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Aijia Cheng
dblp:435/7318
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
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 · 77% Reinforcement learning · 23% |
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 › agentic language model › tool-augmented language models
function calling |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | R2IF: Aligning Reasoning with Decisions via Composite Rewards for Interpretable LLM Function Calling · ACL (1) 2026 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
reward design |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | R2IF: Aligning Reasoning with Decisions via Composite Rewards for Interpretable LLM Function Calling · ACL (1) 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
composite reward · 1.0chain-of-thought · 1.0GRPO · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | R2IF: Aligning Reasoning with Decisions via Composite Rewards for Interpretable LLM Function CallingabstractFunction calling empowers large language models (LLMs) to interface with external tools, yet existing RL-based approaches suffer from misalignment between reasoning processes and tool-call decisions.We propose R2IF, a reasoning-aware RL framework for interpretable function calling, adopting a composite reward integrating format/correctness constraints, Chain-of-Thought Effectiveness Reward (CER), and Specification-Modification-Value (SMV) reward, optimized via GRPO.Experiments on BFCL/ACEBench show R2IF outperforms baselines by up to 34.62% (Llama3.2-3B on BFCL) with positive Average CoT Effectiveness (0.05 for Llama3.2-3B),enhancing both function-calling accuracy and interpretability for reliable tool-augmented LLM deployment. Aijia Cheng, Kailong Wang 0001, Ling Shi 0002 |
ACL (1) | 1 |