Papers by Junhao Shi
Failure makes the agent stronger: Enhancing Accuracy through Structured Reflection for Reliable Tool Interactions (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to self-reflection rely on heuristic prompting or unidirectional reasoning traces. |
| Approach: | They propose a structured reflection method that transforms the "from error to repair" process into a first-class, controllable, and trainable action. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves multi-turn tool-call success rates and error recovery while reducing redundant calls. |
AgencyBench: Benchmarking the Frontiers of Autonomous Agents in 1M-Token Real-World Contexts (2026.acl-long)
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Keyu Li, Junhao Shi, Yang Xiao, Mohan Jiang, Jie Sun, Yunze Wu, Dayuan Fu, Shijie Xia, Xiaojie Cai, Tianze Xu, Weiye Si, Wenjie Li, Dequan Wang, Pengfei Liu
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks focus on single agentic capability, failing to capture long-horizon real-world scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark that evaluates 6 agentic capabilities across 32 real-world scenarios. |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that closed-source models outperform open-source model (48.4% vs 32.1%) integrating models with advanced scaffolds to form autonomous agents is a paradigm shift. |
How to Mitigate Overfitting in Weak-to-strong Generalization? (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Experimental results show that weak-to-strong generalization significantly improves PGR compared to naive weak- to-strong . superalignment refers to how humans can align models on tasks beyond human ability to evaluate . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that elicits the capabilities of strong models through weak supervisors . they propose 'superalignment' to ensure that strong models align with supervisors' intentions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly improves quality of supervision signals and quality of input questions compared to naive weak-to-strong generalization . |