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most citedURRL-IMVC: Unified and Robust Representation Learning for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering

6 citations · 25 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.CL2026

When Confidence Rises Too Early: Detecting Shortcut Reasoning via Premature Answer Commitment

Zhaohan Zhang, Junjie Liu, Chengzhengxu Li +6

The reasoning trajectory of a Large Language Model (LLM) is often treated as a verbalized description of its internal reasoning. However, such trajectories can be unfaithful: a mod…

cs.AI2026

When Refusal Looks Safe: The Refusal-Cue Shortcut in Safety Guard Models

Yu Feng, Chunting Zang, Chen Shen +4

Safety guards are widely used to filter harmful content and are typically trained via supervised fine-tuning on labeled prompt-response pairs. We audit two widely used safety-guard…

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.AI2026

MPDocBench-Parse: Benchmarking Practical Multi-page Document Parsing

Bangbang Zhou, Hangdi Xing, Yifan Chen +8

Document parsing converts visually rich documents into machine-readable structured representations, forming a crucial foundation for information systems. Although many benchmarks h…

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.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.CV2025

Enhancing Spatial Reasoning through Visual and Textual Thinking

Xun Liang, Xin Guo, Zhongming Jin +5

The spatial reasoning task aims to reason about the spatial relationships in 2D and 3D space, which is a fundamental capability for Visual Question Answering (VQA) and robotics. Al…

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

Controlling Thinking Speed in Reasoning Models

Zhengkai Lin, Zhihang Fu, Ze Chen +6

Human cognition is theorized to operate in two modes: fast, intuitive System 1 thinking and slow, deliberate System 2 thinking. While current Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) excel at…

cs.CL2025

Efficient Reasoning Through Suppression of Self-Affirmation Reflections in Large Reasoning Models

Kaiyuan Liu, Chen Shen, Zhanwei Zhang +3

While recent advances in large reasoning models have demonstrated remarkable performance, efficient reasoning remains critical due to the rapid growth of output length. Existing op…

cs.CL2025

Improving Complex Reasoning with Dynamic Prompt Corruption: A soft prompt Optimization Approach

Sinan Fan, Liang Xie, Chen Shen +7

Prompt-tuning (PT) for large language models (LLMs) can facilitate the performance on various conventional NLP tasks with significantly fewer trainable parameters. However, our inv…

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.CL2024

Delving into the Reversal Curse: How Far Can Large Language Models Generalize?

Zhengkai Lin, Zhihang Fu, Kai Liu +6

While large language models (LLMs) showcase unprecedented capabilities, they also exhibit certain inherent limitations when facing seemingly trivial tasks. A prime example is the r…

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★ 1 cited

Tree-of-Table: Unleashing the Power of LLMs for Enhanced Large-Scale Table Understanding

Deyi Ji, Lanyun Zhu, Siqi Gao +4

The ubiquity and value of tables as semi-structured data across various domains necessitate advanced methods for understanding their complexity and vast amounts of information. Des…

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★ 1 cited

SciPIP: An LLM-based Scientific Paper Idea Proposer

Wenxiao Wang, Lihui Gu, Liye Zhang +7

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has opened new possibilities for automating the proposal of innovative scientific ideas. This process involves two key phases:…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

URRL-IMVC: Unified and Robust Representation Learning for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering

Ge Teng, Ting Mao, Chen Shen +4

Incomplete multi-view clustering (IMVC) aims to cluster multi-view data that are only partially available. This poses two main challenges: effectively leveraging multi-view informa…

cs.CV2024

Discrete Latent Perspective Learning for Segmentation and Detection

Deyi Ji, Feng Zhao, Lanyun Zhu +3

In this paper, we address the challenge of Perspective-Invariant Learning in machine learning and computer vision, which involves enabling a network to understand images from varyi…

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…