Weiwen Xu

The global deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) underscores the urgent need to evaluate their cultural alignment. However, assessing genuine “cultural awareness” across modalities (text, vision, speech) and languages remains a significant challenge. To comprehensively investigate this domai...

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enables large language models to produce multi-step reasoning, yet how such reasoning-related structure is expressed during training remains poorly understood. We present Gradient-based Structural Developer (GSD), an unsupervised framework with a principled gradie...