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Yancheng He

22 accepted papers

2026

Asymmetric Proximal Policy Optimization: mini-critics boost LLM reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central paradigm for post-training large language models (LLMs) to elicit stronger reasoning. Yet, most recent RL for LLMs (RL4LLM) methods avoid explicit critics, replacing them with average advantage baselines. This shift is largely pragmatic: conventional…

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2026

Consistent Noisy Latent Rewards for Trajectory Preference Optimization in Diffusion Models

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in diffusion models for visual generation have sparked interest in human preference alignment, similar to developments in Large Language Models. While reward model (RM) based approaches enable trajectory-aware optimization by evaluating intermediate timesteps, they face two critical…

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2026

IC-Custom: Diverse Image Customization via In-Context Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Image customization, a crucial technique for industrial media production, aims to generate content that is consistent with reference images. However, current approaches conventionally separate image customization into position-aware and position-free customization paradigms and lack a universal fram…

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2026

IV-Bench: A Benchmark for Image-Grounded Video Perception and Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs

ICLR 2026poster

Existing evaluation frameworks for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) primarily focus on image reasoning or general video understanding tasks, largely overlooking the significant role of image context in video comprehension. To bridge this gap, we propose \textbf{IV-Bench}, the first comprehen…

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2026

Long-form RewardBench: Evaluating Reward Models for Long-form Generation

AAAI 2026technical

The widespread adoption of reinforcement learning-based alignment highlights the growing importance of reward models. Various benchmarks have been built to evaluate reward models in various domains and scenarios. However, a significant gap remains in assessing reward models for long-form generation,

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2026

Think-J: Learning to Think for Generative LLM-as-a-Judge

AAAI 2026technical

LLM-as-a-Judge refers to the automatic modeling of preferences for responses generated by Large Language Models (LLMs), which is of significant importance for both LLM evaluation and reward modeling. Although generative LLMs have made substantial progress in various tasks, their performance as LLM-J

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2026

Tricks or Traps? A Deep Dive into RL for LLM Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) for LLM reasoning has rapidly emerged as a prominent research area, marked by a significant surge in related studies on both algorithmic innovations and practical applications. Despite this progress, several critical challenges remain, including the absence of standardize…

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2025

2D-DPO: Scaling Direct Preference Optimization with 2-Dimensional Supervision

NAACL 2025findings

Recent advancements in Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) have significantly enhanced the alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences, owing to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, existing methods typically optimize a scalar score or ranking reward, thereby overlooking…

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2025

AIR: Complex Instruction Generation via Automatic Iterative Refinement

EMNLP 2025

With the development of large language models, their ability to follow simple instructions has significantly improved. However, adhering to complex instructions remains a major challenge. Current approaches to generating complex instructions are often irrelevant to the current instruction requiremen

2025

Can Large Language Models Detect Errors in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning?

ACL 2025long

Recently, o1-like models have drawn significant attention, where these models produce the long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning steps to improve the reasoning abilities of existing Large Language Models (LLMs). In this paper, to understand the qualities of these long CoTs and measure the critique ab…

2025

Chinese SafetyQA: A Safety Short-form Factuality Benchmark for Large Language Models

ACL 2025long

With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), significant safety concerns have emerged. Fundamentally, the safety of large language models is closely linked to the accuracy, comprehensiveness, and clarity of their understanding of safety knowledge, particularly in domains such as law,…

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2025

Chinese SimpleQA: A Chinese Factuality Evaluation for Large Language Models

ACL 2025long

New LLM benchmarks are important to align with the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs). In this work, we present Chinese SimpleQA, the first comprehensive Chinese benchmark to evaluate the factuality ability of LLMs to answer short questions, and Chinese SimpleQA mainly has five proper…

2025

DREAM: Disentangling Risks to Enhance Safety Alignment in Multimodal Large Language Models

NAACL 2025long

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) pose unique safety challenges due to their integration of visual and textual data, thereby introducing new dimensions of potential attacks and complex risk combinations. In this paper, we begin with a detailed analysis aimed at disentangling risks through ste…

2025

KORGym: A Dynamic Game Platform for LLM Reasoning Evaluation

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) underscore the need for more comprehensive evaluation methods to accurately assess their reasoning capabilities. Existing benchmarks are often domain-specific and thus cannot fully capture an LLM’s general reasoning potential. To address this limit…

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2025

MuSC: Improving Complex Instruction Following with Multi-granularity Self-Contrastive Training

ACL 2025long

Complex instruction-following with elaborate constraints is imperative for Large Language Models (LLMs). While existing methods have constructed data for complex instruction alignment, they all rely on a more advanced model, especially GPT-4, limiting their application. In this paper, we propose a M…

2025

See the World, Discover Knowledge: A Chinese Factuality Evaluation for Large Vision Language Models

ACL 2025finding

The evaluation of factual accuracy in large vision language models (LVLMs) has lagged behind their rapid development, making it challenging to fully reflect these models’ knowledge capacity and reliability. In this paper, we introduce the first factuality-based visual question-answering benchmark in…

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2025

Token Preference Optimization with Self-Calibrated Visual-Anchored Rewards for Hallucination Mitigation

EMNLP 2025

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has been demonstrated to be highly effective in mitigating hallucinations in Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) by aligning their outputs more closely with human preferences. Despite the recent progress, existing methods suffer from two drawbacks: 1) Lack of sc

2024

GraphReader: Building Graph-based Agent to Enhance Long-Context Abilities of Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024finding

Long-context capabilities are essential for large language models (LLMs) to tackle complex and long-input tasks. Despite numerous efforts made to optimize LLMs for long contexts, challenges persist in robustly processing long inputs. In this paper, we introduce GraphReader, a graph-based agent syste…

2024

MT-Bench-101: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Multi-Turn Dialogues

ACL 2024long

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has drastically enhanced dialogue systems. However, comprehensively evaluating the dialogue abilities of LLMs remains a challenge. Previous benchmarks have primarily focused on single-turn dialogues or provided coarse-grained and incomplete assessments of m…

2023

Using Auxiliary Tasks In Multimodal Fusion of Wav2vec 2.0 And Bert for Multimodal Emotion Recognition

ICASSP 2023accepted

The lack of data and the difficulty of multimodal fusion have always been challenges for multimodal emotion recognition (MER). In this paper, we propose to use pre-trained models as upstream network, wav2vec 2.0 for audio modality and BERT for text modality, and finetune them in downstream task of M…

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2021

Align Voting Behavior with Public Statements for Legislator Representation Learning

ACL 2021long

Ideology of legislators is typically estimated by ideal point models from historical records of votes. It represents legislators and legislation as points in a latent space and shows promising results for modeling voting behavior. However, it fails to capture more specific attitudes of legislators t…