Papers by Jiajun Guo

12 papers
AgentGym2: Benchmarking Large Language Model Agents in De-Idealized Real-World Environments (2026.acl-long)

Copied to clipboard

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)

Copied to clipboard

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)

Copied to clipboard

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)

Copied to clipboard

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)

Copied to clipboard

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)

Copied to clipboard

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)

Copied to clipboard

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)

Copied to clipboard

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)

Copied to clipboard

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)

Copied to clipboard

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)

Copied to clipboard

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)

Copied to clipboard

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.

What is GenGO?

GenGO is an NLP powered publication search system. It currenctly indexes 30k+ papers from ACL Anthology, and implements multi-aspect summarization, semantic search, and more!

Information

About
Limitations