Papers by Quansen Wang
ReflectEvo: Improving Meta Introspection of Small LLMs by Learning Self-Reflection (2025.findings-acl)
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Jiaqi Li, Xinyi Dong, Yang Liu, Zhizhuo Yang, Quansen Wang, Xiaobo Wang, Song-Chun Zhu, Zixia Jia, Zilong Zheng
| Challenge: | ReflectEvo-460k is a large-scale, comprehensive, self-generated reflection dataset with broadened instructions and diverse multi-domain tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a pipeline that iteratively generates self-reflection for self-training and a large-scale reflection dataset with broadened instructions and diverse multi-domain tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline improves Llama-3 reasoning ability by up to 71.2% and Mistral by upto 44.4%. |
Varying Sentence Representations via Condition-Specified Routers (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing sentences cannot account for different aspects of semantic similarity between two sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose a transformer-style framework that generates conditioned sentences . they propose 'conditional' STS, which measures similarity between two sentences based on condition sentences - a task that requires a sentence embedding model capable of generating distinct representations for the same sentence under different conditions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is superior to existing models on two condition sentences . it can generate conditioned sentences while maintaining model parameters and computational efficiency . |
Are the Values of LLMs Structurally Aligned with Humans? A Causal Perspective (2025.findings-acl)
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Yipeng Kang, Junqi Wang, Yexin Li, Mengmeng Wang, Wenming Tu, Quansen Wang, Hengli Li, Tingjun Wu, Xue Feng, Fangwei Zhong, Zilong Zheng
| Challenge: | Current approaches to value alignment focus on a few core values, such as helpfulness, harmlessness, and honesty. |
| Approach: | They propose to use latent causal value graphs to guide two lightweight value-steering methods . role-based prompting and sparse autoencoder (SAE) steering are also used . |
| Outcome: | Experiments on Gemma-2B-IT and Llama3-8B- IT show that the proposed methods are effective and controllable. |