Papers by Jiabin Fan
AutoAgent: A Fully-Automated and Zero-Code Framework for LLM Agents (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in task automation and intelligent decision-making. |
| Approach: | They propose a Fully-Automated and highly Self-Developing framework that enables users to create and deploy LLM agents using natural language alone. |
| Outcome: | AutoAgent is a fully-automated and highly self-developing framework that enables users to create and deploy LLM agents using natural language alone. |
KETCHUP: K-Step Return Estimation for Sequential Knowledge Distillation (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Empirical evaluation shows that our approach yields superior performance in both standard task metrics and large language model (LLM)-based evaluation. |
| Approach: | They propose a K-step return estimation method for reinforcement learning (RL)-based knowledge distillation in text generation tasks using the Bellman Optimality Equation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method performs better on standard task metrics and large language model evaluations on three text generation tasks. |
Best Practices for Distilling Large Language Models into BERT for Web Search Ranking (2025.coling-industry)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have highlighted the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) as zero-shot relevance rankers. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a ranking loss to transfer ranking knowledge from LLMs to smaller models like BERT. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model has been successfully integrated into a commercial web search engine as of February 2024. |