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Zhiwei He

28 accepted papers

2026

DeepCompress: A Dual Reward Strategy for Dynamically Exploring and Compressing Reasoning Chains

ICLR 2026poster

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities but suffer from cognitive inefficiencies like ''overthinking'' simple problems and ''underthinking'' complex ones. While existing methods that use supervised fine-tuning (SFT) or reinforcement learning (RL) with token-length rew…

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2026

DeepMath-103K: A Large-Scale, Challenging, Decontaminated, and Verifiable Mathematical Dataset for Advancing Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) with large language models shows promise in complex reasoning. However, its progress is hindered by the lack of large-scale training data that is sufficiently challenging, contamination-free and verifiable. To this end, we introduce DeepMath-103K, a large-scale mathematic…

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2026

RLVER: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Emotion Rewards for Empathetic Agents

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) excel at logical and algorithmic reasoning, yet their emotional intelligence (EQ) still lags far behind their cognitive prowess. While reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) has advanced in other domains, its application to dialogue—especially for emotion…

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2025

Do NOT Think That Much for 2+3=? On the Overthinking of Long Reasoning Models

ICML 2025poster

The remarkable performance of long reasoning models can be attributed to their ability to emulate human-like long-time thinking during inference. These models employ extended chain-of-thought (CoT) processes, exploring multiple strategies to enhance problem-solving capabilities. However, a critical…

2025

Draft Model Knows When to Stop: Self-Verification Speculative Decoding for Long-Form Generation

EMNLP 2025

Conventional speculative decoding (SD) methods utilize a predefined length policy for proposing drafts, which implies the premise that the target model smoothly accepts the proposed draft tokens. However, reality deviates from this assumption: the oracle draft length varies significantly, and the fi

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2025

RaSA: Rank-Sharing Low-Rank Adaptation

ICLR 2025poster

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has been prominently employed for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs). However, the limited expressive capacity of LoRA, stemming from the low-rank constraint, has been recognized as a bottleneck, particularly in rigorous tasks like code generat…

2025

The First Few Tokens Are All You Need: An Efficient and Effective Unsupervised Prefix Fine-Tuning Method for Reasoning Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) typically requires supervised fine-tuning with labeled data or computationally expensive sampling. We introduce Unsupervised Prefix Fine-Tuning (UPFT), which leverages the observation of Prefix Self-Consistency -- the shared initia…

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2025

Thoughts Are All Over the Place: On the Underthinking of Long Reasoning Models

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Long reasoning models (LRMs) such as OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek's R1 have demonstrated remarkable abilities in complex reasoning tasks by scaling test-time compute and exhibiting human-like deep thinking. However, we identify a phenomenon we term underthinking, where LRMs frequently switch between dif…

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2025

Trust, But Verify: A Self-Verification Approach to Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) show great promise in complex reasoning, with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) being a key enhancement strategy. However, a prevalent issue is ``superficial self-reflection'', where models fail to robustly verify their own outputs. We introduce RISE…

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2025

Two Experts Are All You Need for Steering Thinking: Reinforcing Cognitive Effort in MoE Reasoning Models Without Additional Training

NeurIPS 2025poster

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures within Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have achieved impressive reasoning capabilities by selectively activating experts to facilitate structured cognitive processes. Despite notable advances, existing reasoning models often suffer from cognitive inefficiencies l…

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2025

UAWTrack: Universal 3D Single Object Tracking in Adverse Weather

AAAI 2025technical

3D single object tracking (3D SOT) in LiDAR point clouds is essential for autonomous driving. Most existing 3D SOT methods focus on clear weather, where point clouds are more defined. However, adverse weather conditions lead to sparser and noisier point clouds, significantly degrading tracking perfo…

2025

Weak-to-Strong Preference Optimization: Stealing Reward from Weak Aligned Model

ICLR 2025spotlight

Aligning language models (LMs) with human preferences has become a key area of research, enabling these models to meet diverse user needs better. Inspired by weak-to-strong generalization, where a strong LM fine-tuned on labels generated by a weaker model can consistently outperform its weak supervi…

2024

CLEAN–EVAL: Clean Evaluation on Contaminated Large Language Models

NAACL 2024findings

We are currently in an era of fierce competition among various large language models (LLMs), continuously pushing the boundaries of benchmark performance. However, genuinely assessing the capabilities of these LLMs has become a challenging and critical issue due to potential data contamination. In t…

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2024

Can Watermarks Survive Translation? On the Cross-lingual Consistency of Text Watermark for Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

Text watermarking technology aims to tag and identify content produced by large language models (LLMs) to prevent misuse. In this study, we introduce the concept of cross-lingual consistency in text watermarking, which assesses the ability of text watermarks to maintain their effectiveness after bei…

2024

Encouraging Divergent Thinking in Large Language Models through Multi-Agent Debate

EMNLP 2024main

Modern large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have shown remarkable performance on general language tasks but still struggle on complex reasoning tasks, which drives the research on cognitive behaviors of LLMs to explore human-like problem-solving strategies. Along this direction, one representat…

2024

Improving Machine Translation with Human Feedback: An Exploration of Quality Estimation as a Reward Model

NAACL 2024long

Insufficient modeling of human preferences within the reward model is a major obstacle for leveraging human feedback to improve translation quality. Fortunately, quality estimation (QE), which predicts the quality of a given translation without reference, has achieved impressive alignment with human…

2024

Improving Open-Ended Text Generation via Adaptive Decoding

ICML 2024poster

Current language models decode text token by token according to probabilistic distribution, and determining the appropriate candidates for the next token is crucial to ensure generation quality. This study introduces adaptive decoding, a mechanism that dynamically empowers language models to ascerta…

2024

MarkLLM: An Open-Source Toolkit for LLM Watermarking

EMNLP 2024system demonstrations

Watermarking for Large Language Models (LLMs), which embeds imperceptible yet algorithmically detectable signals in model outputs to identify LLM-generated text, has become crucial in mitigating the potential misuse of LLMs. However, the abundance of LLM watermarking algorithms, their intricate mech…

2024

Measuring Bargaining Abilities of LLMs: A Benchmark and A Buyer-Enhancement Method

ACL 2024findings

Bargaining is an important and unique part of negotiation between humans. As LLM-driven agents learn to negotiate and act like real humans, how to evaluate agents’ bargaining abilities remains an open problem.For the first time, we formally described the Bargaining task as an asymmetric incomplete i…

2024

R-Judge: Benchmarking Safety Risk Awareness for LLM Agents

EMNLP 2024finding

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited great potential in autonomously completing tasks across real-world applications. Despite this, these LLM agents introduce unexpected safety risks when operating in interactive environments. Instead of centering on the harmlessness of LLM-generated content…

2024

TM2B: Transformer-Based Motion-to-Box Network for 3D Single Object Tracking on Point Clouds

RA-L 2024

3D single object tracking plays a crucial role in numerous applications such as autonomous driving. Recent trackers based on motion-centric paradigm perform well as they exploit motion cues to infer target relative motion across successive frames, which effectively overcome significant appearance va

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2024

Towards Category Unification of 3D Single Object Tracking on Point Clouds

ICLR 2024poster

Category-specific models are provenly valuable methods in 3D single object tracking (SOT) regardless of Siamese or motion-centric paradigms. However, such over-specialized model designs incur redundant parameters, thus limiting the broader applicability of 3D SOT task. This paper first introduces un…

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2024

Unsupervised Sign Language Translation and Generation

ACL 2024findings

Motivated by the success of unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT), we introduce an unsupervised sign language translation and generation network (USLNet), which learns from abundant single-modality (text and video) data without parallel sign language data. USLNet comprises two main componen…

2023

GLT-T: Global-Local Transformer Voting for 3D Single Object Tracking in Point Clouds

AAAI 2023technical

Current 3D single object tracking methods are typically based on VoteNet, a 3D region proposal network. Despite the success, using a single seed point feature as the cue for offset learning in VoteNet prevents high-quality 3D proposals from being generated. Moreover, seed points with different impor…

2023

OSP2B: One-Stage Point-to-Box Network for 3D Siamese Tracking

IJCAI 2023poster

Two-stage point-to-box network acts as a critical role in the recent popular 3D Siamese tracking paradigm, which first generates proposals and then predicts corresponding proposal-wise scores. However, such a network suffers from tedious hyper-parameter tuning and task misalignment, limiting the tra…

2023

ParroT: Translating during Chat using Large Language Models tuned with Human Translation and Feedback

EMNLP 2023long findings

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have exhibited remarkable abilities on a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, including various machine translation abilities accomplished during chat. However, these models are only accessible through restricted APIs, which creates barrier…

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2023

TeCS: A Dataset and Benchmark for Tense Consistency of Machine Translation

ACL 2023short

Tense inconsistency frequently occurs in machine translation. However, there are few criteria to assess the model’s mastery of tense prediction from a linguistic perspective. In this paper, we present a parallel tense test set, containing French-English 552 utterances. We also introduce a correspond…

2022

Bridging the Data Gap between Training and Inference for Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation

ACL 2022long

Back-translation is a critical component of Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation (UNMT), which generates pseudo parallel data from target monolingual data. A UNMT model is trained on the pseudo parallel data with translated source, and translates natural source sentences in inference. The source…