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# Lei Hou — papers of 2025 — 7 papers, the most cited first

7 papers · [all years of Lei Hou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-hou/#years)

**[Simulating Classroom Education with LLM-Empowered Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-simulating-classroom-education-llm-empowered/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Zheyuan Zhang, Daniel Zhang-Li, Jifan Yu, et al.*2025 · 84 citations*

**[SeaKR: Self-aware Knowledge Retrieval for Adaptive Retrieval Augmented Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2025-seakr-self-aware-knowledge-retrieval/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Zijun Yao, Weijian Qi, Liangming Pan, et al.*2025 · 52 citations*

**[AdaptThink: Reasoning Models Can Learn When to Think](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-adaptthink-reasoning-models-can-learn/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Jiajie Zhang, Nianyi Lin, Lei Hou, et al.*2025 · 44 citations*

**[LongReward: Improving Long-context Large Language Models with AI Feedback](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-longreward-improving-long-context-large/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Jiajie Zhang, Zhongni Hou, Xin Lv, et al.*2025 · 21 citations*

**[Agentic Reward Modeling: Integrating Human Preferences with Verifiable Correctness Signals for Reliable Reward Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2025-agentic-reward-modeling-integrating-human/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi, Xiaozhi Wang, et al.*2025 · 18 citations*

**[VerIF: Verification Engineering for Reinforcement Learning in Instruction Following](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2025-verif-verification-engineering-reinforcement-learning/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi, Xiaozhi Wang, et al.*2025 · 18 citations*

**[Pre-training Distillation for Large Language Models: A Design Space Exploration](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2025-pre-training-distillation-large-language/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Hao Peng, Xin Lv, Yushi Bai, et al.*2025 · 14 citations*