While LLMs demonstrate strong reasoning capabilities when provided with full information in a single turn, they exhibit substantial vulnerability in multi-turn interactions. Specifically, when information is revealed incrementally or requires updates, models frequently fail to integrate new constraints, leading to a collapse in performance compared to their single-turn baselines. We term the root cause as \emph{Contextual Inertia}: a phenomenon where models rigidly adhere to previous reasoning traces. Even when users explicitly provide corrections or new data in later turns, the model ignores them, preferring to maintain consistency with its previous (incorrect) reasoning path. To address this, we introduce \textbf{R}einforcement \textbf{L}earning with \textbf{S}ingle-\textbf{T}urn \textbf{A}nchors (\textbf{RLSTA}), a generalizable training approach designed to stabilize multi-turn interaction across diverse scenarios and domains. RLSTA leverages the model's superior single-turn capabilities as stable internal anchors to provide reward signals. By aligning multi-turn responses with these anchors, RLSTA empowers models to break contextual inertia and self-calibrate their reasoning based on the latest information. Experiments show that RLSTA significantly outperforms standard fine-tuning and abstention-based methods. Notably, our method exhibits strong cross-domain generalization (e.g., math to code) and proves effective even without external verifiers, highlighting its potential for general-domain applications. Code is available at https://github.com/Tencent/RLSTA.
Autoencoding-Free Context Compression for LLMs via Contextual Semantic Anchors
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China(东北大学计算机科学与工程学院,中国沈阳);NiuTrans Research, Shenyang, China(沈阳NiuTrans研究院,中国);Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China(昆明理工大学,中国昆明)
ACR: Adaptive Context Refactoring via Context Refactoring Operators for Multi-Turn Dialogue
Zhejiang Normal University(浙江师范大学);Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴集团);Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科学与技术大学);Southeast University(东南大学);Soochow University(苏州大学)
School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University(武汉大学人工智能学院);School of Computer Science, Wuhan University(武汉大学计算机学院);School of Information Management, Wuhan University(武汉大学信息管理学院);School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学计算机学院)
Hallucinations as Orthogonal Noise: Inference-Time Manifold Alignment via Dynamic Contextual Orthogonalization
Xi’an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学);Xingchen AGI Lab(星辰AGI实验室);China Telecom AI Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.(中国电信人工智能技术(北京)有限公司);Institute of Artificial Intelligence, China Telecom(中国电信人工智能研究院);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学)
Context-Aware Cluster Decoding: Semantic Anchor-Driven Coherence in dMLLMs
Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学);Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴集团);Shanghai University(上海大学)
Contextual StereoSet: Stress-Testing Bias Alignment Robustness in Large Language Models
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIITA)(印度信息与技术研究所(Allahabad));National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT)(国家电子与信息技术研究所)
Contextual Representation Anchor Network to Alleviate Selection Bias in Few-Shot Drug Discovery
College of computer science and technology, Zhejiang University(浙江大学计算机科学与技术学院);Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学计算机科学与工程系);School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学人工智能学院);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA)(中国科学院自动化研究所);Zhejiang Lab(之江实验室);ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center(浙江大学杭州国际科技创新中心);Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院)
Attention Mechanism and Context Modeling System for Text Mining Machine Translation
Boston University(波士顿大学);Duke University(杜克大学);Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学);University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学);North Carolina State University(北卡罗来纳州立大学)
RS-HyRe-R1: A Hybrid Reward Mechanism to Overcome Perceptual Inertia for Remote Sensing Images Understanding
School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Central South University(中南大学机械与电气工程学院);School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University(中南大学地球科学与信息物理学院)