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Wanjun Zhong

25 accepted papers

2026

ReTool: Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Tool Use in LLMs

ICLR 2026poster

While reasoning models trained with reinforcement learning (RL) excel in reasoning, they struggle in scenarios requiring structured problem-solving, such as geometric reasoning, concise computation, or complex equation solving—areas where computational tools like code interpreters (CI) demonstrate d…

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2026

Reverse-Engineered Reasoning for Open-Ended Generation

ICLR 2026poster

While the "deep reasoning" paradigm has spurred significant advances in verifiable domains like mathematics, its application to open-ended, creative generation remains a critical challenge. The two dominant methods for instilling reasoning—reinforcement learning (RL) and instruction distillation --…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Empowering Self-Learning of LLMs: Inner Knowledge Explicitation as a Catalyst

AAAI 2025technical

Self-learning of Large Language Models (LLMs) facilitates their advancement towards super-intelligence by training with self-synthesized experiences. However, a critical challenge is the amplification of hallucinations in generated data during iterative self-learning, underscoring the need for relia…

2025

Exploring Iterative Enhancement for Improving Learnersourced Multiple-Choice Question Explanations with Large Language Models

AAAI 2025technical

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in language understanding and generation, and their potential in educational contexts is increasingly being explored. One promising area is learnersourcing, where students engage in creating their own educational content, such as mul…

2025

G-LLaVA: Solving Geometric Problem with Multi-Modal Large Language Model

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable proficiency in human-level reasoning and generation capabilities, which encourages extensive research on their application in mathematical problem solving. However, current work has been largely focused on text-based mathematical problems, with limi…

2025

Self-Reasoning Language Models: Unfold Hidden Reasoning Chains with Few Reasoning Catalyst

ACL 2025finding

Inference-time scaling has attracted much attention which significantly enhance the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in complex reasoning tasks by increasing the length of Chain-of-Thought. These longer intermediate reasoning rationales embody various meta-reasoning skills in human cognit…

2024

AGIEval: A Human-Centric Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models

NAACL 2024findings

Assessing foundation models’ abilities for human-level tasks is crucial for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) development.Traditional benchmarks, which rely on artificial datasets, may not accurately represent these capabilities. In this paper, we introduce AGIEval, a novel bilingual benchmark d…

2024

Abstract Meaning Representation-Based Logic-Driven Data Augmentation for Logical Reasoning

ACL 2024findings

Combining large language models with logical reasoning enhances their capacity to address problems in a robust and reliable manner. Nevertheless, the intricate nature of logical reasoning poses challenges when gathering reliable data from the web to build comprehensive training datasets, subsequentl…

2024

CLongEval: A Chinese Benchmark for Evaluating Long-Context Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024finding

Developing Large Language Models (LLMs) with robust long-context capabilities has been the recent research focus, resulting in the emergence of long-context LLMs proficient in Chinese. However, the evaluation of these models remains underdeveloped due to a lack of benchmarks. To address this gap, we…

2024

Concise and Precise Context Compression for Tool-Using Language Models

ACL 2024findings

Through reading the documentation in the context, tool-using language models can dynamically extend their capability using external tools. The cost is that we have to input lengthy documentation every time the model needs to use the tool, occupying the input window as well as slowing down the decodi…

2024

FollowBench: A Multi-level Fine-grained Constraints Following Benchmark for Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

The ability to follow instructions is crucial for Large Language Models (LLMs) to handle various real-world applications. Existing benchmarks primarily focus on evaluating pure response quality, rather than assessing whether the response follows constraints stated in the instruction. To fill this re…

2024

Learning to Edit: Aligning LLMs with Knowledge Editing

ACL 2024long

Knowledge editing techniques, aiming to efficiently modify a minor proportion of knowledge in large language models (LLMs) without negatively impacting performance across other inputs, have garnered widespread attention. However, existing methods predominantly rely on memorizing the updated knowledg…

2024

MemoryBank: Enhancing Large Language Models with Long-Term Memory

AAAI 2024technical

Large Language Models (LLMs) have drastically reshaped our interactions with artificial intelligence (AI) systems, showcasing impressive performance across an extensive array of tasks. Despite this, a notable hindrance remains—the deficiency of a long-term memory mechanism within these models. This…

2024

Planning, Creation, Usage: Benchmarking LLMs for Comprehensive Tool Utilization in Real-World Complex Scenarios

ACL 2024findings

The recent trend of using Large Language Models (LLMs) as tool agents in real-world applications underscores the necessity for comprehensive evaluations of their capabilities, particularly in complex scenarios involving planning, creating, and using tools. However, existing benchmarks typically focu…

2023

CONE: An Efficient COarse-to-fiNE Alignment Framework for Long Video Temporal Grounding

ACL 2023long

This paper tackles an emerging and challenging problem of long video temporal grounding (VTG) that localizes video moments related to a natural language (NL) query. Compared with short videos, long videos are also highly demanded but less explored, which brings new challenges in higher inference com…

2023

Disentangling Reasoning Capabilities from Language Models with Compositional Reasoning Transformers

ACL 2023findings

This paper presents ReasonFormer, a unified reasoning framework for mirroring the modular and compositional reasoning process of humans in complex decision-making. Inspired by dual-process theory in cognitive science, the representation module (automatic thinking) and reasoning modules (controlled t…

2022

Analytical Reasoning of Text

NAACL 2022findings

Analytical reasoning is an essential and challenging task that requires a system to analyze a scenario involving a set of particular circumstances and perform reasoning over it to make conclusions. However, current neural models with implicit reasoning ability struggle to solve this task. In this pa…

2022

LogiGAN: Learning Logical Reasoning via Adversarial Pre-training

NeurIPS 2022accept

We present LogiGAN, an unsupervised adversarial pre-training framework for improving logical reasoning abilities of language models. Upon automatic identification of logical reasoning phenomena in massive text corpus via detection heuristics, we train language models to predict the masked-out logica…

2022

Logic-Driven Context Extension and Data Augmentation for Logical Reasoning of Text

ACL 2022findings

Logical reasoning of text requires identifying critical logical structures in the text and performing inference over them. Existing methods for logical reasoning mainly focus on contextual semantics of text while struggling to explicitly model the logical inference process. In this paper, we not onl…

2022

Mixed-modality Representation Learning and Pre-training for Joint Table-and-Text Retrieval in OpenQA

EMNLP 2022finding

Retrieving evidences from tabular and textual resources is essential for open-domain question answering (OpenQA), which provides more comprehensive information. However, training an effective dense table-text retriever is difficult due to the challenges of table-text discrepancy and data sparsity pr…

2022

ProQA: Structural Prompt-based Pre-training for Unified Question Answering

NAACL 2022long

Question Answering (QA) is a longstanding challenge in natural language processing. Existing QA works mostly focus on specific question types, knowledge domains, or reasoning skills. The specialty in QA research hinders systems from modeling commonalities between tasks and generalization for wider a…

2022

Reasoning over Hybrid Chain for Table-and-Text Open Domain Question Answering

IJCAI 2022poster

Tabular and textual question answering requires systems to perform reasoning over heterogeneous information, considering table structure, and the connections among table and text. In this paper, we propose a ChAin-centric Reasoning and Pre-training framework (CARP). CARP utilizes hybrid chain to mod…

2021

Compare to The Knowledge: Graph Neural Fake News Detection with External Knowledge

ACL 2021long

Nowadays, fake news detection, which aims to verify whether a news document is trusted or fake, has become urgent and important. Most existing methods rely heavily on linguistic and semantic features from the news content, and fail to effectively exploit external knowledge which could help determine…

2021

WhiteningBERT: An Easy Unsupervised Sentence Embedding Approach

EMNLP 2021finding

Producing the embedding of a sentence in anunsupervised way is valuable to natural language matching and retrieval problems in practice. In this work, we conduct a thorough examination of pretrained model based unsupervised sentence embeddings. We study on fourpretrained models and conduct massive e…