Driven by the remarkable progress in diffusion models, text-to-image generation has achieved substantial advancements, underscoring the urgent need for robust automatic quality assessment. This task is inherently complex, requiring evaluations that range from object presence and attribute correctness to relational consistency and visual fidelity. Consequently, current state-of-the-art MLLM-based approaches often rely on powerful commercial models such as GPT-4o, which offer superior reasoning and instruction-following capabilities but are not universally accessible. In contrast, while open-source MLLMs demonstrate promising skills in vision and language understanding, they underperform in comprehensive image quality assessment.To address these challenges, we propose a task decomposition evaluation framework based on GPT-4o to automatically construct a specialized training dataset, breaking down the multifaceted evaluation process into simpler sub-tasks and thus reducing learning complexity. Building on this dataset, we design novel training strategies to distill GPT-4o’s evaluation capabilities into a 7B open-source MLLM, MiniCPM-V-2.6, enabling it to better follow instructions across diverse assessment criteria. Furthermore, to reliably and comprehensively assess prior works and our proposed model, we manually annotate a meta-evaluation benchmark that includes chain-of-thought explanations alongside quality scores for generated images.Experimental results demonstrate that our distilled open-source MLLM significantly outperforms the current state-of-the-art GPT-4o-base baseline, VIEScore, with over 4.6% improvement in Spearman and Kendall correlations with human judgments.

Post-training of Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for unlocking their task generalization potential and domain-specific capabilities. However, the current LLM post-training paradigm faces significant data challenges, including the high costs of manual annotation and diminishing marginal returns on data scales. Therefore, achieving data-efficient post-training has become a key research question. In this paper, we present the first systematic survey of data-efficient LLM post-training from a data-centric perspective. We propose a taxonomy of data-efficient LLM post-training methods, covering data selection, data quality enhancement, synthetic data generation, data distillation and compression, and self-evolving data ecosystems. We summarize representative approaches in each category and outline future research directions. By examining the challenges in data-efficient LLM post-training, we highlight open problems and propose potential research avenues. We hope our work inspires further exploration into maximizing the potential of data utilization in large-scale model training. Paper List: https://github.com/luo-junyu/Awesome-Data-Efficient-LLM

This paper studies the problem of text-attributed graph clustering, which aims to cluster each node into different groups using both textual attributes and structural information. Although graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proposed to solve this problem, their performance is usually limited when uncertain nodes are near the cluster boundaries due to label scarcity. In this paper, we introduce a new perspective of leveraging large language models (LLMs) to enhance text-attributed graph clustering and develop a novel approach named Multi-agent Collaboration with Ranking Guidance (MARK). The core of our MARK is to generate reliable guidance using the collaboration of three LLM-based agents as ranking-based supervision signals. In particular, we first conduct the coarse graph clustering, and utilize a concept agent to induce the semantics of each cluster. Then, we infer the robustness under perturbations to identify uncertain nodes and use a generation agent to produce synthetic text that closely aligns with their topology. An inference agent is adopted to provide the ranking semantics for each uncertain node in comparison to its synthetic counterpart. The consistent feedback between uncertain and synthetic texts is identified as reliable guidance for fine-tuning the clustering model within a ranking-based supervision objective. Experimental results on various benchmark datasets validate the effectiveness of the proposed MARK compared with competing baselines.