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most citedKnowing When to Critique: Task-Adaptive Metacognitive Regulation for Reliable LLM Reasoning

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cs.HC2026

Adaptive Scaffolding Needs Contingency: An AI Tutor That Escalates and Fades on What the Learner Does

Xinmeng Hou, Yuxuan Weng, Chin Hsien Yeh +5

Coding assistants raise task performance, but learners plan and monitor less. Giving less away, the usual fix, conflates two things: how much work a system carries (cognitive load)…

cs.CR2026

Toward Metacognitive One-Shot Indirect Prompt Injection: Strategy Abstraction Via Outcome-Conditioned Reflection

Sihan Hou, Xinmeng Hou, Zhijun Zhang +5

Tool-using large language model (LLM) agents are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection (IPI), in which malicious instructions embedded in external observations manipulate subsequ…

cs.AI2026

Learn Like Humans: Use Meta-cognitive Reflection for Efficient Self-Improvement

Xinmeng Hou, Peiliang Gong, Bohao Qu +3

While Large Language Models (LLMs) enable complex autonomous behavior, current agents remain constrained by static, human-designed prompts that limit adaptability. Existing self-im…

cs.MA2025★ 1 cited

Knowing When to Critique: Task-Adaptive Metacognitive Regulation for Reliable LLM Reasoning

Xinmeng Hou, Ziting Chang, Zhouquan Lu +6

Large language models (LLMs) reason fluently but do not regulate their reasoning: they apply uniform scrutiny to every input, which leaves them vulnerable to adversarial and counte…

cs.CL2024

Train Once for All: A Transitional Approach for Efficient Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction

Xinmeng Hou, Lingyue Fu, Chenhao Meng +3

Aspect-Opinion Pair Extraction (AOPE) and Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (ASTE) have drawn growing attention in NLP. However, most existing approaches extract aspects and opin…

cs.CL2024

Mitigating Biases to Embrace Diversity: A Comprehensive Annotation Benchmark for Toxic Language

Xinmeng Hou

This study introduces a prescriptive annotation benchmark grounded in humanities research to ensure consistent, unbiased labeling of offensive language, particularly for casual and…