Yunzhi Yao

PhD student, Zhejiang University

1 paper 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.