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Minda Hu

12 accepted papers

2026

Probability-Entropy Calibration: An Elastic Indicator for Adaptive Fine-tuning

ICML 2026poster

Token-level reweighting is a simple yet effective mechanism for controlling supervised fine-tuning, but common indicators are largely one-dimensional: the ground-truth probability reflects downstream alignment, while token entropy reflects intrinsic uncertainty induced by the pre-training prior. Ign…

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2026

Saliency-R1: Enforcing Interpretable and Faithful Vision-language Reasoning via Saliency-map Alignment Reward

CVPR 2026

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse tasks. However, concerns about their trustworthiness persist, particularly regarding tendencies to lean more on textual cues than visual evidence and the risk of producing ungrounded or fabricated responses. To address the

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2026

Search-R2: Enhancing Search-Integrated Reasoning via Actor-Refiner Collaboration

ICML 2026poster

Search-integrated reasoning enables language agents to transcend static parametric knowledge by actively querying external sources. However, training these agents via reinforcement learning is hindered by the *multi-scale credit assignment* problem: existing methods typically rely on sparse, traject…

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2025

From General Reward to Targeted Reward: Improving Open-ended Long-context Generation Models

EMNLP 2025

Current research on long-form context in Large Language Models (LLMs) primarily focuses on the understanding of long-contexts, the **Open-ended Long Text Generation** (Open-LTG) remains insufficiently explored. Training a long text generation model requires curation of gold-standard reference data,

2025

NILE: Internal Consistency Alignment in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Recent advances show that the world knowledge in the Instruction Fine-Tuning (IFT) dataset, which is incompatible with LLMs’ internal knowledge, can greatly hurt the IFT performance. However, the effective integration and balancing of the internal knowledge of LLMs, acquired during pre-training, wit

2025

WebCoT: Enhancing Web Agent Reasoning by Reconstructing Chain-of-Thought in Reflection, Branching, and Rollback

EMNLP 2025

Web agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for next-generation AI, but their limited reasoning in uncertain, dynamic web environments hinders robust deployment. In this paper, we identify key reasoning skills essential for effective web agents, i.e., reflection & lookahead, bran

2024

RL-GPT: Integrating Reinforcement Learning and Code-as-policy

NeurIPS 2024oral

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated proficiency in utilizing various tools by coding, yet they face limitations in handling intricate logic and precise control. In embodied tasks, high-level planning is amenable to direct coding, while low-level actions often necessitate task-specific ref…

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2024

Rethinking Machine Ethics – Can LLMs Perform Moral Reasoning through the Lens of Moral Theories?

NAACL 2024findings

Making moral judgments is an essential step toward developing ethical AI systems. Prevalent approaches are mostly implemented in a bottom-up manner, which uses a large set of annotated data to train models based on crowd-sourced opinions about morality. These approaches have been criticized for pote…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar
2024

SeRTS: Self-Rewarding Tree Search for Biomedical Retrieval-Augmented Generation

EMNLP 2024finding

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great potential in the biomedical domain with the advancement of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). However, existing retrieval-augmented approaches face challenges in addressing diverse queries and documents, particularly for medical knowledge queries, res…

2024

The Integration of Semantic and Structural Knowledge in Knowledge Graph Entity Typing

NAACL 2024long

The Knowledge Graph Entity Typing (KGET) task aims to predict missing type annotations for entities in knowledge graphs. Recent works only utilize the structural knowledge in the local neighborhood of entities, disregarding semantic knowledge in the textual representations of entities, relations, an…

2023

Large Language Models as Source Planner for Personalized Knowledge-grounded Dialogues

EMNLP 2023long findings

Open-domain dialogue system usually requires different sources of knowledge to generate more informative and evidential responses. However, existing knowledge-grounded dialogue systems either focus on a single knowledge source or overlook the dependency between multiple sources of knowledge, which m…

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