H. Vicky Zhao
2026
REST: Stress Testing Large Reasoning Models by Asking Multiple Problems at Once
Zhuoshi Pan | Qizhi Pei | Yu Li | Zinan Tang | QiYao Sun | H. Vicky Zhao | Conghui He | Lijun Wu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zhuoshi Pan | Qizhi Pei | Yu Li | Zinan Tang | QiYao Sun | H. Vicky Zhao | Conghui He | Lijun Wu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Recent Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have achieved remarkable progress, yet their evaluation still relies on a narrow paradigm: evaluating one question at a time. This single-question setup suffers from two major limitations: (1) vulnerability to data contamination and diminishing difficulty, forcing costly creation of new questions with significant human effort, (2) failure to evaluate models under multi-context pressure, a key requirement for real-world deployment. To bridge this gap, we present **REST** (Reasoning Evaluation through Simultaneous Testing), a stress-testing framework that exposes LRMs to multiple problems simultaneously. Beyond basic reasoning, REST evaluates two under-tested capabilities: *contextual priority allocation* and *robustness against contextual interference*. Our evaluation of more than **30** advanced reasoning models on **9** reasoning benchmarks reveals several striking findings: Even state-of-the-art (SOTA) models such as ***DeepSeek-R1 exhibit substantial performance degradation under stress testing***, challenging the prevailing assumption that "LLMs are multi-problem solvers". Crucially, ***REST demonstrates stronger discriminative power*** than existing benchmarks, revealing performance gaps among models that exhibit similar, near-ceiling performance under traditional evaluation. Some key insights emerge from our analysis: (1) the ***"overthinking trap"*** is a critical factor contributing to the performance degradation; (2) models trained with the ***"Long2Short" technique preserve more of their single-problem accuracy*** under REST, outperforming their standard-trained counterparts. These results establish REST as a cost-efficient, future-proof evaluation paradigm while reducing reliance on continuous human annotation. Code is available at https://github.com/opendatalab/REST.
2025
LEMMA: Learning from Errors for MatheMatical Advancement in LLMs
Zhuoshi Pan | Yu Li | Honglin Lin | Qizhi Pei | Zinan Tang | Wei Wu | Chenlin Ming | H. Vicky Zhao | Conghui He | Lijun Wu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Zhuoshi Pan | Yu Li | Honglin Lin | Qizhi Pei | Zinan Tang | Wei Wu | Chenlin Ming | H. Vicky Zhao | Conghui He | Lijun Wu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capability in solving mathematical problems. However, existing approaches primarily focus on improving the quality of correct training data, e.g., distilling high-quality correct solutions from advanced models, neglecting the value contained in error data, potentially hindering the model’s reflective ability. Though some studies attempted to leverage error data, they often involve complex mechanisms, such as Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to explore error nodes.In this work, we propose to enhance LLM’s reasoning ability by Learning from Errors for MatheMatical Advancement (LEMMA). LEMMA constructs data consists of an incorrect solution with an erroneous step and a reflection connection to a correct solution for fine-tuning. Specifically, we systematically analyze the model-generated error types and introduce an _error-type grounded mistake augmentation_ method to collect diverse and representative errors. Correct solutions are either from fixing the errors or generating a fresh start. By fine-tuning on the constructed dataset, the model is able to _self-correct errors autonomously_ within the generation process _without relying on external critique models_. Experimental results demonstrate that LEMMA achieves significant performance improvements over other strong models with less than 90k data.
InvestAlign: Overcoming Data Scarcity in Aligning Large Language Models with Investor Decision-Making Processes Under Herd Behavior
Huisheng Wang | Zhuoshi Pan | Hangjing Zhang | Mingxiao Liu | Hanqing Gao | H. Vicky Zhao
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Huisheng Wang | Zhuoshi Pan | Hangjing Zhang | Mingxiao Liu | Hanqing Gao | H. Vicky Zhao
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with investor decision-making processes under herd behavior is a critical challenge in behavioral finance, which grapples with a fundamental limitation: the scarcity of real-user data needed for Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT). While SFT can bridge the gap between LLM outputs and human behavioral patterns, its reliance on massive authentic data imposes substantial collection costs and privacy risks. We propose **InvestAlign**, a novel framework that constructs high-quality SFT datasets by leveraging theoretical solutions to similar and simple optimal investment problems rather than the complex scenarios. Our theoretical analysis demonstrates that training LLMs with **InvestAlign**-generated data achieves faster parameter convergence than using real-user data, suggesting superior learning efficiency. Furthermore, we develop **InvestAgent**, an LLM agent fine-tuned with **InvestAlign**, which shows significantly closer alignment to real-user data than pre-SFT models in both simple and complex investment problems. This highlights our proposed **InvestAlign** as a promising approach with the potential to address complex optimal investment problems and align LLMs with investor decision-making processes under herd behavior. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/thu-social-network-research-group/InvestAlign.
2024
LLMLingua-2: Data Distillation for Efficient and Faithful Task-Agnostic Prompt Compression
Zhuoshi Pan | Qianhui Wu | Huiqiang Jiang | Menglin Xia | Xufang Luo | Jue Zhang | Qingwei Lin | Victor Rühle | Yuqing Yang | Chin-Yew Lin | H. Vicky Zhao | Lili Qiu | Dongmei Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Zhuoshi Pan | Qianhui Wu | Huiqiang Jiang | Menglin Xia | Xufang Luo | Jue Zhang | Qingwei Lin | Victor Rühle | Yuqing Yang | Chin-Yew Lin | H. Vicky Zhao | Lili Qiu | Dongmei Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
This paper focuses on task-agnostic prompt compression for better generalizability and efficiency. Considering the redundancy in natural language, existing approaches compress prompts by removing tokens or lexical units according to their information entropy obtained from a causal language model such as LLaMa-7B. The challenge is that information entropy may be a suboptimal compression metric: (i) it only leverages unidirectional context and may fail to capture all essential information needed for prompt compression; (ii) it is not aligned with the prompt compression objective.To address these issues, we propose a data distillation procedure to derive knowledge from an LLM to compress prompts without losing crucial information, and meantime, introduce an extractive text compression dataset. We formulate prompt compression as a token classification problem to guarantee the faithfulness of the compressed prompt to the original one, and use a Transformer encoder as the base architecture to capture all essential information for prompt compression from the full bidirectional context. Our approach leads to lower latency by explicitly learning the compression objective with smaller models such as XLM-RoBERTa-large and mBERT.We evaluate our method on both in-domain and out-of-domain datasets, including MeetingBank, LongBench, ZeroScrolls, GSM8K, and BBH. Despite its small size, our model shows significant performance gains over strong baselines and demonstrates robust generalization ability across different LLMs. Additionally, our model is 3x-6x faster than existing prompt compression methods, while accelerating the end-to-end latency by 1.6x-2.9x with compression ratios of 2x-5x.