activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

cs.LG2026

PEARL: Training Socratic Tutors with Pedagogically Aligned Reinforcement Learning

Qikai Chang, Zhenrong Zhang, Linbo Chen +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) show strong potential as educational tutors. Existing approaches typically train them to solve problems and provide correct answers, but this problem-s…

cs.CL2026

Step Potential Advantage Estimation: Harnessing Intermediate Confidence and Correctness for Efficient Mathematical Reasoning

Fei Wu, Zhenrong Zhang, Qikai Chang +3

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) elicits long chain-of-thought reasoning in large language models (LLMs), but outcome-based rewards lead to coarse-grained adva…

cs.AI2025

THOR: Tool-Integrated Hierarchical Optimization via RL for Mathematical Reasoning

Qikai Chang, Zhenrong Zhang, Pengfei Hu +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable progress in mathematical reasoning, but still continue to struggle with high-precision tasks like numerical computation and formal…

cs.MM2025

PRM-BAS: Enhancing Multimodal Reasoning through PRM-guided Beam Annealing Search

Pengfei Hu, Zhenrong Zhang, Qikai Chang +8

Recent work increasingly focuses on improving the reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Among existing methods, Process Reward Models (PRMs) stand out…

cs.CV2025

Skeleton and Font Generation Network for Zero-shot Chinese Character Generation

Mobai Xue, Jun Du, Zhenrong Zhang +5

Automatic font generation remains a challenging research issue, primarily due to the vast number of Chinese characters, each with unique and intricate structures. Our investigation…

cs.CV2024

RFL: Simplifying Chemical Structure Recognition with Ring-Free Language

Qikai Chang, Mingjun Chen, Changpeng Pi +6

The primary objective of Optical Chemical Structure Recognition is to identify chemical structure images into corresponding markup sequences. However, the complex two-dimensional s…