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Wenda Li

22 accepted papers

2026

APE-Bench: Evaluating Automated Proof Engineering for Formal Math Libraries

ICML 2026poster

While frontier formal mathematics systems now routinely develop repository-scale proof engineering artifacts requiring multi-file coordination and semantic correctness beyond compilation, existing evaluation benchmarks remain focused on isolated theorem proving. We introduce Automated Proof Engineer…

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2026

Can I Have Your Order? Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Slot Filling Ordering in Diffusion Language Models

ICML 2026poster

While plan-and-infill decoding in Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) shows promise for mathematical and code reasoning, performance remains highly sensitive to slot infilling order, often yielding substantial output variance. We introduce DiffuSearch, a framework that formulates slot selection as decisi…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2026

Neural Graph Navigation for Intelligent Subgraph Matching

AAAI 2026technical

Subgraph matching, a cornerstone of relational pattern detection in domains ranging from biochemical systems to social network analysis, faces significant computational challenges due to the dramatically growing search space. Existing methods address this problem within a filtering-ordering-enumerat

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2026

Neural Theorem Proving for Verification Conditions: A Real-World Benchmark

ICLR 2026poster

Theorem proving is fundamental to program verification, where the automated proof of Verification Conditions (VCs) remains a primary bottleneck. Real-world program verification frequently encounters hard VCs that existing Automated Theorem Provers cannot prove, leading to a critical need for extensi…

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2026

Numina-Lean-Agent: An Open and General Agentic Reasoning System for Formal Mathematics

ICML 2026poster

Agentic systems have recently become the dominant paradigm for formal theorem proving, achieving strong performance by coordinating multiple models and tools. However, existing approaches often rely on task-specific pipelines and trained formal provers, limiting their flexibility and reproducibility…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

PHYSICS-INFORMED DIFFUSION GENERATION FOR GEOMAGNETIC MAP INTERPOLATION

ICASSP 2026oral

Geomagnetic map interpolation aims to infer unobserved geomagnetic data at spatial points, yielding critical applications in navigation and resource exploration. However, existing methods for scattered data interpolation are not specifically designed for geomagnetic maps, which inevitably leads to s…

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2025

Association-Focused Path Aggregation for Graph Fraud Detection

NeurIPS 2025poster

Fraudulent activities have caused substantial negative social impacts and are exhibiting emerging characteristics such as intelligence and industrialization, posing challenges of high-order interactions, intricate dependencies, and the sparse yet concealed nature of fraudulent entities. Existing gra…

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2025

Eeyore: Realistic Depression Simulation via Expert-in-the-Loop Supervised and Preference Optimization

ACL 2025finding

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been previously explored for mental healthcare training and therapy client simulation, but they still fall short in authentically capturing diverse client traits and psychological conditions. We introduce Eeyore , an 8B model optimized for realistic depression simul…

2025

Position: Formal Mathematical Reasoning—A New Frontier in AI

ICML 2025spotlight

AI for Mathematics (AI4Math) is intellectually intriguing and is crucial for AI-driven system design and verification. Extensive efforts on AI4Math have mirrored techniques in NLP, in particular, training large language models on carefully curated math datasets in text form. As a complementary yet l…

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2025

Shallow Diffuse: Robust and Invisible Watermarking through Low-Dim Subspaces in Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

The widespread use of AI-generated content from diffusion models has raised significant concerns regarding misinformation and copyright infringement. Watermarking is a crucial technique for identifying these AI-generated images and preventing their misuse. In this paper, we introduce *Shallow Diffus…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Theorem Prover as a Judge for Synthetic Data Generation

ACL 2025long

The demand for synthetic data in mathematical reasoning has increased due to its potential to enhance the mathematical capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, ensuring the validity of intermediate reasoning steps remains a significant challenge, affecting data quality. While formal ve…

2024

Don't Trust: Verify -- Grounding LLM Quantitative Reasoning with Autoformalization

ICLR 2024poster

Large language models (LLM), such as Google's Minerva and OpenAI's GPT families, are becoming increasingly capable of solving mathematical quantitative reasoning problems. However, they still make unjustified logical and computational errors in their reasoning steps and answers. In this paper, we le…

2024

End-to-End Ontology Learning with Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Ontologies are useful for automatic machine processing of domain knowledge as they represent it in a structured format. Yet, constructing ontologies requires substantial manual effort. To automate part of this process, large language models (LLMs) have been applied to solve various subtasks of ontol…

2024

Proving Theorems Recursively

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent advances in automated theorem proving leverages language models to explore expanded search spaces by step-by-step proof generation. However, such approaches are usually based on short-sighted heuristics (e.g., log probability or value function scores) that potentially lead to suboptimal or ev…

2024

Repurposing Language Models into Embedding Models: Finding the Compute-Optimal Recipe

NeurIPS 2024poster

Text embeddings are essential for tasks such as document retrieval, clustering, and semantic similarity assessment. In this paper, we study how to contrastively train text embedding models in a compute-optimal fashion, given a suite of pretrained decoder-only language models. Our innovation is an al…

2023

Draft, Sketch, and Prove: Guiding Formal Theorem Provers with Informal Proofs

ICLR 2023top-5%

The formalization of existing mathematical proofs is a notoriously difficult process. Despite decades of research on automation and proof assistants, writing formal proofs remains arduous and only accessible to a few experts. While previous studies to automate formalization focused on powerful searc…

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2022

Autoformalization with Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2022accept

Autoformalization is the process of automatically translating from natural language mathematics to formal specifications and proofs. A successful autoformalization system could advance the fields of formal verification, program synthesis, and artificial intelligence. While the long-term goal of auto…

Cited by 189SourcePDFScholar
2022

Thor: Wielding Hammers to Integrate Language Models and Automated Theorem Provers

NeurIPS 2022accept

In theorem proving, the task of selecting useful premises from a large library to unlock the proof of a given conjecture is crucially important. This presents a challenge for all theorem provers, especially the ones based on language models, due to their relative inability to reason over huge volume…

Cited by 104SourcePDFScholar
2021

LIME: Learning Inductive Bias for Primitives of Mathematical Reasoning

ICML 2021spotlight

While designing inductive bias in neural architectures has been widely studied, we hypothesize that transformer networks are flexible enough to learn inductive bias from suitable generic tasks. Here, we replace architecture engineering by encoding inductive bias in the form of datasets. Inspired by…