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Hengtong Lu

5 accepted papers

2026

Active Reasoning Vision-Language Model via Sequential Experimental Design

ICML 2026poster

Visual perception in modern Vision-Language Models (VLM) is constrained by a fundamental perceptual bandwidth bottleneck: a broad field-of-view inevitably sacrifices the fine-grained details necessary for complex reasoning. Inspired by the classical paradigms of active vision and information foragin…

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2026

Breaking the Exploration Bottleneck: Rubric-Scaffolded Reinforcement Learning for General LLM Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have underscored the potential of Reinforcement Learning (RL) to facilitate the emergence of reasoning capabilities. Despite the encouraging results, a fundamental dilemma persists as RL improvement relies on learning from high-quality samples, yet the…

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2026

LexInstructEval: Lexical Instruction Following Evaluation for Large Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

The ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to precisely follow complex and fine-grained lexical instructions is a cornerstone of their utility and controllability. However, evaluating this capability remains a significant challenge. Current methods either rely on subjective and costly human evaluat

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2025

Data with High and Consistent Preference Difference Are Better for Reward Model

AAAI 2025technical

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a commonly used alignment method for Large Language Models (LLMs). This method relies on a reward model trained on a preference dataset to provide scalar rewards. However, the human-annotated preference data is often sparse, noisy, and costly to o…

2021

Task-Oriented Clustering for Dialogues

EMNLP 2021finding

A reliable clustering algorithm for task-oriented dialogues can help developer analysis and define dialogue tasks efficiently. It is challenging to directly apply prior normal text clustering algorithms for task-oriented dialogues, due to the inherent differences between them, such as coreference, o…