Ph.D. Student

Computer Science Department

University of Virginia

Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Now I’m working on:

• LLM Reasoning

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Hi!👋 I’m Xinyu (/ʃɪn.ju:/) Zhu, ****a first-year computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, advised by Prof. ****Yu Meng. I am broadly interested in NLP and ML, especially in solving complex reasoning problems with LLMs, improving generation quality and reducing hallucination of LLMs. My long-term research goal is to enable human expert level reasoning, decision-making and cognitive intelligence for neural models and systems. I received my master degree at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. ****Yujiu Yang.

✨News

• [2025.05] I moved to Cupertino and started my internship at Apple AIML, looking forward to meeting new friends in the Bay Area!
• [2025.03] One survey on the honesty of LLMs is accepted by TMLR! 🎉
• [2025.01] One paper on evaluating LMM's reasoning via chart-to-code generation ****is accepted by ICLR 2025! 🎉
• [2024.10] Check out our comprehensive survey on the honesty of LLMs! 🎉 Also checkout our accompanied github repo! PRs welcome!
• [2024.09] One paper on improving MoE models' reasoning via self-contrast has been accepted by NeurIPS 2024, congrats to all the co-authors🎉! See you in Vancouver!
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👨‍🎓Education

• University of Virginia 2024.08 -- Present Ph.D. in Computer Science
• Tsinghua University 2021.09 -- 2024.06 Master in Electronic and Information Engineering
• Xidian University 2017.09 -- 2021.06 Bachelor in Electronic Science and Technology

📝Selected Publications (* indicates equal contribution)

Unchosen Experts Can Contribute Too: Unleashing MoE Models' Power by Self-Contrast

NeurIPS 2024

Chufan Shi, Cheng Yang*, Xinyu Zhu*, Jiahao Wang*, Taiqiang Wu, Siheng Li, Deng Cai, Yujiu Yang, Yu Meng*

[paper][code]

HoLLMwood: Unleashing the Creativity of Large Language Models in Screenwriting via Role Playing

EMNLP 2024 Findings

Jing Chen, Xinyu Zhu*, Cheng Yang, Chufan Shi, Yadong Xi, Yuxiang Zhang, Junjie Wang, Jiashu Pu, Tian Feng, Yujiu Yang, Rongsheng Zhang*

[paper]