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most citedChain-of-Symbol Prompting Elicits Planning in Large Langauge Models

7 citations · 23 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.LG2026

Looped World Models

Hongyuan Adam Lu, Z. L. Victor Wei, Qun Zhang +28

Current world models face a fundamental tension: faithful long-horizon simulation demands deep computation, but deeper models are expensive to deploy and prone to compounding error…

cs.CL2026

Adam's Law: Textual Frequency Law on Large Language Models

Hongyuan Adam Lu, Z. L., Victor Wei +5

While textual frequency has been validated as relevant to human cognition in reading speed, its relatedness to Large Language Models (LLMs) is seldom studied. We propose a novel re…

cs.CV2026

VERHallu: Evaluating and Mitigating Event Relation Hallucination in Video Large Language Models

Zefan Zhang, Kehua Zhu, Shijie Jiang +3

Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) exhibit various types of hallucinations. Existing research has primarily focused on hallucinations involving the presence of events, objects…

cs.CL2026

Stephanie2: Thinking, Waiting, and Making Decisions Like Humans in Step-by-Step AI Social Chat

Hao Yang, Hongyuan Lu, Dingkang Yang +8

Instant-messaging human social chat typically progresses through a sequence of short messages. Existing step-by-step AI chatting systems typically split a one-shot generation into…

cs.AI2026

From Abstract to Contextual: What LLMs Still Cannot Do in Mathematics

Bowen Cao, Dongdong Zhang, Yixia Li +8

Large language models now solve many benchmark math problems at near-expert levels, yet this progress has not fully translated into reliable performance in real-world applications.…

cs.CL2025

LNE-Blocking: An Efficient Framework for Contamination Mitigation Evaluation on Large Language Models

Ruijie Hou, Yueyang Jiao, Hanxu Hu +4

The problem of data contamination is now almost inevitable during the development of large language models (LLMs), with the training data commonly integrating those evaluation benc…

cs.CL2025

SLoW: Select Low-frequency Words! Automatic Dictionary Selection for Translation on Large Language Models

Hongyuan Lu, Zixuan Li, Zefan Zhang +1

There are more than 7,000 languages around the world, and current Large Language Models (LLMs) only support hundreds of languages. Dictionary-based prompting methods can enhance tr…

cs.CL2024

Dictionary Insertion Prompting for Multilingual Reasoning on Multilingual Large Language Models

Hongyuan Lu, Zixuan Li, Wai Lam

There are two shortages in the current Large Language Models (LLMs) era. The first is short of multilingual models, where most LLMs are English-centric and performance is limited o…

cs.CV2024

Clean Evaluations on Contaminated Visual Language Models

Hongyuan Lu, Shujie Miao, Wai Lam

How to evaluate large language models (LLMs) cleanly has been established as an important research era to genuinely report the performance of possibly contaminated LLMs. Yet, how t…

cs.CL2024

Toxic Subword Pruning for Dialogue Response Generation on Large Language Models

Hongyuan Lu, Wai Lam

How to defend large language models (LLMs) from generating toxic content is an important research area. Yet, most research focused on various model training techniques to remediate…

cs.CL2024

Stephanie: Step-by-Step Dialogues for Mimicking Human Interactions in Social Conversations

Hao Yang, Hongyuan Lu, Xinhua Zeng +7

In the rapidly evolving field of natural language processing, dialogue systems primarily employ a single-step dialogue paradigm. Although this paradigm is efficient, it lacks the d…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Unveiling the Generalization Power of Fine-Tuned Large Language Models

Haoran Yang, Yumeng Zhang, Jiaqi Xu +3

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional multitasking abilities, fine-tuning these models on downstream, domain-specific datasets is often necessary to yiel…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Consecutive Batch Model Editing with HooK Layers

Shuaiyi Li, Yang Deng, Deng Cai +3

As the typical retraining paradigm is unacceptably time- and resource-consuming, researchers are turning to model editing to find an effective way that supports both consecutive an…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

EPA: Easy Prompt Augmentation on Large Language Models via Multiple Sources and Multiple Targets

Hongyuan Lu, Wai Lam

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising performance on various NLP tasks via task prompting. And their performance can be further improved by appending task demonstration…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Not All Metrics Are Guilty: Improving NLG Evaluation by Diversifying References

Tianyi Tang, Hongyuan Lu, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang +5

Most research about natural language generation (NLG) relies on evaluation benchmarks with limited references for a sample, which may result in poor correlations with human judgeme…

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

Chain-of-Symbol Prompting Elicits Planning in Large Langauge Models

Hanxu Hu, Hongyuan Lu, Huajian Zhang +3

In this paper, we take the initiative to investigate the performance of LLMs on complex planning tasks that require LLMs to understand a virtual spatial environment simulated via n…

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

Chain-of-Dictionary Prompting Elicits Translation in Large Language Models

Hongyuan Lu, Haoran Yang, Haoyang Huang +3

Large language models (LLMs) have shown surprisingly good performance in multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) even when trained without parallel data. Yet, despite the fa…

cs.CL2022

Advancing Multilingual Pre-training: TRIP Triangular Document-level Pre-training for Multilingual Language Models

Hongyuan Lu, Haoyang Huang, Shuming Ma +3

Despite the success of multilingual sequence-to-sequence pre-training, most existing approaches rely on document-level monolingual corpora in many different languages, sentence-lev…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Revamping Multilingual Agreement Bidirectionally via Switched Back-translation for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Hongyuan Lu, Haoyang Huang, Shuming Ma +3

Despite the fact that multilingual agreement (MA) has shown its importance for multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), current methodologies in the field have two shortages…

cs.CL2022

PCC: Paraphrasing with Bottom-k Sampling and Cyclic Learning for Curriculum Data Augmentation

Hongyuan Lu, Wai Lam

Curriculum Data Augmentation (CDA) improves neural models by presenting synthetic data with increasing difficulties from easy to hard. However, traditional CDA simply treats the ra…

cs.CL2021

Partner Personas Generation for Diverse Dialogue Generation

Hongyuan Lu, Wai Lam, Hong Cheng +1

Incorporating personas information allows diverse and engaging responses in dialogue response generation. Unfortunately, prior works have primarily focused on self personas and hav…