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Zicheng Xu

5 accepted papers

2026

DTS: Enhancing Large Reasoning Models via Decoding Tree Sketching

ICML 2026poster

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve remarkable inference-time improvements through parallel thinking. However, existing methods rely on redundant sampling of reasoning trajectories, failing to effectively explore the reasoning space to uncover high-quality solutions. To address these limitations, …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Density-Guided Continuous Flow for Robust Counterfactual Explanations

ICML 2026poster

Counterfactual explanations (CEs) are essential for actionable recourse, yet their reliability is often compromised in low-density regions, where classifiers exhibit high variance. Unlike existing methods that rely on expensive ensemble intersections to define stability, we propose DensityFlow, a ge…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Physics of Language Models: Part 2.1, Grade-School Math and the Hidden Reasoning Process

ICLR 2025poster

Recent advances in language models have demonstrated their capability to solve mathematical reasoning problems, achieving near-perfect accuracy on grade-school level math benchmarks like GSM8K. In this paper, we formally study how language models solve these problems. We design a series of controlle…

Cited by 35SourcePDFScholar
2025

Physics of Language Models: Part 2.2, How to Learn From Mistakes on Grade-School Math Problems

ICLR 2025poster

Language models have demonstrated remarkable performance in solving reasoning tasks; however, even the strongest models still occasionally make reasoning mistakes. Recently, there has been active research aimed at improving reasoning accuracy, particularly by using pretrained language models to "sel…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2025

Self-Ensemble: Mitigating Confidence Distortion for Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well in general fields, they exhibit a **confidence distortion problem** on multi-choice question-answering (MCQA), particularly as the number of answer choices increases. Specifically, on MCQA with many choices, LLMs suffer from under-confidence in corr

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar