Papers by Dongsheng Ma

5 papers
CodeFlowBench: A Multi-turn, Iterative Benchmark for Complex Code Generation (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Modern software development demands code that is maintainable, testable, and scalable by organizing the implementation into modular components with iterative reuse of existing codes.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to evaluate LLMs' ability to perform codeflow by reusing existing functions over multiple turns.
Outcome: The proposed benchmarks show that LLMs perform significantly worse in multi-turn codeflow scenarios and that their performance inversely correlates with dependency complexity.
DocLLM: A Layout-Aware Generative Language Model for Multimodal Document Understanding (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Documents with rich layouts are a significant portion of enterprise corpora and document AI is still a challenge.
Approach: They propose a lightweight extension to traditional large language models for reasoning over visual documents that takes into account both textual semantics and spatial layout.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing large language models on 14 out of 16 datasets and generalizes well to 4 out of 5 previously unseen datasets.
CoCoLex: Confidence-guided Copy-based Decoding for Grounded Legal Text Generation (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: LLMs can provide key benefits to the Legal domain, but their adoption has been hindered by their tendency to generate unfaithful, ungrounded, or hallucinatory outputs.
Approach: They propose a Confidence-guided copy-based decoding strategy that dynamically interpolates the model produced vocabulary distribution with a distribution derived based on copying from the context.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing context-aware decoding methods on five legal benchmarks.
Improving Large Language Models in Event Relation Logical Prediction (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Event relation extraction tasks require rigorous logical reasoning and semantic comprehension, a challenge for narrative understanding and reasoning.
Approach: They propose three approaches to endow LLMs with event relation logic to generate more coherent answers across different scenarios.
Outcome: The proposed approach improves on a set of ERE tasks and provides insights for future work.

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