Xiaolong Li

Principal Researcher, Tencent America LLC

3 papers at NeurIPS 2025

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Poster Session 1

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 · 11:00 AM → 2:00 PM

Two Experts Are All You Need for Steering Thinking: Reinforcing Cognitive Effort in MoE Reasoning Models Without Additional Training

#1007 · Mengru Wang, Xingyu Chen, Yue Wang, Zhiwei He, Jiahao Xu, Tian Liang, Qiuzhi Liu, Yunzhi Yao, Wenxuan Wang, Ruotian Ma, Haitao Mi, Ningyu Zhang, Zhaopeng Tu, Xiaolong Li, Dong Yu

We introduce a novel inference-time steering methodology called Reinforcing Cognitive Experts (RICE), designed to improve reasoning depth and efficiency without additional training or complex heuristics.

Poster Session 2

1 paper

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 · 4:30 PM → 7:30 PM

Exhibit Hall C,D,E

The Lighthouse of Language: Enhancing LLM Agents via Critique-Guided Improvement

#4009 · Ruihan Yang, Fanghua Ye, Jian Li, Siyu Yuan, Yikai Zhang, Zhaopeng Tu, Xiaolong Li, Deqing Yang

Poster Session 4

1 paper

Thursday, December 4, 2025 · 4:30 PM → 7:30 PM

Exhibit Hall C,D,E

SPC: Evolving Self-Play Critic via Adversarial Games for LLM Reasoning

#4007 · Jiaqi Chen, Bang Zhang, Ruotian Ma, Peisong Wang, Xiaodan Liang, Zhaopeng Tu, Xiaolong Li, Kwan-Yee K. Wong