Papers by Yiru Wang
SG-FSM: A Self-Guiding Zero-Shot Prompting Paradigm for Multi-Hop Question Answering Based on Finite State Machine (2025.findings-naacl)
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Xiaochen Wang, Junqing He, Liang Chen, Gholamreza Haffari, Yiru Wang, Zhe Yang, Xiangdi Meng, Kunhao Pan, Zhifang Sui
| Challenge: | Multi-hop Question Answering (MHQA) is a challenging task that requires models to answer multiple questions with multiple passages. |
| Approach: | They propose a self-guided prompting finite state machine to improve multi-hop reasoning abilities by iterating over multiple questions and correcting itself to improve accuracy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms baselines on Musique and other datasets. |
Enhancing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Neuron Activation Differential Analysis (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on optimizing external components of CoT, but lack internal explanations for the quality of the model's outputs. |
| Approach: | They propose an efficient method to identify reasoning-critical neurons by analyzing their activation patterns under reasoning chains of varying quality. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method shows that neurons in the feed-forward layers are critical in the generation of high-quality reasoning chains. |
Beyond Single Frames: Can LMMs Comprehend Implicit Narratives in Comic Strip? (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Xiaochen Wang, Heming Xia, Jialin Song, Longyu Guan, Qingxiu Dong, Rui Li, Yixin Yang, Yifan Pu, Weiyao Luo, Yiru Wang, Xiangdi Meng, Wenjie Li, Zhifang Sui
| Challenge: | Large Multimodal Models have demonstrated strong performance on vision-language benchmarks, yet current evaluations focus on single-image reasoning. |
| Approach: | STRIPCIPHER is a benchmark designed to evaluate model ability on understanding implicit narratives in silent comics. |
| Outcome: | STRIPCIPHER is a high-quality, human-annotated dataset featuring fine-grained annotations and comprehensive coverage of varying difficulty levels. |
LLMBox: A Comprehensive Library for Large Language Models (2024.acl-demos)
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Tianyi Tang, Hu Yiwen, Bingqian Li, Wenyang Luo, ZiJing Qin, Haoxiang Sun, Jiapeng Wang, Shiyi Xu, Xiaoxue Cheng, Geyang Guo, Han Peng, Bowen Zheng, Yiru Tang, Yingqian Min, Yushuo Chen, Jie Chen, Ranchi Zhao, Luran Ding, Yuhao Wang, Zican Dong, Xia Chunxuan, Junyi Li, Kun Zhou, Xin Zhao, Ji-Rong Wen
| Challenge: | a library to facilitate the development, use, and evaluation of large language models (LLMs) is presented. |
| Approach: | They propose a unified library to facilitate the development, use and evaluation of large language models (LLMs). |
| Outcome: | The proposed library is based on extensive experiments in a variety of evaluation settings. |