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Debing Zhang

24 accepted papers

2026

Coupled Variational Reinforcement Learning for Language Model General Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

While reinforcement learning has achieved impressive progress in language model reasoning, it is constrained by the requirement for verifiable rewards. Recent verifier-free RL methods address this limitation by utilizing the probabilities that LLMs generate reference answers as reward signals. Howev…

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2026

Inner-layer Token Self-Modulation as Another Scaling Axis for LLMs

ICML 2026poster

LLMs have traditionally scaled along dense dimensions, where performance is coupled with near-linear increases in computational cost. While MoE decouples capacity from compute, it introduces large memory overhead and hardware efficiency challenges. To overcome these, we propose token-indexed paramet…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

LiteLong: Resource-Efficient Long-Context Data Synthesis for LLMs

AAAI 2026technical

High-quality long-context data is essential for training large language models (LLMs) capable of processing extensive documents, yet existing synthesis approaches using relevance-based aggregation face challenges of computational efficiency. We present LiteLong, a resource-efficient method for synth

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2026

NITP: Next Implicit Token Prediction for LLM Pre-training

ICML 2026poster

Standard Next-Token Prediction (NTP) supervises language models solely through discrete labels in the output logit space. We argue that this sparse, one-hot supervision leaves the latent representation space under-constrained, allowing hidden states to drift into degenerate and anisotropic configura…

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2026

Put the Space of LoRA Initialization to the Extreme to Preserve Pre-trained Knowledge

AAAI 2026technical

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is the leading parameter-efficient fine-tuning method for Large Language Models (LLMs), but it still suffers from catastrophic forgetting. Recent work has shown that specialized LoRA initialization can alleviate catastrophic forgetting. There are currently two approaches t

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2026

Tackling Length Inflation Without Trade-offs: Group Relative Reward Rescaling for Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement learning significantly enhances LLM capabilities but suffers from a critical issue: length inflation, where models adopt verbosity or inefficient reasoning to maximize rewards. Prior approaches struggle to address this challenge in a general and lossless manner, primarily because addit…

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2025

Cheems: A Practical Guidance for Building and Evaluating Chinese Reward Models from Scratch

ACL 2025long

Reward models (RMs) are crucial for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, most RM research is centered on English and relies heavily on synthetic resources, which leads to limited and less reliable datasets and benchmarks for Chinese. To address this gap, we introduc…

2025

Critic-CoT: Boosting the Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Model via Chain-of-Thought Critic

ACL 2025finding

Self-critic has become a crucial mechanism for enhancing the reasoning performance of LLMs. However, current approaches mainly involve basic prompts for intuitive instance-level feedback, which resembles System-1 processes and limits the reasoning capabilities. Moreover, there is a lack of in-depth…

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2025

David and Goliath: Small One-step Model Beats Large Diffusion with Score Post-training

ICML 2025poster

We propose Diff-Instruct*(DI*), a data-efficient post-training approach to one-step text-to-image generative models to improve its human preferences without requiring image data. Our method frames alignment as online reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), which optimizes a human reward f…

2025

LongMagpie: A Self-synthesis Method for Generating Large-scale Long-context Instructions

NeurIPS 2025poster

High-quality long-context instruction data is essential for aligning long-context large language models (LLMs). Despite the public release of models like Qwen and Llama, their long-context instruction data remains proprietary. Human annotation is costly and challenging, while template-based synthesi…

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2025

NExtLong: Toward Effective Long-Context Training without Long Documents

ICML 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) with extended context windows have made significant strides yet remain a challenge due to the scarcity of long documents. Existing methods tend to synthesize long-context data but lack a clear mechanism to reinforce the long-range dependency modeling. To address this lim…

2025

On-Policy Self-Alignment with Fine-grained Knowledge Feedback for Hallucination Mitigation

ACL 2025finding

Hallucination occurs when large language models exhibit behavior that deviates from the boundaries of their knowledge during response generation. To address this critical issue, previous learning-based methods attempt to finetune models but are limited by off-policy sampling and coarse-grained feedb…

2025

Rethinking Reward Model Evaluation: Are We Barking up the Wrong Tree?

ICLR 2025spotlight

Reward Models (RMs) are crucial for aligning language models with human preferences. Currently, the evaluation of RMs depends on measuring accuracy against a validation set of manually annotated preference data. Although this method is straightforward and widely adopted, the relationship between RM…

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2025

The Devil Is in the Details: Tackling Unimodal Spurious Correlations for Generalizable Multimodal Reward Models

ICML 2025poster

Multimodal Reward Models (MM-RMs) are crucial for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences, particularly as LLMs increasingly interact with multimodal data. However, we find that MM-RMs trained on existing datasets often struggle to generalize to out-of-distribution data due to t…

2025

Uni-Instruct: One-step Diffusion Model through Unified Diffusion Divergence Instruction

NeurIPS 2025poster

In this paper, we unify more than 10 existing one-step diffusion distillation approaches, such as Diff-Instruct, DMD, SIM, SiD, $f$-distill, etc, inside a theory-driven framework which we name the \textbf{\emph{Uni-Instruct}}. Uni-Instruct is motivated by our proposed diffusion expansion theory of t…

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2025

Untie the Knots: An Efficient Data Augmentation Strategy for Long-Context Pre-Training in Language Models

ACL 2025long

Large language models (LLM) have prioritized expanding the context window from which models can incorporate more information. However, training models to handle long contexts presents significant challenges. These include the scarcity of high-quality natural long-context data, the potential for perf…

2024

SLR: Learning Quadruped Locomotion without Privileged Information

CoRL 2024poster

Traditional reinforcement learning control for quadruped robots often relies on privileged information, demanding meticulous selection and precise estimation, thereby imposing constraints on the development process. This work proposes a Self-learning Latent Representation (SLR) method, which achieve…

Cited by 4SourceScholar
2024

SedarEval: Automated Evaluation using Self-Adaptive Rubrics

EMNLP 2024finding

The evaluation paradigm of LLM-as-judge gains popularity due to its significant reduction in human labor and time costs. This approach utilizes one or more large language models (LLMs) to assess the quality of outputs from other LLMs. However, existing methods rely on generic scoring rubrics that fa…

2023

MPI-Flow: Learning Realistic Optical Flow with Multiplane Images

ICCV 2023poster

The accuracy of learning-based optical flow estimation models heavily relies on the realism of the training datasets. Current approaches for generating such datasets either employ synthetic data or generate images with limited realism. However, the domain gap of these data with real-world scenes con…

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2023

One-shot Implicit Animatable Avatars with Model-based Priors

ICCV 2023poster

Existing neural rendering methods for creating human avatars typically either require dense input signals such as video or multi-view images, or leverage a learned prior from large-scale specific 3D human datasets such that reconstruction can be performed with sparse-view inputs. Most of these metho…

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2021

A Bilingual, OpenWorld Video Text Dataset and End-to-end Video Text Spotter with Transformer

NeurIPS 2021poster

Most existing video text spotting benchmarks focus on evaluating a single language and scenario with limited data. In this work, we introduce a large-scale, Bilingual, Open World Video text benchmark dataset(BOVText). There are four features for BOVText. Firstly, we provide 1,850+ videos with more t…

Cited by 35SourcecodeScholar
2019

Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution With Optimized RGB Guidance

CVPR 2019poster

To overcome the limitations of existing hyperspectral cameras on spatial/temporal resolution, fusing a low resolution hyperspectral image (HSI) with a high resolution RGB (or multispectral) image into a high resolution HSI has been prevalent. Previous methods for this fusion task usually emplo…

Cited by 108PDFcodeScholar
2018

Joint Camera Spectral Sensitivity Selection and Hyperspectral Image Recovery

ECCV 2018poster

Hyperspectral image (HSI) recovery from a single RGB image has attracted much attention, whose performance has recently been shown to be sensitive to the camera spectral sensitivity (CSS). In this paper, we present an efficient convolutional neural network (CNN) based method, which can jointly selec…

Cited by 70SourcePDFScholar