activity
20242026
collaborators

12 papers

cs.CL2026

Knowing When to Quit: Diagnosing and Training LLMs to Abort Futile Reasoning

Xinyan Guan, Jiali Zeng, Chunlei Xin +5

Large language models generate computationally expensive yet semantically void reasoning on beyond-capability tasks, creating risks where plausible-sounding but incorrect derivatio…

cs.LG2026

Offline Exploration-Aware Fine-Tuning for Long-Chain Mathematical Reasoning

Yongyu Mu, Jiali Zeng, Fandong Meng +2

Through encouraging self-exploration, reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) has significantly advanced the mathematical reasoning capabilities of large language mod…

cs.CL2025

GRAM-R: Self-Training Generative Foundation Reward Models for Reward Reasoning

Chenglong Wang, Yongyu Mu, Hang Zhou +10

Significant progress in reward modeling over recent years has been driven by a paradigm shift from task-specific designs towards generalist reward models. Despite this trend, devel…

cs.LG2025

Dissecting Long-Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Models: An Empirical Study

Yongyu Mu, Jiali Zeng, Bei Li +5

Despite recent progress in training long-chain-of-thought reasoning models via scaling reinforcement learning (RL), its underlying training dynamics remain poorly understood, and s…

cs.LG2025

ConCISE: Confidence-guided Compression in Step-by-step Efficient Reasoning

Ziqing Qiao, Yongheng Deng, Jiali Zeng +7

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) perform strongly in complex reasoning tasks via Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting, but often suffer from verbose outputs, increasing computational over…

cs.CL2025

RewardAnything: Generalizable Principle-Following Reward Models

Zhuohao Yu, Jiali Zeng, Weizheng Gu +7

Reward Models, essential for guiding Large Language Model optimization, are typically trained on fixed preference datasets, resulting in rigid alignment to single, implicit prefere…