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Yiran Shen 0004
dblp:405/3481
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 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 · 67% Reinforcement learning · 33% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › large language model reasoning › inference-time reasoning
deliberation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | SAND: Boosting LLM Agents with Self-Taught Action Deliberation · EMNLP 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
LLM agents |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | SAND: Boosting LLM Agents with Self-Taught Action Deliberation · EMNLP 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
supervised fine-tuning · 0.9self-consistency sampling · 0.9execution-guided critique · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | SAND: Boosting LLM Agents with Self-Taught Action DeliberationabstractLarge Language Model (LLM) agents are commonly tuned with supervised finetuning on ReAct-style expert trajectories or preference optimization over pairwise rollouts.Most of these methods focus on imitating specific expert behaviors or promoting chosen reasoning thoughts and actions over rejected ones.However, without reasoning and comparing over alternative actions, LLM agents finetuned with these methods may over-commit towards seemingly plausible but suboptimal actions due to limited action space exploration.To address this, in this paper we propose Self-taught Ac-tioN Deliberation (SAND) framework, enabling LLM agents to explicitly deliberate over candidate actions before committing to one.To tackle the challenges of when and what to deliberate given large action space and step-level action evaluation, we incorporate self-consistency action sampling and execution-guided action critique to help synthesize step-wise action deliberation thoughts using the base model of the LLM agent.In an iterative manner, the deliberation trajectories are then used to finetune the LLM agent itself.Evaluating on two representative interactive agent tasks, SAND achieves an average 20% improvement over supervised finetuning on initial expert data and also outperforms state-of-the-art agent tuning approaches. Yu Xia 0007, Yiran Shen 0004, Junda Wu, Tong Yu 0001, Sungchul Kim, Ryan Rossi, Lina Yao 0001, Julian J. McAuley |
EMNLP | 2 |