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Weibin Liao

9 accepted papers

2026

ADEPT: Continual Pretraining via Adaptive Expansion and Dynamic Decoupled Tuning

ICLR 2026poster

Conventional continual pretraining (CPT) for large language model (LLM) domain adaptation often suffers from catastrophic forgetting and limited domain capacity. Existing strategies adopt layer expansion, introducing additional trainable parameters to accommodate new knowledge. However, the uniform…

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2026

LearNAT: Learning NL2SQL with AST-guided Task Decomposition for Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) aims to translate natural language queries into executable SQL statements, offering non-expert users intuitive access to databases. While recent approaches leveraging large-scale private LLMs such as GPT-4 have achieved state-of-the-art results, they face two critica…

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2026

Search for Truth from Reasoning: A Dynamic Representation Editing Framework for Steering LLM Trajectories

ICML 2026poster

Current approaches to enhance Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning, such as Chain-of-Thought and "Wait" prompts, primarily encourage models to think more, yet often fail to guide them toward Truth. While Representation Editing (RepE) offers a intrinsic control, its application to dynamic reasoning t…

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2026

The Tell-Tale Norm: $\ell_2$ Magnitude as a Signal for Reasoning Dynamics in Large Language Models

ICML 2026spotlight

Recent work has sought to understand Large Language Models (LLMs) reasoning, yet a principled, model-intrinsic signal that captures its *layer-wise reasoning dynamics* remains underexplored. We bridge this gap by demonstrating that **the $\ell_2$ norm of hidden states serves as an endogenous signal …

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2026

Toward Better EHR Reasoning in LLMs: Reinforcement Learning with Expert Attention Guidance

AAAI 2026technical

Improving large language models (LLMs) for electronic health record (EHR) reasoning is essential for enabling accurate and generalizable clinical predictions. While LLMs excel at medical text understanding, they underperform on EHR-based prediction tasks due to challenges in modeling temporally stru

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2025

3DS: Medical Domain Adaptation of LLMs via Decomposed Difficulty-based Data Selection

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in general language tasks, motivating their adaptation to specialized domains such as healthcare. Effective domain adaptation typically involves supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on carefully selected instruction-tuning data. Current data selection methods adopt a data-

2025

Magical: Medical Lay Language Generation via Semantic Invariance and Layperson-tailored Adaptation

NeurIPS 2025poster

Medical Lay Language Generation (MLLG) plays a vital role in improving the accessibility of complex scientific content for broader audiences. Recent literature to MLLG commonly employ parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to fine-tuning large language models (LLM…

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2025

TPO: Aligning Large Language Models with Multi-branch & Multi-step Preference Trees

ICLR 2025poster

In the domain of complex reasoning tasks, such as mathematical reasoning, recent advancements have proposed the use of Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to suppress output of dispreferred responses, thereby enhancing the long-chain reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). To this e…

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2025

Teaching LLMs to Plan, Not Just Solve: Plan Learning Boosts LLMs Generalization in Reasoning Tasks

EMNLP 2025

Reinforcement learning (RL) on self-generated data has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving reasoning in large language models (LLMs). However, RL relies on accurate reward signals, which are scarce in many domains, making it critical to train models that can generalize to unseen problems.