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Xueliang Zhao

21 accepted papers

2026

SWE-MiniSandbox: Container-Free Reinforcement Learning for Building Software Engineering Agents

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key paradigm for training software engineering (SWE) agents, yet its practical accessibility and scalability is often constrained by container-based execution frameworks used for environment isolation. As the number of task instances increases, pre-cached con…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Scaling Prompt Synthesis for Large Language Model Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) are evolving from conversational systems into strong reasoners for tasks such as Olympiad mathematics and competitive programming. While scaling parameters and test-time computation has driven progress, a key bottleneck is the lack of high-quality training problems: huma…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

DynaAct: Large Language Model Reasoning with Dynamic Action Spaces

NeurIPS 2025poster

In modern sequential decision-making systems, the construction of an optimal candidate action space is critical to efficient inference. However, existing approaches either rely on manually defined action spaces that lack scalability or utilize unstructured spaces that render exhaustive search comput…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Forewarned is Forearmed: Harnessing LLMs for Data Synthesis via Failure-induced Exploration

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly benefited from training on diverse, high-quality task-specific data, leading to impressive performance across a range of downstream applications. Current methods often rely on human-annotated data or predefined task templates to direct powerful LLMs in…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

PromptCoT: Synthesizing Olympiad-level Problems for Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

The ability of large language models to solve complex mathematical problems has progressed significantly, particularly for tasks requiring advanced reasoning. However, the scarcity of sufficiently challenging problems, particularly at the Olympiad level, hinders further advancements. In this work, w…

2024

BBA: Bi-Modal Behavioral Alignment for Reasoning with Large Vision-Language Models

ACL 2024findings

Multimodal reasoning stands as a pivotal capability for large vision-language models (LVLMs). The integration with Domain-Specific Languages (DSL), offering precise visual representations, equips these models with the opportunity to execute more accurate reasoning in complex and professional domains…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2024

GSM-Plus: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating the Robustness of LLMs as Mathematical Problem Solvers

ACL 2024long

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance across various mathematical reasoning benchmarks. However, there are increasing debates regarding whether these models truly understand and apply mathematical knowledge or merely rely on shortcuts for mathematical reasoning. One essen…

2024

SEGO: Sequential Subgoal Optimization for Mathematical Problem-Solving

ACL 2024long

Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven substantial progress in artificial intelligence in recent years, exhibiting impressive capabilities across a wide range of tasks, including mathematical problem-solving. Inspired by the success of subgoal-based methods, we propose a novel framework called SEq…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2023

Logic Unveils Truth, While Disguise Obscures It: Transition Logic Augmented Response Selection for Multi-Turn Dialogue

EMNLP 2023long findings

Multi-turn response selection aims to retrieve a response for a dialogue context from a candidate pool and negative sampling is the key to its retrieval performance. However, previous methods of negative samples tend to yield false negatives due to the one-to-many property in open-domain dialogue, w…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

On the Compositional Generalization in Versatile Open-domain Dialogue

ACL 2023long

Previous research has demonstrated the potential of multi-task learning to foster a conversational agent’s ability to acquire a variety of skills. However, these approaches either suffer from interference among different datasets (also known as negative transfer), or fail to effectively reuse knowle…

2023

SORTIE: Dependency-Aware Symbolic Reasoning for Logical Data-to-text Generation

ACL 2023findings

Logical data-to-text generation is a representative task in measuring the capabilities of both language generation and complex reasoning. Despite the introduction of reasoning skills in generation, existing works still rely on neural language models to output the final table description. However, du…

2023

VSTAR: A Video-grounded Dialogue Dataset for Situated Semantic Understanding with Scene and Topic Transitions

ACL 2023long

Video-grounded dialogue understanding is a challenging problem that requires machine to perceive, parse and reason over situated semantics extracted from weakly aligned video and dialogues. Most existing benchmarks treat both modalities the same as a frame-independent visual understanding task, whil…

2022

Collaborative Reasoning on Multi-Modal Semantic Graphs for Video-Grounded Dialogue Generation

EMNLP 2022finding

We study video-grounded dialogue generation, where a response is generated based on the dialogue context and the associated video. The primary challenges of this task lie in (1) the difficulty of integrating video data into pre-trained language models (PLMs) which presents obstacles to exploiting th…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2022

Learning to Express in Knowledge-Grounded Conversation

NAACL 2022long

Grounding dialogue generation by extra knowledge has shown great potentials towards building a system capable of replying with knowledgeable and engaging responses. Existing studies focus on how to synthesize a response with proper knowledge, yet neglect that the same knowledge could be expressed di…

2022

There Are a Thousand Hamlets in a Thousand People’s Eyes: Enhancing Knowledge-grounded Dialogue with Personal Memory

ACL 2022long

Knowledge-grounded conversation (KGC) shows great potential in building an engaging and knowledgeable chatbot, and knowledge selection is a key ingredient in it. However, previous methods for knowledge selection only concentrate on the relevance between knowledge and dialogue context, ignoring the f…

2022

There Is No Standard Answer: Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation with Adversarial Activated Multi-Reference Learning

EMNLP 2022main

Knowledge-grounded dialogue (KGC) shows excellent potential to deliver an engaging and informative response. However, existing approaches emphasize selecting one golden knowledge given a particular dialogue context, overlooking the one-to-many phenomenon in dialogue. As a result, existing paradigm l…

2022

Towards Efficient Dialogue Pre-training with Transferable and Interpretable Latent Structure

EMNLP 2022main

With the availability of massive general-domain dialogue data, pre-trained dialogue generation appears to be super appealing to transfer knowledge from the general domain to downstream applications. In most existing work, such transferable ability is mainly obtained by fitting a large model with hun…

2021

Learning an Effective Context-Response Matching Model with Self-Supervised Tasks for Retrieval-based Dialogues

AAAI 2021technical

Building an intelligent dialogue system with the ability to select a proper response according to a multi-turn context is a great challenging task. Existing studies focus on building a context-response matching model with various neural architectures or pretrained language models (PLMs) and typicall…

2020

Low-Resource Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation

ICLR 2020poster

Responding with knowledge has been recognized as an important capability for an intelligent conversational agent. Yet knowledge-grounded dialogues, as training data for learning such a response generation model, are difficult to obtain. Motivated by the challenge in practice, we consider knowledge-g…

Cited by 117SourceScholar
2020

Zero-Resource Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation

NeurIPS 2020poster

While neural conversation models have shown great potentials towards generating informative and engaging responses via introducing external knowledge, learning such a model often requires knowledge-grounded dialogues that are difficult to obtain. To overcome the data challenge and reduce the cost of…