Papers by Boyang Hong
Better Process Supervision with Bi-directional Rewarding Signals (2025.findings-acl)
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Wenxiang Chen, Wei He, Zhiheng Xi, Honglin Guo, Boyang Hong, Jiazheng Zhang, Nijun Li, Tao Gui, Yun Li, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
| Challenge: | Existing processes that reward for each step are one-directional and lack a mechanism to model the distance to the final target. |
| Approach: | They propose a process supervision model that evaluates the correctness of previous steps and the probability of future success. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing supervision models like ORM and PRM on reasoning tasks and improves solution re-design. |
Self-Error-Instruct: Generalizing from Errors for LLMs Mathematical Reasoning (2025.acl-long)
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Erxin Yu, Jing Li, Ming Liao, Qi Zhu, Boyang Xue, Minghui Xu, Baojun Wang, Lanqing Hong, Fei Mi, Lifeng Shang
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to learning from errors synthesize training data by extrapolating from isolated bad cases, thereby failing to generalize the extensive patterns inherent within these cases. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that synthesizes more generalized training data from isolated bad cases by extrapolating from isolated cases. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework synthesizes more generalized training data to address these model weaknesses. |
Beyond Semantic Similarity: Appraisal-Guided Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Retrieval for Multimodal Emotional Support Conversations (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing retrieval-augmented generation paradigms rely on semantic similarity to retrieve historical dialogues that are surface analogous but therapeutically incongruent. |
| Approach: | They propose to use appraisal-guided reasoning chains to generate appraisal-based reasoning chains and apply a dual-signal verification mechanism to verify and correct them. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments on two ESC benchmarks show that the proposed model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art models. |
AgentGym: Evaluating and Training Large Language Model-based Agents across Diverse Environments (2025.acl-long)
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Zhiheng Xi, Yiwen Ding, Wenxiang Chen, Boyang Hong, Honglin Guo, Junzhe Wang, Xin Guo, Dingwen Yang, Chenyang Liao, Wei He, Songyang Gao, Lu Chen, Rui Zheng, Yicheng Zou, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are promising foundations to build generally-capable agents . however, the community lacks a unified interactive framework that covers diverse environments for comprehensive evaluation of agents. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that features 7 real-world scenarios, 14 environments, and 89 tasks for unified, real-time, and concurrent agent interaction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework features 7 real-world scenarios, 14 environments, and 89 tasks for unified, real-time, and concurrent agent interaction. |
LoRACoE: Improving Large Language Model via Composition-based LoRA Expert (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies show that the Mixture of Experts architecture improves performance of large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to build static experts using LoRA parameters . they propose to use rank-level parameters to build experts based on rank-based parameters based in LoRA module. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves task performance across a broader range of tasks. |