Papers by Junyi Fan
Empathy in Diversity: Personalized Depression and Anxiety Therapy via Dialogue State Tracking and Patient-Aware Planning (2026.acl-long)
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Xinwei Yang, Junyi Fan, Yuqing Liu, Jiaxuan Wang, Jiashuai Zhang, Hongru Liang, Wenqiang Lei, Yao Song
| Challenge: | Recent efforts have turned to large language models (LLMs) as therapeutic agents for psychological therapy tasks, yet robustness across diverse patients remains underexplored. |
| Approach: | They propose a realistic role-play protocol for evaluating therapeutic dialogue agents and a de-identified, expert-annotated corpus of therapist–patient dialogues. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baselines on therapeutic outcomes and dialogue quality while improving conversational efficiency. |
You Only Query Twice: Multimodal Rumor Detection via Evidential Evaluation from Dual Perspectives (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing rumor detectors exhibit limitations in fully exploiting responses to the source tweet as essential public opinions, and in explaining and indicating the reliability of the results obtained. Existing research mainly combats this with content and response-based detection methods. |
| Approach: | They propose a Large Language Model with both multimodal source content and the corresponding response set to extract contrasting evidence to enable maximal utilization of informative responses. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach can indicate the model’s uncertainty (i.e., reliability) of the results. |
Pre3: Enabling Deterministic Pushdown Automata for Faster Structured LLM Generation (2025.acl-long)
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Junyi Chen, Shihao Bai, Zaijun Wang, Siyu Wu, Chuheng Du, Hailong Yang, Ruihao Gong, Shengzhong Liu, Fan Wu, Guihai Chen
| Challenge: | Existing methods for structured generation of outputs are inefficient under large inference batches. |
| Approach: | They propose a new LLM-based method that parses LR(1) grammars into a pushdown automaton and exploits deterministic pushdown automation to optimize the constrained LLM decoding efficiency. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves time per output token (TPOT) by 40% and throughput by 36% . |
AutoSUIT Bench - Automated Security UnIt Test Benchmark for LLM Coding (2026.findings-acl)
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Samuel Osebe, Fan Yang, Junyi Li, Yue Gu, Yongxin Wang, Satyapriya Krishna, Kai-Wei Chang, Aram Galstyan, Rahul Gupta, Weitong Ruan
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) are evolving rapidly on code generation tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to automate the vulnerability code benchmark creation with iterative auto validation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark covers 232 CWE categories across C/C++, Java, and Python languages. |
Model-based Large Language Model Customization as Service (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing large language model services require users to upload data for fine-tuning . current methods for customization are noisy and require sensitive domain data . |
| Approach: | *Llamdex is a framework that facilitates LLM customization as a service . client uploads pre-trained domain-specific *models* rather than data . |
| Outcome: | *Llamdex* framework improves domain-specific accuracy by up to 26% over state-of-the-art private data synthesis methods . |