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Zhijiang Guo

47 accepted papers

2026

ACE: Attribution-Controlled Knowledge Editing for Multi-hop Factual Recall

ICLR 2026poster

LLMs require efficient knowledge editing (KE) to update factual information, yet existing methods exhibit significant performance decay in multi-hop factual recall. This failure is particularly acute when edits involve intermediate implicit subjects within reasoning chains. Through causal analysis,…

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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

Beyond Pass@ 1: Self-Play with Variational Problem Synthesis Sustains RLVR

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently emerged as a key paradigm for post-training Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly for complex reasoning tasks. However, vanilla RLVR training has been shown to improve Pass@1 performance at the expense of policy entropy, leading…

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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

Developmental Federated Tuning: A Cognitive-Inspired Paradigm for Efficient LLM Adaptation

ICLR 2026poster

Federated fine-tuning enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to adapt to downstream tasks while preserving data privacy, but its resource-intensive nature severely limits deployment on edge devices. In this paper, we introduce Developmental Federated Tuning (DevFT), a resource-efficient approach inspi…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Don't Reinvent the Wheel, Just Realign the Spokes: Resource-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning via Rank-Wise Expert Assembly

ICML 2026spotlight

Federated fine-tuning presents a promising avenue for adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to downstream tasks while preserving data privacy. However, the prohibitive computational and communication overhead of LLM adaptation inhibits its deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. In this pap…

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2026

FormalRx: Rectify and eXamine Semantic Failures in Autoformalization

ICML 2026poster

Autoformalization—translating mathematical problems from natural language into formal proof assistant code—is essential for rigorous machine reasoning. However, existing evaluation frameworks provide only opaque binary verdicts or scalar scores, offering no interpretable insight into where or why tr…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

SWINGARENA: Adversarial Programming Arena for Long-context GitHub Issue Solving

ICLR 2026oral

We present \textsc{SwingArena}, a adversarial evaluation framework for Large Language Models (LLMs) that closely mirrors real-world software development workflows. Unlike traditional static benchmarks, \textsc{SwingArena} models the collaborative process of software iteration by pairing LLMs as \tex…

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2026

Uncertainty-Aware Clarification in LLM Agents with Information Gain

ICML 2026poster

Large Language Model (LLM) agents often operate under underspecified user instructions, where latent uncertainty over user intent leads to erroneous tool actions. To address this challenge, we propose a goal-oriented clarification framework that aligns clarification behavior with ambiguity resolutio…

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2026

When Silence Is Golden: Can LLMs Learn to Abstain in Temporal QA and Beyond?

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) rarely admit uncertainty, often producing fluent but misleading answers, rather than abstaining (i.e., refusing to answer). This weakness is even evident in temporal question answering (QA), where models frequently ignore time-sensitive evidence and conflate facts across…

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2025

AVerImaTeC: A Dataset for Automatic Verification of Image-Text Claims with Evidence from the Web

NeurIPS 2025poster

Textual claims are often accompanied by images to enhance their credibility and spread on social media, but this also raises concerns about the spread of misinformation. Existing datasets for automated verification of image-text claims remain limited, as they often consist of synthetic claims and…

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2025

Activation-Guided Consensus Merging for Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent research has increasingly focused on reconciling the reasoning capabilities of System 2 with the efficiency of System 1. While existing training-based and prompt-based approaches face significant challenges in terms of efficiency and stability, model merging emerges as a promising strategy to…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Aligning with Logic: Measuring, Evaluating and Improving Logical Preference Consistency in Large Language Models

ICML 2025spotlight

Large Language Models (LLMs) are expected to be predictable and trustworthy to support reliable decision-making systems. Yet current LLMs often show inconsistencies in their judgments. In this work, we examine \textit{logical preference consistency} as a foundational requirement for building more de…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2025

Atom of Thoughts for Markov LLM Test-Time Scaling

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve superior performance through training-time scaling, and test-time scaling further enhances their capabilities by conducting effective reasoning during inference. However, as the scale of reasoning increases, existing test-time scaling methods suffer from accumul…

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2025

ClimateViz: A Benchmark for Statistical Reasoning and Fact Verification on Scientific Charts

EMNLP 2025

Scientific fact-checking has largely focused on textual and tabular sources, neglecting scientific charts—a primary medium for conveying quantitative evidence and supporting statistical reasoning in research communication. We introduce ClimateViz, the first large-scale benchmark for scientific fact-

2025

CtrlA: Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Inherent Control

ACL 2025finding

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising solution for mitigating hallucinations of large language models (LLMs) with retrieved external knowledge. Adaptive RAG enhances this approach by enabling dynamic retrieval during generation, activating retrieval only when the query exce…

2025

Determine-Then-Ensemble: Necessity of Top-k Union for Large Language Model Ensembling

ICLR 2025spotlight

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit varying strengths and weaknesses across different tasks, prompting recent studies to explore the benefits of ensembling models to leverage their complementary advantages. However, existing LLM ensembling methods often overlook model compatibility and struggle wit…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2025

EffiBench-X: A Multi-Language Benchmark for Measuring Efficiency of LLM-Generated Code

NeurIPS 2025poster

Existing code generation benchmarks primarily evaluate functional correctness, with limited attention to code efficiency, and they are often restricted to a single language such as Python. To address this gap, we introduce EffiBench‑X, the first large‑scale multi‑language benchmark specifically desi…

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2025

EffiCoder: Enhancing Code Generation in Large Language Models through Efficiency-Aware Fine-tuning

ICML 2025poster

As large language models (LLMs) play an increasingly important role in code generation, enhancing both correctness and efficiency has become crucial. Current methods primarily focus on correctness, often overlooking efficiency. To address this gap, we introduce SWIFTCODE to improve both aspects by f…

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2025

FaStFact: Faster, Stronger Long-Form Factuality Evaluations in LLMs

EMNLP 2025

Evaluating the factuality of long-form generations from Large Language Models (LLMs) remains challenging due to accuracy issues and costly human assessment. Prior evaluation pipelines attempt this by decomposing text into claims, searching for evidence, and verifying claims, but suffer from critical

2025

FormalAlign: Automated Alignment Evaluation for Autoformalization

ICLR 2025poster

Autoformalization aims to convert informal mathematical proofs into machine-verifiable formats, bridging the gap between natural and formal languages. However, ensuring semantic alignment between the informal and formalized statements remains challenging. Existing approaches heavily rely on manual v…

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

TimE: A Multi-level Benchmark for Temporal Reasoning of LLMs in Real-World Scenarios

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Temporal reasoning is pivotal for Large Language Models (LLMs) to comprehend the real world. However, existing works neglect the real-world challenges for temporal reasoning: (1) intensive temporal information, (2) fast-changing event dynamics, and (3) complex temporal dependencies in social interac…

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2025

TreeReview: A Dynamic Tree of Questions Framework for Deep and Efficient LLM-based Scientific Peer Review

EMNLP 2025

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential in assisting peer review, current methods often struggle to generate thorough and insightful reviews while maintaining efficiency. In this paper, we propose TreeReview, a novel framework that models paper review as a hierarchical an

2025

UNComp: Can Matrix Entropy Uncover Sparsity? — A Compressor Design from an Uncertainty-Aware Perspective

EMNLP 2025

Deploying large language models (LLMs) for long-context inference remains challenging due to their substantial memory and computational demands. While techniques such as Key-Value (KV) cache compression are designed to reduce memory usage, they often neglect the structured sparsity inherent in the r

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

AutoPSV: Automated Process-Supervised Verifier

NeurIPS 2024poster

In this work, we propose a novel method named \textbf{Auto}mated \textbf{P}rocess-\textbf{S}upervised \textbf{V}erifier (\textbf{\textsc{AutoPSV}}) to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by automatically annotating the reasoning steps. \textsc{AutoPSV} begins by traini…

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

DVD: Dynamic Contrastive Decoding for Knowledge Amplification in Multi-Document Question Answering

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used in question-answering (QA) systems but often generate information with hallucinations. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) offers a potential remedy, yet the uneven retrieval quality and irrelevant contents may distract LLMs.In this work, we address thes…

2024

Do We Need Language-Specific Fact-Checking Models? The Case of Chinese

EMNLP 2024main

This paper investigates the potential benefits of language-specific fact-checking models, focusing on the case of Chinese using CHEF dataset. To better reflect real-world fact-checking, we first develop a novel Chinese document-level evidence retriever, achieving state-of-the-art performance. We the…

2024

EffiLearner: Enhancing Efficiency of Generated Code via Self-Optimization

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress in code generation, but their generated code often suffers from inefficiency, resulting in longer execution times and higher memory consumption. To address this issue, we propose EffiLearner, a self-optimization framework that utilizes exec…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

Evaluating Robustness of Generative Search Engine on Adversarial Factoid Questions

ACL 2024findings

Generative search engines have the potential to transform how people seek information online, but generated responses from existing large language models (LLMs)-backed generative search engines may not always be accurate. Nonetheless, retrieval-augmented generation exacerbates safety concerns, since…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

HydraLoRA: An Asymmetric LoRA Architecture for Efficient Fine-Tuning

NeurIPS 2024oral

Adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to new tasks through fine-tuning has been made more efficient by the introduction of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) techniques, such as LoRA. However, these methods often underperform compared to full fine-tuning, particularly in scenarios involving comp…

2024

Knowledge Conflicts for LLMs: A Survey

EMNLP 2024main

This survey provides an in-depth analysis of knowledge conflicts for large language models (LLMs), highlighting the complex challenges they encounter when blending contextual and parametric knowledge. Our focus is on three categories of knowledge conflicts: context-memory, inter-context, and intra-m…

2024

MR-Ben: A Meta-Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating System-2 Thinking in LLMs

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) have shown increasing capability in problem-solving and decision-making, largely based on the step-by-step chain-of-thought reasoning processes. However, evaluating these reasoning abilities has become increasingly challenging. Existing outcome-based benchmarks are begin…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2024

ProxyQA: An Alternative Framework for Evaluating Long-Form Text Generation with Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

Large Language Models (LLMs) have succeeded remarkably in understanding long-form contents. However, exploring their capability for generating long-form contents, such as reports and articles, has been relatively unexplored and inadequately assessed by existing benchmarks. The prevalent evaluation m…

2024

Towards Human-aligned Evaluation for Linear Programming Word Problems

COLING 2024main

Math Word Problem (MWP) is a crucial NLP task aimed at providing solutions for given mathematical descriptions. A notable sub-category of MWP is the Linear Programming Word Problem (LPWP), which holds significant relevance in real-world decision-making and operations research. While the recent rise…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

Towards Understanding Factual Knowledge of Large Language Models

ICLR 2024spotlight

Large language models (LLMs) have recently driven striking performance improvements across a range of natural language processing tasks. The factual knowledge acquired during pretraining and instruction tuning can be useful in various downstream tasks, such as question answering, and language genera…

2023

Multimodal Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey

EMNLP 2023long findings

Misinformation is often conveyed in multiple modalities, e.g. a miscaptioned image. Multimodal misinformation is perceived as more credible by humans, and spreads faster than its text-only counterparts. While an increasing body of research investigates automated fact-checking (AFC), previous survey…

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2023

Multimodal Relation Extraction with Cross-Modal Retrieval and Synthesis

ACL 2023short

Multimodal relation extraction (MRE) is the task of identifying the semantic relationships between two entities based on the context of the sentence image pair. Existing retrieval-augmented approaches mainly focused on modeling the retrieved textual knowledge, but this may not be able to accurately…

2023

TRIGO: Benchmarking Formal Mathematical Proof Reduction for Generative Language Models

EMNLP 2023long main

Automated theorem proving (ATP) has become an appealing domain for exploring the reasoning ability of the recent successful generative language models. However, current ATP benchmarks are mainly focus on symbolic inference, but rarely involve the understanding of complex number combination reasoni…

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2022

CHEF: A Pilot Chinese Dataset for Evidence-Based Fact-Checking

NAACL 2022long

The explosion of misinformation spreading in the media ecosystem urges for automated fact-checking. While misinformation spans both geographic and linguistic boundaries, most work in the field has focused on English. Datasets and tools available in other languages, such as Chinese, are limited. In o…

2022

METS-CoV: A Dataset of Medical Entity and Targeted Sentiment on COVID-19 Related Tweets

NeurIPS 2022accept

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to bring up various topics discussed or debated on social media. In order to explore the impact of pandemics on people's lives, it is crucial to understand the public's concerns and attitudes towards pandemic-related entities (e.g., drugs, vaccines) on social media. H…

2022

Scene Graph Modification as Incremental Structure Expanding

COLING 2022main

A scene graph is a semantic representation that expresses the objects, attributes, and relationships between objects in a scene. Scene graphs play an important role in many cross modality tasks, as they are able to capture the interactions between images and texts. In this paper, we focus on scene g…

2021

FEVEROUS: Fact Extraction and VERification Over Unstructured and Structured information

NeurIPS 2021poster

Fact verification has attracted a lot of attention in the machine learning and natural language processing communities, as it is one of the key methods for detecting misinformation. Existing large-scale benchmarks for this task have focused mostly on textual sources, i.e. unstructured information, a…

Cited by 270SourcecodeScholar
2021

Uncovering Main Causalities for Long-tailed Information Extraction

EMNLP 2021main

Information Extraction (IE) aims to extract structural information from unstructured texts. In practice, long-tailed distributions caused by the selection bias of a dataset may lead to incorrect correlations, also known as spurious correlations, between entities and labels in the conventional likeli…