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Zhichao Xu

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Preprint Aug 2026

Tevatron-Elastic: A Unified Abstraction for Training Elastic Retrievers and Rerankers

A single model scale challenges the flexibility of a production retrieval system: some settings need it faster, others need a smaller index, and the right trade-off changes with the workload. In the context of information retrieval (IR), a transformer-based model can be made smaller in three ways---using fewer layers,...

Yu Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Xue-Guang Ma et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Rethinking Self-Distillation for Multi-Teacher Capability Merging

Combining capabilities of multiple expert models trained starting from the same base checkpoint has become increasingly common in frontier language-model post-training. Recent trends suggest that multi-teacher on-policy distillation (MOPD) outperforms conventional off-policy methods. However, despite the higher inferen...

Roy Xie, Dan Friedman, Feng Nan et al. · 0 citations

CLEAR: Context Augmentation from Contrastive Learning of Experience via Agentic Reflection

CLEAR first employs a reflection agent to perform contrastive analysis over past execution trajectories and summarize useful context for each observed task to train a context augmentation model (CAM), which further optimize CAM using reinforcement learning, where the reward signal is obtained by running the task execut...

Lin-Bo Liu, Guan Wu, Han Ding et al. · 0 citations
Jul 2026

PERSONAJUDGE: Simulating Individual Human Preference Judgments with Evaluator-Specific Demonstration Data

A novel simulation approach that combines categorical judgments with evaluator-specific auxiliary data--retrospective reasoning traces and interface telemetry--to enable LLM-based simulation of individual evaluators via in-context learning is proposed.

Zeyu He, Xuan Qi, Subramanian Chidambaram et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Tevatron Meets Megatron: Expert-Parallel LLM Reranker Training on an Academic Budget

Tevatron 3.0 is presented, which integrates a Megatron-Core training backend into Tevatron while preserving its data pipeline, evaluation workflow, and Hugging Face-compatible checkpoints, and supports both LoRA and full-parameter fine-tuning.

Zhichao Xu, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang et al. · 2 citations

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