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most citedPrinciple-Driven Self-Alignment of Language Models from Scratch with Minimal Human Supervision

63 citations · 248 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

cs.LG2026

Self-evolving LLM agents with in-distribution Optimization

Yudi Zhang, Meng Fang, Zhenfang Chen +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful controllers for interactive agents in complex environments, yet training them to perform reliable long-horizon decisi…

cs.CV2026

VEBench:Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Real-World Video Editing

Andong Deng, Dawei Du, Zhenfang Chen +7

Real-world video editing demands not only expert knowledge of cinematic techniques but also multimodal reasoning to select, align, and combine footage into coherent narratives. Whi…

cs.AI2025

Scaling Autonomous Agents via Automatic Reward Modeling And Planning

Zhenfang Chen, Delin Chen, Rui Sun +2

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a range of text-generation tasks. However, LLMs still struggle with problems requiring multi-step deci…

cs.CL2025

Satori: Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Action-Thought Enhances LLM Reasoning via Autoregressive Search

Maohao Shen, Guangtao Zeng, Zhenting Qi +7

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities across diverse domains. Recent studies have shown that increasing test-time computation enhances LL…

cs.CV2024

Compositional Physical Reasoning of Objects and Events from Videos

Zhenfang Chen, Shilong Dong, Kexin Yi +5

Understanding and reasoning about objects' physical properties in the natural world is a fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence. While some properties like colors and sha…

cs.CV2024

FlexAttention for Efficient High-Resolution Vision-Language Models

Junyan Li, Delin Chen, Tianle Cai +5

Current high-resolution vision-language models encode images as high-resolution image tokens and exhaustively take all these tokens to compute attention, which significantly increa…

cs.CV2024

SOK-Bench: A Situated Video Reasoning Benchmark with Aligned Open-World Knowledge

Andong Wang, Bo Wu, Sunli Chen +5

Learning commonsense reasoning from visual contexts and scenes in real-world is a crucial step toward advanced artificial intelligence. However, existing video reasoning benchmarks…

cs.CV2024

ContPhy: Continuum Physical Concept Learning and Reasoning from Videos

Zhicheng Zheng, Xin Yan, Zhenfang Chen +4

We introduce the Continuum Physical Dataset (ContPhy), a novel benchmark for assessing machine physical commonsense. ContPhy complements existing physical reasoning benchmarks by e…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Improving Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with Efficient Reward Model Ensemble

Shun Zhang, Zhenfang Chen, Sunli Chen +3

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a widely adopted approach for aligning large language models with human values. However, RLHF relies on a reward model that is…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

GENOME: GenerativE Neuro-symbOlic visual reasoning by growing and reusing ModulEs

Zhenfang Chen, Rui Sun, Wenjun Liu +2

Recent works have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) could empower traditional neuro-symbolic models via programming capabilities to translate language into module description…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

CoVLM: Composing Visual Entities and Relationships in Large Language Models Via Communicative Decoding

Junyan Li, Delin Chen, Yining Hong +4

A remarkable ability of human beings resides in compositional reasoning, i.e., the capacity to make "infinite use of finite means". However, current large vision-language foundatio…

cs.CL2023

Sparse Universal Transformer

Shawn Tan, Yikang Shen, Zhenfang Chen +2

The Universal Transformer (UT) is a variant of the Transformer that shares parameters across its layers. Empirical evidence shows that UTs have better compositional generalization…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

TextPSG: Panoptic Scene Graph Generation from Textual Descriptions

Chengyang Zhao, Yikang Shen, Zhenfang Chen +2

Panoptic Scene Graph has recently been proposed for comprehensive scene understanding. However, previous works adopt a fully-supervised learning manner, requiring large amounts of…

cs.CL2023

SALMON: Self-Alignment with Instructable Reward Models

Zhiqing Sun, Yikang Shen, Hongxin Zhang +5

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) on response demonstrations combined with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) constitutes a powerful paradigm for aligning LLM-based AI ag…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Physion++: Evaluating Physical Scene Understanding that Requires Online Inference of Different Physical Properties

Hsiao-Yu Tung, Mingyu Ding, Zhenfang Chen +6

General physical scene understanding requires more than simply localizing and recognizing objects -- it requires knowledge that objects can have different latent properties (e.g.,…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

ModuleFormer: Modularity Emerges from Mixture-of-Experts

Yikang Shen, Zheyu Zhang, Tianyou Cao +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable results. However, existing models are expensive to train and deploy, and it is also difficult to expand their knowledge beyond…

cs.LG2023★ 63 cited

Principle-Driven Self-Alignment of Language Models from Scratch with Minimal Human Supervision

Zhiqing Sun, Yikang Shen, Qinhong Zhou +5

Recent AI-assistant agents, such as ChatGPT, predominantly rely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with human annotations and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to alig…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

Embodied Concept Learner: Self-supervised Learning of Concepts and Mapping through Instruction Following

Mingyu Ding, Yan Xu, Zhenfang Chen +4

Humans, even at a very early age, can learn visual concepts and understand geometry and layout through active interaction with the environment, and generalize their compositions to…

cs.CV2023

Visual Dependency Transformers: Dependency Tree Emerges from Reversed Attention

Mingyu Ding, Yikang Shen, Lijie Fan +5

Humans possess a versatile mechanism for extracting structured representations of our visual world. When looking at an image, we can decompose the scene into entities and their par…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

3D Concept Learning and Reasoning from Multi-View Images

Yining Hong, Chunru Lin, Yilun Du +3

Humans are able to accurately reason in 3D by gathering multi-view observations of the surrounding world. Inspired by this insight, we introduce a new large-scale benchmark for 3D…

cs.LG2023★ 15 cited

Planning with Large Language Models for Code Generation

Shun Zhang, Zhenfang Chen, Yikang Shen +3

Existing large language model-based code generation pipelines typically use beam search or sampling algorithms during the decoding process. Although the programs they generate achi…

cs.CV2023★ 8 cited

See, Think, Confirm: Interactive Prompting Between Vision and Language Models for Knowledge-based Visual Reasoning

Zhenfang Chen, Qinhong Zhou, Yikang Shen +3

Large pre-trained vision and language models have demonstrated remarkable capacities for various tasks. However, solving the knowledge-based visual reasoning tasks remains challeng…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Mod-Squad: Designing Mixture of Experts As Modular Multi-Task Learners

Zitian Chen, Yikang Shen, Mingyu Ding +4

Optimization in multi-task learning (MTL) is more challenging than single-task learning (STL), as the gradient from different tasks can be contradictory. When tasks are related, it…

cs.CV2022★ 11 cited

S-NeRF: Neural Reflectance Field from Shading and Shadow under a Single Viewpoint

Wenqi Yang, Guanying Chen, Chaofeng Chen +2

In this paper, we address the "dual problem" of multi-view scene reconstruction in which we utilize single-view images captured under different point lights to learn a neural scene…