Papers by Nanning Zheng
Can LLMs Learn From Mistakes? An Empirical Study on Reasoning Tasks (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing work has shown that simple learning can enhance the chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning of large language models. |
| Approach: | They construct mistake-correction datasets to identify and correct mistakes in CoTs . they conclude that LLMs can learn from mistakes to enhance their CoT reasoning . |
| Outcome: | The proposed datasets show that LLMs can learn from mistakes to enhance their CoT reasoning performance. |
Learning Algebraic Recombination for Compositional Generalization (2021.findings-acl)
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Chenyao Liu, Shengnan An, Zeqi Lin, Qian Liu, Bei Chen, Jian-Guang Lou, Lijie Wen, Nanning Zheng, Dongmei Zhang
| Challenge: | Neural sequence models exhibit limited compositional generalization ability in semantic parsing tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose an end-to-end neural model to learn algebraic recombination for compositional generalization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on two realistic and comprehensive compositional generalization benchmarks. |
Skill-Based Few-Shot Selection for In-Context Learning (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods based on pre-trained embeddings can be easily biased by surface features that are not important for the target task. |
| Approach: | They propose a skill-based few-shot selection method for in-context learning . it generates skill-specific descriptions for each test case and candidate example . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly outperforms existing methods in five cross-domain semantic parsing datasets and six backbone models. |
Think before Go: Hierarchical Reasoning for Image-goal Navigation (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for image-goal navigation fail to extract informative visual cues, leading agents to wander around. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that decomposes image-goal navigation into high-level planning and low-level execution. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is superior to existing methods in both simulation and real-world environments. |
How Do In-Context Examples Affect Compositional Generalization? (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | In-context learning paradigms that focus on large corpus are limiting compositional generalization performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a test suite to investigate in-context compositional generalization . they propose to use examples that are structurally similar to the test case . |
| Outcome: | The proposed test suite investigates in-context compositional generalization performance . it finds that the performance can be affected by the selection of in-const examples . |