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Tongran Liu

9 accepted papers

2026

Probing Preference Representations: A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation and Analysis Method for Reward Models

AAAI 2026technical

Previous methods evaluate reward models by testing them on a fixed pairwise ranking test set, but they typically do not provide performance information on each preference dimension. In this work, we address the evaluation challenge of reward models by probing preference representations. To confirm t

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2025

GRAM: A Generative Foundation Reward Model for Reward Generalization

ICML 2025poster

In aligning large language models (LLMs), reward models have played an important role, but are standardly trained as discriminative models and rely only on labeled human preference data. In this paper, we explore methods that train reward models using both unlabeled and labeled data. Building on t…

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2025

HEAL: A Hypothesis-Based Preference-Aware Analysis Framework

EMNLP 2025

Preference optimization methods like DPO have achieved remarkable performance in LLM alignment. However, the evaluation for these methods relies on a single response and overlooks other potential outputs, which could also be generated in real-world applications within this hypothetical space. To add

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2025

MRO: Enhancing Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models via Multi-Reward Optimization

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances in diffusion language models (DLMs) have presented a promising alternative to traditional autoregressive large language models (LLMs). However, DLMs still lag behind LLMs in reasoning performance, especially as the number of denoising steps decreases. Our analysis reveals that this s…

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2025

RoVRM: A Robust Visual Reward Model Optimized via Auxiliary Textual Preference Data

AAAI 2025technical

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) often fail to align with human preferences, leading to issues like generating misleading content without proper visual context (also known as hallucination). A promising solution to this problem is using human-preference alignment techniques, such as best-of-n sa…

2024

ESRL: Efficient Sampling-Based Reinforcement Learning for Sequence Generation

AAAI 2024technical

Applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) to sequence generation models enables the direct optimization of long-term rewards (e.g., BLEU and human feedback), but typically requires large-scale sampling over a space of action sequences. This is a computational challenge as presented by the practice of seq…

2024

Hybrid Alignment Training for Large Language Models

ACL 2024findings

Alignment training is crucial for enabling large language models (LLMs) to cater to human intentions and preferences. It is typically performed based on two stages with different objectives: instruction-following alignment and human-preference alignment. However, aligning LLMs with these objectives…

2024

Revealing the Parallel Multilingual Learning within Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) can handle multilingual and cross-lingual text within a single input; however, previous works leveraging multilingualism in LLMs primarily focus on using English as the pivot language to enhance language understanding and reasoning. Given that multiple languages are a co…

2020

Towards Fully 8-bit Integer Inference for the Transformer Model

IJCAI 2020poster

8-bit integer inference, as a promising direction in reducing both the latency and storage of deep neural networks, has made great progress recently. On the other hand, previous systems still rely on 32-bit floating point for certain functions in complex models (e.g., Softmax in Transformer), and ma…

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