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Zhengliang Shi

14 accepted papers

2026

What Affects the Stability of Tool Learning? An Empirical Study on the Robustness of Tool Learning Frameworks

IJCAI 2026

Tool learning methods have enhanced the ability of large language models (LLMs) to interact with real-world applications. Many existing works fine-tune LLMs or design prompts to enable LLMs to select appropriate tools and correctly invoke them to meet user requirements. However, it is observed in pr

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2025

Bridging the Capability Gap: Joint Alignment Tuning for Harmonizing LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems

EMNLP 2025

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has enabled the construction of multi-agent systems to solve complex tasks by dividing responsibilities among specialized agents, such as a planning agent for subgoal generation and a grounding agent for executing tool-use actions. Most existing method

2025

Divide-Then-Aggregate: An Efficient Tool Learning Method via Parallel Tool Invocation

ACL 2025long

While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities, their ability to autonomously execute complex real-world tasks remains limited. Accordingly, tool learning has emerged to enable LLMs to effectively leverage external tools to extend their capabilities. Current tool-learning par…

2025

Iterative Self-Incentivization Empowers Large Language Models as Agentic Searchers

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely integrated into information retrieval to advance traditional techniques. However, effectively enabling LLMs to seek accurate knowledge in complex tasks remains a challenge due to the complexity of multi-hop queries as well as the irrelevant retrieved con…

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2025

Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Entity-Centric Multimodal Preference Optimization

EMNLP 2025

Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across multiple tasks. However, their trustworthiness is often challenged by hallucinations, which can be attributed to the modality misalignment and the inherent hallucinations of their underlying Large Language Models (

2025

Retrieval Models Aren’t Tool-Savvy: Benchmarking Tool Retrieval for Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

Tool learning aims to augment large language models (LLMs) with diverse tools, enabling them to act as agents for solving practical tasks. Due to the limited context length of tool-using LLMs, adopting information retrieval (IR) models to select useful tools from large toolsets is a critical initial…

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2025

TTPA: Token-level Tool-use Preference Alignment Training Framework with Fine-grained Evaluation

EMNLP 2025

Existing tool-learning methods usually rely on supervised fine-tuning, they often overlook fine-grained optimization of internal tool call details, leading to limitations in preference alignment and error discrimination. To overcome these challenges, we propose **T**oken-level **T**ool-use **P**refe

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2024

Confucius: Iterative Tool Learning from Introspection Feedback by Easy-to-Difficult Curriculum

AAAI 2024technical

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools has emerged as a promising approach to extending the capability of LLMs. Although there are some works that employ open-source LLMs for the tool-learning task, most of them are trained in a controlled environment in which LLMs only learn to…

2024

Generate-then-Ground in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Multi-hop Question Answering

ACL 2024long

Multi-Hop Question Answering (MHQA) task presents a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs) due to the intensive knowledge required. Current solutions, like Retrieval-Augmented Generation, typically retrieve potential documents from an external corpus to read an answer. However, the p…

2024

Learning to Use Tools via Cooperative and Interactive Agents

EMNLP 2024finding

Tool learning empowers large language models (LLMs) as agents to use external tools and extend their utility. Existing methods employ one single LLM-based agent to iteratively select and execute tools, thereafter incorporating execution results into the next action prediction. Despite their progress…

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2024

MAIR: A Massive Benchmark for Evaluating Instructed Retrieval

EMNLP 2024main

Recent information retrieval (IR) models are pre-trained and instruction-tuned on massive datasets and tasks, enabling them to perform well on a wide range of tasks and potentially generalize to unseen tasks with instructions. However, existing IR benchmarks focus on a limited scope of tasks, making…

2023

Contrastive Learning Reduces Hallucination in Conversations

AAAI 2023technical

Pre-trained language models (LMs) store knowledge in their parameters and can generate informative responses when used in conversational systems. However, LMs suffer from the problem of “hallucination:” they may generate plausible-looking statements that are irrelevant or factually incorrect. To add…

2023

RADE: Reference-Assisted Dialogue Evaluation for Open-Domain Dialogue

ACL 2023long

Evaluating open-domain dialogue systems is challenging for reasons such as the one-to-many problem, i.e., many appropriate responses other than just the golden response. As of now, automatic evaluation methods need better consistency with humans, while reliable human evaluation can be time- and cost…

2023

Towards a Unified Framework for Reference Retrieval and Related Work Generation

EMNLP 2023long findings

The task of related work generation aims to generate a comprehensive survey of related research topics automatically, saving time and effort for authors. Existing methods simplify this task by using human-annotated references in a large-scale scientific corpus as information sources, which is time-…

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