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Weizhe Yuan

15 accepted papers

2026

RESTRAIN: From Spurious Votes to Signals — Self-Training RL with Self-Penalization

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning with human-annotated data has boosted chain-of-thought reasoning in large reasoning models, but these gains come at high costs in labeled data while faltering on harder tasks. A natural next step is experience-driven learning, where models improve without curated labels by ada…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Following Length Constraints in Instructions

EMNLP 2025

Aligned instruction following models can better fulfill user requests than their unaligned counterparts. However, it has been shown that there is a length bias in evaluation of such models, and that training algorithms tend to exploit this bias by learning longer responses. In this work we show how

2025

Meta-Rewarding Language Models: Self-Improving Alignment with LLM-as-a-Meta-Judge

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly surpassing human knowledge in many domains. While improving these models traditionally relies on costly human data, recent self-rewarding mechanisms have shown that LLMs can improve by judging their own responses instead of relying on human labelers. However,

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

NaturalReasoning: Reasoning in the Wild with 2.8M Challenging Questions

NeurIPS 2025poster

Scaling reasoning capabilities beyond traditional domains such as math and coding is hindered by the lack of diverse and high-quality questions. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a scalable approach for generating diverse and challenging reasoning questions, accompanied by reference answers.…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

R.I.P.: Better Models by Survival of the Fittest Prompts

ICML 2025poster

Training data quality is one of the most important drivers of final model quality. In this work, we introduce a method for evaluating data integrity based on the assumption that low-quality input prompts result in high variance and low quality responses. This is achieved by measuring the rejected re…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

Self-Consistency Preference Optimization

ICML 2025poster

Self-alignment, whereby models learn to improve themselves without human annotation, is a rapidly growing research area. However, existing techniques often fail to improve complex reasoning tasks due to the difficulty of assigning correct rewards. An orthogonal approach that is known to improve corr…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2025

Thinking LLMs: General Instruction Following with Thought Generation

ICML 2025poster

LLMs are typically trained to answer user questions or follow instructions similarly to how human experts respond. However, in the standard alignment framework they lack the basic ability of explicit thinking before answering. Thinking is important for complex questions that require reasoning and pl…

Cited by 16SourcePDFScholar
2024

Generative Judge for Evaluating Alignment

ICLR 2024poster

The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has substantially expanded the range of tasks they can address. In the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), researchers have shifted their focus from conventional NLP tasks (e.g., sequence tagging and parsing) towards tasks that revolve ar…

2024

Iterative Reasoning Preference Optimization

NeurIPS 2024poster

Iterative preference optimization methods have recently been shown to perform well for general instruction tuning tasks, but typically make little improvement on reasoning tasks. In this work we develop an iterative approach that optimizes the preference between competing generated Chain-of-Thought…

Cited by 136SourcePDFScholar
2024

Self-Rewarding Language Models

ICML 2024poster

We posit that to achieve superhuman agents, future models require superhuman feedback in order to provide an adequate training signal. Current approaches commonly train reward models from human preferences, which may then be bottlenecked by human performance level, and secondly these reward models r…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

T5Score: Discriminative Fine-tuning of Generative Evaluation Metrics

EMNLP 2023long findings

Modern embedding-based metrics for evaluation of generated text generally fall into one of two paradigms: discriminative metrics that are trained to directly predict which outputs are of higher quality according to supervised human annotations, and generative metrics that are trained to evaluate tex…

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2022

KID-Review: Knowledge-Guided Scientific Review Generation with Oracle Pre-training

AAAI 2022technical

The surge in the number of scientific submissions has brought challenges to the work of peer review. In this paper, as a first step, we explore the possibility of designing an automated system, which is not meant to replace humans, but rather providing a first-pass draft for a machine-assisted human…