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2026
Automatic Configuration of LLM Post-Training Pipelines
Channe Chwa | Xinle Wu | Yao Lu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Channe Chwa | Xinle Wu | Yao Lu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
LLM post-training pipelines that combine supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning are difficult to configure under realistic compute budgets: the configuration space is high-dimensional and heterogeneous, stages are strongly coupled, and each end-to-end evaluation is expensive. We propose AutoPipe, a budget-aware two-phase framework for configuration selection in LLM post-training. Offline, AutoPipe learns a dataset-conditioned learning-to-rank surrogate from historical runs, capturing within-dataset preferences and providing transferable guidance toward promising regions of the configuration space. Online, for a new dataset, AutoPipe uses the offline guidance to steer Bayesian optimization and models dataset-specific deviations with a Gaussian-process residual surrogate. To reduce evaluation cost, each trial is early-stopped and scored by a learned predictor that maps early training signals to a low-cost proxy for final post-training performance. Experiments on biomedical reasoning tasks show that AutoPipe achieves performance comparable to full-fidelity HPO baselines at a fraction of their online cost, while outperforming offline-only approaches and early-stopped HPO variants.
2025
OkraLong: A Flexible Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Long-Text Question Answering
Yulong Hui | Yihao Liu | Yao Lu | Huanchen Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Yulong Hui | Yihao Liu | Yao Lu | Huanchen Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Large Language Models (LLMs) encounter challenges in efficiently answering long-text questions, as seen in applications like enterprise document analysis and financial report comprehension. While conventional solutions employ long-context processing or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), they suffer from prohibitive input expenses or incomplete information. Recent advancements adopt context compression and dynamic retrieval loops, but still sacrifice critical details or incur iterative costs. To address these limitations, we propose OkraLong, a novel framework that flexibly optimizes the entire processing workflow. Unlike prior static or coarse-grained adaptive strategies, OkraLong adopts fine-grained orchestration through three synergistic components: analyzer, organizer and executor. The analyzer characterizes the task states, which guide the organizer in dynamically scheduling the workflow. The executor carries out the execution and generates the final answer. Experimental results demonstrate that OkraLong not only enhances answer accuracy by 5.7%-41.2%, but also achieves cost savings of 1.3x-4.7x.