Papers by Zechao Li
Soft Knowledge Prompt: Help External Knowledge Become a Better Teacher to Instruct LLM in Knowledge-based VQA (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent research focuses on improving prediction performance and reliability of LLM. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to actively extract valuable information from the knowledge to produce a latent vector as a soft prompt, which is fused with the image embedding to form a knowledge-enhanced context to instruct LLM. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves performance on knowledge-based VQA benchmarks. |
The Reasoning Trap: How Enhancing LLM Reasoning Amplifies Tool Hallucination (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies suggest that strengthening reasoning often coincides with increased hallucination . however, no prior work has examined whether reasoning enhancement itself causes tool hallucinism . |
| Approach: | They propose a diagnostic benchmark measuring tool hallucination in two failure modes . they demonstrate a causal relationship between enhancing reasoning and tool hallubulation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark measures tool hallucination in two failure modes: no tool available, and (ii) only distractor tools available. |