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most citedSmall LLMs Are Weak Tool Learners: A Multi-LLM Agent

4 citations · 12 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2026

Cross-Domain Hybrid OPD for Generalizable Search Agents

Hongzhan Chen, Xiaoyu Liu, Dengming Zhang +11

Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL) have substantially improved the capabilities of autonomous search agents, enabling sophisticated planning, and iterative retrieval ov…

cs.CL2026

Unleashing Implicit Rewards: Prefix-Value Learning for Distribution-Level Optimization

Shiping Gao, Hongzhan Chen, Xiaojun Quan +2

Process reward models (PRMs) provide fine-grained supervision for reasoning, but reliable PRMs often require step annotations or heavy verification pipelines, making them costly to…

cs.LG2026

Stabilizing Policy Optimization via Logits Convexity

Hongzhan Chen, Tao Yang, Yuhua Zhu +3

While reinforcement learning (RL) has been central to the recent success of large language models (LLMs), RL optimization is notoriously unstable, especially when compared to super…

cs.CL2025

Discriminative Policy Optimization for Token-Level Reward Models

Hongzhan Chen, Tao Yang, Shiping Gao +4

Process reward models (PRMs) provide more nuanced supervision compared to outcome reward models (ORMs) for optimizing policy models, positioning them as a promising approach to enh…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

SocialBench: Sociality Evaluation of Role-Playing Conversational Agents

Hongzhan Chen, Hehong Chen, Ming Yan +8

Large language models (LLMs) have advanced the development of various AI conversational agents, including role-playing conversational agents that mimic diverse characters and human…

cs.AI2024★ 4 cited

Small LLMs Are Weak Tool Learners: A Multi-LLM Agent

Weizhou Shen, Chenliang Li, Hongzhan Chen +5

Large Language Model (LLM) agents significantly extend the capabilities of standalone LLMs, empowering them to interact with external tools (e.g., APIs, functions) and complete var…

cs.CL2024

Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models

Hongzhan Chen, Ruijun Chen, Yuqi Yi +4

Given the exceptional performance of proprietary large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, recent research has increasingly focused on boosting the capabilities of smaller models th…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

MCC-KD: Multi-CoT Consistent Knowledge Distillation

Hongzhan Chen, Siyue Wu, Xiaojun Quan +3

Large language models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities in complex reasoning through chain of thought (CoT) prompting. Recently, there has been a growing interest in tr…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

AD-KD: Attribution-Driven Knowledge Distillation for Language Model Compression

Siyue Wu, Hongzhan Chen, Xiaojun Quan +2

Knowledge distillation has attracted a great deal of interest recently to compress pre-trained language models. However, existing knowledge distillation methods suffer from two lim…