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Zhicheng YANG

19 accepted papers

2026

Accordion-Thinking: Self-Regulated Step Summaries for Efficient and Readable LLM Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

Scaling test-time compute via long Chain-of-Thought unlocks remarkable gains in reasoning capabilities, yet it faces practical limits due to the linear growth of KV cache and quadratic attention complexity. In this paper, we introduce AccordionThinking, an end-to-end framework where LLMs learn to se…

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2026

Are LLMs Really Not Knowledgeable? Mining the Submerged Knowledge in LLMs' Memory

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise as parametric knowledge bases, but often underperform on question answering (QA) tasks due to hallucinations and uncertainty. While prior work attributes these failures to knowledge gaps in the model’s parameters, we uncover a complementary phenomenon:…

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2026

CARE What Fails: Contrastive Anchored-REflection for Verifiable Multimodal Reasoning

CVPR 2026

Group-relative reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) often wastes the most informative data it already has--the failures. When all rollouts are wrong, gradients stall; when one happens to be correct, the update usually ignores why the others are close-but-wrong, and credit can be mis

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2026

Depth-Breadth Synergy in RLVR: Unlocking LLM Reasoning Gains with Adaptive Exploration

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) is a powerful method for enhancing the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models, but its full potential is limited by a lack of exploration in two key areas: \textbf{Depth} (the difficulty of problems) and \textbf{Breadth} (the number of train…

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2026

Easy2Hard: From Partially to Fully Unmatched Modalities as Negative Samples in Contrastive Learning

CVPR 2026

Contrastive learning is widely used for generating multimodal data representations by aligning embeddings of different modalities of the same data samples. This alignment is achieved through a loss function that treats matched and unmatched modality pairs as positive and negative samples within a da

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2025

CityWalker: Learning Embodied Urban Navigation from Web-Scale Videos

CVPR 2025poster

Navigating dynamic urban environments presents significant challenges for embodied agents, requiring advanced spatial reasoning and adherence to common-sense norms. Despite progress, existing visual navigation methods struggle in map-free or off-street settings, limiting the deployment of autonomous…

2025

OptiBench Meets ReSocratic: Measure and Improve LLMs for Optimization Modeling

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited their problem-solving abilities in mathematical reasoning. Solving realistic optimization (OPT) problems in application scenarios requires advanced and applied mathematics ability. However, current OPT benchmarks that merely solve linear programming are fa…

2025

Understanding GUI Agent Localization Biases through Logit Sharpness

EMNLP 2025

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled GUI agents to interact with operating systems by grounding language into spatial actions. Despite their promising performance, these models frequently exhibit hallucinations—systematic localization errors that compromise reliability. We propose a

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2025

When Inverse Data Outperforms: Exploring the Pitfalls of Mixed Data in Multi-Stage Fine-Tuning

EMNLP 2025

Existing work has shown that o1-level performance can be achieved with limited data distillation, but most existing methods focus on unidirectional supervised fine-tuning (SFT), overlooking the intricate interplay between diverse reasoning patterns. In this paper, we construct r1k, a high-quality re

2024

ATG: Benchmarking Automated Theorem Generation for Generative Language Models

NAACL 2024findings

Humans can develop new theorems to explore broader and more complex mathematical results.While current generative language models (LMs) have achieved significant improvement in automatically proving theorems, their ability to generate new or reusable theorems is still under-explored. Without the new…

2024

AlignedCoT: Prompting Large Language Models via Native-Speaking Demonstrations

EMNLP 2024finding

Large Language Models prompting, such as using in-context demonstrations, is a mainstream technique for invoking LLMs to perform high-performance and solid complex reasoning (e.g., mathematical reasoning, commonsense reasoning), and has the potential for further human-machine collaborative scientifi…

2024

CLOMO: Counterfactual Logical Modification with Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

In this study, we delve into the realm of counterfactual reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Our primary objective is to cultivate the counterfactual thought processes within LLMs and rigorously assess these processes for their validity. Specifically, we introduce a novel task, C…

2024

DQ-LoRe: Dual Queries with Low Rank Approximation Re-ranking for In-Context Learning

ICLR 2024poster

Recent advances in natural language processing, primarily propelled by Large Language Models (LLMs), have showcased their remarkable capabilities grounded in in-context learning. A promising avenue for guiding LLMs in intricate reasoning tasks involves the utilization of intermediate reasoning steps…

2024

Proving Theorems Recursively

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent advances in automated theorem proving leverages language models to explore expanded search spaces by step-by-step proof generation. However, such approaches are usually based on short-sighted heuristics (e.g., log probability or value function scores) that potentially lead to suboptimal or ev…

2023

Disentangling the Benefits of Self-Supervised Learning to Deployment-Driven Downstream Tasks of Satellite Images (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2023technical

In this paper, we investigate the benefits of self-supervised learning (SSL) to downstream tasks of satellite images. Unlike common student academic projects, this work focuses on the advantages of the SSL for deployment-driven tasks which have specific scenarios with low or high-spatial resolution…

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2023

PARCS: A Deployment-Oriented AI System for Robust Parcel-Level Cropland Segmentation of Satellite Images

AAAI 2023technical

Cropland segmentation of satellite images is an essential basis for crop area and yield estimation tasks in the remote sensing and computer vision interdisciplinary community. Instead of common pixel-level segmentation results with salt-and-pepper effects, a parcel-level output conforming to human r…

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2022

LogicSolver: Towards Interpretable Math Word Problem Solving with Logical Prompt-enhanced Learning

EMNLP 2022finding

Recently, deep learning models have made great progress in MWP solving on answer accuracy. However, they are uninterpretable since they mainly rely on shallow heuristics to achieve high performance without understanding and reasoning the grounded math logic. To address this issue and make a step tow…

2022

Unbiased Math Word Problems Benchmark for Mitigating Solving Bias

NAACL 2022findings

In this paper, we revisit the solving bias when evaluating models on current Math Word Problem (MWP) benchmarks. However, current solvers exist solving bias which consists of data bias and learning bias due to biased dataset and improper training strategy. Our experiments verify MWP solvers are easy…

2021

Leveraging Large-Scale Weakly Labeled Data for Semi-Supervised Mass Detection in Mammograms

CVPR 2021poster

Mammographic mass detection is an integral part of a computer-aided diagnosis system. Annotating a large number of mammograms at pixel-level in order to train a mass detection model in a fully supervised fashion is costly and time-consuming. This paper presents a novel self-training framework for se…

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