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Ziheng Li

7 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Step Pruning: Information Theory Based Step-level Optimization for Self-Refining Large Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in natural language tasks, yet they continue to struggle with multi-step mathematical reasoning, where correctness depends on a precise chain of intermediate steps. Preference optimization methods such as Direct Preference Optimization

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2026

Efficient Thought Space Exploration Through Strategic Intervention

AAAI 2026technical

While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate emerging reasoning capabilities, current inference-time expansion methods incur prohibitive computational costs through exhaustive sampling. Through analyzing decoding trajectories, we observe that most next-token predictions align well with the golden

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2026

IRPM: Intergroup Relative Preference Modeling for Pointwise Generative Reward Models

ICML 2026poster

Generative Reward Models (GRMs) have demonstrated strong performance in reward modeling, due to their interpretability and potential for refinement through reinforcement learning (RL). However, widely used pairwise GRMs create a computational bottleneck in reinforcement learning from human feedback …

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2024

ADDP: Learning General Representations for Image Recognition and Generation with Alternating Denoising Diffusion Process

ICLR 2024poster

Image recognition and generation have long been developed independently of each other. With the recent trend towards general-purpose representation learning, the development of general representations for both recognition and generation tasks is also promoted. However, preliminary attempts mainly fo…

2024

ControlLLM: Augment Language Models with Tools by Searching on Graphs

ECCV 2024poster

"We present ControlLLM, a novel framework that enables large language models (LLMs) to utilize multi-modal tools for solving complex real-world tasks. Despite the remarkable performance of LLMs, they still struggle with tool invocation due to ambiguous user prompts, inaccurate tool selection and mis…

2024

Distilling Knowledge from Large-Scale Image Models for Object Detection

ECCV 2024poster

"Large-scale image models have made great progress in recent years, pushing the boundaries of many vision tasks, , object detection. Considering that deploying large models is impractical in many scenes due to expensive computation overhead, this paper presents a new knowledge distillation method, w…

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2023

Dual-Alignment Pre-training for Cross-lingual Sentence Embedding

ACL 2023long

Recent studies have shown that dual encoder models trained with the sentence-level translation ranking task are effective methods for cross-lingual sentence embedding. However, our research indicates that token-level alignment is also crucial in multilingual scenarios, which has not been fully explo…