Papers by Chen Dun
Flaming-hot Initiation with Regular Execution Sampling for Large Language Models (2025.findings-naacl)
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Weizhe Chen, Zhicheng Zhang, Guanlin Liu, Renjie Zheng, Wenlei Shi, Chen Dun, Zheng Wu, Xing Jin, Lin Yan
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains since the release of ChatGPT . a key challenge in developing these general capabilities is efficiently sourcing diverse, high-quality data. |
| Approach: | They introduce Flaming-hot Initiation with Regular Execution (FIRE) sampling to efficiently find good responses by promoting diversity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method enhances inference-time generation quality and benefits training in the alignment stage. |
Graph-Reward-SQL: Execution-Free Reinforcement Learning for Text-to-SQL via Graph Matching and Stepwise Reward (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Han Weng, Puzhen Wu, Cui Longjie, Yi Zhan, Boyi Liu, Yuanfeng Song, Dun Zeng, Yingxiang Yang, Qianru Zhang, Dong Huang, Xiaoming Yin, Yang Sun, Xing Chen
| Challenge: | Existing methods to enhance performance of large language models (LLMs) on Text-to-SQL tasks rely on execution-based or LLM-based reward models. |
| Approach: | They propose a reward model framework for RL-based Text-to-SQL that employs the GMNScore outcome reward model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed reward model outperforms existing reward models on standard benchmarks including Spider and BIRD. |
On Diversified Preferences of Large Language Model Alignment (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) can be fine tuned with human feedback, but human preferences can be diversified due to annotators’ different tastes, which hinders the effectiveness of LLM alignment methods. |
| Approach: | They propose a calibration error metric to evaluate large language models (LLMs) and a multi-objective reward learning method to enhance the calibration performance of RMs on shared preferences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be adopted as a key calibration error and MORE can achieve superior alignment performance. |