Papers by Jerry Zhang
STORM-BORN: A Challenging Mathematical Derivations Dataset Curated via a Human-in-the-Loop Multi-Agent Framework (2025.findings-acl)
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Wenhao Liu, Zhenyi Lu, Xinyu Hu, Jerry Zhang, Dailin Li, Jiacheng Cen, Huilin Cao, Haiteng Wang, Yuhan Li, Xie Kun, Dandan Li, Pei Zhang, Chengbo Zhang, Yuxiang Ren, Xiaohong Huang, Yan Ma
| Challenge: | Existing datasets suffer from outdated and insufficient challenging content, neglecting human-like reasoning, and limited reliability due to single-LLM generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a human-in-the-loop, multi-agent data generation framework that integrates reasoning-dense filters, multiagent collaboration, and human mathematicians’ evaluations to ensure the reliability and quality of the dataset. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves accuracy and quality of the 2,000-synthesized datasets by integrating reasoning-dense filters, multi-agent collaboration, and human mathematicians’ evaluations. |
GUIDE: Towards Scalable Advising for Research Ideas (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems that provide detailed, constructive feedback on academic papers struggle with review fidelity. |
| Approach: | They explore factors that underlie the development of robust advising systems . large language models have shown remarkable progress in tasks from text generation to code synthesis . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms general-purpose language models in acceptance rates for self-ranked top-30% submissions to ICLR 2025. |
Tackling Distractor Documents in Multi-Hop QA with Reinforcement and Curriculum Learning (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing work on retrieval-augmented generation systems has shown that retrievers exhibit imperfect recall and precision, limiting downstream performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-augmented generation model that generates answers from larger sets of retrieved contexts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model generates answers and cites relevant information from larger sets of retrieved contexts. |
Contextual Relevance and Adaptive Sampling for LLM-Based Document Reranking (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | identifying relevant documents for Reasoning-intensive queries remains a challenge . large language models have shown strong performance in zero-shot document reranking . |
| Approach: | They propose a reranking algorithm that estimates contextual relevance by aggregating LLMs' relevance judgments across batches. |
| Outcome: | The proposed algorithm improves nDCG@10 over retrieval and reranking baselines by 15% and 6–21% respectively. |
MultiFinBen: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Multilingual and Multimodal Financial Application (2026.acl-long)
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Xueqing Peng, Lingfei Qian, Yan Wang, Ruoyu Xiang, Yueru He, Yang Ren, Mingyang Jiang, Vincent Jim Zhang, Yuqing Guo, Jeff Zhao, Huan He, Yi Han, Yun Feng, Yuechen Jiang, Yupeng Cao, Haohang Li, Yangyang Yu, Xiaoyu Wang, Penglei Gao, Shengyuan Lin, Keyi Wang, Shanshan Yang, Yilun Zhao, Zhiwei Liu, Peng Lu, Jerry Huang, Suyuchen Wang, Triantafillos Papadopoulos, Polydoros Giannouris, Efstathia Soufleri, Nuo Chen, Zhiyang Deng, Heming Fu, Yijia Zhao, Mingquan Lin, Meikang Qiu, Kaleb E Smith, Arman Cohan, Xiao-Yang Liu, Jimin Huang, Guojun Xiong, Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Xi Chen, Junichi Tsujii, Jian-Yun Nie, Sophia Ananiadou, Qianqian Xie
| Challenge: | Existing evaluations of LLMs in finance are text-only, monolingual, and largely saturated by current models. |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual and multimodal benchmark for evaluating LLMs in real financial contexts. |
| Outcome: | The first expert-annotated multilingual and multimodal benchmark is released . it evaluates 21 leading LLMs and shows they perform better in multilingual settings . |
POLYIE: A Dataset of Information Extraction from Polymer Material Scientific Literature (2024.naacl-long)
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Jerry Cheung, Yuchen Zhuang, Yinghao Li, Pranav Shetty, Wantian Zhao, Sanjeev Grampurohit, Rampi Ramprasad, Chao Zhang
| Challenge: | SciIE datasets for polymer materials are lacking for this class of materials . POLYIE is curated from 146 full-length polymer scholarly articles . |
| Approach: | They propose a SciIE dataset for polymer materials that uses entity annotations from 146 full-length articles. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset is curated from 146 full-length polymer scholarly articles . it presents challenges due to diverse lexical formats of entities and ambiguity between entities . |
SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models (2025.naacl-long)
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Margaret Mitchell, Giuseppe Attanasio, Ioana Baldini, Miruna Clinciu, Jordan Clive, Pieter Delobelle, Manan Dey, Sil Hamilton, Timm Dill, Jad Doughman, Ritam Dutt, Avijit Ghosh, Jessica Zosa Forde, Carolin Holtermann, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Tanmay Laud, Anne Lauscher, Roberto L Lopez-Davila, Maraim Masoud, Nikita Nangia, Anaelia Ovalle, Giada Pistilli, Dragomir Radev, Beatrice Savoldi, Vipul Raheja, Jeremy Qin, Esther Ploeger, Arjun Subramonian, Kaustubh Dhole, Kaiser Sun, Amirbek Djanibekov, Jonibek Mansurov, Kayo Yin, Emilio Villa Cueva, Sagnik Mukherjee, Jerry Huang, Xudong Shen, Jay Gala, Hamdan Al-Ali, null Tair Djanibekov, Nurdaulet Mukhituly, Shangrui Nie, Shanya Sharma, Karolina Stanczak, Eliza Szczechla, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Deepak Tunuguntla, Marcelo Viridiano, Oskar Van Der Wal, Adina Yakefu, Aurélie Névéol, Mike Zhang, Sydney Zink, Zeerak Talat
| Challenge: | Large Language Models reproduce and exacerbate social biases present in training data, and resources to quantify this issue are limited. |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual parallel dataset to examine culturally-specific stereotypes that may be learned by LLMs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset includes stereotypes from 20 regions around the world and 16 languages, spanning multiple identity categories subject to discrimination worldwide. |