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Shenzhi Wang

13 accepted papers

2026

The Flexibility Trap: Rethinking the Value of Arbitrary Order in Diffusion Language Models

ICML 2026oral

Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) break the rigid left-to-right constraint of traditional LLMs, enabling token generation in arbitrary orders. Intuitively, this flexibility implies a solution space that strictly supersets the fixed autoregressive trajectory, theoretically unlocking superior re…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models by learning directly from rule-based outcome rewards. Recent RLVR works that operate under the zero setting avoid supervision in labeling the reasoning process, bu…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Beyond the 80/20 Rule: High-Entropy Minority Tokens Drive Effective Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful approach to enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its underlying mechanisms remain insufficiently understood. In this work, we undertake a pioneering exploration of RLVR through the no…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

DiveR-CT: Diversity-enhanced Red Teaming Large Language Model Assistants with Relaxing Constraints

AAAI 2025technical

Recent advances in large language model assistants have made them indispensable, raising significant concerns over managing their safety. Automated red teaming offers a promising alternative to the labor-intensive and error-prone manual probing for vulnerabilities, providing more consistent and scal…

2025

Model Surgery: Modulating LLM’s Behavior Via Simple Parameter Editing

NAACL 2025long

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated great potential as generalist assistants, showcasing powerful task understanding and problem-solving capabilities. To deploy LLMs as AI assistants, it is crucial that these models exhibit desirable behavioral traits, such as non-toxicity and resilience…

2025

OS Agents: A Survey on MLLM-based Agents for Computer, Phone and Browser Use

ACL 2025long

The dream to create AI assistants as capable and versatile as the fictional J.A.R.V.I.S from Iron Man has long captivated imaginations. With the evolution of multi-modal large language models ((M)LLMs), this dream is closer to reality, as (M)LLM-based Agents using computers, mobile phones and web br…

2025

PopAlign: Diversifying Contrasting Patterns for a More Comprehensive Alignment

ACL 2025long

Alignment of large language models (LLMs) involves training models on preference-contrastive output pairs to adjust their responses according to human preferences. To obtain such contrastive pairs, traditional methods like RLHF and RLAIF rely on limited contrasting patterns, such as varying model va…

2024

Boosting LLM Agents with Recursive Contemplation for Effective Deception Handling

ACL 2024findings

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to significant success in using LLMs as agents. Nevertheless, a common assumption that LLMs always process honest information neglects the widespread deceptive or misleading content in human and AI-generated material. This oversight might expo…

2024

DeeR-VLA: Dynamic Inference of Multimodal Large Language Models for Efficient Robot Execution

NeurIPS 2024poster

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable comprehension and reasoning capabilities with complex language and visual data. These advances have spurred the vision of establishing a generalist robotic MLLM proficient in understanding complex human instructions and accomplish…

2024

PsychoGAT: A Novel Psychological Measurement Paradigm through Interactive Fiction Games with LLM Agents

ACL 2024long

Psychological measurement is essential for mental health, self-understanding, and personal development. Traditional methods, such as self-report scales and psychologist interviews, often face challenges with engagement and accessibility. While game-based and LLM-based tools have been explored to imp…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2023

Boosting Offline Reinforcement Learning with Action Preference Query

ICML 2023poster

Training practical agents usually involve offline and online reinforcement learning (RL) to balance the policy's performance and interaction costs. In particular, online fine-tuning has become a commonly used method to correct the erroneous estimates of out-of-distribution data learned in the offlin…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2023

Train Once, Get a Family: State-Adaptive Balances for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Offline-to-online reinforcement learning (RL) is a training paradigm that combines pre-training on a pre-collected dataset with fine-tuning in an online environment. However, the incorporation of online fine-tuning can intensify the well-known distributional shift problem. Existing solutions tackle…

2021

Glancing at the Patch: Anomaly Localization With Global and Local Feature Comparison

CVPR 2021poster

Anomaly localization, with the purpose to segment the anomalous regions within images, is challenging due to the large variety of anomaly types. Existing methods typically train deep models by treating the entire image as a whole yet put little effort into learning the local distribution, which is v…

Cited by 85PDFScholar