Papers by Shengyu Dai

2 papers
Towards Advanced Mathematical Reasoning for LLMs via First-Order Logic Theorem Proving (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising first-order logic (FOL) reasoning capabilities with applications in various areas, but their effectiveness in complex mathematical reasoning involving multi-step FOL deductions remains under-explored.
Approach: They propose a self-adaptive solution that enhances the Diversity and REAsonability of LLMs’ generation strategies by introducing an Axiom-Driven Strategy Diversification mechanism and a Sub-Proposition Error Feedback to help LLM reflect on and correct their proofs.
Outcome: The proposed model improves diversity and REAsonability of LLMs’ generation strategies by introducing an Axiom-Driven Strategy Diversification mechanism and a Sub-Proposition Error Feedback to help LLM reflect on and correct proofs.
SimpleDoc: Multi‐Modal Document Understanding with Dual‐Cue Page Retrieval and Iterative Refinement (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) is a task to answer questions based on documents containing text, tables, and images.
Approach: They propose a lightweight retrieval framework that uses visual language models to embed and retrieve relevant pages as images and generate answers with VLMs that can accept an image as input.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms baselines by 3.2% on average on 4 DocVQA datasets with much fewer pages retrieved.

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