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Yixia Li

10 accepted papers

2026

Anchored Policy Optimization: Mitigating Exploration Collapse via Support-Constrained Rectification

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is increasingly viewed as a tree pruning mechanism. However, we identify a systemic pathology termed Recursive Space Contraction (RSC), an irreversible collapse driven by the combined dynamics of positive sharpening and negative squeezing, where …

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2026

From Abstract to Contextual: What LLMs Still Cannot Do in Mathematics

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models now solve many benchmark math problems at near‑expert levels, yet this progress has not fully translated into reliable performance in real‑world applications. We study this gap through contextual mathematical reasoning, where the mathematical core must be formulated from descri…

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2026

VisCodex: Unified Multimodal Code Generation via Merging Vision and Coding Models

ICLR 2026poster

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly advanced the integration of visual and textual understanding. However, their ability to generate code from multimodal inputs remains limited. In this work, we introduce VisCodex, a unified framework that seamlessly merges vision and coding…

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2025

FANNO: Augmenting High-Quality Instruction Data with Open-Sourced LLMs Only

ACL 2025finding

Instruction tuning stands as a crucial advancement in leveraging large language models (LLMs) for enhanced task performance. However, the annotation of instruction datasets has traditionally been expensive and laborious, often relying on manual annotations or costly proprietary LLMs. Recent works ex…

2025

G2: Guided Generation for Enhanced Output Diversity in LLMs

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across diverse natural language processing tasks. However, these models exhibit a critical limitation in output diversity, often generating highly similar content across multiple attempts. This limitation significantly affects ta

2025

ImPart: Importance-Aware Delta-Sparsification for Improved Model Compression and Merging in LLMs

ACL 2025long

With the proliferation of task-specific large language models, delta compression has emerged as a method to mitigate the resource challenges of deploying numerous such models by effectively compressing the delta model parameters. Previous delta-sparsification methods either remove parameters randoml…

2025

LayAlign: Enhancing Multilingual Reasoning in Large Language Models via Layer-Wise Adaptive Fusion and Alignment Strategy

NAACL 2025findings

Despite being pretrained on multilingual corpora, large language models (LLMs) exhibit suboptimal performance on low-resource languages. Recent approaches have leveraged multilingual encoders alongside LLMs by introducing trainable parameters connecting the two models. However, these methods typical…

2025

MiLoRA: Harnessing Minor Singular Components for Parameter-Efficient LLM Finetuning

NAACL 2025long

Efficient finetuning of large language models (LLMs) aims to adapt the LLMs with reduced computational and memory costs. Previous LoRA-based approaches initialize the low-rank matrices with Gaussian distribution and zero values while keeping the original weight matrices frozen. However, the trainabl…

2024

PACIT: Unlocking the Power of Examples for Better In-Context Instruction Tuning

ACL 2024findings

Instruction tuning enhances the instruction following ability of large language models by finetuning with supervised instruction data. Previous work proposes in-context instruction tuning (ICIT) where specific positive or negative examples are incorporated into the prompt for better performance. In…

2024

SeTAR: Out-of-Distribution Detection with Selective Low-Rank Approximation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for the safe deployment of neural networks. Existing CLIP-based approaches perform OOD detection by devising novel scoring functions or sophisticated fine-tuning methods. In this work, we propose SeTAR, a novel, training-free OOD detection method that l…