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Daniel Shao

5 accepted papers

2026

Eigen-1: Scientific Reasoning through Adaptive Multi-Agent Refinement and Monitor-based RAG

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong progress on scientific reasoning, yet two major bottlenecks remain. First, explicit retrieval fragments reasoning, imposing a hidden tool tax of extra tokens and steps. Second, multi-agent pipelines often dilute strong solutions by averaging ac…

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2026

Mixture of Mini Experts: Overcoming the Linear Layer Bottleneck in Multiple Instance Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is the predominant approach for classifying gigapixel whole-slide images in computational pathology. MIL follows a sequence of 1) extracting patch features, 2) applying a linear layer to obtain task-specific patch features, and 3) aggregating the patches into a slide…

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2025

Beyond Chemical QA: Evaluating LLM's Chemical Reasoning with Modular Chemical Operations

NeurIPS 2025poster

While large language models (LLMs) with Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning excel in mathematics and coding, their potential for systematic reasoning in chemistry, a domain demanding rigorous structural analysis for real-world tasks like drug design and reaction engineering, remains untapped. Current b…

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2025

Do Multiple Instance Learning Models Transfer?

ICML 2025spotlight

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a cornerstone approach in computational pathology for distilling embeddings from gigapixel tissue images into patient-level representations to predict clinical outcomes. However, MIL is frequently challenged by the constraints of working with small, weakly-supervi…

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2025

Med-PRM: Medical Reasoning Models with Stepwise, Guideline-verified Process Rewards

EMNLP 2025

Large language models have shown promise in clinical decision making, but current approaches struggle to localize and correct errors at specific steps of the reasoning process. This limitation is critical in medicine, where identifying and addressing reasoning errors is essential for accurate diagno

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