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20232026
most citedToward Self-Improvement of LLMs via Imagination, Searching, and Criticizing

4 citations · 11 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.AI2026

FrogNano: Training a 4B Coding Agent via Online Task Synthesis

Minseon Kim, Zhengyan Shi, Emiliano Penaloza +14

We present FrogNano, a 4B coding agent designed to tackle software engineering (SWE) tasks efficiently and effectively, even under resource-constrained environments. It is post-tra…

cs.AI2025

On the Emergence of Thinking in LLMs I: Searching for the Right Intuition

Guanghao Ye, Khiem Duc Pham, Xinzhi Zhang +5

Recent AI advancements, such as OpenAI's new models, are transforming LLMs into LRMs (Large Reasoning Models) that perform reasoning during inference, taking extra time and compute…

cs.LG2024

Towards Self-Improvement of LLMs via MCTS: Leveraging Stepwise Knowledge with Curriculum Preference Learning

Xiyao Wang, Linfeng Song, Ye Tian +5

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has recently emerged as a powerful technique for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of LLMs. Techniques such as SFT or DPO have enabled LLMs to dis…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

SIaM: Self-Improving Code-Assisted Mathematical Reasoning of Large Language Models

Dian Yu, Baolin Peng, Ye Tian +3

There is a growing trend of teaching large language models (LLMs) to solve mathematical problems through coding. Existing studies primarily focus on prompting powerful, closed-sour…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Iterative Nash Policy Optimization: Aligning LLMs with General Preferences via No-Regret Learning

Yuheng Zhang, Dian Yu, Baolin Peng +6

Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) has achieved great success in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. Prevalent RLHF approaches are reward-b…

cs.CL2024

LiteSearch: Efficacious Tree Search for LLM

Ante Wang, Linfeng Song, Ye Tian +5

Recent research suggests that tree search algorithms (e.g. Monte Carlo Tree Search) can dramatically boost LLM performance on complex mathematical reasoning tasks. However, they of…

cs.CL2024

Self-Tuning: Instructing LLMs to Effectively Acquire New Knowledge through Self-Teaching

Xiaoying Zhang, Baolin Peng, Ye Tian +4

Large language models (LLMs) often struggle to provide up-to-date information due to their one-time training and the constantly evolving nature of the world. To keep LLMs current,…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Entropy Guided Extrapolative Decoding to Improve Factuality in Large Language Models

Souvik Das, Lifeng Jin, Linfeng Song +3

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive natural language capabilities but suffer from hallucination -- generating content ungrounded in the realities of training data. Rece…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Toward Self-Improvement of LLMs via Imagination, Searching, and Criticizing

Ye Tian, Baolin Peng, Linfeng Song +4

Despite the impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) on various tasks, they still struggle with scenarios that involves complex reasoning and planning. Recent work p…

cs.CL2024

Conceptual and Unbiased Reasoning in Language Models

Ben Zhou, Hongming Zhang, Sihao Chen +5

Conceptual reasoning, the ability to reason in abstract and high-level perspectives, is key to generalization in human cognition. However, limited study has been done on large lang…

cs.CL2024

Self-Consistency Boosts Calibration for Math Reasoning

Ante Wang, Linfeng Song, Ye Tian +5

Calibration, which establishes the correlation between accuracy and model confidence, is important for LLM development. We design three off-the-shelf calibration methods based on s…

cs.CL2024

Collaborative decoding of critical tokens for boosting factuality of large language models

Lifeng Jin, Baolin Peng, Linfeng Song +3

The most common training pipeline for large language models includes pretraining, finetuning and aligning phases, with their respective resulting models, such as the pretrained mod…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Fine-Grained Self-Endorsement Improves Factuality and Reasoning

Ante Wang, Linfeng Song, Baolin Peng +5

This work studies improving large language model (LLM) generations at inference time by mitigating fact-conflicting hallucinations. Particularly, we propose a self-endorsement fram…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Self-Alignment for Factuality: Mitigating Hallucinations in LLMs via Self-Evaluation

Xiaoying Zhang, Baolin Peng, Ye Tian +5

Despite showing increasingly human-like abilities, large language models (LLMs) often struggle with factual inaccuracies, i.e. "hallucinations", even when they hold relevant knowle…

cs.CL2023

Sub-Sentence Encoder: Contrastive Learning of Propositional Semantic Representations

Sihao Chen, Hongming Zhang, Tong Chen +7

We introduce sub-sentence encoder, a contrastively-learned contextual embedding model for fine-grained semantic representation of text. In contrast to the standard practice with se…