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most citedInstance-adaptive Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought Prompting

3 citations · 8 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.AI2026

Purified OPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation Without Losing How to Think

Zhanming Shen, Jintao Tong, Shaotian Yan +9

On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving LLM reasoning, where a privileged teacher with access to reference solutions provides token-lev…

cs.CL2026

Backtracking When It Strays: Mitigating Dual Exposure Biases in LLM Reasoning Distillation

Bing Wang, Shaotian Yan, Chen Shen +7

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks via long chain-of-thought (CoT), yet their immense computational overhead hinders real-worl…

cs.CL2026

Are Rationales Necessary and Sufficient? Tuning LLMs for Explainable Misinformation Detection

Bing Wang, Rui Miao, Ximing Li +6

The rapid spread of misinformation on social media platforms has become a formidable challenge. To mitigate its proliferation, Misinformation Detection (MD) has emerged as a critic…

cs.CL2026

On the Step Length Confounding in LLM Reasoning Data Selection

Bing Wang, Rui Miao, Chen Shen +7

Large reasoning models have recently demonstrated strong performance on complex tasks that require long chain-of-thought reasoning, through supervised fine-tuning on large-scale an…

cs.CV2026

Through the Lens of Contrast: Self-Improving Visual Reasoning in VLMs

Zhiyu Pan, Yizheng Wu, Jiashen Hua +5

Reasoning has emerged as a key capability of large language models. In linguistic tasks, this capability can be enhanced by self-improving techniques that refine reasoning paths fo…

cs.LG2026

Distribution-Aligned Sequence Distillation for Superior Long-CoT Reasoning

Shaotian Yan, Kaiyuan Liu, Chen Shen +6

In this report, we introduce DASD-4B-Thinking, a lightweight yet highly capable, fully open-source reasoning model. It achieves SOTA performance among open-source models of compara…

cs.CL2025

Where Did This Sentence Come From? Tracing Provenance in LLM Reasoning Distillation

Kaiyuan Liu, Shaotian Yan, Rui Miao +4

Reasoning distillation has attracted increasing attention. It typically leverages a large teacher model to generate reasoning paths, which are then used to fine-tune a student mode…

cs.AI2025

SalaMAnder: Shapley-based Mathematical Expression Attribution and Metric for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Yue Xin, Chen Shen, Shaotian Yan +5

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enhances the math reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs) to a large margin. However, the mechanism underlying such improvements remai…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Critical Representation Fine-tuning

Chenxi Huang, Shaotian Yan, Liang Xie +6

Representation Fine-tuning (ReFT), a recently proposed Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method, has attracted widespread attention for significantly improving parameter effic…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Large Language Models with Reward-guided Tree Search for Knowledge Graph Question and Answering

Xiao Long, Liansheng Zhuang, Chen Shen +3

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) tasks, which aim to find answers based on knowledge gra…

cs.CL2025

Don't Take Things Out of Context: Attention Intervention for Enhancing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

Shaotian Yan, Chen Shen, Wenxiao Wang +3

Few-shot Chain-of-Thought (CoT) significantly enhances the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), functioning as a whole to guide these models in generating reason…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Seeing Clearly by Layer Two: Enhancing Attention Heads to Alleviate Hallucination in LVLMs

Xiaofeng Zhang, Yihao Quan, Chaochen Gu +6

The hallucination problem in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remains a common issue. Although image tokens occupy a majority of the input sequence of MLLMs, there is limit…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Instance-adaptive Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought Prompting

Xiaosong Yuan, Chen Shen, Shaotian Yan +6

Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting emerges as a simple and effective strategy for enhancing the performance of large language models (LLMs) in real-world reasoning tasks. N…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

From Redundancy to Relevance: Information Flow in LVLMs Across Reasoning Tasks

Xiaofeng Zhang, Yihao Quan, Chen Shen +7

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) achieve great performance on visual-language reasoning tasks, however, the black-box nature of LVLMs hinders in-depth research on the reasoning…

cs.CL2023

Concise and Organized Perception Facilitates Reasoning in Large Language Models

Junjie Liu, Shaotian Yan, Chen Shen +4

Exploiting large language models (LLMs) to tackle reasoning has garnered growing attention. It still remains highly challenging to achieve satisfactory results in complex logical p…