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Lirong Gao

6 accepted papers

2026

From Parameters to Data: A Task-Parameter-Guided Fine-Tuning Pipeline for Efficient LLM Alignment

ICML 2026poster

Adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to specialized domains typically incurs high data and computational overhead. While prior efficiency efforts have largely treated data selection and parameter-efficient fine-tuning as isolated processes, our empirical analysis suggests they may be intrinsically …

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2026

Stop Unnecessary Reflection: Training LRMs for Efficient Reasoning with Adaptive Reflection and Length Coordinated Penalty

ICLR 2026poster

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on complex reasoning tasks by employing test-time scaling. However, they often generate over-long chains-of-thought that, driven by substantial reflections such as repetitive self-questioning and circular reasoning, lead to high…

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2025

ALPS: Attention Localization and Pruning Strategy for Efficient Adaptation of Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

Aligning general-purpose large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks often incurs significant training adjustment costs. Prior research has explored various avenues to enhance alignment efficiency, primarily through minimal-data training or data-driven activations to identify key attention head…

2025

D.Va: Validate Your Demonstration First Before You Use It

ACL 2025long

In-context learning (ICL) has demonstrated significant potential in enhancing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) during inference. It’s well-established that ICL heavily relies on selecting effective demonstrations to achieve outputs that better align with the expected results. As for…

2025

LeTS: Learning to Think-and-Search via Process-and-Outcome Reward Hybridization

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in reasoning with the emergence of reasoning models like OpenAI-o1 and DeepSeek-R1. Recent research focuses on integrating reasoning capabilities into the realm of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via outcome-supervised reinf