Papers by Jiawei Hong
ReCreate: Reasoning and Creating Domain Agents Driven by Experience (2026.acl-long)
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Zhezheng Hao, Hong Wang, Jian Luo, Jianqing Zhang, Yuyan Zhou, Qiang Lin, Can Wang, Hande Dong, Jiawei Chen
| Challenge: | Large Language Model (LLM) agents are reshaping the industrial landscape, but tasks differ widely, making them labor-intensive to build. |
| Approach: | They propose an experience-driven framework for the automatic creation of domain agents . they leverage agent interaction histories to provide rich concrete signals on success or failure . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms human-designed agents and existing methods in experiments across diverse domains. |
AssistedDS: Benchmarking How External Domain Knowledge Assists LLMs in Automated Data Science (2025.findings-emnlp)
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An Luo, Xun Xian, Jin Du, Fangqiao Tian, Ganghua Wang, Ming Zhong, Shengchun Zhao, Xuan Bi, Zirui Liu, Jiawei Zhou, Jayanth Srinivasa, Ashish Kundu, Charles Fleming, Mingyi Hong, Jie Ding
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have advanced the automation of data science workflows, yet it remains unclear whether they can critically leverage external domain knowledge as human data scientists do in practice. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate how large language models handle external domain knowledge in tabular prediction tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model evaluates whether it can critically leverage external domain knowledge as human data scientists do in practice. |
SubDocTrans: Enhancing Document-level Machine Translation with Plug-and-play Multi-granularity Knowledge Augmentation (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Document translations generated by large language models suffer from poor consistency, weak coherence, and omission errors. |
| Approach: | They propose a document-level machine translation framework that extracts knowledge from documents to produce high-quality translations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves consistency and coherence, reduces omission errors, and mitigates hallucinations. |
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. |
Towards Open Environment Intent Prediction (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Out-of-Domain (OOD) Intent Classification and New Intent Discovering are two tasks in the Task-Oriented Dialogue System. |
| Approach: | They propose a task paradigm to extend Out-of-Domain (OOD) Intent Classification and New Intent Discovering tasks in the Task-Oriented Dialogue System. |
| Outcome: | The proposed scheme improves on existing OOD intent classification and discovery datasets. |
From Language to Driving: A Dual-Loop SLM-Enhanced Framework for Multi-Planner Scheduling via a Domain-Specific Language (2026.acl-long)
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Jiawei Liu, Xun Gong, Muli Yang, Xingrui Yu, Fen Fang, Xulei Yang, Ivor Tsang, Yunfeng hu, Hong Chen, Qing Guo
| Challenge: | Recent large language model-based AD research offers new avenues to address this challenge. |
| Approach: | They propose a small language model (SLM) for high-level semantic reasoning and schedule generation, while an inner loop performs low-level, high-frequency schedule execution and vehicle control. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves instruction completion rates while maintaining high safety and compliance relative to multiple baselines. |
MedHallu: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Detecting Medical Hallucinations in Large Language Models (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) generate plausible but factually incorrect outputs, posing serious risks to patient safety and clinical decision-making. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark for medical hallucination detection using 10,000 question-answer pairs derived from PubMedQA. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves an F1 score as low as 0.625 for detecting 'hard' category hallucinations. |
Rethinking Entropy Interventions in RLVR: An Entropy Change Perspective (2026.acl-long)
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Zhezheng Hao, Hong Wang, Haoyang Liu, Jian Luo, Jiarui Yu, Hande Dong, Qiang Lin, Can Wang, Jiawei Chen
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have remarkable reasoning capabilities in complex tasks such as mathematics and coding. |
| Approach: | They propose an entropy-modulation method that adaptively reweighs tokens based on theoretically-estimated entropic variations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in six mathematical reasoning and three coding benchmarks. |
CoLLiE: Collaborative Training of Large Language Models in an Efficient Way (2023.emnlp-demo)
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Kai Lv, Shuo Zhang, Tianle Gu, Shuhao Xing, Jiawei Hong, Keyu Chen, Xiaoran Liu, Yuqing Yang, Honglin Guo, Tengxiao Liu, Yu Sun, Qipeng Guo, Hang Yan, Xipeng Qiu
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly pivotal in a wide range of tasks . however, the resources required for training these models necessitate efficient solutions . |
| Approach: | They propose a library that facilitates collaborative training of large language models . they use 3D parallelism, parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods and optimizers . |
| Outcome: | The proposed library has proven superior training efficiency in comparison with prevalent solutions in pre-training and fine-tuning scenarios. |
TWEETQA: A Social Media Focused Question Answering Dataset (P19-1)
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Wenhan Xiong, Jiawei Wu, Hong Wang, Vivek Kulkarni, Mo Yu, Shiyu Chang, Xiaoxiao Guo, William Yang Wang
| Challenge: | Social media is becoming an important realtime information source, especially during natural disasters and emergencies. |
| Approach: | They present a large-scale dataset for question answering over social media data . they gather tweets used by journalists and ask human annotators to write questions upon them . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that neural models that perform well on formal texts are limited in their performance . the proposed model is still lagging behind human performance with a large margin . |
Harnessing and Evaluating the Intrinsic Extrapolation Ability of Large Language Models for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Emergent abilities of large language models (LLMs) have advanced their application in autonomous vehicle research. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that leverages LLMs’ built-in extrapolation capabilities for vehicle trajectory prediction, enabling them to understand traffic agents' behavior and interactions over time. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework enables off-the-shelf, frozen LLMs to achieve competitive trajectory prediction performance with qualitative analyses revealing their enhanced understanding of complex, multi-agent traffic scenarios. |