- Duel-Evolve: Reward-Free Test-Time Scaling via LLM Self-Preferences
Sweta Karlekar, Carolina Zheng, Magnus Saebo, Nicolas Beltran-Velez, Shuyang Yu · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
Building on this observation, we introduce Duel-Evolve, an evolutionary optimization algorithm that replaces external scalar rewards with pairwise preferences elicited from the same LLM used to generate candidates.
- HiSAC: Hierarchical Sparse Activation Compression for Ultra-long Sequence Modeling in Recommenders
Kun Yuan, Junyu Bi, Daixuan Cheng, Changfa Wu, Shuwen Xiao · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
Modern recommender systems leverage ultra-long user behavior sequences to capture dynamic preferences, but end-to-end modeling is infeasible in production due to latency and memory constraints.
- gencat: Generative computerized adaptive testing
Wanyong Feng, Andrew Lan · Feb 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
We train the model in a two-step process, first via Supervised Fine-Tuning and then via preference optimization for knowledge-response alignment.
- Hierarchical Reward Design from Language: Enhancing Alignment of Agent Behavior with Human Specifications
Zhiqin Qian, Ryan Diaz, Sangwon Seo, Vaibhav Unhelkar · Feb 20, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
When training artificial intelligence (AI) to perform tasks, humans often care not only about whether a task is completed but also how it is performed.
- Persona2Web: Benchmarking Personalized Web Agents for Contextual Reasoning with User History
Serin Kim, Sangam Lee, Dongha Lee · Feb 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
Large language models have advanced web agents, yet current agents lack personalization capabilities.
- ChartEditBench: Evaluating Grounded Multi-Turn Chart Editing in Multimodal Language Models
Manav Nitin Kapadnis, Lawanya Baghel, Atharva Naik, Carolyn Rosé · Feb 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
In practice, users iteratively refine visualizations through multi-turn interactions that require maintaining common ground, tracking prior edits, and adapting to evolving preferences.
- Rethinking Metrics for Lexical Semantic Change Detection
Roksana Goworek, Haim Dubossarsky · Feb 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
Lexical semantic change detection (LSCD) increasingly relies on contextualised language model embeddings, yet most approaches still quantify change using a small set of semantic change metrics, primarily Average Pairwise Distance (APD) and
- The Vision Wormhole: Latent-Space Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems
Xiaoze Liu, Ruowang Zhang, Weichen Yu, Siheng Xiong, Liu He · Feb 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics Multi Agent
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) powered by Large Language Models have unlocked advanced collaborative reasoning, yet they remain shackled by the inefficiency of discrete text communication, which imposes significant runtime overhead and informati
- Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameters
Ailin Huang, Ang Li, Aobo Kong, Bin Wang, Binxing Jiao · Feb 11, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Simulation Env Tool Use
We introduce Step 3.5 Flash, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that bridges frontier-level agentic intelligence and computational efficiency.
- Decoupling Strategy and Execution in Task-Focused Dialogue via Goal-Oriented Preference Optimization
Jingyi Xu, Xingyu Ren, Zhoupeng Shou, Yumeng Zhang, Zhiqiang You · Jan 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Large language models show potential in task-oriented dialogue systems, yet existing training methods often rely on token-level likelihood or preference optimization, which poorly align with long-horizon task success.
- Incentivizing Agentic Reasoning in LLM Judges via Tool-Integrated Reinforcement Learning
Ran Xu, Jingjing Chen, Jiayu Ye, Yu Wu, Jun Yan · Oct 27, 2025 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Human Eval
Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used as judges to evaluate response quality, providing a scalable alternative to human evaluation.
- Precise Attribute Intensity Control in Large Language Models via Targeted Representation Editing
Rongzhi Zhang, Liqin Ye, Yuzhao Heng, Xiang Chen, Tong Yu · Oct 14, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Finally, we demonstrate efficiency enhancements across three downstream tasks: preference data synthesis, Pareto frontier approximation and optimization, and distillation of aligned behaviors for intervention-free inference.
- PoLi-RL: A Point-to-List Reinforcement Learning Framework for Conditional Semantic Textual Similarity
Zixin Song, Bowen Zhang, Qian-Wen Zhang, Di Yin, Xing Sun · Oct 5, 2025 · Citations: 0
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On the official C-STS benchmark, PoLi-RL achieves a Spearman correlation coefficient of 48.18, establishing a new SOTA for the cross-encoder architecture.
- Compose and Fuse: Revisiting the Foundational Bottlenecks in Multimodal Reasoning
Yucheng Wang, Yifan Hou, Aydin Javadov, Mubashara Akhtar, Mrinmaya Sachan · Sep 28, 2025 · Citations: 0
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These inconsistencies stem from a lack of controlled evaluation frameworks and analysis of models' internals to isolate when and why modality interactions support or undermine reasoning.
- CORE: Measuring Multi-Agent LLM Interaction Quality under Game-Theoretic Pressures
Punya Syon Pandey, Yongjin Yang, Jiarui Liu, Zhijing Jin · Aug 16, 2025 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics Multi Agent
Game-theoretic interactions between agents with Large Language Models (LLMs) have revealed many emergent capabilities, yet the linguistic diversity of these interactions has not been sufficiently quantified.
- Multimodal Integrated Knowledge Transfer to Large Language Models through Preference Optimization with Biomedical Applications
Zhanliang Wang, Da Wu, Quan Nguyen, Zhuoran Xu, Kai Wang · May 9, 2025 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
To address this challenge, we introduce MINT (Multimodal Integrated kNowledge Transfer), a framework that aligns unimodal large decoder models with domain-specific decision patterns from multimodal biomedical data through preference optimiz
- Diffusion Generative Recommendation with Continuous Tokens
Haohao Qu, Shanru Lin, Yujuan Ding, Yiqi Wang, Wenqi Fan · Apr 16, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Specifically, ContRec consists of two key modules: a sigma-VAE Tokenizer, which encodes users/items with continuous tokens; and a Dispersive Diffusion module, which captures implicit user preference.
- Overcoming Sparsity Artifacts in Crosscoders to Interpret Chat-Tuning
Julian Minder, Clément Dumas, Caden Juang, Bilal Chugtai, Neel Nanda · Apr 3, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Using the BatchTopK crosscoder, we successfully identify a set of chat-specific latents that are both interpretable and causally effective, representing concepts such as $\textit{false information}$ and $\textit{personal question}$, along w
- Moving Beyond Medical Exams: A Clinician-Annotated Fairness Dataset of Real-World Tasks and Ambiguity in Mental Healthcare
Max Lamparth, Declan Grabb, Amy Franks, Scott Gershan, Kaitlyn N. Kunstman · Feb 22, 2025 · Citations: 0
Pairwise PreferenceExpert Verification Automatic Metrics
Current medical language model (LM) benchmarks often over-simplify the complexities of day-to-day clinical practice tasks and instead rely on evaluating LMs on multiple-choice board exam questions.
