4 papers
Beyond Correctness: Harmonizing Process and Outcome Rewards through RL Training
Chenlu Ye, Zhou Yu, Ziji Zhang +5
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) improves final-answer accuracy on reasoning tasks, but it does not reliably improve reasoning quality. Because outcome rewards…
Semantic Volume: Quantifying and Detecting both External and Internal Uncertainty in LLMs
Xiaomin Li, Zhou Yu, Ziji Zhang +4
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse tasks by encoding vast amounts of factual knowledge. However, they are still prone to hallucina…
When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs
Xiaomin Li, Zhou Yu, Zhiwei Zhang +5
Reasoning-enhanced large language models (RLLMs), whether explicitly trained for reasoning or prompted via chain-of-thought (CoT), have achieved state-of-the-art performance on man…
DARD: A Multi-Agent Approach for Task-Oriented Dialog Systems
Aman Gupta, Anirudh Ravichandran, Ziji Zhang +3
Task-oriented dialogue systems are essential for applications ranging from customer service to personal assistants and are widely used across various industries. However, developin…