Xiangyan Liu
2026
SynthRL: Scaling Visual Reasoning with Verifiable Data Synthesis
Zijian Wu | Jinjie Ni | Xiangyan Liu | Zichen Liu | Hang Yan | Michael Qizhe Shieh
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Zijian Wu | Jinjie Ni | Xiangyan Liu | Zichen Liu | Hang Yan | Michael Qizhe Shieh
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Vision-language models (VLMs) trained via reinforcement learning with verifiable reward (RLVR) have shown notable progress in scaling test-time compute effectively. In this work, we investigate how synthesized RL data can further improve RLVR. To this end, we propose SynthRL—a scalable and guaranteed pipeline for automatic data scaling in reasoning-oriented RL training. SynthRL comprises three key stages: (1) selecting seed questions with appropriate distribution, (2) augmenting them into more challenging variants while preserving the original answers, and (3) a guaranteed verification stage that ensures near-perfect correctness and difficulty enhancement. Our empirical experiments demonstrate SynthRL’s scalability and effectiveness. When applied to the MMK12 dataset, SynthRL synthesizes over 3.3K additional verifiable, challenging questions from approximately 8K seed samples. Models trained with our synthesized data achieve consistent gains across five out-of-domain visual math reasoning benchmarks, with a significant improvement over baseline models trained on seed data alone. Notably, detailed analysis reveals that the gains are more pronounced on the most challenging evaluation samples, highlighting SynthRL’s effectiveness in eliciting deeper and more complex reasoning patterns.
2025
CodexGraph: Bridging Large Language Models and Code Repositories via Code Graph Databases
Xiangyan Liu | Bo Lan | Zhiyuan Hu | Yang Liu | Zhicheng Zhang | Fei Wang | Michael Qizhe Shieh | Wenmeng Zhou
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Xiangyan Liu | Bo Lan | Zhiyuan Hu | Yang Liu | Zhicheng Zhang | Fei Wang | Michael Qizhe Shieh | Wenmeng Zhou
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in stand-alone code tasks like HumanEval and MBPP, but struggle with handling entire code repositories. This challenge has prompted research on enhancing LLM-codebase interaction at a repository scale. Current solutions rely on similarity-based retrieval or manual tools and APIs, each with notable drawbacks. Similarity-based retrieval often has low recall in complex tasks, while manual tools and APIs are typically task-specific and require expert knowledge, reducing their generalizability across diverse code tasks and real-world applications. To mitigate these limitations, we introduce CodexGraph, a system that integrates LLM agents with graph database interfaces extracted from code repositories. By leveraging the structural properties of graph databases and the flexibility of the graph query language, CodexGraph enables the LLM agent to construct and execute queries, allowing for precise, code structure-aware context retrieval and code navigation. We assess CodexGraph using three benchmarks: CrossCodeEval, SWE-bench, and EvoCodeBench. Additionally, we develop five real-world coding applications. With a unified graph database schema, CodexGraph demonstrates competitive performance and potential in both academic and real-world environments, showcasing its versatility and efficacy in software engineering. Our code and demo will be released soon.