Publications

2026

1. arXiv

   Bridging Reasoning Trajectories in On-Policy Distillation via Near-Future Guidance

   Yuxuan Jiang, and Francis Ferraro

   arXiv preprint, 2026

   arXiv Bib HTML PDF

   @article{jiang2026topd,
     title = {Bridging Reasoning Trajectories in On-Policy Distillation via Near-Future Guidance},
     author = {Jiang, Yuxuan and Ferraro, Francis},
     journal = {arXiv preprint},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00305},
     dimensions = {true}
   }

2. arXiv

   Cornerstones or Stumbling Blocks? Deciphering the Rock Tokens in On-Policy Distillation

   Yuxuan Jiang, Runchao Li, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Dawei Li, and Zhao Yang

   arXiv preprint, 2026

   arXiv Bib HTML PDF

   @article{jiang2026rocktokens,
     title = {Cornerstones or Stumbling Blocks? Deciphering the Rock Tokens in On-Policy Distillation},
     author = {Jiang, Yuxuan and Li, Runchao and Roy Dipta, Shubhashis and Li, Dawei and Yang, Zhao},
     journal = {arXiv preprint},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09253},
     dimensions = {true}
   }

3. EMNLP

   SCRIBE: Structured Mid-Level Supervision for Tool-Using Language Models

   Yuxuan Jiang, and Francis Ferraro

   EMNLP 2026 Main, 2026

   arXiv Bib HTML PDF

   @article{jiang2026scribe,
     title = {SCRIBE: Structured Mid-Level Supervision for Tool-Using Language Models},
     author = {Jiang, Yuxuan and Ferraro, Francis},
     journal = {EMNLP 2026 Main},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03555},
     dimensions = {true}
   }

4. ACL

   DRP: Distilled Reasoning Pruning with Skill-aware Step Decomposition for Efficient Large Reasoning Models

   Yuxuan Jiang, Dawei Li, and Francis Ferraro

   ACL 2026 Findings, 2026

   arXiv Bib

   @article{jiang2025drp,
     title = {DRP: Distilled Reasoning Pruning with Skill-aware Step Decomposition for Efficient Large Reasoning Models},
     author = {Jiang, Yuxuan and Li, Dawei and Ferraro, Francis},
     journal = {ACL 2026 Findings},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13975},
     dimensions = {true}
   }

5. EACL

   Beyond Math: Stories as a Testbed for Memorization-Constrained Reasoning in LLMs

   Yuxuan Jiang, and Francis Ferraro

   EACL 2026 (Oral), 2026

   Bib

   @article{jiang2024memorization,
     title = {Beyond Math: Stories as a Testbed for Memorization-Constrained Reasoning in LLMs},
     author = {Jiang, Yuxuan and Ferraro, Francis},
     journal = {EACL 2026 (Oral)},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.261/},
     dimensions = {true}
   }

6. ACL

   Find Your Optimal Teacher: Personalized Data Synthesis via Router-Guided Multi-Teacher Distillation

   Hengyuan Zhang, Shiping Yang, Xiao Liang, Chenming Shang, Yuxuan Jiang, Chaofan Tao, Jing Xiong, Hayden Kwok-Hay So, Ruobing Xie, Angel X Chang, and  others

   ACL 2026 Main, 2026

   arXiv Bib HTML PDF

   @article{zhang2025find,
     title = {Find Your Optimal Teacher: Personalized Data Synthesis via Router-Guided Multi-Teacher Distillation},
     author = {Zhang, Hengyuan and Yang, Shiping and Liang, Xiao and Shang, Chenming and Jiang, Yuxuan and Tao, Chaofan and Xiong, Jing and So, Hayden Kwok-Hay and Xie, Ruobing and Chang, Angel X and others},
     journal = {ACL 2026 Main},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10925},
     dimensions = {true}
   }

2025

1. NeurIPS Workshop

   Learning How to Use Tools, Not Just When: Pattern-Aware Tool-Integrated Reasoning

   Ningning Xu, Yuxuan Jiang, and Shubhashis Roy Dipta

   In NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Math-AI, 2025

   MATH-AI Workshop

   arXiv Bib HTML PDF

   @inproceedings{xu2025learning,
     title = {Learning How to Use Tools, Not Just When: Pattern-Aware Tool-Integrated Reasoning},
     author = {Xu, Ningning and Jiang, Yuxuan and Roy Dipta, Shubhashis},
     booktitle = {NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Math-AI},
     note = {MATH-AI Workshop},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23292},
     dimensions = {true}
   }

2. EMNLP

   From Generation to Judgment: Opportunities and Challenges of LLM-as-a-Judge

   Dawei Li, Bohan Jiang, Liangjie Huang, Alimohammad Beigi, Chengshuai Zhao, Zhen Tan, Amrita Bhattacharjee, Yuxuan Jiang, Canyu Chen, Tianhao Wu, and  others

   In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025), 2025

   arXiv Bib HTML PDF

   @inproceedings{li2025generation,
     title = {From Generation to Judgment: Opportunities and Challenges of {LLM}-as-a-Judge},
     author = {Li, Dawei and Jiang, Bohan and Huang, Liangjie and Beigi, Alimohammad and Zhao, Chengshuai and Tan, Zhen and Bhattacharjee, Amrita and Jiang, Yuxuan and Chen, Canyu and Wu, Tianhao and others},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16594},
     dimensions = {true}
   }