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Wenshuo Zhao

5 accepted papers

2026

K-FUNCTION: JOINT PRONUNCIATION TRANSCRIPTION AND FEEDBACK FOR EVALUATING KIDS LANGUAGE FUNCTION

ICASSP 2026poster

Evaluating young children's language is challenging for automatic speech recognizers due to high-pitched voices, prolonged sounds, and limited data. We introduce K-Function, a framework that combines accurate sub-word transcription with objective, Large Language Model (LLM)-driven scoring. Its core,…

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2026

Mirage or Method? How Model–Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in applying reinforcement learning (RL) to large language models (LLMs) have led to substantial progress. In particular, a series of remarkable yet often counterintuitive phenomena have been reported in LLMs, exhibiting patterns not typically observed in traditional RL settings. For…

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2026

The Tool Decathlon: Benchmarking Language Agents for Diverse, Realistic, and Long-Horizon Task Execution

ICLR 2026poster

Real-world language agents must handle complex, multi-step workflows across diverse applications. For instance, an agent may manage emails by coordinating with calendars and file systems, or monitor a production database like BigQuery to detect anomalies and generate reports following a standard ope…

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2025

CAT: Causal Attention Tuning For Injecting Fine-grained Causal Knowledge into Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across various domains. However, a fundamental question remains: Can LLMs effectively utilize causal knowledge for prediction and generation? Through empirical studies, we find that LLMs trained directly on large-scale data often capture

2025

MuTIS: Enhancing Reasoning Efficiency through Multi Turn Intervention Sampling in Reinforcement Learning

EMNLP 2025

Recently, large reasoning models (LRMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of benchmarks. However, a common challenge for these models is the “overthinking” problem, which leads to excessive reasoning steps and significant computational overhead. Furthermore, the issu