Papers by Boyu Chen

6 papers
Tooling or Not Tooling? The Impact of Tools on Language Agents for Chemistry Problem Solving (2025.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Existing evaluations of large language models (LLMs) with tools are limited and qualitative . existing evaluations have been limited and only focus on 14 tasks focusing on compound synthesis.
Approach: They propose to develop an enhanced chemistry agent over ChemCrow to improve chemistry problem solving by integrating tools into LLMs.
Outcome: The proposed agent does not consistently outperform its base LLMs without tools on specialized chemistry tasks and general chemistry questions.
Language-to-Space Programming for Training-Free 3D Visual Grounding (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods for 3D visual grounding have been proposed, but they are limited by the scarcity of 3D vision-language datasets and the high cost of annotations.
Approach: They propose a method for training-free 3D visual grounding that uses LLM-generated codes to analyze 3D spatial relations among objects.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves 52.9% accuracy on the Nr3D benchmark and significantly reduces grounding time and token costs.
RobuT: A Systematic Study of Table QA Robustness Against Human-Annotated Adversarial Perturbations (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing Table QA models are vulnerable to task-specific perturbations, such as replacing key question entities or shuffling table columns.
Approach: They propose to use large language models to generate adversarial examples to enhance training, which significantly improves the robustness of Table QA models.
Outcome: The proposed model significantly improves on existing Table QA models against human-annotated adversarial perturbations.
Text2Mem: A Unified Memory Operation Language for Memory Operating System (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing memory frameworks lack a formal, executable specification for memory control.
Approach: They propose a unified memory operation language that standardizes translation of natural-language instructions into reliable execution.
Outcome: The proposed language standardizes translation of natural-language instructions into reliable execution.
QTSumm: Query-Focused Summarization over Tabular Data (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing text generation systems that can provide accurate table summaries can facilitate more efficient access to relevant data insights.
Approach: They propose a query-focused task where text generation models have to perform human-like reasoning and analysis over the given table to generate a tailored table summary.
Outcome: The proposed method improves existing baselines on table-to-text generation and large language models by concatenating generated facts to the model input.

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