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Sinan Fan

5 accepted papers

2026

Differential Fine-Tuning Large Language Models Towards Better Diverse Reasoning Abilities

ICLR 2026poster

Reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) require explicit derivations compared to general question-answering, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) can empower multiple reasoning abilities in LLMs via learning from various datasets. However, neither training the datasets jointly (mix-up) nor conti…

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2026

Hallucination Begins Where Saliency Drops

ICLR 2026oral

Recent studies have investigated attention dynamics in large vision language models (LVLMs), yet existing methods remain limited in reliably distinguishing hallucinated from correct outputs — primarily because they rely solely on forward-pass attention, ignoring gradient-based signals that reveal ho…

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2026

Uncovering the Gradient Geometry of Long CoT: A Spectral-guided Approach to Reasoning Distillation

ICML 2026poster

Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve remarkable reasoning performance by generating long chains-of-thought (CoT). However, standard supervised fine-tuning (SFT) treats all tokens uniformly, indiscriminately minimizing loss across both essential reasoning steps and those that are noisy, redundant, o…

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2025

Enhancing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Critical Representation Fine-tuning

ACL 2025long

Representation Fine-tuning (ReFT), a recently proposed Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method, has attracted widespread attention for significantly improving parameter efficiency by editing representation space alone. In this work, we investigate applying ReFT to complex reasoning tasks. Howe…

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2025

Improving Complex Reasoning with Dynamic Prompt Corruption: A Soft Prompt Optimization Approach

ICLR 2025poster

Prompt Tuning (PT) has emerged as a promising Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) approach by appending trainable continuous prompt vectors to the input, maintaining competitive performance with significantly fewer trainable parameters. While PT has shown effectiveness in enhancing task performan…

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