Chem-R: Learning to Reason as a Chemist

Weida Wang, Benteng Chen, Di Zhang, Wanhao Liu, Shuchen Pu, Ben Gao, Jin Zeng, Lei Bai, Wanli Ouyang, Xiaoyong Wei, Tianshu Yu, Tianfan Fu, Shuzhou Sun, Jiatong Li†, Zifu Wang†, Yuqiang Li†, Shufei Zhang†

† Corresponding author

arXiv, 2025

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Jigsaw-R1: A Study of Rule-based Visual Reinforcement Learning with Jigsaw Puzzles

Zifu Wang*, Junyi Zhu*, Bo Tang*, Zhiyu Li, Feiyu Xiong, Jiaqian Yu, Matthew B. Blaschko

* Equal contribution

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025

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Touchstone Benchmark: Are We on the Right Way for Evaluating AI Algorithms for Medical Segmentation?

Pedro R. A. S. Bassi, Wenxuan Li, Yucheng Tang, Fabian Isensee, Zifu Wang, ..., Matthew B. Blaschko, Sergio Decherchi, Andrea Cavalli, Alan L. Yuille, Zongwei Zhou

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024

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Can LLMs Learn by Teaching for Better Reasoning? A Preliminary Study

Xuefei Ning*, Zifu Wang*, Shiyao Li*, Zinan Lin*, Peiran Yao*, Tianyu Fu, Matthew B. Blaschko, Guohao Dai, Huazhong Yang, Yu Wang

* Equal contribution

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024

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Skeleton-of-Thought: Prompting LLMs for Efficient Parallel Generation

Xuefei Ning, Zinan Lin, Zixuan Zhou, Zifu Wang, Huazhong Yang, Yu Wang

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

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Revisiting Evaluation Metrics for Semantic Segmentation: Optimization and Evaluation of Fine-grained Intersection over Union

Zifu Wang, Maxim Berman, Amal Rannen-Triki, Philip H.S. Torr, Devis Tuia, Tinne Tuytelaars, Luc Van Gool, Jiaqian Yu, Matthew B. Blaschko

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023

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Jaccard Metric Losses: Optimizing the Jaccard Index with Soft Labels

Zifu Wang, Xuefei Ning, Matthew B. Blaschko

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023

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Dice Semimetric Losses: Optimizing the Dice Score with Soft Labels

Zifu Wang, Teodora Popordanoska, Jeroen Bertels, Robin Lemmens, Matthew B. Blaschko

International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2023

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MRF-UNets: Searching UNet with Markov Random Fields

Zifu Wang, Matthew B. Blaschko

European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), 2022

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