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The paper presents KMatrix-2, an open-source toolkit that supports comprehensive heterogeneous knowledge collaborative enhancement for Large Language Models (LLMs). As the successor of KMatrix, our toolkit offers powerful modular components and typical enhancement patterns for convenient construction of mainstream knowledge-enhanced LLMs systems. Besides, it provides uniﬁed knowledge integration and joint knowledge retrieval methods to achieve more comprehensive heterogeneous knowledge collaborative enhancement. Compared with KMatrix which mainly focuses on descriptive knowledge, this work additionally considers procedural knowledge. Moreover, systematic inter-context and context-memory knowledge conflict resolution methods are offered for better knowledge integration. Some key research questions in heterogeneous knowledge-enhanced Large Language Models systems are analyzed, and our toolkit&#39;s capability in building such systems is validated.

EMNLP 2025

KMatrix-2: A Comprehensive Heterogeneous Knowledge Collaborative Enhancement Toolkit for Large Language Model

knowledge conflict resolution

collaborative enhancement

descriptive and procedural knowledge

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The paper presents KMatrix-2, an open-source toolkit that supports comprehensive heterogeneous knowledge collaborative enhancement for Large Language Models (LLMs). As the successor of KMatrix, our toolkit offers powerful modular components and typical enhancement patterns for convenient construction of mainstream knowledge-enhanced LLMs systems. Besides, it provides uniﬁed knowledge integration and joint knowledge retrieval methods to achieve more comprehensive heterogeneous knowledge collaborative enhancement. Compared with KMatrix which mainly focuses on descriptive knowledge, this work additionally considers procedural knowledge. Moreover, systematic inter-context and context-memory knowledge conflict resolution methods are offered for better knowledge integration. Some key research questions in heterogeneous knowledge-enhanced Large Language Models systems are analyzed, and our toolkit's capability in building such systems is validated.

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Large Language Models (LLMs) can struggle to balance gullibility to misinformation and resistance to valid corrections in persuasive dialogues, a critical challenge for reliable deployment. We introduce **DuET-PD** (**Du**al **E**valuation for **T**rust in **P**ersuasive **D**ialogues), a framework evaluating multi-turn stance-change dynamics across dual dimensions: persuasion type (corrective/misleading) and domain (knowledge/safety), using MMLU-Pro and SALAD-Bench. With **DuET-PD**, we uncover a primacy effect in initial persuasion and a capability-robustness trade-off: capable models often resist valid corrections, especially in safety tasks, while open-source models show higher gullibility. To address this, we introduce Holistic DPO, a training approach balancing positive and negative persuasion examples. Unlike prompting or resist-only training, Holistic DPO enhances both robustness to misinformation and receptiveness to corrections. Our framework and quantitative insights, coupled with the Holistic DPO method, enable LLMs to better navigate persuasive dialogues, improving reliability in knowledge- and safety-critical contexts.

Persuasion Dynamics in LLMs: Investigating Robustness and Adaptability in Knowledge and Safety with DuET-PD

Reasoning language models (RLMs) excel at complex tasks by leveraging a chain-of-thought process to generate structured intermediate steps. However, language mixing, i.e., reasoning steps containing tokens from languages other than the prompt, has been observed in their outputs and shown to affect performance, though its impact remains debated. We present the first systematic study of language mixing in RLMs, examining its patterns, impact, and internal causes across 15 languages, 7 task difficulty levels, and 18 subject areas, and show how all three factors influence language mixing. Moreover, we demonstrate that the choice of reasoning language significantly affects performance: forcing models to reason in Latin or Han scripts via constrained decoding notably improves accuracy. Finally, we show that the script composition of reasoning traces closely aligns with that of the model’s internal representations, indicating that language mixing reflects latent processing preferences in RLMs. Our findings provide actionable insights for optimizing multilingual reasoning and open new directions for reasoning language control to build more interpretable and adaptable RLMs.

Language Mixing in Reasoning Language Models: Patterns, Impact, and Internal Causes

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods, such as LoRA, significantly reduce the number of trainable parameters by introducing low-rank decomposition matrices. However, existing methods perform extensive matrix multiplications in domain specialization tasks, resulting in computational inefficiency and sub-optimal fine-tuning performance. Hence, we propose LoSiA (**Lo**w-Resources **S**ubnet **I**ntegration **A**daptation), an innovative method that dynamically localizes and optimizes critical parameters during the training process. Specifically, it identifies a sub-network using gradient sparsity analysis and optimizes it as the trainable target. This design enables effective high-rank adaptation by updating only the sub-network parameters, reducing the additional matrix multiplication. We also present LoSiA-Pro, a faster implementation of LoSiA, which reduces the training latency by about 27% compared to LoRA. Extensive evaluations show that our method achieves minimal performance drop compared to full fine-tuning, while requiring the least training time across domain specialization and common-sense reasoning tasks. Further analysis shows that LoSiA also reduces forgetting during continued training. The source code will be publicly available.

LoSiA: Efficient High-Rank Fine-Tuning via Subnet Localization and Optimization

Autoformalization serves a crucial role in connecting natural language and formal reasoning. This paper presents MASA, a novel framework for building multi-agent systems for autoformalization driven by Large Language Models (LLMs). MASA leverages collaborative agents to convert natural language statements into their formal representations. The architecture of MASA is designed with a strong emphasis on modularity, flexibility, and extensibility, allowing seamless integration of new agents and tools to adapt to a fast-evolving field. We showcase the effectiveness of MASA through use cases on real-world mathematical definitions and experiments on formal mathematics datasets. This work highlights the potential of multi-agent systems powered by the interaction of LLMs and theorem provers in enhancing the efficiency and reliability of autoformalization, providing valuable insights and support for researchers and practitioners in the field.

MASA: A Modular Framework for LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Systems for Autoformalization

Sanskrit Voyager is a web application for searching, reading, and analyzing the Sanskrit literary corpus. Unlike previous tools that require expert linguistic knowledge or manual normalization, Sanskrit Voyager enables users to search for words and phrases as they actually appear in texts, handling inflection, sandhi, and compound forms automatically while supporting any transliteration. The system integrates four core functionalities: (1) multi-dictionary lookup with morphological analysis and inflection tables; (2) real-time text parsing and annotation; (3) an interactive reader for over 900 digitalized texts; and (4) advanced corpus search with fuzzy matching and filtering. Evaluation shows over 92\% parsing accuracy on complex compounds and substantially higher search recall than BuddhaNexus on challenging queries. The application is open-source, resource-efficient, and designed for both learners and researchers, offering the first fully integrated, user-friendly platform for computational Sanskrit studies Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCKlW4NKJEc

Sanskrit Voyager: Unified Web Platform for Interactive Reading and Linguistic Analysis of Sanskrit Texts

We present the iRead4Skills Intelligent Complexity Analyzer, an open-access platform specifically designed to assist educators and content developers in addressing the needs of low-literacy adults by analyzing and diagnosing text complexity. This multilingual system integrates a range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) components to assess input texts along multiple levels of granularity and linguistic dimensions in Portuguese, Spanish, and French. It assigns four tailored difficulty levels using state-of-the-art models, and introduces four diagnostic yardsticks—textual structure, lexicon, syntax, and semantics—offering users actionable feedback on specific dimensions of textual complexity. Each component of the system is supported by experiments comparing alternative models on manually annotated data.

The iRead4Skills Intelligent Complexity Analyzer

We introduce RadEval, a unified, open-source framework for evaluating radiology texts. RadEval consolidates a diverse range of metrics - from classic n‑gram overlap (BLEU, ROUGE) and contextual measures (BERTScore) to clinical concept-based scores (F1CheXbert, F1RadGraph, RaTEScore, SRR-BERT, TemporalEntityF1) and advanced LLM‑based evaluators (GREEN). We refine and standardize implementations, extend GREEN to support multiple imaging modalities with a more lightweight model, and pretrain a domain-specific radiology encoder - demonstrating strong zero-shot retrieval performance. We also release a richly annotated expert dataset with over 450 clinically significant error labels and show how different metrics correlate with radiologist judgment. Finally, RadEval provides statistical testing tools and baseline model evaluations across multiple publicly available datasets, facilitating reproducibility and robust benchmarking in radiology report generation.

RadEval: A framework for radiology text evaluation

We present LangVAE, a novel framework for modular construction of variational autoencoders (VAEs) on top of pre-trained large language models (LLMs). Such language model VAEs can encode the knowledge of their pre-trained components into more compact and semantically disentangled representations. The representations obtained in this way can be analysed with the LangVAE companion framework: LangSpace, which implements a collection of probing methods, such as vector traversal and interpolation, disentanglement measures, and cluster visualisations. LangVAE and LangSpace offer a flexible, efficient and scalable way of building and analysing textual representations, with simple integration for models available on the HuggingFace Hub. Additionally, we conducted a set of experiments with different encoder and decoder combinations, as well as annotated inputs, revealing a wide range of interactions across architectural families and sizes w.r.t. generalisation and disentanglement. Our findings demonstrate a promising framework for systematising the experimentation and understanding of textual representations.

LangVAE and LangSpace: Building and Probing for Language Model VAEs

Large language model agents have enabled GUI-based automation, particularly for mobile devices. However, deployment remains limited by noisy data, poor generalization, and lack of support for non-English GUIs. In this work, we present AgentCPM-GUI, an 8B-parameter GUI agent built for robust and efficient on-device GUI interaction. Our training pipeline includes grounding-aware pre-training to enhance perception, supervised fine-tuning on high-quality Chinese and English trajectories to imitate human-like actions, and reinforcement fine-tuning with GRPO to improve reasoning capability. AgentCPM-GUI achieves promising performance on five public benchmarks and our proposed Chinese benchmark CAGUI. To facilitate reproducibility and further research, we publicly release all code, model checkpoint, and evaluation data at: https://github.com/OpenBMB/AgentCPM-GUI

AgentCPM-GUI: Building Mobile-Use Agents with Reinforcement Fine-Tuning

Language models trained with a fixed vocabulary struggle to generalize to novel or out-of-vocabulary words, limiting their flexibility in handling diverse token combinations. Existing dynamic vocabulary approaches attempt to address this limitation but face challenges such as fragmented codebases, lack of support for modern LLMs, and limited inference scalability. To overcome these issues, we introduce DVAGen, a fully open-source, unified framework designed for training, evaluation, and visualization of dynamic vocabulary-augmented language models. Our framework modularizes the pipeline for ease of customization, integrates seamlessly with open-source LLMs, and is the first to provide both CLI and WebUI tools for real-time result inspection. We validate the effectiveness of dynamic vocabulary methods on modern LLMs and demonstrate support for batch inference, significantly improving inference throughput.

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