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Jianghong Ma

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preprint2026arXiv

GRACE: Gradient-aligned Reasoning Data Curation for Efficient Post-training

Existing reasoning data curation pipelines score whole samples, treating every intermediate step as equally valuable. In reality, steps within a trace contribute very unevenly, and selecting reasoning data well requires assessing them individually. We present GRACE, a gradient-aligned curation method that views each reasoning trace as a sequence of optimization events and scores every step by two complementary signals: its alignment with the answer-oriented gradient direction, and its consistency with the preceding reasoning trajectory. Step-level scores are aggregated into a sample-level value for subset selection, using only the model's internal optimization signals and no external reward models or step annotations. To make this scalable, GRACE introduces a representation-level gradient proxy that estimates step-level alignment from token-level upstream signals in a single forward pass. Post-training Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct on MMathCoT-1M, GRACE reaches 108.8% of the full-data performance with 20% of the data and retains 100.2% with only 5%, with subsets that transfer effectively across model backbones.

preprint2026arXiv

MLGIB: Multi-Label Graph Information Bottleneck for Expressive and Robust Message Passing

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) suffer from over-squashing in deep message passing, where information from exponentially growing neighborhoods is compressed into fixed-dimensional representations. We show that this issue becomes a distinct failure mode in multi-label graphs: neighboring nodes often share only limited labels while differing across many irrelevant ones, causing predictive signals to be diluted by noisy label information. To address this challenge, we propose the Multi-Label Graph Information Bottleneck (MLGIB), which formulates multi-label message passing as constrained information transmission under irrelevant label noise. MLGIB balances expressiveness and robustness by preserving predictive label signals while suppressing irrelevant noise. Specifically, it constructs a Markovian dependence space and derives tractable variational bounds, where the lower bound maximizes mutual information with target labels and the upper bound constrains redundant source information. These bounds lead to an end-to-end label-aware message-passing architecture. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements over existing methods, validating the effectiveness and generality of the proposed framework.

preprint2026arXiv

Uncovering Intrinsic Capabilities: A Paradigm for Data Curation in Vision-Language Models

Large vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong benchmark performance, but controlling their behavior through instruction tuning remains difficult. Reducing the budget of instruction tuning dataset often causes regressions, as heuristic strategies treat models as black boxes and overlook the latent capabilities that govern learning. We introduce Capability-Attributed Data Curation (CADC), a framework that shifts curation from task-specific heuristics to intrinsic capability analysis. CADC discovers intrinsic capabilities in an unsupervised manner from gradient-based learning trajectories, attributes training data to these capabilities via influence estimation, and curates capability-aware curricula through balanced selection and staged sequencing. This transforms black-box instruction tuning into a controllable, capability-driven process. With as little as 5% of the original data, CADC surpasses full-data training on multimodal benchmarks. These results validate intrinsic capabilities as the fundamental building blocks of model learning and establish CADC as a principle paradigm for instruction data curation.