Papers by Zhenyu Hou
SceneGenAgent: Precise Industrial Scene Generation with Coding Agent (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent work on scene generation focuses on generating 3D scenes from textual descriptions . however, the task of generating industrial scenes with LLMs is complex and requires precise measurements and positioning . |
| Approach: | They propose an LLM-based agent for generating industrial scenes through C# code. |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that LLMs powered by SceneGenAgent exceed their original performance . the agent achieves 81.0% success rate in real-world industrial scene generation tasks . |
LongReward: Improving Long-context Large Language Models with AI Feedback (2025.acl-long)
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Jiajie Zhang, Zhongni Hou, Xin Lv, Shulin Cao, Zhenyu Hou, Yilin Niu, Lei Hou, Yuxiao Dong, Ling Feng, Juanzi Li
| Challenge: | In recent years, significant advancements have been achieved in the development of long-context large language models (LLMs). |
| Approach: | They propose a method that utilizes an off-the-shelf LLM to provide rewards for long-context model responses from four human-valued dimensions: helpfulness, logicality, faithfulness, and completeness. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves models’ long-context performance and enhances their ability to follow short instructions. |
A Survey of Post-Training Scaling in Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)
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Hanyu Lai, Xiao Liu, Junjie Gao, Jiale Cheng, Zehan Qi, Yifan Xu, Shuntian Yao, Dan Zhang, Jinhua Du, Zhenyu Hou, Xin Lv, Minlie Huang, Yuxiao Dong, Jie Tang
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated proficiency in understanding and generating human natural languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for scaling large language models using supervised fine-tuning, RLxF and test-time compute methodologies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be used to understand and generate human natural languages. |
ChatGLM-Math: Improving Math Problem-Solving in Large Language Models with a Self-Critique Pipeline (2024.findings-emnlp)
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Yifan Xu, Xiao Liu, Xinghan Liu, Zhenyu Hou, Yueyan Li, Xiaohan Zhang, Zihan Wang, Aohan Zeng, Zhengxiao Du, Zhao Wenyi, Jie Tang, Yuxiao Dong
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have shown excellent mastering of human language but struggle in real-world applications that require mathematical problem-solving. |
| Approach: | They propose a pipeline to train a general Math-Critique model from the LLM itself to provide feedback signals and employ rejective fine-tuning and direct preference optimization over the Llm's own generations for data collection. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline outperforms existing LLMs that could be two times larger. |
SWE-Dev: Building Software Engineering Agents with Training and Inference Scaling (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have advanced rapidly from conversational problem solving to addressing real-world tasks involving tool use, such as software engineering (SWE). |
| Approach: | They propose to build an LLM-based software engineering agent that synthesizes test cases and scales up agent trajectories to build training data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models on the SWE-bench-Verified benchmark. |
TreeRL: LLM Reinforcement Learning with On-Policy Tree Search (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for On-Policy LLM RL typically train a separate process reward model, which suffers from distribution mismatch and reward hacking. |
| Approach: | They propose a reinforcement learning framework that directly incorporates on-policy tree search for RL training. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on math and code reasoning benchmarks show that tree search achieves superior performance compared to traditional ChainRL. |
Multimodal Neural Machine Translation: A Survey of the State of the Art (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Multimodal neural machine translation (MNMT) is a task that aims to translate text into the target language using neural networks. |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate other modalities with textual data to enhance translation performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed task aims to integrate visual modality with textual data to improve translation quality. |