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most citedExamining Inter-Consistency of Large Language Models Collaboration: An In-depth Analysis via Debate

36 citations · 42 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.LG2026

Is EEG-to-Text Feasible in Real-World Scenarios? An In-Depth Analysis Using a Neuropsychology-Inspired Benchmark

Zihan Zhang, Yu Bao, Xiao Ding +2

Translating brain signals into text could restore communication for people with severe paralysis, yet practically usable systems to date rely on invasive electrocorticography (ECoG…

cs.SE2026

Assessing Language Models for Salient Class Identification

Bo Xiong, Chaoran Cai, Zongen Ren +3

Code review requires reviewers to understand the core intent of code changes, which becomes difficult when a commit modifies multiple classes. In such commits, one or more primaril…

cs.AI2026

DeepTool: Scaling Interleaved Deliberation in Tool-Integrated Reasoning via Process-Supervised Reinforcement Learning

Yang He, Xiao Ding, Bibo Cai +5

Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) extends LLM capabilities by leveraging external environments. However, existing methods lack the deliberation during sequential tool invocation requ…

cs.AI2026

LSR-Ben: A Logical and Scientific Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating Process Reward Models

Zhouhao Sun, Xuan Zhang, Xiao Ding +10

Currently, process reward models (PRMs) have exhibited remarkable potential for test-time scaling. Since large language models (LLMs) regularly generate flawed intermediate reasoni…

cs.AI2026

Consolidation or Adaptation? PRISM: Disentangling SFT and RL Data via Gradient Concentration

Yang Zhao, Yangou Ouyang, Xiao Ding +8

While Hybrid Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) followed by Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become the standard paradigm for training LLM agents, effective mechanisms for data allocation…

cs.LG2026

MAESTRO: Meta-learning Adaptive Estimation of Scalarization Trade-offs for Reward Optimization

Yang Zhao, Hepeng Wang, Xiao Ding +8

Group-Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has emerged as an efficient paradigm for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its efficacy is primarily confined to domains with ver…

cs.AI2025

PuzzleClone: A DSL-Powered Framework for Synthesizing Verifiable Data

Kai Xiong, Yanwei Huang, Rongjunchen Zhang +3

High-quality mathematical and logical datasets with verifiable answers are essential for strengthening the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). While recent data…

cs.CL2025

Com: A Causal-Guided Benchmark for Exploring Complex Commonsense Reasoning in Large Language Models

Kai Xiong, Xiao Ding, Yixin Cao +7

Large language models (LLMs) have mastered abundant simple and explicit commonsense knowledge through pre-training, enabling them to achieve human-like performance in simple common…

cs.CL2025

Self-Route: Automatic Mode Switching via Capability Estimation for Efficient Reasoning

Yang He, Xiao Ding, Bibo Cai +5

While reasoning-augmented large language models (RLLMs) significantly enhance complex task performance through extended reasoning chains, they inevitably introduce substantial unne…

cs.LG2025

UFO-RL: Uncertainty-Focused Optimization for Efficient Reinforcement Learning Data Selection

Yang Zhao, Kai Xiong, Xiao Ding +9

Scaling RL for LLMs is computationally expensive, largely due to multi-sampling for policy optimization and evaluation, making efficient data selection crucial. Inspired by the Zon…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Similarity: A Gradient-based Graph Method for Instruction Tuning Data Selection

Yang Zhao, Li Du, Xiao Ding +10

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential across various industries due to their remarkable ability to generalize through instruction tuning. However, the limited ava…

cs.LG2024

Supervised Fine-Tuning Achieve Rapid Task Adaption Via Alternating Attention Head Activation Patterns

Yang Zhao, Li Du, Xiao Ding +3

LLMs' performance on complex tasks is still unsatisfactory. A key issue is that presently LLMs learn in a data-driven schema, while the instructions about these complex tasks are b…

cs.CL2024

Meaningful Learning: Enhancing Abstract Reasoning in Large Language Models via Generic Fact Guidance

Kai Xiong, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu +5

Large language models (LLMs) have developed impressive performance and strong explainability across various reasoning scenarios, marking a significant stride towards mimicking huma…

cs.CL2024

Deciphering the Impact of Pretraining Data on Large Language Models through Machine Unlearning

Yang Zhao, Li Du, Xiao Ding +5

Through pretraining on a corpus with various sources, Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained impressive performance. However, the impact of each component of the pretraining corp…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Improving Cross-Task Generalization with Step-by-Step Instructions

Yang Wu, Yanyan Zhao, Zhongyang Li +2

Instruction tuning has been shown to be able to improve cross-task generalization of language models. However, it is still challenging for language models to complete the target ta…

cs.CL2023★ 36 cited

Examining Inter-Consistency of Large Language Models Collaboration: An In-depth Analysis via Debate

Kai Xiong, Xiao Ding, Yixin Cao +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in various applications, but they still face various inconsistency issues. Existing works primarily focus on the inc…

cs.AI2022★ 5 cited

ReCo: Reliable Causal Chain Reasoning via Structural Causal Recurrent Neural Networks

Kai Xiong, Xiao Ding, Zhongyang Li +4

Causal chain reasoning (CCR) is an essential ability for many decision-making AI systems, which requires the model to build reliable causal chains by connecting causal pairs. Howev…

cs.AI2022

e-CARE: a New Dataset for Exploring Explainable Causal Reasoning

Li Du, Xiao Ding, Kai Xiong +2

Understanding causality has vital importance for various Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Beyond the labeled instances, conceptual explanations of the causality can…