arXiv:2604.05333v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As LLM agents act across personal applications, web browsers, and other interfaces, their reusable skill libraries can scale to thousands of skills. This scale introduces two challenges. First, loading the full library saturates the context window, driving up token costs, hallucination, and latency. Second, semantic retrieval surfaces topically relevant skills but can miss upstream and downstream prerequisite skills, creating a prerequisite gap that leaves the retrieved bundle insufficient for execution. We present Graph-of-Skills (GoS), an inference-time structural retrieval layer for large skill libraries. GoS constructs an executable skill graph offline from skill packages, then retrieves a bounded, dependency-aware bundle through hybrid semantic-lexical seeding, reverse-aware Personalized PageRank, and context-budgeted hydration. Across SkillsBench and ALFWorld, with three model families (Claude Sonnet 4.5, MiniMax M2.7, and GPT-5.2 Codex), GoS attains the highest average reward in all six model-benchmark blocks, at a fraction of the token cost of loading the full library. On SkillsBench with GPT-5.2 Codex it raises average reward by 7.0 absolute points over full skill loading, a 25.6% relative gain, while cutting total tokens by 56.7%. Ablations isolate the mechanism: replacing reverse traversal with forward propagation costs 9.1 reward points, a larger loss than removing the graph altogether. The gain thus comes from traversing dependencies backwards, not from graph diffusion as such. A budget-matched retrieval study holding seeding, reranking, hydration, and context budget fixed reproduces the same ordering, with dependency-pair co-recovery falling from 0.654 to 0.362. Code is available at https://github.com/davidliuk/graph-of-skills

arXiv:2510.10921v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fine-grained vision-language understanding requires precise alignment between visual content and linguistic descriptions, a capability that remains limited in current models, particularly in non-English settings. While models like CLIP perform well on global alignment, they often struggle to capture fine-grained details in object attributes, spatial relations, and linguistic expressions, with limited support for bilingual comprehension. To address these challenges, we introduce FG-CLIP 2, a bilingual vision-language model designed to advance fine-grained alignment for both English and Chinese. Our approach leverages rich fine-grained supervision, including region-text matching and long-caption modeling, alongside multiple discriminative objectives. We further introduce the Textual Intra-modal Contrastive (TIC) loss to better distinguish semantically similar captions. Trained on a carefully curated mixture of large-scale English and Chinese data, including a newly released 12M Chinese region-text dataset, FG-CLIP 2 achieves powerful bilingual performance. To enable rigorous evaluation, we present a new benchmark for Chinese multimodal understanding, featuring long-caption retrieval and bounding box classification. Extensive experiments on 29 datasets across 8 tasks show that FG-CLIP 2 outperforms existing methods, achieving state-of-the-art results in both languages. We release the model, code, and benchmark to facilitate future research on bilingual fine-grained vision-language alignment.

arXiv:2502.01534v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) as judges and LLM-based data synthesis have emerged as two fundamental LLM-driven data annotation methods in model development. While their combination significantly enhances the efficiency of model training and evaluation, little attention has been given to the potential contamination brought by this new model development paradigm. In this work, we expose preference leakage, a contamination problem in LLM-as-a-judge caused by the relatedness between the synthetic data generators and LLM-based evaluators. To study this issue, we first define three common relatednesses between the data generator LLM and the judge LLM: being the same model, having an inheritance relationship, and belonging to the same model family. Through extensive experiments, we empirically confirm the bias of judges towards their related student models caused by preference leakage across multiple LLM baselines and benchmarks. Further analysis suggests that preference leakage is a pervasive and real-world problem that is harder to detect compared to previously identified biases in LLM-as-a-judge scenarios. All of these findings imply that preference leakage is a widespread and challenging problem in the area of LLM-as-a-judge. We release all codes and data at: https://github.com/David-Li0406/Preference-Leakage.