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Zongmeng Zhang

7 accepted papers

2026

Scaling Agentic Verifier for Competitive Coding

ICML 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong coding capabilities but still struggle to solve competitive programming problems correctly in a single attempt. Execution-based re-ranking offers a promising test-time scaling strategy, yet existing methods are constrained by either difficult tes…

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2025

Controllable Style Arithmetic with Language Models

ACL 2025long

Language models have shown remarkable capabilities in text generation, but precisely controlling their linguistic style remains challenging. Existing methods either lack fine-grained control, require extensive computation, or introduce significant latency. We propose Style Arithmetic (SA), a novel p…

2025

Mitigating Hallucination in VideoLLMs via Temporal-Aware Activation Engineering

NeurIPS 2025poster

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in video understanding. However, hallucination, where the model generates plausible yet incorrect outputs, persists as a significant and under-addressed challenge in the video domain. Among existing solutions, activation engi…

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2025

Robust Multimodal Large Language Models Against Modality Conflict

ICML 2025poster

Despite the impressive capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in vision-language tasks, they are prone to hallucinations in real-world scenarios. This paper investigates the hallucination phenomenon in MLLMs from the perspective of modality conflict. Unlike existing works focusing…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

BoolQuestions: Does Dense Retrieval Understand Boolean Logic in Language?

EMNLP 2024finding

Dense retrieval, which aims to encode the semantic information of arbitrary text into dense vector representations or embeddings, has emerged as an effective and efficient paradigm for text retrieval, consequently becoming an essential component in various natural language processing systems. These…

2024

Trustworthy Alignment of Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2024poster

Trustworthiness is an essential prerequisite for the real-world application of large language models. In this paper, we focus on the trustworthiness of language models with respect to retrieval augmentation. Despite being supported with external evidence, retrieval-augmented generation still suffers…