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Yunyao Zhang

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#explainable ai Preprint Sep 2026

Too Good to Be Real? Diagnosing and Reducing the Gap Between AI Preference and Real User Engagement

This work proposes Ontology-Masked Reasoning Autoencoding (OMRA), a controlled intervention that masks and reconstructs over-explained spans while preserving stance, factual content, and coherence and reduces the measured gap between AI preference and real user engagement.

Xing-Lang Zhang, Yuan-Meng Xiang, Yun-Yao Zhang et al. · 0 citations
Jul 2026

Semiotic logical hexagon theory for LLM logical reasoning

Large language models (LLMs) have become powerful tools for language understanding and logical reasoning. However, they still make mistakes when a problem requires both understanding meaning and following logic. A key reason is that natural-language statements often carry implicit semantic relations before any formal reasoning begins. If these hidden meanings are not properly organized, the model may reach incorrect conclusions even when the subsequent reasoning process appears logically valid. Existing methods improve reasoning through decomposition, symbolic translation, external solvers, or self-verification, but pay comparatively less attention to the semantic structure on which reasoning depends. In this paper, we further investigate how semantic organization influences logical reasoning in LLMs. To this end, we propose HexLogicAgent, a framework that first organizes the meaning of natural-language statements and then guides logical reasoning through structured verification. In our investigation, we also make two observations. First, incomplete semantic representations, rather than deductive inference itself, are a major source of logical reasoning failures in LLMs. Second, explicitly modeling the complete structure of semantic opposition substantially delays the degradation of reasoning performance as logical complexity increases. Experiments on challenging logical reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that HexLogicAgent consistently improves reasoning reliability across multiple LLMs. The core idea is supported by a logical hexagon theory, which explains why a complete structure of opposing meanings is necessary for reliable reasoning.

Yun-Yao Zhang, Xing-Lang Zhang, Ze-Liang Chen et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Surfacing the Unsaid: CUE-Bench for Affective Stance in Chinese Discourse

Emotion understanding in discourse requires reasoning beyond surface sentiment because speakers often convey affect through indirect, implicit, polite, ironic, or deliberately mismatched expressions. Existing emotion benchmarks mainly annotate surface polarity or final emotion categories, while lacking a structured account of how explicit expression, implicit affect, pragmatic intent, and fine grained emotion interact. This limitation makes current evaluations insensitive to cases where affective meaning is concealed, weakened, inverted, or pragmatically reshaped, thereby obscuring model failures in deeper emotion understanding. To address this gap, we introduce CUE Bench, a Chinese Unsaid Emotion benchmark that centers on Affective Stance and covers diverse communicative scenarios. CUE Bench constructs nine human interpretable affective stances from explicit implicit polarity interaction and further provides intent and fine grained emotion annotations for structured affective inference. Experiments show that incorporating Affective Stance improves fine grained emotion recognition by 3.1 percentage points and pragmatic intent detection by 8.1 percentage points over strong baselines.

Zhen-Yan Zheng, Yun-Yao Zhang, Jun Sheng et al. · 0 citations

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