VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Yanwei Ren
dblp:246/3497
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Language models and text generation · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › chain-of-thought reasoning
chain-of-thought generation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | SIGMA: Refining Large Language Model Reasoning via Sibling-Guided Monte Carlo Augmentation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
large language model reasoning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | SIGMA: Refining Large Language Model Reasoning via Sibling-Guided Monte Carlo Augmentation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
revision model · 0.9monte carlo tree search · 0.9critique models · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | SIGMA: Refining Large Language Model Reasoning via Sibling-Guided Monte Carlo AugmentationabstractEnhancing large language models by simply scaling up datasets has begun to yield diminishing returns, shifting the spotlight to data quality. Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has emerged as a powerful technique for generating high-quality chain-of-thought data, yet conventional approaches typically retain only the top-scoring trajectory from the search tree, discarding sibling nodes that often contain valuable partial insights, recurrent error patterns, and alternative reasoning strategies. This unconditional rejection of non-optimal reasoning branches may waste vast amounts of informative data in the whole search tree. We propose SIGMA (Sibling Guided Monte Carlo Augmentation), a novel framework that reintegrates these discarded sibling nodes to refine LLM reasoning. SIGMA forges semantic links among sibling nodes along each search path and applies a two-stage refinement: a critique model identifies overlooked strengths and weaknesses across the sibling set, and a revision model conducts text-based backpropagation to refine the top-scoring trajectory in light of this comparative feedback. By recovering and amplifying the underutilized but valuable signals from non-optimal reasoning branches, SIGMA substantially improves reasoning trajectories. On the challenging MATH benchmark, our SIGMA-tuned 7B model achieves 54.92\% accuracy using only 30K samples, outperforming state-of-the-art models trained on 590K samples. This result highlights that our sibling-guided optimization not only significantly reduces data usage but also significantly boosts LLM reasoning. Yanwei Ren, Fuxiang Wu, Jiayan Qiu, Jiaxing Huang 0001, Baosheng Yu, Liu Liu 0014 |
NeurIPS | 1 |