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Kevin Qinghong Lin

Publications 4

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Thinking Inertia: LLMs Keep Thinking When Told Not To

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly ship with explicit "thinking modes", yet their counterpart, "no-thinking", has received far less attention. We study LLMs' no-thinking behavior along two axes. a. How to measure no-thinking? Prior work typically defines no-thinking through proxies such as a disabled thinking mo …

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Decoupling Token Roles in Autoregressive Pretraining

Autoregressive pretraining increasingly draws on heterogeneous data, making it important to understand how a model learns from an individual token. The next-token prediction objective naturally identifies a token's contribution with its own loss. However, each token is not only a prediction target but also context for …

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RULER: Instance-aware Rubric Rewards for SVG Generation

Generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) code from natural-language instructions is an open-ended task without absolute visual ground truth, leaving both evaluation and policy optimization without a faithful signal. Scalar metrics (CLIP, Aesthetic) calibrated on natural images transfer poorly to stylized vector conten …

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