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Justin Chen

12 accepted papers

2026

Nudging the Boundaries of LLM Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Current online reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms like GRPO share a key limitation in LLM reasoning: they cannot learn from problems that are "unsolvable" to the model. In other words, they can only improve performance on problems where the model is capable of exploring the correct answer. If a…

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2025

MAMM-Refine: A Recipe for Improving Faithfulness in Generation with Multi-Agent Collaboration

NAACL 2025long

Multi-agent collaboration among models has shown promise in reasoning tasks but is underexplored in long-form generation tasks like summarization and question-answering. We extend multi-agent multi-model reasoning to generation, specifically to improving faithfulness through refinement, i.e., revisi…

2025

MAgICoRe: Multi-Agent, Iterative, Coarse-to-Fine Refinement for Reasoning

EMNLP 2025

Large language model (LLM) reasoning can be improved by scaling test-time compute with aggregation, i.e., generating multiple samples and aggregating over them. While improving performance, this strategy often reaches a saturation point beyond which additional compute provides no return. Refinement

2025

Reverse Thinking Makes LLMs Stronger Reasoners

NAACL 2025long

Reverse thinking plays a crucial role in human reasoning. Humans can reason not only from a problem to a solution but also in reverse, i.e., start from the solution and reason towards the problem. This often enhances overall reasoning performance as it enables consistency checks between their forwar…

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2025

System 1.x: Learning to Balance Fast and Slow Planning with Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

Language models can be used to solve long-horizon planning problems in two distinct modes. In a fast 'System-1' mode, models directly generate plans without any explicit search or backtracking, and in a slow 'System-2' mode, they plan step-by-step by explicitly searching over possible actions. Syste…

2024

MAGDi: Structured Distillation of Multi-Agent Interaction Graphs Improves Reasoning in Smaller Language Models

ICML 2024poster

Multi-agent interactions between Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown major improvements on diverse reasoning tasks. However, these involve long generations from multiple models across several rounds, making them expensive. Moreover, these multi-agent approaches fail to provide a final, sing…

2024

ReConcile: Round-Table Conference Improves Reasoning via Consensus among Diverse LLMs

ACL 2024long

Large Language Models (LLMs) still struggle with natural language reasoning tasks. Motivated by the society of minds (Minsky, 1988), we propose ReConcile, a multi-model multi-agent framework designed as a round table conference among diverse LLM agents. ReConcile enhances collaborative reasoning bet…

2023

Location-Aware Visual Question Generation with Lightweight Models

EMNLP 2023long main

This work introduces a novel task, location-aware visual question generation (LocaVQG), which aims to generate engaging questions from data relevant to a particular geographical location. Specifically, we represent such location-aware information with surrounding images and a GPS coordinate. To tack…

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2023

Pretrained Transformers for Seizure Detection

ICASSP 2023accepted

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by seizures that can disrupt a patient’s quality of life. EEG has been used to detect underlying neural activity for diagnosis and treatment. However, standard methods of seizure detection are time-consuming and require manual detection by a trained…

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2022

Faster Fundamental Graph Algorithms via Learned Predictions

ICML 2022spotlight

We consider the question of speeding up classic graph algorithms with machine-learned predictions. In this model, algorithms are furnished with extra advice learned from past or similar instances. Given the additional information, we aim to improve upon the traditional worst-case run-time guarantees…

Cited by 69SourcePDFScholar