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Anningzhe Gao

13 accepted papers

2026

Eliminating Inductive Bias in Reward Models with Information-Theoretic Guidance

ICLR 2026poster

Reward models (RMs) are crucial in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to align large language models (LLMs) with human values. However, RM training data is commonly recognized as low-quality, always containing preference conflicts and inductive biases, such as response length or speak…

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2025

APLOT: Robust Reward Modeling via Adaptive Preference Learning with Optimal Transport

EMNLP 2025

The reward model (RM) plays a crucial role in aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences through Reinforcement Learning, where the Bradley-Terry (BT) objective has been recognized as simple yet powerful, specifically for pairwise preference learning. However, BT-based RMs often str

2025

Add-One-In: Incremental Sample Selection for Large Language Models via a Choice-Based Greedy Paradigm

EMNLP 2025

Selecting high-quality and diverse training samples from extensive datasets plays a crucial role in reducing training overhead and enhancing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing studies fall short in assessing the overall value of selected data, focusing primarily on in

2025

Aligning Language Models Using Follow-up Likelihood as Reward Signal

AAAI 2025technical

In natural human-to-human conversations, participants often receive feedback signals from one another based on their follow-up reactions. These reactions can include verbal responses, facial expressions, changes in emotional state, and other non-verbal cues. Similarly, in human-machine interactions,…

2025

Atoxia: Red-teaming Large Language Models with Target Toxic Answers

NAACL 2025findings

Despite the substantial advancements in artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) remain being challenged by generation safety. With adversarial jailbreaking prompts, one can effortlessly induce LLMs to output harmful content, causing unexpected negative social impacts. This vulnerabilit…

2025

CoD, Towards an Interpretable Medical Agent using Chain of Diagnosis

ACL 2025finding

The field of AI healthcare has undergone a significant transformation with the advent of large language models (LLMs), yet the challenges of interpretability within these models remain largely unaddressed. This study introduces **Chain-of-Diagnosis (CoD)** to enhance the interpretability of medical…

2025

DRBO: Mitigating the Bottleneck Effect via Dynamic Reward Balancing in Multi-reward LLM Optimization

EMNLP 2025

In the current landscape of large language models (LLMs), many evaluation metrics have been developed and used as rewards during training to improve specific metrics. However, balancing these metrics and dynamically adjusting reward weights remains challenging, as current approaches often fail to en

2025

Huatuo-26M, a Large-scale Chinese Medical QA Dataset

NAACL 2025findings

Large Language Models infuse newfound vigor into the advancement of the medical domain, yet the scarcity of data poses a significant bottleneck hindering community progress. In this paper, we release the largest ever medical Question Answering (QA) dataset with 26 Million QA pairs named Huatuo-26M.…

2025

Intermediate Domain Alignment and Morphology Analogy for Patent-Product Image Retrieval

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have significantly impacted image retrieval tasks, yet Patent-Product Image Retrieval (PPIR) has received limited attention. PPIR, which retrieves patent images based on product images to identify potential infringements, presents unique challenges: (1) bot…

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2025

MLLM-Bench: Evaluating Multimodal LLMs with Per-sample Criteria

NAACL 2025long

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have broadened the scope of AI applications. Existing automatic evaluation methodologies for MLLMs are mainly limited in evaluating objective queries without considering real-world user experiences, inadequately addressing the nuances of creative and associat…

2025

Self-Instructed Derived Prompt Generation Meets In-Context Learning: Unlocking New Potential of Black-Box LLMs

ACL 2025long

Improving prompt quality is crucial for enhancing the performance of large language models (LLMs), particularly for Black-Box models like GPT4. Existing prompt refinement methods, while effective, often suffer from semantic inconsistencies between refined and original prompts, and fail to maintain u…

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2025

Unlocking LLMs’ Self-Improvement Capacity with Autonomous Learning for Domain Adaptation

ACL 2025finding

Self-supervised pre-training and instruction fine-tuning demonstrate the potential of large language models (LLMs) for domain adaptation (DA). In pursuit of superhuman performance, LLMs have demonstrated significant potential in math and coding through self-improvement algorithms that rely on iterat…

2024

Towards Injecting Medical Visual Knowledge into Multimodal LLMs at Scale

EMNLP 2024main

The rapid development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), such as GPT-4V, has led to significant advancements. However, these models still face challenges in medical multimodal capabilities due to limitations in the quantity and quality of medical vision-text data, stemming from data privac…