Papers by Jiamin Li

4 papers
PhysicsArena: The First Multimodal Physics Reasoning Benchmark Exploring Variable, Process, and Solution Dimensions (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Current physics benchmarks focus on text-only inputs or only on problem-solving . current physics reasoning benchmarks neglect critical intermediate steps of variable identification and process formulation.
Approach: a new benchmark evaluates multimodal large language models in physics reasoning . the benchmark measures variables, process formulations, and solution derivation .
Outcome: PhysicsArena is the first multimodal physics reasoning benchmark . it evaluates MLLMs across three critical dimensions: variable identification, process formulation, and solution derivation.
ErrorRadar: Benchmarking Complex Mathematical Reasoning of Multimodal Large Language Models Via Error Detection (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Current mathematical benchmarks focus on evaluating MLLMs’ problem-solving ability, yet there is a crucial gap in addressing more complex scenarios such as error detection.
Approach: They propose to evaluate multimodal error detection by evaluating two sub-tasks error step identification and error categorization.
Outcome: The proposed task evaluates MLLMs' ability to handle multimodal questions compared to text-only models.
Adaptive Gating in Mixture-of-Experts based Language Models (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing models employ a fixed gating network where each token is computed by the same number of experts.
Approach: They propose a flexible training strategy that allows tokens to be processed by a variable number of experts based on expert probability distribution.
Outcome: The proposed model reduces training time and inference quality while maintaining sparsity while maintaining inference accuracy.
StitchLLM: Serving LLMs, One Block at a Time (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing techniques like distillation and pruning are not efficient for large language models.
Approach: They propose a dynamic model routing framework that uses a powerful bottom model to process all queries and a lightweight routing mechanism to allocate computational resources appropriately.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves system throughput while minimizing performance degradation.

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