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Yangxinyu Xie

5 accepted papers

2026

Statistical Early Stopping for Reasoning Models

ICML 2026poster

While LLMs have seen substantial improvement in reasoning capabilities, they also sometimes overthink, generating unnecessary reasoning steps, particularly under uncertainty, given ill-posed or ambiguous queries. We introduce statistically principled early stopping methods that monitor uncertainty s…

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2025

Foundations of Top-$k$ Decoding for Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Top-$k$ decoding is a widely used method for sampling from LLMs: at each token, only the largest $k$ next-token-probabilities are kept, and the next token is sampled after re-normalizing them to sum to unity. Top-$k$ and other sampling methods are motivated by the intuition that true next-token dist…

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2025

Towards Rationality in Language and Multimodal Agents: A Survey

NAACL 2025long

This work discusses how to build more rational language and multimodal agents and what criteria define rationality in intelligent systems.Rationality is the quality of being guided by reason, characterized by decision-making that aligns with evidence and logical principles. It plays a crucial role i…

2024

A Peek into Token Bias: Large Language Models Are Not Yet Genuine Reasoners

EMNLP 2024main

This study introduces a hypothesis-testing framework to assess whether large language models (LLMs) possess genuine reasoning abilities or primarily depend on token bias. We go beyond evaluating LLMs on accuracy; rather, we aim to investigate their token bias in solving logical reasoning tasks. Spec…