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6 papers

cs.CL2026

No Shortcuts to Culture: Indonesian Multi-hop Question Answering for Complex Cultural Understanding

Vynska Amalia Permadi, Xingwei Tan, Nafise Sadat Moosavi +1

Understanding culture requires reasoning across context, tradition, and implicit social knowledge, far beyond recalling isolated facts. Yet most culturally focused question answeri…

cs.CL2025

Fine-Tuning on Noisy Instructions: Effects on Generalization and Performance

Ahmed Alajrami, Xingwei Tan, Nikolaos Aletras

Instruction-tuning plays a vital role in enhancing the task-solving abilities of large language models (LLMs), improving their usability in generating helpful responses on various…

cs.CL2025

Can Confidence Estimates Decide When Chain-of-Thought Is Necessary for LLMs?

Samuel Lewis-Lim, Xingwei Tan, Zhixue Zhao +1

Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting is a common technique for improving the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, extended reasoning is often unnecessary and s…

cs.IR2025

IntSR: An Integrated Generative Framework for Search and Recommendation

Huimin Yan, Longfei Xu, Junjie Sun +6

Generative recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm, demonstrating remarkable results in both academic benchmarks and industrial applications. However, existing systems p…

cs.AI2025

Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation?

Samuel Lewis-Lim, Xingwei Tan, Zhixue Zhao +1

Recent work has demonstrated that Chain-of-Thought (CoT) often yields limited gains for soft-reasoning problems such as analytical and commonsense reasoning. CoT can also be unfait…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Logical Reasoning in Language Models via Symbolically-Guided Monte Carlo Process Supervision

Xingwei Tan, Marco Valentino, Mahmud Akhter +2

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in many reasoning benchmarks. However, recent studies have pointed to memorization, rather than generalization, as one of…