Papers by Jianan Wang

6 papers
BeSimulator: A Large Language Model Powered Text-based Behavior Simulator (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing robot simulators focus on physical process modeling and realistic rendering, resulting in high computational costs and limited adaptability.
Approach: They propose a modular and novel LLM-powered framework to analyze and validate robot behaviors in text-based environments.
Outcome: The proposed framework can generalize across scenarios and achieve long-horizon complex simulation.
To Copy Rather Than Memorize: A Vertical Learning Paradigm for Knowledge Graph Completion (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for embedding knowledge graphs implicitly memorize relation rules to infer missing links, but they are difficult to memorize due to the inherent deficiencies of such implicit memorization strategy.
Approach: They propose a vertical learning paradigm that allows to explicitly copy target information from related factual triples for more accurate prediction.
Outcome: The proposed model improves generalization ability and makes distant link prediction significantly easier.
TabPrompt: Graph-based Pre-training and Prompting for Few-shot Table Understanding (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing methods of Table Understanding (TU) focus on the textual content within the tabular data, disregarding the topological information of the table.
Approach: They propose a framework that uses tabs to understand tabular data without ignoring the topological information of the table.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms baselines in few-shot table understanding tasks.
Implicit Sentiment Analysis with Event-centered Text Representation (2021.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods for implicit sentiment analysis simply view noun phrases or entities in text as events or indirectly model events with sophisticated models.
Approach: They propose an event-centric implicit sentiment analysis that utilizes the sentiment-aware event contained in a sentence to infer sentiment polarity.
Outcome: The proposed model can detect sentiment in sentences without sentiment words and is compared to existing models on a benchmark dataset.
MobileWorld: Benchmarking Autonomous Mobile Agents in Agent-User Interactive and MCP-Augmented Environments (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: AndroidWorld is the dominant mobile GUI agent evaluation benchmark, but its success rates are low . despite reproducible emulator environment, it lacks key application categories such as e-commerce and enterprise communication.
Approach: They propose a benchmark for mobile GUI agents that reflects real-world usage through long-horizon, cross-application workflows.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves over 90% success rates, while AndroidWorld is the dominant benchmark.
Divide-Then-Align: Honest Alignment based on the Knowledge Boundary of RAG (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) augmented with retrieval systems have significantly advanced natural language processing tasks by integrating external knowledge sources.
Approach: They propose a method that conditions large language models to generate answers even in the absence of reliable knowledge.
Outcome: The proposed approach balances accuracy with appropriate abstention, enhancing the reliability and trustworthiness of retrieval-augmented systems.

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