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2025
LLM2: Let Large Language Models Harness System 2 Reasoning
Cheng Yang | Chufan Shi | Siheng Li | Bo Shui | Yujiu Yang | Wai Lam
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Cheng Yang | Chufan Shi | Siheng Li | Bo Shui | Yujiu Yang | Wai Lam
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive capabilities across a myriad of tasks, yet they occasionally yield undesirable outputs. We posit that these limitations are rooted in the foundational autoregressive architecture of LLMs, which inherently lacks mechanisms for differentiating between desirable and undesirable results. Drawing inspiration from the dual-process theory of human cognition, we introduce LLM2, a novel framework that combines an LLM (System 1) with a process-based verifier (System 2). Within LLM2, the LLM is responsible for generating plausible candidates, while the verifier provides timely process-based feedback to distinguish desirable and undesirable outputs. The verifier is trained with a pairwise comparison loss on synthetic process-supervision data generated through our token quality exploration strategy. Empirical results on mathematical reasoning benchmarks substantiate the efficacy of LLM2, exemplified by an accuracy enhancement from 50.3 to 57.8 (+7.5) for Llama3-1B on GSM8K. Furthermore, when combined with self-consistency, LLM2 achieves additional improvements, boosting major@20 accuracy from 56.2 to 70.2 (+14.0).
2024
HoLLMwood: Unleashing the Creativity of Large Language Models in Screenwriting via Role Playing
Jing Chen | Xinyu Zhu | Cheng Yang | Chufan Shi | Yadong Xi | Yuxiang Zhang | Junjie Wang | Jiashu Pu | Tian Feng | Yujiu Yang | Rongsheng Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
Jing Chen | Xinyu Zhu | Cheng Yang | Chufan Shi | Yadong Xi | Yuxiang Zhang | Junjie Wang | Jiashu Pu | Tian Feng | Yujiu Yang | Rongsheng Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
Generative AI has demonstrated unprecedented creativity in the field of computer vision, yet such phenomena have not been observed in natural language processing. In particular, large language models (LLMs) can hardly produce written works at the level of human experts due to the extremely high complexity of literature writing. In this paper, we present HoLLMwood, an automated framework for unleashing the creativity of LLMs and exploring their potential in screenwriting, which is a highly demanding task. Mimicking the human creative process, we assign LLMs to different roles involved in the real-world scenario. In addition to the common practice of treating LLMs as Writer, we also apply LLMs as Editor, who is responsible for providing feedback and revision advice to Writer. Besides, to enrich the characters and deepen the plots, we introduce a role-playing mechanism and adopt LLMs as Actors that can communicate and interact with each other. Evaluations on automatically generated screenplays show that HoLLMwood substantially outperforms strong baselines in terms of coherence, relevance, interestingness and overall quality.
ToolBeHonest: A Multi-level Hallucination Diagnostic Benchmark for Tool-Augmented Large Language Models
Yuxiang Zhang | Jing Chen | Junjie Wang | Yaxin Liu | Cheng Yang | Chufan Shi | Xinyu Zhu | Zihao Lin | Hanwen Wan | Yujiu Yang | Tetsuya Sakai | Tian Feng | Hayato Yamana
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yuxiang Zhang | Jing Chen | Junjie Wang | Yaxin Liu | Cheng Yang | Chufan Shi | Xinyu Zhu | Zihao Lin | Hanwen Wan | Yujiu Yang | Tetsuya Sakai | Tian Feng | Hayato Yamana
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Tool-augmented large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being integrated into real-world applications. Due to the lack of benchmarks, the community has yet to fully understand the hallucination issues within these models. To address this challenge, we introduce a comprehensive diagnostic benchmark, ToolBH. Specifically, we assess the LLM’s hallucinations through two perspectives: depth and breadth. In terms of depth, we propose a multi-level diagnostic process, including (1) solvability detection, (2) solution planning, and (3) missing-tool analysis. For breadth, we consider three scenarios based on the characteristics of the toolset: missing necessary tools, potential tools, and limited functionality tools. Furthermore, we developed seven tasks and collected 700 evaluation samples through multiple rounds of manual annotation. The results show the significant challenges presented by the ToolBH benchmark. The current advanced models Gemini-1.5-Pro and GPT-4o only achieve total scores of 45.3 and 37.0, respectively, on a scale of 100. In this benchmark, larger model parameters do not guarantee better performance; the training data and response strategies also play crucial roles in tool-enhanced LLM scenarios. Our diagnostic analysis indicates that the primary reason for model errors lies in assessing task solvability. Additionally, open-weight models suffer from performance drops with verbose replies, whereas proprietary models excel with longer reasoning.