Tianshi Zheng (郑天石)

Tianshi Zheng (郑天石)

First-Year Ph.D. Student at HKUST

Publications

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Preprints

  • The Curse of CoT: On the Limitations of Chain-of-Thought in In-Context Learning.
    Tianshi Zheng* , Yixiang Chen*, Chengxi Li*, Chunyang Li, Qing Zong, Haochen Shi, Baixuan Xu, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Y Wong, Simon See.
    Under Review , 2025. [pdf] , [code]

  • LogiDynamics: Unraveling the Dynamics of Logical Inference in Large Language Model Reasoning.
    Tianshi Zheng , Jiayang Cheng, Chunyang Li, Haochen Shi, Zihao Wang, Jiaxin Bai, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Y Wong, Simon See.
    Under Review , 2025. [pdf] , [code]

  • Patterns Over Principles: The Fragility of Inductive Reasoning in LLMs under Noisy Observations.
    Chunyang Li, Weiqi Wang, Tianshi Zheng , Yangqiu Song.
    Under Review , 2025. [pdf] , [code]

  • Enhancing Transformers for Generalizable First-Order Logical Entailment.
    Tianshi Zheng* , Jiazheng Wang*, Zihao Wang, Jiaxin Bai, Hang Yin, Zheye Deng, Yangqiu Song, Jianxin Li.
    Under Review , 2025. [pdf] , [code]

  • On the Robustness of RAG Systems in K-12 Educational Question Answering with Knowledge Discrepancies.
    Tianshi Zheng* , Weihan Li*, Jiaxin Bai, Weiqi Wang, Yangqiu Song.
    Under Review , 2025. [pdf] , [code]

  • ComparisonQA: Evaluating Factuality Robustness of LLMs Through Knowledge Frequency Control and Uncertainty.
    Qing Zong, Zhaowei Wang, Tianshi Zheng , Xiyu Ren, Yangqiu Song.
    Under Review , 2025. [pdf]

  • Evaluating and enhancing llms agent based on theory of mind in guandan: A multi-player cooperative game under imperfect information.
    Yauwai Yim, Chunkit Chan, Tianyu Shi, Zheye Deng, Wei Fan, Tianshi Zheng , Yangqiu Song.
    Under Review , 2024. [pdf]

  • CLR-Fact: Evaluating the complex logical reasoning capability of large language models over factual knowledge.
    Tianshi Zheng* , Jiaxin Bai*, Yicheng Wang, Tianqing Fang, Yue Guo, Yauwai Yim, Yangqiu Song.
    Under Review , 2024. [pdf]

Journals

  • Top Ten Challenges Towards Agentic Neural Graph Databases.
    Jiaxin Bai, Zihao Wang, Yukun Zhou, Hang Yin, Weizhi Fei, Qi Hu, Zheye Deng, Jiayang Cheng, Tianshi Zheng , Hong Ting Tsang, Yisen Gao, Zhongwei Xie, Yufei Li, Lixin Fan, Binhang Yuan, Wei Wang, Lei Chen, Xiaofang Zhou, Yangqiu Song.
    IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin , 2025. [pdf]

  • Sequential Query Encoding for Complex Query Answering on Knowledge Graphs.
    Jiaxin Bai*, Tianshi Zheng* , Yangqiu Song.
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) , 2023. [pdf] , [code]

Conference Proceedings

  • Text-Tuple-Table: Towards Information Integration in Text-to-Table Generation via Global Tuple Extraction.
    Zheye Deng, Chunkit Chan, Weiqi Wang, Yuxi Sun, Wei Fan, Tianshi Zheng , Yauwai Yim, Yangqiu Song.
    In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 ( Oral ) . [pdf] , [code]

  • Advancing Abductive Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs through Complex Logical Hypothesis Generation.
    Jiaxin Bai*, Yicheng Wang*, Tianshi Zheng , Yue Guo, Xin Liu, Yangqiu Song.
    In Proceedings of the 62st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2024) . [pdf] , [code]