CC-LEARN: Cohort-based Consistency Learning
Xiao Ye, Shaswat Shrivastava, Zhaonan Li, Jacob Dineen, Shijie Lu, Avneet Ahuja, Ming Shen, Zhikun Xu, Ben Zhou
Under review in arXiv, 2025
Publications
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Preprints
BOW: Bottlenecked Next Word Exploration
Ming Shen*, Zhikun Xu*, Xiao Ye, Jacob Dineen, Ben Zhou
Under review in arXiv, 2025
Conference Papers
QA-LIGN: Aligning LLMs through Constitutionally Decomposed QA
Jacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Qin Liu, Zhikun Xu, Xiao Ye, Ming Shen, Zhaonan Li, Shijie Lu, Chitta Baral, Muhao Chen, Ben Zhou
Published in Findings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025
VISUAL-ALPHASOCIAL: Benchmark and Self-Reflective Chain-of-Thought Generation for Visual Social Commonsense Reasoning
Zongyu Lin*, Zhikun Xu*, Xiaohan Song*, Yixin Wan, Xingcheng Yao, Tsung-Han Lin, Selina Song, Pranav Subbaraman, Ben Zhou, Kai-Wei Chang, Yizhou Sun
Published in Findings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
One Example Shown, Many Concepts Known! Counterexample-Driven Conceptual Reasoning in Mathematical LLMs
Yinghui Li*, Jiayi Kuang*, Haojing Huang*, Zhikun Xu*†, Xinnian Liang, Yi Yu, Wenlian Lu, Yangning Li, Xiaoyu Tan, Chao Qu, Ying Shen, Hai-Tao Zheng, Philip S. Yu
Published in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
ToW: Thoughts of Words Improve Reasoning in Large Language Models
Zhikun Xu*, Ming Shen*, Jacob Dineen, Zhaonan Li, Xiao Ye, Shijie Lu, Aswin RRV, Chitta Baral, Ben Zhou
Published in Main Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2025
Let LLMs Take on the Latest Challenges! A Chinese Dynamic Question Answering Benchmark
Zhikun Xu*, Yinghui Li*, Ruixue Ding, Xinyu Wang, Boli Chen, Yong Jiang, Hai-Tao Zheng, Wenlian Lu, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang
Published in International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2025
Evaluating Open-QA Evaluation
Cunxiang Wang*, Sirui Cheng*, Qipeng Guo, Zhikun Xu, Bowen Ding, Yunhao Yun, Yidong Wang, Xiangkun Hu, Zheng Zhang and Yue Zhang
Published in Datasets and Benchmarks Track, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurlPS), 2023
Exploiting Abstract Meaning Representation for Open-Domain Question Answering
Cunxiang Wang, Zhikun Xu, Qipeng Guo, Xiangkun Hu, Xuefeng Bai, Zheng Zhang, Yue Zhang
Published in Findings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023