Papers by Zizhen Zhu
Modeling Multi-Dimensional Cognitive States in Large Language Models under Cognitive Crowding (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing Large Language Models (LLMs) mainly address isolated tasks such as emotion analysis or stance detection. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale model that combines large-level annotations with hyperbolic space to model human cognitive states. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models on cognitive dimensions on single dimension tasks while retaining strong hierarchical structure. |
Confidence-Calibrated Small-Large Language Model Collaboration for Cost-Efficient Reasoning (2026.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have superior reasoning capabilities compared to small language models, but incur substantially higher inference costs. |
| Approach: | They propose a system that cascades an LLM with an SLM to achieve a balance between accuracy and cost in complex reasoning tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system improves the SLM’s reasoning ability and confidence calibration across diverse datasets and model backbones. |