XLLM-Reason-Plan

The First Workshop on the Application of LLM Explainability to Reasoning and Planning

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🚨XLLM-Reason-Plan Workshop is happening right now at @COLM_conf !
Join us at 520F🙌

[Ziyu Yao @ZiyuYao]

@DakingRai is one of my best. Highly recommend for any team recruiting for LLM Interp/reasoning/controllability/etc. He plans to graduate in a year or so. Go meet him at the poster session or msg him for a chat directly!
Exhibit Hall C,D,E #3815
Thu 4 Dec 4:30 p.m. PST — 7:30 p.m. PST

[Prahitha Movva @PrahithaM]

(1/3) Started this as a side project on a whim and had fun presenting it at the COLM 2025 XLLM-Reason-Plan Workshop recently. @XllmReasonPlan

Built a small dataset of rebus puzzles to see how VLMs reason through visual wordplay.

Dataset: https://t.co/EIWBHZfIWz

[Ruizhe Li @liruizhe94]

We are very honored to receive the Best Paper Award! Reviewers’s comments are very insightful! We really appreciate such valuable recognition from the workshop committee!

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@liruizhe94 @COLM_conf @Google Congrats, Ruizhe!

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@COLM_conf 🎉Our (partial) organizer team (left to right: @YilunZhou @DakingRai @ZiyuYao @hanjie_chen and Abu Saparov). We hope to see everyone in the next iteration soon!

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🚨XLLM-Reason-Plan Workshop is happening right now at @COLM_conf !
Join us at 520F🙌

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Honorable Mentions go to:
Li et al., "Rethinking Human Preference Evaluation of LLM Rationales", and
Rai et al., "Failure by Interference: Language Models Make Balanced Parentheses Errors When Faulty Mechanisms Overshadow Sound Ones" @DakingRai

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#COLM2025 Finally, the awards!🏆 We announced one Best Paper Award, one Special Recognition Award, and two Honorable Mentions. Congrats to the authors! See 🧵👇

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Special Recognition Award goes to Shi et al., "When Models Know More Than They Can Explain: Quantifying
Knowledge Transfer in Human-AI Collaboration" @BenShi34

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Best Paper Award goes to Li et al., "Attributing Response to Context: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Driven Mechanistic Study of Context Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation" @liruizhe94

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@COLM_conf #COLM2025 Our last invited talk if you are still around: Prof. Zining Zhu is presenting "Improving LLM reasoning with mechanistic insights" @zhuzining

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@COLM_conf @jennwvaughan Some highlights!

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@COLM_conf #COLM2025 Dr. Jenn Wortman Vaughan presenting "Challenges in Human-Agent Communication" @jennwvaughan . Happening now!

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@COLM_conf @mark_riedl Highlights from Mark's talk!

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@COLM_conf #COLM2025 Prof. Mark Riedl presenting "Reasoning, Explanation, and Human-Centered AI". @mark_riedl Welcome back to the afternoon session!

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@COLM_conf #COLM2025 Prof. Mark Riedl presenting "Reasoning, Explanation, and Human-Centered AI". @mark_riedl Welcome back to the afternoon session!

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@COLM_conf #COLM2025 Prof. Ana Marasović talking about Internal Reasoning, Faithfulness, and more! @anmarasovic

[Ziling Cheng @ziling_cheng]

This will be presenting at The First Workshop on the Application of LLM Explainability to Reasoning and Planning! @XllmReasonPlan

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@COLM_conf @gregd_nlp Some highlights from Prof. Durrett's talk!

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@COLM_conf #COLM2025 Prof. Greg Durrett presenting "LLM Reasoning Beyond Scaling" @gregd_nlp

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@COLM_conf #COLM2025 Prof. Huan Sun talking about "How Explanations can Advance Agent Capability and Safety". @hhsun1