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Qianglong Chen

19 accepted papers

2026

HardcoreLogic: Challenging Large Reasoning Models with Long-tail Logic Puzzle Games

ICLR 2026poster

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on complex tasks, including logical puzzle games that require deriving solutions satisfying all constraints. However, whether they can flexibly apply appropriate rules to varying conditions, particularly when faced with non-canon…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Is PRM Necessary? Problem-Solving RL Implicitly Induces PRM Capability in LLMs

NeurIPS 2025poster

The development of reasoning capabilities represents a critical frontier in large language models (LLMs) research, where reinforcement learning (RL) and process reward models (PRMs) have emerged as predominant methodological frameworks. Contrary to conventional wisdom, empirical evidence from DeepSe…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

PlanningArena: A Modular Benchmark for Multidimensional Evaluation of Planning and Tool Learning

ACL 2025long

One of the research focuses of large language models (LLMs) is the ability to generate action plans. Recent studies have revealed that the performance of LLMs can be significantly improved by integrating external tools. Based on this, we propose a benchmark framework called PlanningArena, which aims…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Towards Faithful Multi-step Reasoning through Fine-Grained Causal-aware Attribution Reasoning Distillation

COLING 2025main

Despite the remarkable reasoning capabilities demonstrated by large language models (LLM), the substantial computational overhead limits their practices. Some efforts have been directed toward distilling multi-step reasoning capabilities into smaller models through chain-of-thought (CoT). While CoT…

2025

VisualEDU: A Benchmark for Assessing Coding and Visual Comprehension through Educational Problem-Solving Video Generation

EMNLP 2025

Generating logically coherent video from text (T2V) for reasoning-intensive tasks like mathematical problem-solving presents a significant challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Therefore, we introduce VisualEDU, a benchmark based on Manim package to rigorously evaluate VLM capabilities in pro

2024

An Information Bottleneck Perspective for Effective Noise Filtering on Retrieval-Augmented Generation

ACL 2024long

Retrieval-augmented generation integrates the capabilities of large language models with relevant information retrieved from an extensive corpus, yet encounters challenges when confronted with real-world noisy data. One recent solution is to train a filter module to find relevant content but only ac…

2024

BeamAggR: Beam Aggregation Reasoning over Multi-source Knowledge for Multi-hop Question Answering

ACL 2024long

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities.Nevertheless, they still suffer from factual errors when tackling knowledge-intensive tasks.Retrieval-augmented reasoning represents a promising approach.However, significant challenges still persist, including inaccurate a…

2024

Divide-and-Conquer Meets Consensus: Unleashing the Power of Functions in Code Generation

NeurIPS 2024oral

Despite recent progress made by large language models in code generation, they still struggle with programs that meet complex requirements. Recent work utilizes plan-and-solve decomposition to decrease the complexity and leverage self-tests to refine the generated program. Yet, planning deep-inside…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

Mixed Distillation Helps Smaller Language Models Reason Better

EMNLP 2024finding

As large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive multiple step-by-step reasoning capabilities in recent natural language processing (NLP) reasoning tasks, many studies are interested in distilling reasoning abilities into smaller language models (SLMs) via fine-tuning. Previous distillat…

2024

Navigate through Enigmatic Labyrinth A Survey of Chain of Thought Reasoning: Advances, Frontiers and Future

ACL 2024long

Reasoning, a fundamental cognitive process integral to human intelligence, has garnered substantial interest within artificial intelligence.Notably, recent studies have revealed that chain-of-thought prompting significantly enhances LLM’s reasoning capabilities, which attracts widespread attention f…

2024

Optimizing Instruction Synthesis: Effective Exploration of Evolutionary Space with Tree Search

EMNLP 2024finding

Instruction tuning is a crucial technique for aligning language models with humans’ actual goals in the real world. Extensive research has highlighted the quality of instruction data is essential for the success of this alignment. However, creating high-quality data manually is labor-intensive and t…

2024

TimeBench: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Temporal Reasoning Abilities in Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

Grasping the concept of time is a fundamental facet of human cognition, indispensable for truly comprehending the intricacies of the world.Previous studies typically focus on specific aspects of time, lacking a comprehensive temporal reasoning benchmark.To address this, we propose TimeBench, a compr…

2023

Distinguish Before Answer: Generating Contrastive Explanation as Knowledge for Commonsense Question Answering

ACL 2023findings

Existing knowledge-enhanced methods have achieved remarkable results in certain Q&A tasks via obtaining diverse knowledge from different knowledge bases. However, limited by the properties of retrieved knowledge, they still have trouble benefiting from both the knowledge relevance and distinguishmen…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2023

Task Difficulty Aware Parameter Allocation & Regularization for Lifelong Learning

CVPR 2023poster

Parameter regularization or allocation methods are effective in overcoming catastrophic forgetting in lifelong learning. However, they solve all tasks in a sequence uniformly and ignore the differences in the learning difficulty of different tasks. So parameter regularization methods face significan…

2023

WYWEB: A NLP Evaluation Benchmark For Classical Chinese

ACL 2023findings

To fully evaluate the overall performance of different NLP models in a given domain, many evaluation benchmarks are proposed, such as GLUE, SuperGLUE and CLUE. The field of natural language understanding has traditionally focused on benchmarks for various tasks in languages such as Chinese, English,…

2022

DictBERT: Dictionary Description Knowledge Enhanced Language Model Pre-training via Contrastive Learning

IJCAI 2022poster

Although pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, they are shown to be lacking in knowledge when dealing with knowledge driven tasks. Despite the many efforts made for injecting knowledge into PLMs, this problem…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar
2021

KACE: Generating Knowledge Aware Contrastive Explanations for Natural Language Inference

ACL 2021long

In order to better understand the reason behind model behaviors (i.e., making predictions), most recent works have exploited generative models to provide complementary explanations. However, existing approaches in NLP mainly focus on “WHY A” rather than contrastive “WHY A NOT B”, which is shown to b…

2020

Improving Commonsense Question Answering by Graph-based Iterative Retrieval over Multiple Knowledge Sources

COLING 2020main

In order to facilitate natural language understanding, the key is to engage commonsense or background knowledge. However, how to engage commonsense effectively in question answering systems is still under exploration in both research academia and industry. In this paper, we propose a novel question-…