Papers by Jiajun Shi
IMTLab: An Open-Source Platform for Building, Evaluating, and Diagnosing Interactive Machine Translation Systems (2023.emnlp-main)
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Xu Huang, Zhirui Zhang, Ruize Gao, Yichao Du, Lemao Liu, Guoping Huang, Shuming Shi, Jiajun Chen, Shujian Huang
| Challenge: | Existing systems that use a left-to-right completion paradigm are inefficient and expensive. |
| Approach: | They propose an open-source end-to-end interactive machine translation system platform . they propose to use a prefix-constrained decoding approach to achieve end- to-end evaluation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can guarantee high-quality, error-free translations . it uses prefix-constrained decoding and improves on previous systems . |
BiTIIMT: A Bilingual Text-infilling Method for Interactive Machine Translation (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing IMT systems relying on lexical constrained decoding (LCD) are limited in translation efficiency and quality due to LCD. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel interactive neural machine translation system that uses lexical constraints to decode missing words in a manually revised translation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system performs significantly better and faster than state-of-the-art IMT on three translation tasks. |
Analyzing the Intensity of Complaints on Social Media (2022.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Prior studies on identifying the existence or the type of complaints focus on building automatic classification models for identifying complaints. |
| Approach: | They propose to measure the intensity of complaints from text using Best-Worst Scaling method to estimate the popularity of posts on social media. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can estimate the popularity of complaints on social media with best-worst scaling (BWS) method. |
EvoHyper: Evolving Hypergraph Topologies for Unified Collaboration in Multi-Agent Communication (2026.findings-acl)
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Heng Zhang, Yihao Zhong, Lubin Gan, Zhihe Chen, Jiajun Wu, Yuling Shi, Xiaodong Gu, Hao Zhang, Haochen You, Jin Huang
| Challenge: | Existing methods for multi-agent collaboration use a fixed communication graph and manage collaboration structure and shared memory in separate modules. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that uses an evolving hypergraph topology for multi-agent collaboration. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves 3.2% to 7.8% accuracy gains over state-of-the-art methods and efficient, reducing token consumption by up to 23.5%. |
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. |
From Behavioral Performance to Internal Competence: Interpreting Vision-Language Models with VLM-Lens (2025.emnlp-demos)
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Hala Sheta, Eric Haoran Huang, Shuyu Wu, Ilia Alenabi, Jiajun Hong, Ryker Lin, Ruoxi Ning, Daniel Wei, Jialin Yang, Jiawei Zhou, Ziqiao Ma, Freda Shi
| Challenge: | Existing vision-language models are based on exactmatch based accuracy and its derivations to evaluate performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a toolkit that supports systematic benchmarking, analysis, and interpretation of vision-language models by extracting intermediate outputs from any layer during the forward pass of open-source VLMs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed toolkit supports 16 state-of-the-art base VLMs and their over 30 variants and is extensible to accommodate new models without changing the core logic. |
Probing Cross-modal Semantics Alignment Capability from the Textual Perspective (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | In recent years, vision and language pre-training (VLP) models have advanced the state-of-the-art results in a variety of cross-modal downstream tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a new probing method that is based on image captioning to first empirically study the cross-modal semantics alignment of VLP models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method analyzes captions generated by five popular VLP models to reveal how well they align with visual words and how well these align with images. |
UCoder: Unsupervised Code Generation by Internal Probing of Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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Jiajun Wu, Jian Yang, Wei Zhang, Linzheng Chai, Yuchi Ma, Ensheng Shi, Yuqing Ma, Zhoujun Li, Xianglong Liu
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code generation tasks, but their effectiveness relies on supervised training with extensive labeled data and computational resources. |
| Approach: | They propose an unsupervised method that leverages Internal Probing of Large language models for Code generation without any external corpus, even unlabeled code snippets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can achieve competitive performance compared to supervised approaches while reducing the dependency on labeled data and computational resources. |
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. |