Zijie Meng


2026

As a primary medium for human interaction and information exchange, social networking services (SNS) present distinct challenges for large language models (LLMs): rapidly evolving norms and slang, and culturally diverse content that causes knowledge distribution shift. While supervised fine-tuning (SFT) can improve in-domain performance, it often induces a ”seesaw” trade-off with out-of-domain robustness, especially for smaller models. To address these challenges, we present RedOne 2.0, an SNS-oriented LLM developed with a progressive, RL-prioritized post-training paradigm for fast and stable adaptation. Our pipeline has three stages: (1) Exploratory Learning on curated SNS corpora to establish initial alignment and surface systematic weaknesses; (2) Targeted Fine-Tuning that applies SFT only to diagnosed gaps while mixing a small amount of general data to reduce forgetting; and (3) Refinement Learning that re-applies RL with SNS-centric signals to consolidate gains and balance trade-offs across tasks. Across various tasks in three categories, our 4B model improves by 2.41 on average over the prior 7B RedOne baseline. It also yields an 8.74 average gain over its Qwen3-4B base while using less than half the data required by the SFT-centric method, demonstrating superior data efficiency and stability at compact scales. Overall, RedOne 2.0 provides a competitive, cost-effective baseline for SNS-specific LLMs, improving capability without sacrificing robustness.

2025

As a primary medium for modern information dissemination, social networking services (SNS) have experienced rapid growth, which has proposed significant challenges for platform content management and interaction quality improvement. Recently, the development of large language models (LLMs) has offered potential solutions but existing studies focus on isolated tasks, which not only encounter diminishing benefit from the data scaling within individual scenarios but also fail to flexibly adapt to diverse real-world context. To address these challenges, we introduce RedOne, a domain-specific LLM designed to break the performance bottleneck of single-task baselines and establish a comprehensive foundation for the SNS. RedOne was developed through a three-stage training strategy consisting of continue pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, and preference optimization, using a large-scale real-world dataset. Through extensive experiments, RedOne maintains strong general capabilities, and achieves an average improvement up to 14.02% across 8 major SNS tasks and 7.56% in SNS bilingual evaluation benchmark, compared with base models. Furthermore, through online testing, RedOne reduced the exposure rate in harmful content detection by 11.23% and improved the click page rate in post-view search by 14.95% compared with single-tasks baseline models. These results establish RedOne as a robust domain-specific LLM for SNS, demonstrating excellent generalization across various tasks and promising applicability in real-world scenarios.

2024

General-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 have achieved remarkable advancements in machine translation (MT) by leveraging extensive web content. On the other hand, translation-specific LLMs are built by pre-training on domain-specific monolingual corpora and fine-tuning with human-annotated translation data. Despite the superior performance, these methods either demand an unprecedented scale of computing and data or substantial human editing and annotation efforts. In this paper, we develop MT-Ladder, a novel model-agnostic and cost-effective tool to refine the performance of general LLMs for MT. MT-Ladder is trained on pseudo-refinement triplets which can be easily obtained from existing LLMs without additional human cost. During training, we propose a hierarchical fine-tuning strategy with an easy-to-hard schema, improving MT-Ladder’s refining performance progressively. The trained MT-Ladder can be seamlessly integrated with any general-purpose LLMs to boost their translation performance. By utilizing Gemma-2B/7B as the backbone, MT-Ladder-2B can elevate raw translations to the level of top-tier open-source models (e.g., refining BigTranslate-13B with +6.91 BLEU and +3.52 COMET for XX→En), and MT-Ladder-7B can further enhance model performance to be on par with the state-of-the-art GPT-4. Extensive ablation and analysis corroborate the effectiveness of MT-Ladder in diverse settings.