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2025Reasoning-enhanced large language models (RLLMs), whether explicitly trained for reasoning or prompted via chain-of-thought (CoT), have achieved state-of-the-art performance on many complex reasoning tasks. However, we uncover a surprising and previously overlooked phenomenon: explicit CoT reasoning can significantly degrade instruction-following accuracy. Evaluating 20+ models on two benchmarks: IFEval
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NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on AI for Music2025Recent advances in generative retrieval allow large language models (LLMs) to recommend items by generating their identifiers token by token, rather than using nearest-neighbor search over embeddings. This approach requires each item, such as a music track, to be represented by a compact and semantically meaningful token sequence that LLMs can generate. We propose a multimodal music tokenizer (3MToken)
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NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Multi-Turn Interactions in Large Language Models2025Agentic tool use has gained traction with the rise of agentic tool calling, yet most existing work overlooks the complexity of multi-turn tool interactions. We introduce OrchDAG, a synthetic data generation pipeline that models tool execution as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with controllable complexity. Using this dataset, we benchmark model performance and propose a graph-based reward to enhance RLVR
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2025Fine-tuning vision language models (VLMs) has achieved remarkable performance across various downstream tasks, yet, it requires access to model gradients through backpropagation (BP), making them unsuitable for memory-constrained, inference-only edge devices. To address this limitation, previous work has explored various BP-free fine-tuning methods. However, these approaches often rely on high-variance
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2025Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language (NL) questions into SQL queries, enabling non-technical users to interact with structured data. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promising results on the text-to-SQL task, they often produce semantically incorrect yet syntactically valid queries, with limited insight into their reliability. We propose SQLENS, an end-to-end framework for fine-grained
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