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Leszek Rutkowski

6 accepted papers

2026

Better, Faster: Harnessing Self-Improvement in Large Reasoning Models

ICML 2026poster

Self-improvement training enables the large reasoning models (LRMs) to improve themselves by self-generating reasoning trajectories as training data without external supervision. However, we find that this method often falls short in complex reasoning tasks and even leads to model collapse. Through …

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2026

Bridging the Tokenizer Gap: Semantics and Distribution-aware Knowledge Transfer for Unbiased Cross-Tokenizer Distillation

AAAI 2026technical

Cross-tokenizer knowledge distillation, where the teacher and student employ different tokenizers, is becoming increasingly prevalent, yet it poses underexplored challenges: existing methods fail to capture the rich knowledge encoded in teacher logits, as evidenced by the neglect of semantic informa

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2026

CoFact: Conformal Factuality Guarantees for Language Models under Distribution Shift

ICLR 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in natural language processing (NLP) tasks but often generate false or misleading information, known as hallucinations, raising reliability concerns in high-stakes applications. To provide statistical guarantees on the factuality of LLM outputs, conformal predictio…

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2026

SRD: Reinforcement-Learned Semantic Perturbation for Backdoor Defense in VLMs

AAAI 2026technical

Visual language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in image captioning tasks, yet recent studies have found they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Attackers can inject undetectable perturbations into the data during inference, triggering abnormal behavior and generating malicious caption

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2026

Towards a Theoretical Understanding of In-context Learning: Stability and Non-I.I.D Generalisation

ICLR 2026poster

In-context learning (ICL) has demonstrated significant performance improvements in transformer-based large models. This study identifies two key factors influencing ICL generalisation under complex non-i.i.d. scenario: algorithmic stability and distributional discrepancy. First, we establish a stabi…

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