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Preprint Oct 2026

How Should a Prompt Optimizer Spend a Tight Budget? BudgetAPO with Noise-Adaptive Evaluation

Automatic prompt optimization (APO) has been widely employed to adapt large language models without updating their weights, yielding promising results. However, existing methods such as GEPA and OPRO assume hundreds to thousands of subject-model calls, far more than is practical behind paid, rate-limited APIs. Under ti...

Hao-Yue Liu, Zhi-Chao Wang, Huan-Yu Yan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

How Should Teachers Be Prepared? RL on Student-Induced States for On-Policy Distillation

On-policy distillation (OPD) improves the reasoning capabilities of small language models through token-level teacher supervision on student-generated trajectories. Yet can teachers that excel at solving problems independently also guide student reasoning effectively? Prior work shows that when student prefixes follow...

Xiao-Yu Ma, Hao-Yue Liu, Zhi-Chao Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

How Should a Prompt Optimizer Spend a Tight Budget? BudgetAPO with Noise-Adaptive Evaluation

Automatic prompt optimization (APO) has been widely employed to adapt large language models without updating their weights, yielding promising results. However, existing methods such as GEPA and OPRO assume hundreds to thousands of subject-model calls, far more than is practical behind paid, rate-limited APIs. Under ti...

Hao-Yue Liu, Zhi-Chao Wang, Huan-Yu Yan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Why Sample What You Can Enumerate? Exact Policy Optimization for Genomic Tool Selection

Reinforcement learning over a frozen reasoner has become a common recipe for teaching a policy which external tools to invoke. We show that this recipe becomes structurally mismatched in specialist scientific settings where the complete tool-subset space is enumerable. There, a small set of recurring computational capa...

Hao-Yue Liu, Xiao-Yu Ma, Ye-Heng Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

SEPO: Evidence-Grounded Prompt Optimization via Structural Editing

This paper introduces SEPO (Structural, Evidence-grounded Prompt Optimization), a multi-trajectory prompt optimiser centred on edit-effect lineage feedback that makes prompt optimisation addressable, attributable, and actionable.

Xiao-Yu Ma, Hao-Yue Liu, Yiwen Li et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Which Negatives Matter? Ask Your Text Encoder: Adaptive Similarity Margins for Dense-Caption Retrieval

HN-CLIP is introduced, which uses the text encoder's own text-text geometry to construct per-negative adaptive similarity margins, and improves all six tested fine-tuning frameworks on the in-domain benchmarks and reaches the strongest full-data baseline with only 20% of the training data.

Hao-Yue Liu, Ye-Heng Chen, Zhi-Chao Wang et al. · 0 citations

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