activity
20242026
collaborators

8 papers

cs.AI2026

From Passive Metric to Active Signal: The Evolving Role of Uncertainty Quantification in Large Language Models

Jiaxin Zhang, Wendi Cui, Zhuohang Li +4

While Large Language Models (LLMs) show remarkable capabilities, their unreliability remains a critical barrier to deployment in high-stakes domains. This survey charts a functiona…

cs.CL2025

A Survey of Automatic Prompt Optimization with Instruction-focused Heuristic-based Search Algorithm

Wendi Cui, Zhuohang Li, Hao Sun +5

Recent advances in Large Language Models have led to remarkable achievements across a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks, making prompt engineering increasingly central t…

cs.CL2025

SEE: Strategic Exploration and Exploitation for Cohesive In-Context Prompt Optimization

Wendi Cui, Zhuohang Li, Hao Sun +5

Designing optimal prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs) is a complicated and resource-intensive task, often requiring substantial human expertise and effort. Existing approaches…

cs.CL2025

Gradient-guided Attention Map Editing: Towards Efficient Contextual Hallucination Mitigation

Yu Wang, Kamalika Das, Xiang Gao +3

In tasks like summarization and open-book question answering (QA), Large Language Models (LLMs) often encounter "contextual hallucination", where they produce irrelevant or incorre…

cs.CL2025

SCE: Scalable Consistency Ensembles Make Blackbox Large Language Model Generation More Reliable

Jiaxin Zhang, Zhuohang Li, Wendi Cui +3

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance, yet their diverse strengths and weaknesses prevent any single LLM from achieving dominance across all tasks.…

cs.LG2025

Towards Statistical Factuality Guarantee for Large Vision-Language Models

Zhuohang Li, Chao Yan, Nicholas J. Jackson +4

Advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in a variety of vision-language tasks involving image-conditioned free-form text genera…