Papers by Jianhao Chen

6 papers
Aligning VLM Assistants with Personalized Situated Cognition (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing studies on vision-language models aligned with general human objectives have not been successful because people with diversified backgrounds have different cognition even in the same situation.
Approach: They propose to characterize individuals based on the sociological concept of Role-Set and then evaluate their actions to see whether personalized alignment is achieved.
Outcome: The proposed framework constructs a cognition-aware and action-based reward model for personalized alignment.
Timeline-based Sentence Decomposition with In Context Learning for Temporal Fact Extraction (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent research on temporal fact extraction fails to establish time-to-fact correspondences in complex sentences.
Approach: They propose a timeline-based sentence decomposition strategy using large language models with in-context learning to extract temporal facts from natural language text.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art on a complex temporal fact extraction dataset.
CAVGAN: Unifying Jailbreak and Defense of LLMs via Generative Adversarial Attacks on their Internal Representations (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing studies have isolated LLM jailbreak attacks and defenses . a new framework combines attack and defense to protect against malicious queries .
Approach: They propose a framework that combines attack and defense to protect the Large Language Model (LLM) by embedding harmful problems into the safe area.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves an average jailbreak success rate of 88.85% across three popular LLMs while the defense success rate reaches an average of 84.17%.
Automatic rule generation for time expression normalization (2021.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing SOTA methods for normalization rely on expert-designed rules or grammars . current methods are domain sensitive and not sufficient on emerging corpora .
Approach: They propose a method that generates normalization rules from annotated data without expert intervention.
Outcome: The proposed method surpasses existing rule-based methods on the Tweets benchmark and on the TempEval-3 benchmark.
BAPO: Boundary-Aware Policy Optimization for Reliable Agentic Search (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing RL-based agentic search models fail to recognize reasoning boundaries and rarely admit "I DON'T KNOW" lack of reliability leads to plausible but unreliable answers, introducing significant risks .
Approach: They propose a framework to cultivate reliable boundary awareness without compromising accuracy.
Outcome: Experiments show that the proposed framework improves the reliability of agentic search models.
Revisiting Cross-Lingual Summarization: A Corpus-based Study and A New Benchmark with Improved Annotation (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing work on cross-lingual summarization (CLS) does not consider crosslingual sources for summarizing.
Approach: They propose a cross-lingual conversation summarization benchmark that explicitly considers source context.
Outcome: The proposed method surpasses baselines on ConvSumX and 3 widely-used manual annotations.

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