Papers by Weidong Shi
SafeAgent: Safeguarding LLM Agents via an Automated Risk Simulator (2026.acl-long)
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Xueyang Zhou, Weidong Wang, Lin Lu, Jiawen Shi, Guiyao Tie, Xu Yongtian, Lixing Chen, Pan Zhou, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Lichao Sun
| Challenge: | SafeAgent improves agent safety through fully automated synthetic data generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that improves agent safety through fully automated synthetic data generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms closed-source models on two safety benchmarks and one real-world task. |
CIRAG: Construction–Integration Retrieval and Adaptive Generation for Multi-hop Question Answering (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for iterative retrieval-augmented generation (iRAG) suffer from greedy single-path expansion and granularity–demand mismatch . |
| Approach: | They propose a model that constructs candidate triples and history-conditionally integrates them to distill core triples to generate the next-hop query. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model mitigates the greedy single-path expansion and granularity–demand mismatch by preserving multiple plausible evidence chains. |
The Lawyer That Never Thinks: Consistency and Fairness as Keys to Reliable AI (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in high-stakes domains like law and research. |
| Approach: | They evaluate six leading Large Language Models on rationality, stability, and ethical fairness through reasoning tests, legal challenges, and bias-sensitive scenarios. |
| Outcome: | The models perform well on reasoning tests, legal challenges, and bias-sensitive scenarios. |