collaborators

5 papers

cs.LG2026

Learning with a Single Rollout via Monte Carlo Pass@k Critic

Fengdi Che, Yang Liu, Lei Yu +4

Estimating token-level advantages in reinforcement learning (RL) for language models remains challenging because scaling up episodic experience collection is expensive. The difficu…

cs.AI2026

MapSatisfyBench: Benchmarking Satisfaction-Aware Map Agents through Behavior-Grounded Implicit Decision Factors

Lubin Bai, Mengyu Cao, Sixue Wang +5

Large language model agents are increasingly integrated into map services. Since map services are embedded in everyday-life scenarios rather than professional task settings, users…

cs.CL2025

Stochastic Chameleons: Irrelevant Context Hallucinations Reveal Class-Based (Mis)Generalization in LLMs

Ziling Cheng, Meng Cao, Marc-Antoine Rondeau +1

The widespread success of large language models (LLMs) on NLP benchmarks has been accompanied by concerns that LLMs function primarily as stochastic parrots that reproduce texts si…

cs.CL2025

Can LLMs Reason Abstractly Over Math Word Problems Without CoT? Disentangling Abstract Formulation From Arithmetic Computation

Ziling Cheng, Meng Cao, Leila Pishdad +2

Final-answer-based metrics are commonly used for evaluating large language models (LLMs) on math word problems, often taken as proxies for reasoning ability. However, such metrics…

cs.CL2025

The Reasoning-Memorization Interplay in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

Yihuai Hong, Dian Zhou, Meng Cao +2

Large language models (LLMs) excel on a variety of reasoning benchmarks, but previous studies suggest they sometimes struggle to generalize to unseen questions, potentially due to…