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Publications (10)

cs.CL2025

Does Learning Mathematical Problem-Solving Generalize to Broader Reasoning?

Ruochen Zhou, Minrui Xu, Shiqi Chen +5

There has been a growing interest in enhancing the mathematical problem-solving (MPS) capabilities of large language models. While the majority of research efforts concentrate on c…

cs.CL2026

SkillCraft: Can LLM Agents Learn to Use Tools Skillfully?

Shiqi Chen, Jingze Gai, Ruochen Zhou +13

Real-world tool-using agents operate over long-horizon workflows with recurring structure and diverse demands, where effective behavior requires not only invoking atomic tools but…

cs.RO2025

Phantom Menace: Exploring and Enhancing the Robustness of VLA Models Against Physical Sensor Attacks

Xuancun Lu, Jiaxiang Chen, Shilin Xiao +7

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models revolutionize robotic systems by enabling end-to-end perception-to-action pipelines that integrate multiple sensory modalities, such as visual s…

cs.CR2026

False Reality: Uncovering Sensor-induced Human-VR Interaction Vulnerability

Yancheng Jiang, Yan Jiang, Ruochen Zhou +3

Virtual Reality (VR) techniques, serving as the bridge between the real and virtual worlds, have boomed and are widely used in manufacturing, remote healthcare, gaming, etc. Specif…

cs.CL2025

Why Is Spatial Reasoning Hard for VLMs? An Attention Mechanism Perspective on Focus Areas

Shiqi Chen, Tongyao Zhu, Ruochen Zhou +7

Large Vision Language Models (VLMs) have long struggled with spatial reasoning tasks. Surprisingly, even simple spatial reasoning tasks, such as recognizing "under" or "behind" rel…

cs.CL2025

Learn to Reason Efficiently with Adaptive Length-based Reward Shaping

Wei Liu, Ruochen Zhou, Yiyun Deng +5

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in solving complex problems through reinforcement learning (RL), particularly by generating long reasoning traces.…

cs.CL2025

From Mathematical Reasoning to Code: Generalization of Process Reward Models in Test-Time Scaling

Zhengyu Chen, Yudong Wang, Teng Xiao +5

Recent advancements in improving the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models have underscored the efficacy of Process Reward Models (PRMs) in addressing intermediate errors…

cs.LG2026

HarnessCompass: Guiding Automatic Harness Evolution toward Generalizable and Effective Agent Harnesses

Luan Zhang, Ruochen Zhou, Dandan Song +9

Harness design plays a critical role in agent performance by shaping how large language models (LLMs) perceive, reason over, and act within executable environments. Recent work has…

cs.AI2024

Image-of-Thought Prompting for Visual Reasoning Refinement in Multimodal Large Language Models

Qiji Zhou, Ruochen Zhou, Zike Hu +3

Recent advancements in Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and related rationale-based works have significantly improved the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in complex reasoning tas…

cs.LG2026

Reinforcement Learning for Tool-Integrated Interleaved Thinking towards Cross-Domain Generalization

Zhengyu Chen, Jinluan Yang, Teng Xiao +6

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning and tool utilization. However, the generalization of tool-augmented reinforce…