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Yingying Zhuang

2 accepted papers

2026

Semantic Volume: Quantifying and Detecting Both External and Internal Uncertainty in LLMs

AAAI 2026technical

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse tasks by encoding vast amounts of factual knowledge. However, they are still prone to hallucinations, generating incorrect or misleading information, often accompanied by high uncertainty. Existing methods for hallu

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2025

When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Reasoning-enhanced large language models (RLLMs), whether explicitly trained for reasoning or prompted via chain-of-thought (CoT), have achieved state-of-the-art performance on many complex reasoning tasks. However, we uncover a surprising and previously overlooked phenomenon: explicit CoT reasoning…

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