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Shaotian Yan

12 accepted papers

2026

Differential Fine-Tuning Large Language Models Towards Better Diverse Reasoning Abilities

ICLR 2026poster

Reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) require explicit derivations compared to general question-answering, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) can empower multiple reasoning abilities in LLMs via learning from various datasets. However, neither training the datasets jointly (mix-up) nor conti…

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2026

Through the Lens of Contrast: Self-Improving Visual Reasoning in VLMs

ICLR 2026oral

Reasoning has emerged as a key capability of large language models. In linguistic tasks, this capability can be enhanced by self-improving techniques that refine reasoning paths for subsequent fine-tuning. However, extending these language-based self-improving approaches to vision language models (V…

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2026

Uncovering the Gradient Geometry of Long CoT: A Spectral-guided Approach to Reasoning Distillation

ICML 2026poster

Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve remarkable reasoning performance by generating long chains-of-thought (CoT). However, standard supervised fine-tuning (SFT) treats all tokens uniformly, indiscriminately minimizing loss across both essential reasoning steps and those that are noisy, redundant, o…

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2026

Where Did This Sentence Come From? Tracing Provenance in LLM Reasoning Distillation

ICLR 2026poster

Reasoning distillation, a cost-effective approach for enhancing student model performance, has attracted increasing attention. It typically leverages a large teacher model to generate reasoning paths, which are then used to fine-tune a student model so that it mimics the teacher's behavior in traini…

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2025

Concise and Organized Perception Facilitates Reasoning in Large Language Models

NAACL 2025findings

Exploiting large language models (LLMs) to tackle reasoning has garnered growing attention. It still remains highly challenging to achieve satisfactory results in complex logical problems, characterized by plenty of premises within the context and requiring multi-hop reasoning. In particular, the re…

2025

Don't Take Things Out of Context: Attention Intervention for Enhancing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

Few-shot Chain-of-Thought (CoT) significantly enhances the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), functioning as a whole to guide these models in generating reasoning steps toward final answers. However, we observe that isolated segments, words, or tokens within CoT demonstrations c…

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2025

Enhancing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Critical Representation Fine-tuning

ACL 2025long

Representation Fine-tuning (ReFT), a recently proposed Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method, has attracted widespread attention for significantly improving parameter efficiency by editing representation space alone. In this work, we investigate applying ReFT to complex reasoning tasks. Howe…

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2025

From Redundancy to Relevance: Information Flow in LVLMs Across Reasoning Tasks

NAACL 2025long

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) achieve great performance on visual-language reasoning tasks, however, the black-box nature of LVLMs hinders in-depth research on the reasoning mechanism. As all images need to be converted into image tokens to fit the input format of large language models (LLMs)…

2025

SalaMAnder: Shapley-based Mathematical Expression Attribution and Metric for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

EMNLP 2025

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enhances the math reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs) to a large margin. However, the mechanism underlying such improvements remains unexplored. In this paper, we present SalaMAnder ( S h a p l ey-b a sed M athematical Expression A ttribution a nd M

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2025

Shallow Focus, Deep Fixes: Enhancing Shallow Layers Vision Attention Sinks to Alleviate Hallucination in LVLMs

EMNLP 2025

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) demonstrate excellent abilities for understanding visual information, while the hallucination remains. Albeit image tokens constitute the majority of the MLLMs input, the relation between image tokens and hallucinations is still unexplored. In this paper, we

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2024

Instance-adaptive Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought Prompting

NeurIPS 2024poster

Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting emerges as a simple and effective strategy for enhancing the performance of large language models (LLMs) in real-world reasoning tasks. Nonetheless, the efficacy of a singular, task-level prompt uniformly applied across the whole of instances is inherently…

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2022

MPC: Multi-View Probabilistic Clustering

CVPR 2022poster

Despite the promising progress having been made, the two challenges of multi-view clustering (MVC) are still waiting for better solutions: i) Most existing methods are either not qualified or require additional steps for incomplete multi-view clustering and ii) noise or outliers might significantly…

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