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Tianshi ZHENG

HKUST

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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Erased, Rerouted, or Rescaled? Post-Training and the Causal Quotient of a Language Model's Belief State

What happens to information a pretrained model already encodes when post-training no longer rewards using it? The common language of representation compression conflates three fates: information may be erased, rerouted away from the decision while still represented, or rescaled to occupy less variance while still repre...

Wei-Han Li, Tianshi ZHENG, Jun-Hao Wu et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ULTRADISCOVERY: Abductive Exploration in an Interconnected, Epistemically Open Universe

Scientific discovery often begins when scattered clues call for a new way of describing the world. Such abductive exploration can require constructing the representation in which an explanation is stated, when the world is epistemically open, and composing evidence scattered across contexts, when it is structurally int...

Wei-Han Li, Tianshi ZHENG, Yang-Qiu Song et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Jan 2026

NOVA: NOise-aware Verbal Confidence CAlibration for Robust Large Language Models in RAG Systems

Noise-Aware Verbal Confidence CAlibration Rules are proposed to provide a principled foundation for resolving overconfidence under noise and NOVA, a noise-aware calibration framework that synthesizes supervision from ~2K HotpotQA examples guided by these rules.

Jiayu Liu, Rui Wang, Qing Zong et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2025

Rethinking Prospect Theory for LLMs: Revealing the Instability of Decision-Making under Epistemic Uncertainty

Real-world decision-making often involves uncertainty expressed in linguistic rather than numerical terms, and Prospect Theory (PT) provides a classic framework for modeling human behavior under such uncertainty. Although recent studies have developed frameworks to estimate PT parameters for Large Language Models (LLMs...

Rui Wang, Qi-Han Lin, Jiayu Liu et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Same Outcome, Different Readout: What Does a Steerable Valence Direction in LLMs Represent?

Claims about what an internal direction in an LLM represents need evidential constraints beyond an observer's prior beliefs about the system. Decodability and successful activation steering do not, by themselves, establish which construct the direction tracks. This gap is especially consequential for welfare-relevant i...

Wei-Han Li, Xin-Lei Chen, Yu-Han Song et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AgentIdeaBench: Benchmarking Scientific Ideation in the Agent Era

AgentIdeaBench is introduced, a multidisciplinary benchmark that evaluates scientific ideation under two matched settings, static observation and active exploration, and Scientific World Modeling is explored, a generation-time loop that refines a draft hypothesis through structured thought experiments.

Yunxiang Mo, Tianshi ZHENG, Yi-Sen Gao et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Finding the Right Evidence: Factor-Guided Coarse-to-Fine Reasoning for Long Videos

Consistent gains over DVD on LVBench, Video-MME, EgoSchema, and LongVideoBench suggest that option-aware evidence acquisition transfers beyond MMR-V, and proposes PACE (Progressive Acquisition of Critical Evidence), a factor-guided framework for long-video evidence acquisition.

Bai-Xuan Xu, Yinyui Xu, Tianshi ZHENG et al. · 1 citation

MultivationBench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Sequential Motivation Reasoning

Results indicate that MultivationBench presents a significant challenge: all tested models struggle to maintain consistent motivation reasoning across sequential contexts, revealing a critical disconnect between static recognition capabilities and the dynamic reasoning essential for human-like social understanding.

Ka-po. Chung, Chunkit Chan, Yauwai Yim et al. · 0 citations
Conference Open access 2026

InferenceDynamics: Adaptive LLM Routing through Structured Capability and Knowledge Profiling

This work proposes InferenceDynamics, a flexible and scalable multi-dimensional routing framework by modeling the capability and knowledge of models, and demonstrates its effectiveness and generalizability in group-level routing using modern benchmarks including MMLU-Pro, GPQA, BigGen-Bench, and LiveBench.

Haochen Shi, Tianshi ZHENG, Weiqi Wang et al. · 0 citations

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