Papers by Jiajun Guo
AgentGym2: Benchmarking Large Language Model Agents in De-Idealized Real-World Environments (2026.acl-long)
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Zhiheng Xi, Dingwen Yang, Jiaqi Liu, Jixuan Huang, Honglin Guo, Baodai Huang, Tinggang Chen, Qi Zhang, Zhonghang Lu, Chenyu Liu, Jiajun Sun, Jiazheng Zhang, Dingwei Zhu, Xin Guo, Junzhe Wang, Zhihao Zhang, Yuming Yang, Junjie Ye, Minghe Gao, Dongrui Liu, Jiaming Ji, Guohao Li, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks evaluate agents in simplified, idealized settings, relying on pre-packaged tool interfaces, overlooking critical steps, and assume inputs are clean and fully specified. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that evaluates language agents in simplified, idealized settings . they show that even SOTA systems like Gemini and GPT-5 struggle on AgentGym2 . |
| Outcome: | Experiments on 15 proprietary and open-source models show that even SOTA systems like Gemini and GPT-5 struggle on AgentGym2 . |
LoopCoder: Scaling Code Intelligence via Looped Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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Jian Yang, Wei Zhang, Shuyue Guo, Yizhi LI, Linzheng Chai, Zhengmao Ye, Shukai Liu, Yuyang Song, Jiajun Wu, Che Liu, Tianyu Zheng, Siwei Wu, Leo L, Xudong Ma, Chuan Hao, Ran Tao, Yan Xing, Jianzhou Wang, Mingjie Tang, Aishan Liu, Zhoujun Li, Xianglong Liu, Weifeng Lv, Bryan Dai
| Challenge: | Large language models have mastered syntax-level code generation, but complex algorithmic reasoning remains a challenge. |
| Approach: | They propose a recurrent inductive bias that aligns with the recursive nature of programming logic. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves comparable performance to standard dense models with more parameters. |
RealChart2Code: Bridging the Gap in Real-World Chart-to-Code Generation via Multi-Task Evaluation (2026.acl-long)
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Jiajun Zhang, Yuying Li, Zhixun Li, Xingyu Guo, Jingzhuo Wu, Leqi Zheng, Yiran Yang, Jianke Zhang, Qingbin Li, Shannan Yan, Changguo Jia, Junfei Wu, Zilei Wang, Qiang Liu, Liang Wang
| Challenge: | Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code generation across various domains, but their ability to replicate complex, multi-panel visualizations remains largely unassessed. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale benchmark to evaluate chart generation from large- scale raw data and assess iterative code refinement in a multi-turn conversational setting. |
| Outcome: | The new benchmark evaluates 14 leading VLMs on real-world data and shows they struggle with complex plot structures and authentic data. |
SceMQA: A Scientific College Entrance Level Multimodal Question Answering Benchmark (2024.acl-short)
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Zhenwen Liang, Kehan Guo, Gang Liu, Taicheng Guo, Yujun Zhou, Tianyu Yang, Jiajun Jiao, Renjie Pi, Jipeng Zhang, Xiangliang Zhang
| Challenge: | SceMQA focuses on core science subjects including Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. |
| Approach: | They propose to use SceMQA to evaluate multimodal question answering at college entrance level. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model provides specific knowledge points for each problem and detailed explanations for each answer. |
Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation (2021.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | kNN-MT uses pre-trained NMT model with token-level k-nearest-neighbor retrieval to improve translation accuracy. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that combines a pre-trained NMT model with token-level k-nearest-neighbor retrieval to improve translation accuracy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the existing model on four benchmark datasets and is open-source. |
MIND: From Passive Mimicry to Active Reasoning through Capability-Aware Multi-Perspective CoT Distillation (2026.acl-long)
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Jin Cui, Jiaqi Guo, Jiepeng Zhou, Ruixuan Yang, Jiayi Lu, Jiajun Xu, Jiangcheng Song, Boran Zhao, Pengju Ren
| Challenge: | Existing approaches restrict students to following a single golden rationale and treat different reasoning paths independently, causing suboptimal performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a capability-adaptive framework that transitions distillation from passive mimicry to active cognitive construction and employ a feedback-driven inertia calibration mechanism to align supervision with the student’s current adaptability. |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that the proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on both in-distribution and out-of distribution benchmarks. |
MdEval: Massively Multilingual Code Debugging (2026.findings-acl)
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Shukai Liu, Linzheng Chai, Jian Yang, Jiajun Shi, He Zhu, Liran Wang, Jin Ke, Wei Zhang, Hualei Zhu, Shuyue Guo, Tao Sun, Jiaheng Liu, Yunlong Duan, Yu Hao, Liqun Yang, Guanglin Niu, Ge Zhang, Zhoujun Li
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks primarily focus on Python and are limited in terms of language diversity. |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual debugging benchmark that includes 3.9K test samples of 20 programming languages and introduces the debug instruction corpora MdEval-Instruct by injecting bugs into the correct multilingual queries and solutions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark includes 3.9K test samples of 20 programming languages and covers the automated program repair task, bug localization task, and bug identification task. |
V-GameGym: Visual Game Generation for Code Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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Wei Zhang, Jian Yang, Renshuai Tao, Linzheng Chai, Shuyue Guo, Jiajun Wu, Xiaoming Chen, Ganqu Cui, Ning Ding, Xander Xu, HU Wei, Bowen Zhou
| Challenge: | Existing code-related benchmarks focus on single modality rather than visual game development. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal benchmark for evaluating code large language models in visual game generation that integrates a clustering-based curation methodology and a pipeline for visual code synthesis. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework assesses code generation and visual game generation using a sandbox environment. |
VehicleWorld: A Highly Integrated Multi-Device Environment for Intelligent Vehicle Interaction (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Jie Yang, Jiajun Chen, Zhangyue Yin, Shuo Chen, Yuxin Wang, Yiran Guo, Yuan Li, Yining Zheng, Xuanjing Huang, Xipeng Qiu
| Challenge: | Traditional Function Calling (FC) approaches operate statelessly, requiring multiple exploratory calls to build environmental awareness before execution, leading to inefficiency and limited error recovery. |
| Approach: | They propose a state-based function call approach that maintains explicit system state awareness and implements direct state transitions to achieve target conditions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms traditional function calling approaches, achieving superior execution accuracy and reduced latency. |
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. |
AlphaContext: An Evolutionary Tree-based Psychometric Context Generator for Creativity Assessment (2026.acl-long)
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Yixuan Wang, Yue Huang, Hong Qian, Yunzhao Wei, Yifei Ding, Wenkai Wang, Zhi Liu, Zhongjing Huang, Aimin Zhou, Jiajun Guo
| Challenge: | Existing LLM-based tools struggle with insufficient assessment cues, weak narrative coherence, limited stylistic diversity, and poor support for creative thinking. |
| Approach: | They propose an evolutionary tree-based psychometric context generator that integrates rule-guided outline planning, sentence-level MCTS generation, MAP-Elites quality-diversity optimization and assessment-guide refiner simulation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool outperforms strong LLMs and structured frameworks on 7 evaluation dimensions and shows higher alignment with expert-designed contexts. |
Golden Touchstone: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Financial Large Language Models (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Xiaojun Wu, Junxi Liu, Huan-Yi Su, Zhouchi Lin, Yiyan Qi, Chengjin Xu, Jiajun Su, Jiajie Zhong, Fuwei Wang, Saizhuo Wang, Fengrui Hua, Jia Li, Jian Guo
| Challenge: | Existing financial benchmarks suffer from limited language and task coverage, low-quality datasets, and inadequate adaptability for LLM evaluation. |
| Approach: | They propose a bilingual benchmark for financial LLMs that assesses models’ language understanding and generation capabilities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed bilingual benchmark assesses models’ language understanding and generation capabilities. |