Papers by Haishuai Wang
RFS-Guard: Detecting Reasoning Hallucinations via Cross-Phase Routing Focus in Large Reasoning Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large reasoning models (LRMs) generate intermediate reasoning traces before the final answer, yet they remain vulnerable to reasoning hallucinations such as subtle arithmetic errors. |
| Approach: | They propose a Routing Focus Score (RFS) that measures how strongly cross-step attention routing aligns with semantic proximity derived from hidden-state cosine similarity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework detects and localizes hallucinations without external tools or repeated sampling. |
EXPLAIN: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Entity Summary (2025.acl-industry)
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Yaozhen Liang, Xiao Liu, Jiajun Yu, Zhouhua Fang, Qunsheng Zou, Linghan Zheng, Yong Li, Zhiwei Liu, Haishuai Wang
| Challenge: | Existing document question answering methods reduce inference costs and input tokens. |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-augmented generation method that automatically extracts useful entities and generates summaries from documents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method surpasses baseline retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and long-context question answering (LC) methods achieve higher accuracy by processing entire documents, but at the cost of increased computational Corresponding authors. |
Matching Varying-Length Texts via Topic-Informed and Decoupled Sentence Embeddings (2024.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to matching text with non-comparable lengths are limited due to truncation issues. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that decouples sentences and embeds them into natural sentences for matching texts of significantly different lengths. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model matches texts of significantly different lengths across three well-studied datasets. |
Long-form Hallucination Detection with Self-elicitation (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for hallucination detection tend to decompose text into isolated statements, unable to understand contextual semantics. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to leverage self-generated thoughts derived from prior statements as catalysts to elicit the expression of intrinsic knowledge and understand contextual semantics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework enables self-elicitation to elicit expressions of knowledge and understand semantics. |
Beyond the Individual: Virtualizing Multi-Disciplinary Reasoning for Clinical Intake via Collaborative Agents (2026.findings-acl)
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Huangwei Chen, Wu Li, Junhao Jia, Yining Chen, Xiaotao Pang, Ya-Long Chen, Li Gonghui, Haishuai Wang, Jiajun Bu, Lei Wu
| Challenge: | Initial outpatient consultations are costly and difficult to scale to real-time intake. |
| Approach: | They propose a synchronous virtual MDT framework that formalizes the consultation state using a structured SOAP representation, separating evidence collection from diagnostic reasoning to improve traceability and bias control. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art models on ClinicalBench and a real-world RAPID-IPN dataset in documentation quality and consultation capability. |
SCOUT: Selective Coupling via Optimal Unbalanced Transport for Interpretable Text Classification (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Standard interpretable models often rely on scalar similarities that obscure the true evidentiary basis of a prediction. |
| Approach: | They propose a new paradigm that grounds prototype reasoning in the selective correspondence of discriminative fragments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms rationale extraction and post-hoc attribution methods on seven benchmarks. |