Papers by Jianhao Shen

9 papers
Aligning VLM Assistants with Personalized Situated Cognition (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing studies on vision-language models aligned with general human objectives have not been successful because people with diversified backgrounds have different cognition even in the same situation.
Approach: They propose to characterize individuals based on the sociological concept of Role-Set and then evaluate their actions to see whether personalized alignment is achieved.
Outcome: The proposed framework constructs a cognition-aware and action-based reward model for personalized alignment.
ComSearch: Equation Searching with Combinatorial Strategy for Solving Math Word Problems with Weak Supervision (2023.eacl-main)

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Challenge: Existing weakly-supervised methods for solving math word problems are expensive and time-consuming.
Approach: They propose a weakly-supervised approach to solve math word problems . they propose 'comsearch' algorithm which compresses the search space by excluding mathematically equivalent equations.
Outcome: The proposed algorithm can compress the search space by excluding mathematically equivalent equations.
PALT: Parameter-Lite Transfer of Language Models for Knowledge Graph Completion (2022.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Pretrained language models (LMs) are a powerful transfer learning approach for knowledge graph (KG) completion.
Approach: They propose a parameter-lite transfer learning approach for pretrained language models for knowledge graph (KG) completion.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art models on a knowledge graph completion benchmark by tuning 1% of the parameters.
TRIGO: Benchmarking Formal Mathematical Proof Reduction for Generative Language Models (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Automated theorem proving (ATP) benchmarks focus on symbolic inference but rarely involve understanding complex number combination reasoning.
Approach: They propose a benchmark that requires a model to reduce a trigonometric expression with step-by-step proof and evaluates a generative LM’s reasoning ability on formulas and ability to manipulate, group, and factor number terms.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark evaluates a generative LM’s reasoning ability on formulas and ability to manipulate, group, and factor number terms.
Joint Language Semantic and Structure Embedding for Knowledge Graph Completion (2022.coling-1)

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Challenge: Existing methods to complete knowledge triplets rely on structures or semantics, but use semantics to improve performance.
Approach: They propose to embed semantics in the natural language description of knowledge triplets with their structure information.
Outcome: The proposed method improves performance on knowledge graph benchmarks and on low-resource regimes.
DT-Solver: Automated Theorem Proving with Dynamic-Tree Sampling Guided by Proof-level Value Function (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent advances in neural theorem-proving resort to large language models and tree searches.
Approach: They propose a Dynamic-Tree Driven Theorem Solver to accommodate general theoremes by guiding the search procedure with state confidence and proof-level values.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two popular theorem-proving datasets with a 6.65% improvement on average in terms of success rate.
Generate & Rank: A Multi-task Framework for Math Word Problems (2021.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing studies formalize MWP as a generation task but mathematical expressions are prone to minor mistakes.
Approach: They propose a ranking task for math word problem (MWP) that learns from its own mistakes and distinguishes between correct and incorrect expressions.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms baselines on the classical Math23k dataset and is 7% higher than the state-of-the-art.
Discover and Prove: An Open-source Agentic Framework for Hard Mode Automated Theorem Proving in Lean 4 (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to solving mathematical problems fall into two broad categories: informal methods and formal methods.
Approach: They propose to use LLM natural-language reasoning to discover answers . they introduce Discover And Prove framework that rewrites Hard Mode statements into Easy Mode ones for existing ATP provers.
Outcome: The proposed framework can be used to prove hard mode statements on ATP benchmarks.
Measuring Social Norms of Large Language Models (2024.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Existing datasets that evaluate a general understanding of social science are inadequate to understand social norms.
Approach: They propose a multi-agent framework to improve large language models’ ability to understand social norms by comparing them to elementary students.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves large language models to be on par with humans.

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