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Hongkun Yu

8 accepted papers

2026

Incentivizing Agentic Reasoning in LLM Judges via Tool-Integrated Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used as judges to evaluate response quality, providing a scalable alternative to human evaluation. However, most LLM judges operate solely on intrinsic text-based reasoning, limiting their ability to verify complex constraints or perform accurate computation.…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Conditional Language Policy: A General Framework For Steerable Multi-Objective Finetuning

EMNLP 2024finding

Reward-based finetuning is crucial for aligning language policies with intended behaviors (*e.g.*, creativity and safety). A key challenge is to develop steerable language models that trade-off multiple (conflicting) objectives in a flexible and efficient manner. This paper presents Conditional Lang…

Cited by 17SourcePDFScholar
2024

Enabling Lanuguage Models to Implicitly Learn Self-Improvement

ICLR 2024poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in open-ended text generation tasks. However, the inherent open-ended nature of these tasks implies that there is always room for improvement in the quality of model responses. To address this challenge, various approaches have b…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning: A Winning Combination for Large Language Models

ICLR 2024poster

Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) is a neural architecture design that adds learnable parameters to Large Language Models (LLMs) without increasing computational complexity (FLOPs). Instruction tuning is a technique for training LLMs to follow instructions. We advocate combining these two approaches,…

Cited by 78SourcePDFScholar
2024

Multi-step Problem Solving Through a Verifier: An Empirical Analysis on Model-induced Process Supervision

EMNLP 2024finding

Process supervision, using a trained verifier to evaluate the intermediate steps generated by a reasoner, has demonstrated significant improvements in multi-step problem solving. In this paper, to avoid the expensive effort of human annotation on the verifier training data, we introduce Model-induce…

Cited by 38SourcePDFScholar
2023

Augmentation with Projection: Towards an Effective and Efficient Data Augmentation Paradigm for Distillation

ICLR 2023poster

Knowledge distillation is one of the primary methods of transferring knowledge from large to small models. However, it requires massive task-specific data, which may not be plausible in many real-world applications. Data augmentation methods such as representation interpolation, token replacement, o…

2023

Large Language Models Can Self-Improve

EMNLP 2023long main

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved excellent performances in various tasks. However, fine-tuning an LLM requires extensive supervision. Human, on the other hand, may improve their reasoning abilities by self-thinking without external inputs. In this work, we demonstrate that an LLM is also c…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2021

On the Transformer Growth for Progressive BERT Training

NAACL 2021long

As the excessive pre-training cost arouses the need to improve efficiency, considerable efforts have been made to train BERT progressively–start from an inferior but low-cost model and gradually increase the computational complexity. Our objective is to help advance the understanding of such Transfo…