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cs.CL2025

Eliciting Chain-of-Thought in Base LLMs via Gradient-Based Representation Optimization

Zijian Wang, Yanxiang Ma, Chang Xu

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning is a critical capability for large language models (LLMs), enabling them to tackle com- plex multi-step tasks. While base LLMs, pre-trained on gene…

cs.CL2025

Balancing Knowledge Updates: Toward Unified Modular Editing in LLMs

Jiahao Liu, Zijian Wang, Kuo Zhao +1

Knowledge editing has emerged as an efficient approach for updating factual knowledge in large language models (LLMs). It typically locates knowledge storage modules and then modif…

cs.CL2025

ThoughtProbe: Classifier-Guided LLM Thought Space Exploration via Probing Representations

Zijian Wang, Chang Xu

This paper introduces ThoughtProbe, a novel inference time framework that leverages the hidden reasoning features of Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve their reasoning perform…

cs.CL2025

CFVBench: A Comprehensive Video Benchmark for Fine-grained Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Kaiwen Wei, Xiao Liu, Jie Zhang +11

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MRAG) enables Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to generate responses with external multimodal evidence, and numerous video-based…

cs.CL2025

AirQA: A Comprehensive QA Dataset for AI Research with Instance-Level Evaluation

Tiancheng Huang, Ruisheng Cao, Yuxin Zhang +8

The growing volume of academic papers has made it increasingly difficult for researchers to efficiently extract key information. While large language models (LLMs) based agents are…

cs.CL2025

Functional Abstraction of Knowledge Recall in Large Language Models

Zijian Wang, Chang Xu

Pre-trained transformer large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong knowledge recall capabilities. This paper investigates the knowledge recall mechanism in LLMs by abstracting…

cs.CL2025

ThoughtProbe: Classifier-Guided Thought Space Exploration Leveraging LLM Intrinsic Reasoning

Zijian Wang, Chang Xu

Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have been demonstrated to possess intrinsic reasoning capabilities that can emerge naturally when expanding the response space. However, th…

cs.CL2024

Overview of AI-Debater 2023: The Challenges of Argument Generation Tasks

Jiayu Lin, Guanrong Chen, Bojun Jin +26

In this paper we present the results of the AI-Debater 2023 Challenge held by the Chinese Conference on Affect Computing (CCAC 2023), and introduce the related datasets. We organiz…

cs.CL2024

Locating and Extracting Relational Concepts in Large Language Models

Zijian Wang, Britney White, Chang Xu

Relational concepts are indeed foundational to the structure of knowledge representation, as they facilitate the association between various entity concepts, allowing us to express…

cs.CL2024

Fewer Truncations Improve Language Modeling

Hantian Ding, Zijian Wang, Giovanni Paolini +4

In large language model training, input documents are typically concatenated together and then split into sequences of equal length to avoid padding tokens. Despite its efficiency,…

cs.CL2024

Token Alignment via Character Matching for Subword Completion

Ben Athiwaratkun, Shiqi Wang, Mingyue Shang +7

Generative models, widely utilized in various applications, can often struggle with prompts corresponding to partial tokens. This struggle stems from tokenization, where partial to…

cs.CL2022★ 565 cited

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao +448

Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new capabil…

cs.CL2021★ 25 cited

NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation

Kaustubh D. Dhole, Varun Gangal, Sebastian Gehrmann +122

Data augmentation is an important component in the robustness evaluation of models in natural language processing (NLP) and in enhancing the diversity of the data they are trained…