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Michael Qizhe Shieh

9 accepted papers

2026

LongRLVR: Long-Context Reinforcement Learning Requires Verifiable Context Rewards

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has significantly advanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by optimizing them against factual outcomes. However, this paradigm falters in long-context scenarios, as its reliance on internal parametric knowledge is ill-s…

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2026

MCPMark: A Benchmark for Stress-Testing Realistic and Comprehensive MCP Use

ICLR 2026poster

The MCP standardizes how LLMs interact with external systems, forming the foundation for general agents. However, existing MCP benchmarks remain narrow in scope: they focus on read-heavy tasks or tasks with limited interaction depth, and fail to capture the complexity and realism of real-world workf…

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2026

ThinkMorph: Emergent Properties in Multimodal Interleaved Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Multimodal reasoning is a dynamic process that requires synergistic coordination of language and vision. However, current approaches to multimodal interleaved generation fall short of providing a generalizable recipe that productively engages text and vision to advance reasoning. We introduce ThinkM…

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2025

CodexGraph: Bridging Large Language Models and Code Repositories via Code Graph Databases

NAACL 2025long

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in stand-alone code tasks like HumanEval and MBPP, but struggle with handling entire code repositories. This challenge has prompted research on enhancing LLM-codebase interaction at a repository scale. Current solutions rely on similarity-based retrieval or manual…

2025

NoisyRollout: Reinforcing Visual Reasoning with Data Augmentation

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have strengthened the reasoning capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs). However, enhancing policy exploration to better scale test-time compute remains largely underexplored. In addition, VLMs continue to struggle with imperfect visual perception…

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2025

RAPID: Long-Context Inference with Retrieval-Augmented Speculative Decoding

ICML 2025spotlight

The emergence of long-context large language models (LLMs) offers a promising alternative to traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for processing extensive documents. However, the computational overhead of long-context inference presents significant efficiency challenges. While Speculativ…

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2025

The Emergence of Abstract Thought in Large Language Models Beyond Any Language

NeurIPS 2025poster

As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, their capacity to function effectively across a diverse range of languages has shown marked improvement. Preliminary studies observe that the hidden activations of LLMs often resemble English, even when responding to non-English prompts. This has…

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2025

Unnatural Languages Are Not Bugs but Features for LLMs

ICML 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been observed to process non-human-readable text sequences, such as jailbreak prompts, often viewed as a bug for aligned LLMs. In this work, we present a systematic investigation challenging this perception, demonstrating that unnatural languages - strings that appe…