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Mengdi Zhang

20 accepted papers

2026

FRABench and UFEval: Unified Fine-grained Evaluation with Task and Aspect Generalization

ICLR 2026oral

Evaluating open-ended outputs of Multimodal Large Language Models has become a bottleneck as model capabilities, task diversity, and modality rapidly expand. Existing ``MLLM-as-a-Judge'' evaluators, though promising, remain constrained to specific tasks and aspects (i.e., specific evaluation criteri…

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2026

InftyThink: Breaking the Length Limits of Long-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Advanced reasoning in large language models has achieved remarkable performance on challenging tasks, but the prevailing long-context reasoning paradigm faces critical limitations: quadratic computational scaling with sequence length, reasoning constrained by maximum context boundaries, and performa…

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2026

MathFimer: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning by Expanding Reasoning Steps through Fill-in-the-Middle Task

ICLR 2026poster

Mathematical reasoning represents a critical frontier in advancing large language models (LLMs). While step-by-step approaches have emerged as the dominant paradigm for mathematical problem-solving in LLMs, the quality of reasoning steps in training data fundamentally constrains model performance. R…

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2026

Pruning Long Chain-of-Thought of Large Reasoning Models via Small-Scale Preference Optimization

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated strong performance on complex tasks through long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, their lengthy outputs increase computational costs and may lead to overthinking, raising challenges in balancing reasoning effectiveness and…

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2026

VerifyBench: Benchmarking Reference-based Reward Systems for Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Large reasoning models such as OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1 have demonstrated remarkable performance in complex reasoning tasks. A critical component of their training is the incorporation of reference-based reward systems within reinforcement learning (RL), where model outputs are evaluated against gr…

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2025

Do Large Language Models excel in Complex Logical Reasoning with Formal Language?

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to achieve breakthrough performances on complex logical reasoning tasks. Nevertheless, most existing research focuses on employing formal language to guide LLMs for deriving reliable reasoning paths, with systematic evaluations of these capabilities still

2025

LLMScan: Causal Scan for LLM Misbehavior Detection

ICML 2025poster

Despite the success of Large Language Models (LLMs) across various fields, their potential to generate untruthful and harmful responses poses significant risks, particularly in critical applications. This highlights the urgent need for systematic methods to detect and prevent such misbehavior. While…

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2025

LogicPro: Improving Complex Logical Reasoning via Program-Guided Learning

ACL 2025long

In this paper, we propose a new data synthesis method called LogicPro, which leverages LeetCode-style algorithm Problems and their corresponding Program solutions to synthesize Complex Logical Reasoning data in text format. First, we synthesize complex reasoning problems through source algorithm pro…

2025

Prejudge-Before-Think: Enhancing Large Language Models at Test-Time by Process Prejudge Reasoning

EMNLP 2025

In this paper, we introduce a new process prejudge strategy in LLM reasoning to demonstrate that bootstrapping with process prejudge allows the LLM to adaptively anticipate the errors encountered when advancing the subsequent reasoning steps, similar to people sometimes pausing to think about what m

2025

Revisit Self-Debugging with Self-Generated Tests for Code Generation

ACL 2025long

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant advancements in code generation, yet they still face challenges when tackling tasks that extend beyond their basic capabilities. Recently, the concept of self-debugging has been proposed as a way to enhance code generation performance by lev…

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2025

SCoder: Progressive Self-Distillation for Bootstrapping Small-Scale Data Synthesizers to Empower Code LLMs

EMNLP 2025

Existing code large language models (LLMs) often rely on large-scale instruction data distilled from proprietary LLMs for fine-tuning, which typically incurs high costs. In this paper, we explore the potential of small-scale open-source LLMs (e.g., 7B) as synthesizers for high-quality code instructi

2025

S^3cMath: Spontaneous Step-Level Self-Correction Makes Large Language Models Better Mathematical Reasoners

AAAI 2025technical

Self-correction is a novel method that can stimulate the potential reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). It involves detecting and correcting errors during the inference process when LLMs solve reasoning problems. However, recent works do not regard self-correction as a spontaneous an…

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2025

The Role of Visual Modality in Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning: Challenges and Insights

ACL 2025long

Recent research has increasingly focused on multimodal mathematical reasoning, particularly emphasizing the creation of relevant datasets and benchmarks. Despite this, the role of visual information in reasoning has been underexplored. Our findings show that existing multimodal mathematical models m…

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2024

DolphCoder: Echo-Locating Code Large Language Models with Diverse and Multi-Objective Instruction Tuning

ACL 2024long

Code Large Language Models (Code LLMs) have demonstrated outstanding performance in code-related tasks. Various instruction finetuning approaches have been proposed to boost the code generation performance of pre-trained Code LLMs. In this paper, we introduce a diverse instruction model DolphCoder w…

2024

How Do Your Code LLMs perform? Empowering Code Instruction Tuning with Really Good Data

EMNLP 2024main

Recently, there has been a growing interest in studying how to construct better code instruction tuning data. However, we observe Code models trained with these datasets exhibit high performance on HumanEval but perform worse on other benchmarks such as LiveCodeBench. Upon further investigation, we…

2023

Intent-aware Recommendation via Disentangled Graph Contrastive Learning

IJCAI 2023poster

Graph neural network (GNN) based recommender systems have become one of the mainstream trends due to the powerful learning ability from user behavior data. Understanding the user intents from behavior data is the key to recommender systems, which poses two basic requirements for GNN-based recommende…

2023

KMF: Knowledge-Aware Multi-Faceted Representation Learning for Zero-Shot Node Classification

IJCAI 2023poster

Recently, Zero-Shot Node Classification (ZNC) has been an emerging and crucial task in graph data analysis. This task aims to predict nodes from unseen classes which are unobserved in the training process. Existing work mainly utilizes Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to associate features' prototypes a…

2022

Ensemble Multi-Relational Graph Neural Networks

IJCAI 2022poster

It is well established that graph neural networks (GNNs) can be interpreted and designed from the perspective of optimization objective. With this clear optimization objective, the deduced GNNs architecture has sound theoretical foundation, which is able to flexibly remedy the weakness of GNNs. Howe…

2022

Incorporating Dynamic Semantics into Pre-Trained Language Model for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

ACL 2022findings

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) predicts sentiment polarity towards a specific aspect in the given sentence. While pre-trained language models such as BERT have achieved great success, incorporating dynamic semantic changes into ABSA remains challenging. To this end, in this paper, we propose…

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2020

Polarized Reflection Removal With Perfect Alignment in the Wild

CVPR 2020poster

We present a novel formulation to removing reflection from polarized images in the wild. We first identify the misalignment issues of existing reflection removal datasets where the collected reflection-free images are not perfectly aligned with input mixed images due to glass refraction. Then we bui…

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