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Zhanke Zhou

18 accepted papers

2026

Co-rewarding: Stable Self-supervised RL for Eliciting Reasoning in Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Although reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) shows promise in improving the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), the scaling up dilemma remains due to the reliance on human-annotated labels especially for complex tasks. Recent self-rewarding methods provide a label-fr…

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2026

DePO: Demonstration-guided Policy Optimization for Molecular Optimization

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable mathematical reasoning abilities through supervised fine-tuning (SFT) or reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). However, adapting them to scientific domains like molecular optimization is challenging: its datasets provide only reference…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Landscape of Thoughts: Visualizing the Reasoning Process of Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Numerous applications of large language models (LLMs) rely on their ability to perform step-by-step reasoning. However, the reasoning behavior of LLMs remains poorly understood, posing challenges to research, development, and safety. To address this gap, we introduce landscape of thoughts (LoT), the…

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2025

Eliciting Causal Abilities in Large Language Models for Reasoning Tasks

AAAI 2025technical

Prompt optimization automatically refines prompting expressions, unlocking the full potential of LLMs in downstream tasks. However, current prompt optimization methods are costly to train and lack sufficient interpretability. This paper proposes enhancing LLMs' reasoning performance by eliciting the…

2025

From Debate to Equilibrium: Belief‑Driven Multi‑Agent LLM Reasoning via Bayesian Nash Equilibrium

ICML 2025poster

Multi-agent frameworks can substantially boost the reasoning power of large language models (LLMs), but they typically incur heavy computational costs and lack convergence guarantees. To overcome these challenges, we recast multi-LLM coordination as an incomplete-information game and seek a Bayesian…

2025

From Passive to Active Reasoning: Can Large Language Models Ask the Right Questions under Incomplete Information?

ICML 2025poster

While existing benchmarks probe the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) across diverse domains, they predominantly assess passive reasoning, providing models with all the information needed to reach a solution. By contrast, active reasoning—where an LLM must interact with external sy…

2025

Noisy Test-Time Adaptation in Vision-Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to address distribution shifts between source and target data by relying solely on target data during testing. In open-world scenarios, models often encounter noisy samples, i.e., samples outside the in-distribution (ID) label space. Leveraging the zero-shot capabilit…

2025

Physics Reasoner: Knowledge-Augmented Reasoning for Solving Physics Problems with Large Language Models

COLING 2025main

Physics problems constitute a significant aspect of reasoning, necessitating complicated reasoning ability and abundant physics knowledge. However, existing large language models (LLMs) frequently fail due to a lack of knowledge or incorrect knowledge application. To mitigate these issues, we propos…

2025

Rethinking LLM Unlearning Objectives: A Gradient Perspective and Go Beyond

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) should undergo rigorous audits to identify potential risks, such as copyright and privacy infringements. Once these risks emerge, timely updates are crucial to remove undesirable responses, ensuring legal and safe model usage. It has spurred recent research into LLM unle…

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2025

SATBench: Benchmarking LLMs’ Logical Reasoning via Automated Puzzle Generation from SAT Formulas

EMNLP 2025

We introduce SATBench, a benchmark for evaluating the logical reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) through logical puzzles derived from Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problems.Unlike prior work that focuses on inference rule-based reasoning, which often involves deducing conclusions

2024

Can Language Models Perform Robust Reasoning in Chain-of-thought Prompting with Noisy Rationales?

NeurIPS 2024poster

This paper investigates an under-explored challenge in large language models (LLMs): chain-of-thought prompting with noisy rationales, which include irrelevant or inaccurate reasoning thoughts within examples used for in-context learning. We construct NoRa dataset that is tailored to evaluate the ro…

2024

Envisioning Outlier Exposure by Large Language Models for Out-of-Distribution Detection

ICML 2024poster

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) samples is essential when deploying machine learning models in open-world scenarios. Zero-shot OOD detection, requiring no training on in-distribution (ID) data, has been possible with the advent of vision-language models like CLIP. Existing methods build a text-b…

2024

Less is More: One-shot Subgraph Reasoning on Large-scale Knowledge Graphs

ICLR 2024poster

To deduce new facts on a knowledge graph (KG), a link predictor learns from the graph structure and collects local evidence to find the answer to a given query. However, existing methods suffer from a severe scalability problem due to the utilization of the whole KG for prediction, which hinders the…

2024

Mind the Gap Between Prototypes and Images in Cross-domain Finetuning

NeurIPS 2024poster

In _cross-domain few-shot classification_ (CFC), recent works mainly focus on adapting a simple transformation head on top of a frozen pre-trained backbone with few labeled data to project embeddings into a task-specific metric space where classification can be performed by measuring similarities be…

2024

Neural Atoms: Propagating Long-range Interaction in Molecular Graphs through Efficient Communication Channel

ICLR 2024poster

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely adopted for drug discovery with molecular graphs. Nevertheless, current GNNs mainly excel in leveraging short-range interactions (SRI) but struggle to capture long-range interactions (LRI), both of which are crucial for determining molecular properties.…

2023

Combating Bilateral Edge Noise for Robust Link Prediction

NeurIPS 2023poster

Although link prediction on graphs has achieved great success with the development of graph neural networks (GNNs), the potential robustness under the edge noise is still less investigated. To close this gap, we first conduct an empirical study to disclose that the edge noise bilaterally perturbs bo…

2023

On Strengthening and Defending Graph Reconstruction Attack with Markov Chain Approximation

ICML 2023poster

Although powerful graph neural networks (GNNs) have boosted numerous real-world applications, the potential privacy risk is still underexplored. To close this gap, we perform the first comprehensive study of graph reconstruction attack that aims to reconstruct the adjacency of nodes. We show that a…

2022

Efficient Hyper-parameter Search for Knowledge Graph Embedding

ACL 2022long

While hyper-parameters (HPs) are important for knowledge graph (KG) learning, existing methods fail to search them efficiently. To solve this problem, we first analyze the properties of different HPs and measure the transfer ability from small subgraph to the full graph. Based on the analysis, we pr…