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Qiguang Chen

35 accepted papers

2026

Aware First, Think Less: Dynamic Boundary Self-Awareness Drives Significant Gains in Reasoning Efficiency in Large Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have greatly improved their ability to perform complex reasoning tasks through Long Chain-of-Thought (CoT). However, this approach often results in substantial redundancy, impairing computational efficiency and causing significant delays in real-ti

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2026

Beware of Reasoning Overconfidence: Pitfalls in the Reasoning Process for Multi-solution Tasks

AAAI 2026technical

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in reasoning tasks requiring a single correct answer, but they perform poorly in multi-solution tasks that require generating comprehensive and diverse answers. We attribute this limitation to reasoning overconfidence: a tendency to express undue certainty in an in

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2026

Can LLMs Refuse Questions They Do Not Know? Measuring Knowledge-Aware Refusal in Factual Tasks

ICLR 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) should refuse to answer questions beyond their knowledge. This capability, which we term knowledge-aware refusal, is crucial for factual reliability. However, existing metrics fail to faithfully measure this ability. On the one hand, simple refusal-based metrics are bias…

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2026

Let’s Think with Images Efficiently! An Interleaved-Modal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Framework with Dynamic and Precise Visual Thoughts

AAAI 2026technical

Recently, Interleaved-modal Chain-of-Thought (ICoT) reasoning has achieved remarkable success by leveraging both multimodal inputs and outputs, attracting increasing attention. While achieving promising performance, current ICoT methods still suffer from two major limitations: (1) Static Visual Thou

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2026

Thinking with Video: Video Generation as a Promising Multimodal Reasoning Paradigm

CVPR 2026

The "Thinking with Text" and "Thinking with Images" paradigms significantly improve the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, these paradigms have inherent limitations. (1) Images capture only single moments and fail to represent dynamic proc

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2025

Boundary-to-Region Supervision for Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Offline safe reinforcement learning aims to learn policies that satisfy predefined safety constraints from static datasets. Existing sequence-model-based methods condition action generation on symmetric input tokens for return-to-go and cost-to-go, neglecting their intrinsic asymmetry: RTG serves as…

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2025

CCHall: A Novel Benchmark for Joint Cross-Lingual and Cross-Modal Hallucinations Detection in Large Language Models

ACL 2025long

Investigating hallucination issues in large language models (LLMs) within cross-lingual and cross-modal scenarios can greatly advance the large-scale deployment in real-world applications. Nevertheless, the current studies are limited to a single scenario, either cross-lingual or cross-modal, leavin…

2025

Can Large Language Models Understand You Better? An MBTI Personality Detection Dataset Aligned with Population Traits

COLING 2025main

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one of the most influential personality theories reflecting individual differences in thinking, feeling, and behaving. MBTI personality detection has garnered considerable research interest and has evolved significantly over the years. However, this task ten…

2025

CoMT: A Novel Benchmark for Chain of Multi-modal Thought on Large Vision-Language Models

AAAI 2025technical

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have recently demonstrated amazing success in multi-modal tasks, including advancements in Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought (MCoT) reasoning. Despite these successes, current benchmarks still follow a traditional paradigm with multi-modal input and text-modal output,…

2025

CroPrompt: Cross-task Interactive Prompting for Zero-shot Spoken Language Understanding

ICASSP 2025accepted

Slot filling and intent detection are two highly correlated tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU). Recent SLU research attempts to explore zero-shot prompting techniques in large language models to alleviate the data scarcity problem. Nevertheless, the existing prompting work ignores the cros…

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2025

DLPO: Towards a Robust, Efficient, and Generalizable Prompt Optimization Framework from a Deep-Learning Perspective

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse tasks, largely driven by well-designed prompts. However, crafting and selecting such prompts often requires considerable human effort, significantly limiting its scalability. To mitigate this, recent studies have explored a

2025

Divide-Solve-Combine: An Interpretable and Accurate Prompting Framework for Zero-shot Multi-Intent Detection

AAAI 2025technical

Zero-shot multi-intent detection is capable of capturing multiple intents within a single utterance without any training data, which gains increasing attention. Building on the success of large language models (LLM), dominant approaches in the literature explore prompting techniques to enable zero-s…

2025

HiAgent: Hierarchical Working Memory Management for Solving Long-Horizon Agent Tasks with Large Language Model

ACL 2025long

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents exhibit significant potential across various domains, operating as interactive systems that process environmental observations to generate executable actions for target tasks. The effectiveness of these agents is significantly influenced by their memory mechan…

2025

Improving Consistency Identification in Task-oriented Dialogue Through Multi-Agent Collaboration

IJCAI 2025

Consistency identification in task-oriented dialog (CI-ToD) typically consists of three sub-tasks: User Query Inconsistency (QI) identification, Dialogue History Inconsistency (HI) identification, and Knowledge Base Inconsistency (KBI) identification, which aim to determine inconsistent relationship

2025

MLDebugging: Towards Benchmarking Code Debugging Across Multi-Library Scenarios

ACL 2025finding

Code debugging is a crucial task in software engineering, which attracts increasing attention. While remarkable success has been made in the era of large language models (LLMs), current research still focuses on the simple no-library or single-library setting, ignoring the complex multi-library scen…

2025

Text2World: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Symbolic World Model Generation

ACL 2025finding

Recently, there has been growing interest in leveraging large language models (LLMs) to generate symbolic world models from textual descriptions. Although LLMs have been extensively explored in the context of world modeling, prior studies encountered several challenges, including evaluation randomne…

2025

The Hidden Dimensions of LLM Alignment: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Orthogonal Safety Directions

ICML 2025poster

Large Language Models' safety-aligned behaviors, such as refusing harmful queries, can be represented by linear directions in activation space. Previous research modeled safety behavior with a single direction, limiting mechanistic understanding to an isolated safety feature. In this work, we discov…

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2025

Visual Thoughts: A Unified Perspective of Understanding Multimodal Chain-of-Thought

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved significant success in multimodal tasks, with multimodal chain-of-thought (MCoT) further enhancing performance and interpretability. Recent MCoT methods fall into two categories: (i) Textual-MCoT (T-MCoT), which takes multimodal input and produces t…

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2025

What are the Essential Factors in Crafting Effective Long Context Multi-Hop Instruction Datasets? Insights and Best Practices

ACL 2025long

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) with extended context windows have significantly improved various tasks. To improve long-context capabilities, much work focuses on augmenting LLM’s capabilities with synthetic data. Existing methods often leverage the Self-Instruct framework to ge…

2025

X-WebAgentBench: A Multilingual Interactive Web Benchmark for Evaluating Global Agentic System

ACL 2025finding

Recently, large language model (LLM)-based agents have achieved significant success in interactive environments, attracting significant academic and industrial attention. Despite these advancements, current research predominantly focuses on English scenarios. In reality, there are over 7,000 languag…

2024

AutoCAP: Towards Automatic Cross-lingual Alignment Planning for Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought

ACL 2024findings

Cross-lingual chain-of-thought can effectively complete reasoning tasks across languages, which gains increasing attention.Recently, dominant approaches in the literature improve cross-lingual alignment capabilities by integrating reasoning knowledge from different languages. Despite achieving excel…

2024

Decoupling Breaks Data Barriers: A Decoupled Pre-training Framework for Multi-intent Spoken Language Understanding

IJCAI 2024poster

Multi-intent Spoken Language Understanding (Multi-intent SLU) can extract multiple intents in a single utterance, gaining increasing attention. Nevertheless, current multi-intent SLU approaches still heavily rely on large amounts of annotated multi-intent SLU data, which makes it hard to be satisfie…

2024

LabCLIP: Label-Enhanced Clip for Improving Zero-Shot Text Classification

ICASSP 2024accepted

Zero-shot text classification aims to handle the text classification task without any annotated training data, which can greatly alleviate the data scarcity problem. Current dominant approaches follow a novel text-image matching paradigm, reformulating zero-shot text classification into a text-image…

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2024

M3CoT: A Novel Benchmark for Multi-Domain Multi-step Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought

ACL 2024long

Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought (MCoT) requires models to leverage knowledge from both textual and visual modalities for step-by-step reasoning, which gains increasing attention. Nevertheless, the current MCoT benchmark still faces some challenges: (1) absence of visual modal reasoning, (2) single-step…

2024

Tree-Planner: Efficient Close-loop Task Planning with Large Language Models

ICLR 2024poster

This paper studies close-loop task planning, which refers to the process of generating a sequence of skills (a plan) to accomplish a specific goal while adapting the plan based on real-time observations. Recently, prompting Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate actions iteratively has become a pr…

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2024

Unlocking the Capabilities of Thought: A Reasoning Boundary Framework to Quantify and Optimize Chain-of-Thought

NeurIPS 2024oral

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has emerged as a promising approach for enhancing the performance of large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks. Recently, a series of studies attempt to explain the mechanisms underlying CoT, aiming to deepen the understanding of its efficacy. Neverthel…

2024

What Factors Affect Multi-Modal In-Context Learning? An In-Depth Exploration

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recently, rapid advancements in Multi-Modal In-Context Learning (MM-ICL) have achieved notable success, which is capable of achieving superior performance across various tasks without requiring additional parameter tuning. However, the underlying rules for the effectiveness of MM-ICL remain under-ex…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2024

Wrong-of-Thought: An Integrated Reasoning Framework with Multi-Perspective Verification and Wrong Information

EMNLP 2024finding

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has become a vital technique for enhancing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), attracting increasing attention from researchers. One stream of approaches focuses on the iterative enhancement of LLMs by continuously verifying and refining their reasoning outputs fo…

2023

Cross-lingual Prompting: Improving Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought Reasoning across Languages

EMNLP 2023long main

Chain-of-thought (CoT) is capable of eliciting models to explicitly generate reasoning paths, thus promoting reasoning accuracy and attracting increasing attention. Specifically, zero-shot CoT achieves remarkable improvements in a wide range of reasoning tasks by simply instructing the LLM with the…

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2023

End-to-end Task-oriented Dialogue: A Survey of Tasks, Methods, and Future Directions

EMNLP 2023long main

End-to-end task-oriented dialogue (EToD) can directly generate responses in an end-to-end fashion without modular training, which attracts escalating popularity. The advancement of deep neural networks, especially the successful use of large pre-trained models, has further led to significant progres…

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2023

MMSD2.0: Towards a Reliable Multi-modal Sarcasm Detection System

ACL 2023findings

Multi-modal sarcasm detection has attracted much recent attention. Nevertheless, the existing benchmark (MMSD) has some shortcomings that hinder the development of reliable multi-modal sarcasm detection system: (1) There are some spurious cues in MMSD, leading to the model bias learning; (2) The neg…

2022

CGIM: A Cycle Guided Interactive Learning Model for Consistency Identification in Task-oriented Dialogue

COLING 2022main

Consistency identification in task-oriented dialog (CI-ToD) usually consists of three subtasks, aiming to identify inconsistency between current system response and current user response, dialog history and the corresponding knowledge base. This work aims to solve CI-ToD task by introducing an expli…

2022

GL-CLeF: A Global–Local Contrastive Learning Framework for Cross-lingual Spoken Language Understanding

ACL 2022long

Due to high data demands of current methods, attention to zero-shot cross-lingual spoken language understanding (SLU) has grown, as such approaches greatly reduce human annotation effort. However, existing models solely rely on shared parameters, which can only perform implicit alignment across lang…

2021

Don’t be Contradicted with Anything! CI-ToD: Towards Benchmarking Consistency for Task-oriented Dialogue System

EMNLP 2021main

Consistency Identification has obtained remarkable success on open-domain dialogue, which can be used for preventing inconsistent response generation. However, in contrast to the rapid development in open-domain dialogue, few efforts have been made to the task-oriented dialogue direction. In this pa…