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Hugh Zhang

5 accepted papers

2025

Planning in Natural Language Improves LLM Search for Code Generation

ICLR 2025spotlight

While scaling training compute has led to remarkable improvements in large language models (LLMs), scaling inference compute only recently began to yield analogous gains. We hypothesize that a core missing component is a lack of diverse LLM outputs, leading to inefficient search due to models repeat…

2024

A Careful Examination of Large Language Model Performance on Grade School Arithmetic

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive success on many benchmarks for mathematical reasoning. However, there is growing concern that some of this performance actually reflects dataset contamination, where data closely resembling benchmark questions leaks into the training data, instea…

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2024

Learning Goal-Conditioned Representations for Language Reward Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Techniques that learn improved representations via offline data or self-supervised objectives have shown impressive results in traditional reinforcement learning. Nevertheless, it is unclear how improved representation learning can benefit reinforcement learning from human feedback on language model…

2024

Q-Probe: A Lightweight Approach to Reward Maximization for Language Models

ICML 2024poster

We present an approach called Q-probing to adapt a pre-trained language model to maximize a task-specific reward function. At a high level, Q-probing sits between heavier approaches such as finetuning and lighter approaches such as few shot prompting, but can also be combined with either. The idea i…

2022

Equilibrium Finding in Normal-Form Games via Greedy Regret Minimization

AAAI 2022technical

We extend the classic regret minimization framework for approximating equilibria in normal-form games by greedily weighing iterates based on regrets observed at runtime. Theoretically, our method retains all previous convergence rate guarantees. Empirically, experiments on large randomly generated g…