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Yuetai Li

5 accepted papers

2026

Does Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

Math reasoning has become the poster child of progress in large language models (LLMs), with new models rapidly surpassing human-level performance on benchmarks like MATH and AIME. But as math leaderboards improve week by week, it is worth asking: do these gains reflect broader problem-solving abili…

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2026

SOSBENCH: Benchmarking Safety Alignment on Scientific Knowledge

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit advancing capabilities in complex tasks, such as reasoning and graduate-level question answering, yet their resilience against misuse, particularly involving scientifically sophisticated risks, remains underexplored. Existing safety benchmarks typically focus eit…

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2025

SafeChain: Safety of Language Models with Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Capabilities

ACL 2025finding

Emerging large reasoning models (LRMs), such as DeepSeek-R1 models, leverage long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning to generate structured intermediate steps, enhancing their reasoning capabilities. However, long CoT does not inherently guarantee safe outputs, potentially leading to harmful consequen…

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2025

Small Models Struggle to Learn from Strong Reasoners

ACL 2025finding

Large language models (LLMs) excel in complex reasoning tasks, and distilling their reasoning capabilities into smaller models has shown promise. However, we uncover an interesting phenomenon, which we term the Small Model Learnability Gap: small models (3B parameters) do not consistently benefit fr…

2024

CleanGen: Mitigating Backdoor Attacks for Generation Tasks in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

The remarkable performance of large language models (LLMs) in generation tasks has enabled practitioners to leverage publicly available models to power custom applications, such as chatbots and virtual assistants. However, the data used to train or fine-tune these LLMs is often undisclosed, allowing…