Papers by Shiwen Zhang
A Multilingual Dataset and Empirical Validation for the Mutual Reinforcement Effect in Information Extraction (2026.findings-acl)
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Chengguang Gan, Sunbowen Lee, Qingyu Yin, Yunhao Liang, Xinyang He, Hanjun Wei, Younghun Lim, Shijian Wang, Hexiang Huang, QingHao Zhang, Shiwen Ni, Tatsunori Mori
| Challenge: | Existing work on the Mutual Reinforcement Effect in information extraction has not been empirically validated . 76 percent of the 21 sub-datasets exhibit the Mutual Reforcement effect across languages . |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual MRE mix dataset that integrates 21 sub-datasets covering English, Japanese, and Chinese. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces manual annotation effort while preserving structural requirements of MRE tasks. |
SrDetection: A Self-Referential Framework for Data Leakage Detection in Code Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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Shuaimin Li, Liyang Fan, Zeyang li, Zhuoyue Wan, Yufang Lin, Shiwen Ni, Feiteng Fang, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Yuanfeng Song, Kun Jing, Chen Jason Zhang, Min Yang
| Challenge: | Existing methods for evaluating code large language models assume access to proprietary training corpora or use external reference sets with manually tuned, non-generalizable thresholds. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for self-referential leakage detection for gray-box and black-box settings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves average F1 by 21.52 points in the gray-box setting and 14.46 points in black-box settings over strong baselines. |
Towards IP Intelligence: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Intellectual Property Knowledge and Practice (2026.findings-acl)
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Qiyao Wang, Guhong Chen, Hongbo Wang, Huaren Liu, Minghui Zhu, Zhifei Qin, Li Linwei, Yilin Yue, Shiqiang Wang, Jiayan Li, Wu Yihang, Ziqiang Liu, Longze Chen, Run Luo, Liyang Fan, Jiaming Li, Lei Zhang, Kan Xu, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Chengming Li, Shiwen Ni, Yuan Lin, Min Yang
| Challenge: | Existing datasets and benchmarks focus only on patents or cover limited aspects of the IP field, lacking alignment with real-world scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a bilingual IP task taxonomy and a large-scale bilingual benchmark to evaluate LLMs in real-world IP practice. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves only 75.8% accuracy, indicating room for improvement . open-source IP and law-oriented models lag behind closed-source general-purpose models . |
Can MLLMs Understand the Deep Implication Behind Chinese Images? (2025.acl-long)
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Chenhao Zhang, Xi Feng, Yuelin Bai, Xeron Du, Jinchang Hou, Kaixin Deng, Guangzeng Han, Qinrui Li, Bingli Wang, Jiaheng Liu, Xingwei Qu, Yifei Zhang, Qixuan Zhao, Yiming Liang, Ziqiang Liu, Feiteng Fang, Min Yang, Wenhao Huang, Chenghua Lin, Ge Zhang, Shiwen Ni
| Challenge: | MLLMs perform poorly on traditional culture images, indicating limitations in understanding high-level semantics and lacking a deep knowledge base of Chinese traditional culture. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Chinese images to assess MLLMs' higher-order perception and understanding of Chinese visual content. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model incorporates images that represent Chinese traditional culture, such as famous Chinese traditional paintings, to ensure the authenticity of the Chinese context. |
Beyond the Surface: A Solution-Aware Retrieval Model for Competition-level Code Generation (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing retrieval models emphasize surface-level semantic similarity, neglecting deeper solution-level logical similarities. |
| Approach: | They propose a solution-aware ranking model empowered by synthetic data for competitive programming tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed ranking model outperforms existing retrieval models in precision and recall metrics. |
MoZIP: A Multilingual Benchmark to Evaluate Large Language Models in Intellectual Property (2024.lrec-main)
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Shiwen Ni, Minghuan Tan, Yuelin Bai, Fuqiang Niu, Min Yang, Bowen Zhang, Ruifeng Xu, Xiaojun Chen, Chengming Li, Xiping Hu
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various natural language processing tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark for the evaluation of large language models in the IP domain . they also propose supervised multilingual large language model called MoZi . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms four well-known LLMs on the MoZIP benchmark . the most powerful ChatGPT does not reach the passing level . |
COIG-CQIA: Quality is All You Need for Chinese Instruction Fine-tuning (2025.findings-naacl)
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Yuelin Bai, Xeron Du, Yiming Liang, Leo Jin, Junting Zhou, Ziqiang Liu, Feiteng Fang, Mingshan Chang, Tianyu Zheng, Xincheng Zhang, Nuo Ma, Zekun Moore Wang, Ruibin Yuan, Haihong Wu, Hongquan Lin, Wenhao Huang, Jiajun Zhang, Chenghua Lin, Jie Fu, Min Yang, Shiwen Ni, Ge Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing datasets for Chinese instruction tuning are not well-aligned with Chinese users’ interaction patterns. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Chinese instruction tuning datasets to improve instruction fine-tuning for Chinese users. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that Chinese models achieve competitive performance in diverse benchmarks. |
CoTJudger: A Graph-Driven Framework for Automatic Evaluation of Chain-of-Thought Efficiency and Redundancy in LRMs (2026.findings-acl)
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Siyi Li, Jiajun Shi, Shiwen Ni, Ge Zhang, Shuaimin Li, Shijian Wang, Zhoufutu Wen, Yizhi LI, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Jiaheng Liu, Min Yang, Wenhao Huang
| Challenge: | Existing evaluations emphasize final accuracy or coarse token counts, and lack automated tools to separate essential logic from structural redundancy. |
| Approach: | They propose a graph-driven framework that quantifies reasoning efficiency by converting free-form CoTs into directed dependency graphs and extracting the Shortest Effective Path needed to reach a correct solution. |
| Outcome: | Evaluating 21 LRMs, the proposed framework quantifies reasoning efficiency by converting free-form CoTs into directed dependency graphs and extracting the Shortest Effective Path (SEP) needed to reach a correct solution. |
LIME: Less Is More for MLLM Evaluation (2025.findings-acl)
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King Zhu, Qianbo Zang, Shian Jia, Siwei Wu, Feiteng Fang, Yizhi Li, Shuyue Guo, Tianyu Zheng, Jiawei Guo, Bo Li, Haoning Wu, Xingwei Qu, Jian Yang, Ruibo Liu, Xiang Yue, Jiaheng Liu, Chenghua Lin, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Min Yang, Shiwen Ni, Wenhao Huang, Ge Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing MLLM benchmarks and unified evaluation frameworks cannot accurately and efficiently reflect the ability of MLMLs. |
| Approach: | They propose a semi-automated benchmark curated using a pipeline that filters out uninformative samples and eliminates answer leakage by focusing on tasks that require image-based understanding. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark reduces the number of samples by 76% and evaluation time by 77% while it can more effectively distinguish different models’ abilities. |