Papers by Xingyu Zeng
ARise: Towards Knowledge-Augmented Reasoning via Risk-Adaptive Search (2025.acl-long)
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Yize Zhang, Tianshu Wang, Sirui Chen, Kun Wang, Xingyu Zeng, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Chaochao Lu
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have impressive capabilities but their application in open-ended, knowledge-intensive, complex reasoning scenarios is limited. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates risk assessment of intermediate reasoning states with dynamic retrieval-augmented generation within a Monte Carlo tree search paradigm. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art KAR methods by up to 23.10% and the latest RAG-equipped large reasoning models by upto 25.37%. |
CLEAR: Can Language Models Really Understand Causal Graphs? (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing language models lack a conceptual framework for understanding causal graphs, but there is still potential for improvement. |
| Approach: | They develop a framework to define causal graph understanding by assessing language models’ behaviors through four practical criteria derived from diverse disciplines. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework defines three complexity levels and encompasses 20 causal graph-based tasks across 20 different levels. |
TPTU-v2: Boosting Task Planning and Tool Usage of Large Language Model-based Agents in Real-world Industry Systems (2024.emnlp-industry)
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Yilun Kong, Jingqing Ruan, YiHong Chen, Bin Zhang, Tianpeng Bao, Shi Shiwei, Du Qing, Xiaoru Hu, Hangyu Mao, Ziyue Li, Xingyu Zeng, Rui Zhao, Xueqian Wang
| Challenge: | Large language models have demonstrated proficiency in addressing tasks that necessitate a combination of task planning and the usage of external tools. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to enhance the task planning and tool usage abilities of LLMs in industrial systems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework enhances the task planning and tool usage abilities of LLM-based agents in industrial systems. |
MetaBench: A Multi-task Benchmark for Assessing LLMs in Metabolomics (2026.acl-long)
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Yuxing Lu, Xukai Zhao, J. Ben Tamo, Micky C. Nnamdi, Rui Peng, Shuang Zeng, Xingyu Hu, Jinzhuo Wang, May Dongmei Wang
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities on general text, but their proficiency in specialized scientific domains remains uncharacterized. |
| Approach: | They evaluate the capabilities of large language models in metabolomics research using MetaBench . they found that models perform well on text generation tasks, but cross-database identifier grounding remains challenging . |
| Outcome: | The evaluation of 25 open- and closed-source LLMs reveals distinct performance patterns across metabolomics tasks. |
Logic-of-Thought: Injecting Logic into Contexts for Full Reasoning in Large Language Models (2025.naacl-long)
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Tongxuan Liu, Wenjiang Xu, Weizhe Huang, Yuting Zeng, Jiaxing Wang, Xingyu Wang, Hailong Yang, Jing Li
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various tasks but their performance in complex logical reasoning tasks remains unsatisfactory. |
| Approach: | They propose a propositional logic prompting method which generates expanded logical information descriptions and utilizes them as an additional augmentation to original contexts. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments show that Logic-of-Thought boosts the performance of various prompting methods with a striking margin across five logical reasoning tasks. |