dynamic sparse attention methods. The code is available at https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleFleet (see ‘Research/RRAttention‘).

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Bloom-Eval: A Hierarchical Evaluation Benchmark for Automatic Survey Generation Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy

Fei Zhang, Zhe Zhao, HaiBin Wen, Tianshuo Wei, Zaixi Zhang Princeton University, Chao Yang Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ye Wei City University of Hong Kong

The rapid advance of automatic survey generation (ASG) has created a critical evaluation challenge. Existing evaluation methods suffer from both cognitive dimensional simplification and methodological unreliability, primarily due to the over-reliance on the ”LLM-as-a-Judge” approach. To bridge this gap, we establish Bloom-Eval, a six-tiered benchmark based on Bloom’s Taxonomy that reliably evaluates ASG systems by prioritizing deterministic algorithms and introducing our GRADE approach for abstract abilities. Furthermore, we construct a large-scale, cross-disciplinary dataset of over 3,000 high-quality papers. Our empirical study on this benchmark reveals that while leading ASG systems are proficient format organizers, they remain unqualified knowledge integrators. This work aims to redefine ASG evaluation standards, shifting the research focus from the formal mimicry of surface structure to the cognitive deepening of intellectual content. Our method provides the ASG field with a systematic, reproducible, and theoretically grounded benchmark to guide future research.

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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

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.

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On-the-Fly VLA Adaptation via Test-Time Reinforcement Learning

Changyu Liu, Yiyang Liu University of Missouri - Kansas City, Taowen Wang The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Qiao Zhuang University of Missouri - Kansas City, James Chenhao Liang U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Wenhao Yang Lamar University, Renjing Xu The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Qifan Wang Meta AI 等 10 位作者

Vision-Language-Action models have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for general-purpose robot learning, enabling agents to map visual observations and natural-language instructions into executable robotic actions. Though popular, they are primarily trained via supervised fine-tuning or training-time reinforcement learning, requiring explicit fine-tuning phases, human interventions, or controlled data collection. Consequently, existing methods remain unsuitable for challenging simulated- or physical-world deployments, where robots must respond autonomously and flexibly to evolving environments. To address this limitation, we introduce a Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for VLAs (TT-VLA), a framework that enables on-the-fly policy adaptation during inference. TT-VLA formulates a dense reward mechanism that leverages step-by-step task-progress signals to refine action policies during test time while preserving the SFT/RL-trained priors, making it an effective supplement to current VLA models. Empirical results show that our approach enhances overall adaptability, stability, and task success in dynamic, previously unseen scenarios under simulated and real-world settings. We believe TT-VLA offers a principled step toward self-improving, deployment-ready VLAs.

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UniSRM: A Unified Speech Reward Model for Reasoning-Based Fine-grained Assessment

Yuanyuan Wang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dongchao Yang, Yayue Deng, Zhiyong Wu Tsinghua University, Steven Y. Guo, Helen M. Meng The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Xixin Wu The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Evaluating speech generation still relies heavily on human judgments, such as Mean Opinion Score (MOS), which are expensive, subjective, and difficult to reproduce at scale. While a few recent studies have begun to explore AudioLLM-based judge models, existing efforts typically target only a narrow set of scenarios (e.g., utterance-level quality or single-turn dialogue) and provide limited coverage of diverse speech generation tasks and evaluation dimensions. In this work, we propose UniSRM, a unified speech reward model that can support multi-dimensional, interpretable reward signals with reliable reasoning. To support training and evaluation, we introduce UniSRM-Data and UniSRM-Bench, covering speech evaluation tasks from utterance-level quality to context-level coherence. Based on this dataset, we present the unified speech reward model, UniSRM, with a two-stage pipeline that enables reasoning-based fine-grained assessment. Furthermore, we introduce Reasoning-Consistent Rewards to improve the reliability of the reasoning process. Experiments show that UniSRM delivers more reliable and human-aligned judgments across a broad range of speech evaluation tasks, offering a practical foundation for scalable and unified evaluation of speech quality.

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AgentOCR: Reimagining Agent History via Optical Self-Compression

Lang Feng Nanyang Technological University, Fuchao Yang Nanyang Technological University, Feng Chen, Xin Cheng Chongqing University, Haiyang Xu, Zhenglin Wan, Ming Yan Alibaba Group, Bo An Nanyang Technological University

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) enable agentic systems trained with reinforcement learning (RL) over multi-turn interaction, but practical deployment is bottlenecked by rapidly growing textual histories that inflate token and memory costs. We introduce AgentOCR, a framework that exploits visual tokens’ superior information density by representing the accumulated observation-action history as a compact rendered image. To make multi-turn rollouts scalable, AgentOCR proposes segment optical caching. By decomposing history into hashable segments and maintaining a visual cache, this mechanism eliminates redundant re-rendering. Beyond fixed rendering, AgentOCR introduces agentic self-compression, where the agent actively emits a compression rate and is trained with compression-aware reward to adaptively balance task success and token efficiency. We conduct extensive experiments on challenging agentic benchmarks, ALFWorld and search-based QA. Remarkably, AgentOCR preserves over 95% of text-based agent performance while substantially reducing token consumption (>50%), yielding consistent token and memory efficiency. Further analysis validates a 20\times rendering speedup from optical caching and effective self-compression balancing. Our code is available at https://github.com/langfengQ/AgentOCR.

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LogicPoison: Logical Attacks on Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Yilin Xiao, Jin Chen, Qinggang Zhang Jilin University, Yujing Zhang, Chuang Zhou, Longhao Yang Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Lingfei Ren, Xin Yang Southwestern University of Finance and Economics 等 9 位作者

Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) enhances the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by grounding their responses in structured knowledge graphs. Leveraging community detection and relation filtering techniques, GraphRAG systems demonstrate inherent resistance to traditional RAG attacks, such as text poisoning and prompt injection. However, in this paper, we find that the security of GraphRAG systems fundamentally relies on the topological integrity of the underlying graph, which can be undermined by implicitly corrupting the logical connections, without altering surface-level text semantics. To exploit this vulnerability, we propose LogicPoison, a novel attack framework that targets logical reasoning rather than injecting false contents. Specifically, LogicPoison employs a type-preserving entity swapping mechanism to perturb both global logic hubs for disrupting overall graph connectivity and query-specific reasoning bridges for severing essential multi-hop inference paths. This approach effectively reroutes valid reasoning into dead ends while maintaining surface-level textual plausibility. Comprehensive experiments across multiple benchmarks demonstrate that LogicPoison successfully bypasses GraphRAG’s defenses, significantly degrading performance and outperforming state-of-the-art baselines in both effectiveness and stealth. Our code is available at https://github.com/Jord8061/logicPoison.

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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)

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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When Agents Look the Same: Quantifying Distillation-Induced Similarity in Tool-Use Behaviors

Chenghao Yang, Yuning Zhang, Zhoufutu Wen, Tao Gong University of Science and Technology of China, Jiaheng Liu Nanjing University, Qi Chu University of Science and Technology of China, Nenghai Yu University of Science and Technology of China

Model distillation is a primary driver behind the rapid progress of LLM agents, yet it often leads to behavioral homogenization. Many emerging agents share nearly identical reasoning steps and failure modes, suggesting they may be distilled echoes of a few dominant teachers. Existing metrics, however, fail to distinguish mandatory behaviors required for task success from non-mandatory patterns thatreflect a model’s autonomous preferences. We propose two complementary metrics to isolate non-mandatory behavioral patterns: \textbf{Response Pattern Similarity (RPS)} for verbal alignment and \textbf{Action Graph Similarity (AGS)} for tool-use habits modeled as directed graphs. Evaluating 18 models from 8 providers on \tau-Bench and \tau^2-Bench against Claude Sonnet 4.5 (thinking), we find that within-family model pairs score 5.9 pp higher in AGS than cross-family pairs, and that Kimi-K2 (thinking) reaches 82.6% S_{\text{node}} and 94.7% S_{\text{dep}}, exceeding Anthropic’s own Opus 4.1. A controlled distillation experiment further confirms that AGS distinguishes teacher-specific convergence from general improvement. RPS and AGS capture distinct behavioral dimensions (Pearson r = 0.491), providing complementary diagnostic signals for behavioral convergence in the agent ecosystem.Our code is available at https://github.com/Syuchin/AgentEcho.

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FlowSearch: Advancing Deep Research with Dynamic Structured Knowledge Flow

Yusong Hu, Runmin Ma, Yue Fan Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Jinxin Shi, Zongsheng Cao Independent Researcher, Yuhao Zhou, Jiakang Yuan Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Fudan University, Shuaiyu Zhang 等 14 位作者

Deep research is an inherently challenging task that demands both breadth and depth of thinking. It involves navigating diverse knowledge spaces and reasoning over complex, multi-step dependencies, which presents substantial challenges for agentic systems. To address this, we propose FlowSearch, a multi-agent framework that actively constructs and evolves a dynamic structured knowledge flow to drive subtask execution and reasoning. FlowSearch is capable of strategically planning and expanding the knowledge flow to enable parallel exploration and hierarchical task decomposition, while also adjusting the knowledge flow in real time based on feedback from intermediate reasoning outcomes and insights. FlowSearch achieves competitive performance on both general and scientific benchmarks, including GAIA, HLE, GPQA and TRQA, demonstrating its effectiveness in multi-disciplinary research scenarios and its potential to advance scientific discovery. The code will be available.

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Traffic-R1: Reinforced LLMs Bring Human-Like Reasoning to Traffic Signal Control Systems

Xingchen Zou, Yuhao Yang, Zheng Chen pcitech, Xixuan Hao, Yiqi Chen, Chao Huang University of Hong Kong, Yuxuan Liang The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

We introduce Traffic-R1, a 3B-parameter foundation model with human-like reasoning for Traffic signal control (TSC), developed via self-exploration and iterative reinforcement of LLM with expert guidance in a simulated traffic environment. Compared with traditional reinforcement learning and recent LLM-based methods, Traffic-R1 offers three main advantages: zero-shot generalization, transferring unchanged to new road networks and out-of-distribution incidents by leveraging internal traffic-control policies and reasoning; a compact 3B-parameter design that supports real-time inference on mobile-class chips for edge deployment; and an explainable TSC process that enables multi-intersection coordination through communication and an asynchronous communication network. Extensive benchmarks show Traffic-R1 outperforms strong baselines and training-intensive RL controllers. In production, the model now manages signals affecting over 55,000 drivers daily, reduces average queue lengths by more than 5%, and halves operator workload. We will open source our checkpoint and code to foster further research.

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Optimizing Packing and Shuffling Strategies for Enhanced Performance in Generative Language Models

Yanbing Chen, Ruilin Wang, Zihao Yang Northeastern University, Lavender Yao Jiang, Eric Karl Oermann New York University

Packing and shuffling tokens is a common practice in training auto-regressive language models to prevent overfitting and improve efficiency. Documents are typically concatenated to chunks of maximum sequence length (MSL) and shuffled in chunks of tokens (atom-size chunk), possibly breaking context within documents. An alternative approach is padding, which only includes one document per chunk. To optimize both packing strategies (concatenation vs padding), we explored the optimal atom size for shuffling and compared performance and efficiency. We found that in the most common setup (where average document length is greater than MSL), matching atom size to MSL yields the lowest perplexity, controlling for dataset. Also, padding yields lower final perplexity than concatenation at the cost of lower efficiency. This trade-off informs the choice of shuffling and packing methods in training LMs.

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Know You First and Be You Better: Modeling Human-Like User Simulators via Implicit Profiles

Kuang Wang, Xianfei Li, Shenghao Yang, Li Zhou, Feng Jiang, Haizhou Li

User simulators are crucial for replicating human interactions with dialogue systems, supporting both collaborative training and automatic evaluation, especially for large language models (LLMs). However, current role-playing methods face challenges such as a lack of utterance-level authenticity and user-level diversity, often hindered by role confusion and dependence on predefined profiles of well-known figures. In contrast, direct simulation focuses solely on text, neglecting implicit user traits like personality and conversation-level consistency. To address these issues, we introduce the User Simulator with Implicit Profiles (USP), a framework that infers implicit user profiles from human-machine interactions to simulate personalized and realistic dialogues. We first develop an LLM-driven extractor with a comprehensive profile schema, then refine the simulation using conditional supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with cycle consistency, optimizing at both the utterance and conversation levels. Finally, a diverse profile sampler captures the distribution of real-world user profiles. Experimental results show that USP outperforms strong baselines in terms of authenticity and diversity while maintaining comparable consistency. Additionally, using USP to evaluate LLM on dynamic multi-turn aligns well with mainstream benchmarks, demonstrating its effectiveness in real-world applications.

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