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most citedEscape Sky-high Cost: Early-stopping Self-Consistency for Multi-step Reasoning

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26 papers

cs.CL2026

Share More, Search Less: Collaborative Parallel Thinking for Efficient Test-Time Scaling

Xinglin Wang, Hao Lin, Shaoxiong Feng +9

Test-Time Scaling (TTS) enhances the reasoning capabilities of large language models by allocating additional inference compute to explore the solution space. However, existing par…

cs.AI2026

On Time, Within Budget: Constraint-Driven Online Resource Allocation for Agentic Workflows

Xinglin Wang, Zishen Liu, Shaoxiong Feng +9

Agentic systems increasingly solve complex user requests by executing orchestrated workflows, where subtasks are assigned to specialized models or tools and coordinated according t…

cs.AI2026

Learning More from Less: Unlocking Internal Representations for Benchmark Compression

Yueqi Zhang, Jin Hu, Shaoxiong Feng +9

The prohibitive cost of evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) necessitates efficient alternatives to full-scale benchmarking. Prevalent approaches address this by identifying a s…

cs.CL2026

Do Not Waste Your Rollouts: Recycling Search Experience for Efficient Test-Time Scaling

Xinglin Wang, Jiayi Shi, Shaoxiong Feng +8

Test-Time Scaling enhances the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models by allocating additional inference compute to broaden the exploration of the solution space. However,…

cs.LG2025

Breaking the Self-Confirming Loop: Diagnosing and Mitigating Systemic Reward Bias in Self-Rewarding RL

Chuyi Tan, Peiwen Yuan, Xinglin Wang +8

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) efficiently scales the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) but is bottlenecked by scarce labeled data. Reinforce…

cs.LG2025

PatternKV: Flattening KV Representation Expands Quantization Headroom

Ji Zhang, Yiwei Li, Shaoxiong Feng +8

KV cache in autoregressive LLMs eliminates redundant recomputation but has emerged as the dominant memory and bandwidth bottleneck during inference, notably with long contexts and…

cs.LG2025

Every Rollout Counts: Optimal Resource Allocation for Efficient Test-Time Scaling

Xinglin Wang, Yiwei Li, Shaoxiong Feng +7

Test-Time Scaling (TTS) improves the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) by using additional inference-time computation to explore multiple reasoning paths through search.…

cs.AI2025

Mind the Quote: Enabling Quotation-Aware Dialogue in LLMs via Plug-and-Play Modules

Yueqi Zhang, Peiwen Yuan, Shaoxiong Feng +7

Human-AI conversation frequently relies on quoting earlier text-"check it with the formula I just highlighted"-yet today's large language models (LLMs) lack an explicit mechanism f…

cs.CL2025

Silencer: From Discovery to Mitigation of Self-Bias in LLM-as-Benchmark-Generator

Peiwen Yuan, Yiwei Li, Shaoxiong Feng +7

LLM-as-Benchmark-Generator methods have been widely studied as a supplement to human annotators for scalable evaluation, while the potential biases within this paradigm remain unde…

cs.CL2025

Speculative Decoding for Multi-Sample Inference

Yiwei Li, Jiayi Shi, Shaoxiong Feng +8

We propose a novel speculative decoding method tailored for multi-sample reasoning scenarios, such as self-consistency and Best-of-N sampling. Our method exploits the intrinsic con…

cs.CL2025

UniCBE: An Uniformity-driven Comparing Based Evaluation Framework with Unified Multi-Objective Optimization

Peiwen Yuan, Shaoxiong Feng, Yiwei Li +7

Human preference plays a significant role in measuring large language models and guiding them to align with human values. Unfortunately, current comparing-based evaluation (CBE) me…

cs.CL2025

LLM-Powered Benchmark Factory: Reliable, Generic, and Efficient

Peiwen Yuan, Shaoxiong Feng, Yiwei Li +7

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has led to a surge in both model supply and application demands. To facilitate effective matching between them, reliable, gene…

cs.CL2025

Revisiting Self-Consistency from Dynamic Distributional Alignment Perspective on Answer Aggregation

Yiwei Li, Ji Zhang, Shaoxiong Feng +8

Self-consistency improves reasoning by aggregating diverse stochastic samples, yet the dynamics behind its efficacy remain underexplored. We reframe self-consistency as a dynamic d…

cs.LG2025

Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Tailored Benchmarks for Efficient Evaluation

Peiwen Yuan, Yueqi Zhang, Shaoxiong Feng +7

Evaluating models on large benchmarks is very resource-intensive, especially during the period of rapid model evolution. Existing efficient evaluation methods estimate the performa…

cs.CL2025

From Sub-Ability Diagnosis to Human-Aligned Generation: Bridging the Gap for Text Length Control via MARKERGEN

Peiwen Yuan, Chuyi Tan, Shaoxiong Feng +7

Despite the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs), their length-controllable text generation (LCTG) ability remains below expectations, posing a major limitation for pract…

cs.CL2025

InsBank: Evolving Instruction Subset for Ongoing Alignment

Jiayi Shi, Yiwei Li, Shaoxiong Feng +8

Large language models (LLMs) typically undergo instruction tuning to enhance alignment. Recent studies emphasize that quality and diversity of instruction data are more crucial tha…

cs.CL2024

Instruction Embedding: Latent Representations of Instructions Towards Task Identification

Yiwei Li, Jiayi Shi, Shaoxiong Feng +6

Instruction data is crucial for improving the capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to align with human-level performance. Recent research LIMA demonstrates that alignment is…

cs.CL2024

Focused Large Language Models are Stable Many-Shot Learners

Peiwen Yuan, Shaoxiong Feng, Yiwei Li +7

In-Context Learning (ICL) enables large language models (LLMs) to achieve rapid task adaptation by learning from demonstrations. With the increase in available context length of LL…

cs.CL2024

Poor-Supervised Evaluation for SuperLLM via Mutual Consistency

Peiwen Yuan, Shaoxiong Feng, Yiwei Li +5

The guidance from capability evaluations has greatly propelled the progress of both human society and Artificial Intelligence. However, as LLMs evolve, it becomes challenging to co…

cs.CL2024

Make Every Penny Count: Difficulty-Adaptive Self-Consistency for Cost-Efficient Reasoning

Xinglin Wang, Shaoxiong Feng, Yiwei Li +6

Self-consistency (SC), a widely used decoding strategy for chain-of-thought reasoning, shows significant gains across various multi-step reasoning tasks but comes with a high cost…

cs.CL2024

CogLM: Tracking Cognitive Development of Large Language Models

Xinglin Wang, Peiwen Yuan, Shaoxiong Feng +5

Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development (PTC) posits that the development of cognitive levels forms the foundation for human learning across various abilities. As Large Language M…

cs.CL2024

Integrate the Essence and Eliminate the Dross: Fine-Grained Self-Consistency for Free-Form Language Generation

Xinglin Wang, Yiwei Li, Shaoxiong Feng +5

Self-consistency (SC), leveraging multiple samples from LLMs, shows significant gains on various reasoning tasks but struggles with free-form generation due to the difficulty of ag…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Generative Dense Retrieval: Memory Can Be a Burden

Peiwen Yuan, Xinglin Wang, Shaoxiong Feng +5

Generative Retrieval (GR), autoregressively decoding relevant document identifiers given a query, has been shown to perform well under the setting of small-scale corpora. By memori…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Escape Sky-high Cost: Early-stopping Self-Consistency for Multi-step Reasoning

Yiwei Li, Peiwen Yuan, Shaoxiong Feng +5

Self-consistency (SC) has been a widely used decoding strategy for chain-of-thought reasoning. Despite bringing significant performance improvements across a variety of multi-step…