Papers by Yurong Zhang

5 papers
Exploring the Compositional Deficiency of Large Language Models in Mathematical Reasoning Through Trap Problems (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Current LLMs lack systematic compositionality, and therefore cannot serve as reliable cognitive models.
Approach: They propose to introduce logical traps into the original problems of MATH and GSM8K to investigate the compositionality of large language models in mathematical reasoning.
Outcome: The proposed model can generate infinite combinations from finite learned components.
Think-Search-Patch: A Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Framework for Repository-Level Code Repair (2025.emnlp-industry)

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Challenge: Large language models suffer from multiple-file coding scenarios with strong inter-file dependencies . experimental results show that large language models exhibit inadequate performance in multi-file scenarios .
Approach: They propose a retrieval-augmented reasoning framework for repository-level code repair . they use a dataset to generate standardized patches based on the key snippets .
Outcome: The proposed framework improves retrieval accuracy and repair success on SWE-bench Lite . it surpasses models with larger size in managing extensive code contexts and fixing bugs spanning across multiple files.
DecEx-RAG: Boosting Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Decision and Execution Optimization via Process Supervision (2025.emnlp-industry)

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Challenge: Recent advances in outcome-supervised reinforcement learning (RL) have shown strong performance, but this approach still suffers from inefficient exploration, sparse reward signals, and ambiguous global reward feedback.
Approach: They propose a model that models RAG as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and introduces an efficient pruning strategy to optimize data expansion.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing methods and achieves an average performance improvement of 6.2% across six datasets.
Vulnerability of Text-to-Image Models to Prompt Template Stealing: A Differential Evolution Approach (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Prompt trading has emerged as a significant intellectual property concern in recent years, where vendors entice users by showcasing sample images before selling prompt templates that can generate similar images.
Approach: They propose a prompt-stealing benchmark consisting of 50 templates and 450 images organized into Easy and Hard difficulty levels.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms baseline methods with an average improvement of over 10%.
Training LLMs for Optimization Modeling via Iterative Data Synthesis and Structured Validation (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) are a promising tool for OR, but they face challenges when dealing with complex problems.
Approach: They propose a framework that augments existing datasets and generates high-quality fine-tuning data tailored to OR.
Outcome: The proposed framework augments existing datasets and generates high-quality fine-tuning data . it prevents error propagation and ensures the quality of the generated dataset .

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