Papers by Hamid Alinejad-Rokny
AgentCourt: Simulating Court with Adversarial Evolvable Lawyer Agents (2025.findings-acl)
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Guhong Chen, Liyang Fan, Zihan Gong, Nan Xie, Zixuan Li, Ziqiang Liu, Chengming Li, Qiang Qu, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Shiwen Ni, Min Yang
| Challenge: | Existing legal language models struggle with dynamic courtroom interactions, resulting in overfitting to standardized legal tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a new adversarial evolutionary approach for agents that performs dynamic knowledge learning and evolution through structured adversarials in a simulated courtroom program. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing LLM-based models in three critical dimensions: cognitive agility, professional knowledge, and logical rigor. |
ToolRM: Towards Agentic Tool-Use Reward Modeling (2026.findings-acl)
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Renhao Li, Jianhong Tu, Yang Su, Yantao Liu, Fei Huang, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Derek F. Wong, Junyang Lin, Min Yang
| Challenge: | lack of reliable reward models for tool-use tasks has limited progress toward agentic AI . recent advances in agentic artificial intelligence are driven by tool-using capabilities of large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a pipeline that constructs pairwise preference data using rule-based scoring and multidimensional sampling to build lightweight reward models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models on tool calling tasks with higher accuracy. |
MMEvol: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models with Evol-Instruct (2025.findings-acl)
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Run Luo, Haonan Zhang, Longze Chen, Ting-En Lin, Xiong Liu, Yuchuan Wu, Min Yang, Yongbin Li, Minzheng Wang, Pengpeng Zeng, Lianli Gao, Heng Tao Shen, Yunshui Li, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Xiaobo Xia, Jingkuan Song, Fei Huang
| Challenge: | a new framework for image-text instruction data evolution improves MLLM performance . lack of high-quality instruction data remains a major bottleneck in ML modeling . |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal instruction data evolution framework that iteratively enhances data quality through fine-grained perception, cognitive reasoning, and interaction evolution. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves MLLM performance in nine vision-language tasks while using significantly less data. |
Expanding before Inferring: Enhancing Factuality in Large Language Models through Premature Layers Interpolation (2025.emnlp-main)
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Dingwei Chen, Ziqiang Liu, Feiteng Fang, Chak Tou Leong, Shiwen Ni, Ahmadreza Argha, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Min Yang, Chengming Li
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to generating factually inconsistent outputs are resource-intensive. |
| Approach: | They propose a plug-and-play intervention designed to enhance factuality by inserting premature layers formed through mathematical interpolation with adjacent layers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed intervention reduces hallucinations while outperforming baselines on four datasets. |
Act-Adaptive Margin: Dynamically Calibrating Reward Models for Subjective Ambiguity (2026.acl-long)
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Feiteng Fang, Dingwei Chen, Xiang Huang, Ting-En Lin, Yuchuan Wu, Xiong Liu, Jing Ye, Ziqiang Liu, Haonan Zhang, Liang Zhu, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Min Yang, Yongbin Li
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to reward modeling in reinforcement learning tasks are limited when dealing with ambiguous preferences. |
| Approach: | They propose to use AAM to dynamically calibrate preference margins using the Bradley-Terry model's internal parameter knowledge to improve reward modeling in subjective tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves reward modeling by dynamically calibrating preference margins using the model’s internal parameter knowledge. |
SrDetection: A Self-Referential Framework for Data Leakage Detection in Code Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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Shuaimin Li, Liyang Fan, Zeyang li, Zhuoyue Wan, Yufang Lin, Shiwen Ni, Feiteng Fang, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Yuanfeng Song, Kun Jing, Chen Jason Zhang, Min Yang
| Challenge: | Existing methods for evaluating code large language models assume access to proprietary training corpora or use external reference sets with manually tuned, non-generalizable thresholds. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for self-referential leakage detection for gray-box and black-box settings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves average F1 by 21.52 points in the gray-box setting and 14.46 points in black-box settings over strong baselines. |
Beyond Quantity: Trajectory Diversity Scaling for Code Agents (2026.findings-acl)
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Guhong Chen, Chenghao Sun, Cheng Fu, Qiyao Wang, Zhihong Huang, ChaoPeng Wei, Guangxu Chen, Feiteng Fang, Ahmadreza Argha, Bing Zhao, Xander Xu, Qi Han, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Qiang Qu, Binhua Li, Shiwen Ni, Min Yang, HU Wei, Yongbin Li
| Challenge: | Code large language models (LLMs) are becoming tool-interactive agents . quantity-centric scaling exhibits an early bottleneck that underutilizes trajectory data . et al.: a new approach to scale trajectory diversity improves tool-use generalization . |
| Approach: | They propose a Trajectory Diversity Scaling-based data synthesis framework for code agents that scales performance through diversity rather than raw volume. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on general tool-use benchmarks and code agent tasks show that TDScaling improves tool-user generalization and inherent coding proficiency. |
CLaSp: In-Context Layer Skip for Self-Speculative Decoding (2025.acl-long)
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Longze Chen, Renke Shan, Huiming Wang, Lu Wang, Ziqiang Liu, Run Luo, Jiawei Wang, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Min Yang
| Challenge: | Existing methods for drafting Large Language Models require additional modules to be trained, which can be challenging to implement and ensure compatibility across various LLMs. |
| Approach: | They propose an in-context layer-skipping strategy for self-speculative decoding that uses a plug-and-play mechanism to skip intermediate layers of the verify model to construct a compressed draft model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves a speedup of 1.3 1.7 on LLaMA3 series models without altering the original distribution of the generated text. |
Towards IP Intelligence: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Intellectual Property Knowledge and Practice (2026.findings-acl)
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Qiyao Wang, Guhong Chen, Hongbo Wang, Huaren Liu, Minghui Zhu, Zhifei Qin, Li Linwei, Yilin Yue, Shiqiang Wang, Jiayan Li, Wu Yihang, Ziqiang Liu, Longze Chen, Run Luo, Liyang Fan, Jiaming Li, Lei Zhang, Kan Xu, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Chengming Li, Shiwen Ni, Yuan Lin, Min Yang
| Challenge: | Existing datasets and benchmarks focus only on patents or cover limited aspects of the IP field, lacking alignment with real-world scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a bilingual IP task taxonomy and a large-scale bilingual benchmark to evaluate LLMs in real-world IP practice. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves only 75.8% accuracy, indicating room for improvement . open-source IP and law-oriented models lag behind closed-source general-purpose models . |
Learning First-Order Logic Rules for Argumentation Mining (2025.acl-long)
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Yang Sun, Guanrong Chen, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Jianzhu Bao, Yuqi Huang, Bin Liang, Kam-Fai Wong, Min Yang, Ruifeng Xu
| Challenge: | Argumentation Mining (AM) aims to extract argumentative structures from texts by identifying argumentation components (ACs) and their argumentative relations (ARs). |
| Approach: | They propose a First- Order Logic reasoning framework for AM to capture logical reasoning paths within argumentative texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms strong baselines while significantly improving explainability. |
STORYTELLER: An Enhanced Plot-Planning Framework for Coherent and Cohesive Story Generation (2025.findings-acl)
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Jiaming Li, Yukun Chen, Ziqiang Liu, Minghuan Tan, Lei Zhang, Yunshui Li, Run Luo, Longze Chen, Jing Luo, Ahmadreza Argha, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Wei Zhou, Min Yang
| Challenge: | Existing methods for storytelling lack coherence and consistency, compromising the overall storytelling experience. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel approach that improves the coherence and consistency of automatically generated stories by managing plot nodes and enabling dynamic interactions between different parts of the story. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing methods in 84.33% of the trials. |
Quantification of Large Language Model Distillation (2025.acl-long)
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Sunbowen Lee, Junting Zhou, Chang Ao, Kaige Li, Xeron Du, Sirui He, Haihong Wu, Tianci Liu, Jiaheng Liu, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Min Yang, Yitao Liang, Zhoufutu Wen, Shiwen Ni
| Challenge: | Existing studies have revealed the robustness degra-dation caused by data distillation. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to evaluate and quantify model distillation . they aim to identify identity cognition contradictions and analyse multi-granularity response similarities across models to measure the extent of homogenization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework addresses two key aspects: (1) Identifying identity cognition contradictions to assess discrepancies in how models perceive and represent identity-related information; (2) Analyzing multi-granularity response similarities across models to measure the extent of homogenization. |
CoTJudger: A Graph-Driven Framework for Automatic Evaluation of Chain-of-Thought Efficiency and Redundancy in LRMs (2026.findings-acl)
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Siyi Li, Jiajun Shi, Shiwen Ni, Ge Zhang, Shuaimin Li, Shijian Wang, Zhoufutu Wen, Yizhi LI, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Jiaheng Liu, Min Yang, Wenhao Huang
| Challenge: | Existing evaluations emphasize final accuracy or coarse token counts, and lack automated tools to separate essential logic from structural redundancy. |
| Approach: | They propose a graph-driven framework that quantifies reasoning efficiency by converting free-form CoTs into directed dependency graphs and extracting the Shortest Effective Path needed to reach a correct solution. |
| Outcome: | Evaluating 21 LRMs, the proposed framework quantifies reasoning efficiency by converting free-form CoTs into directed dependency graphs and extracting the Shortest Effective Path (SEP) needed to reach a correct solution. |
LIME: Less Is More for MLLM Evaluation (2025.findings-acl)
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King Zhu, Qianbo Zang, Shian Jia, Siwei Wu, Feiteng Fang, Yizhi Li, Shuyue Guo, Tianyu Zheng, Jiawei Guo, Bo Li, Haoning Wu, Xingwei Qu, Jian Yang, Ruibo Liu, Xiang Yue, Jiaheng Liu, Chenghua Lin, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Min Yang, Shiwen Ni, Wenhao Huang, Ge Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing MLLM benchmarks and unified evaluation frameworks cannot accurately and efficiently reflect the ability of MLMLs. |
| Approach: | They propose a semi-automated benchmark curated using a pipeline that filters out uninformative samples and eliminates answer leakage by focusing on tasks that require image-based understanding. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark reduces the number of samples by 76% and evaluation time by 77% while it can more effectively distinguish different models’ abilities. |