Papers by Wenjie Shi

5 papers
MulDimIF: A Multi-Dimensional Constraint Framework for Evaluating and Improving Instruction Following in Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing research has focused on constraint categories, offering little guidance for improving instruction following abilities.
Approach: They propose a multi-dimensional constraint framework that allows for instruction following . they construct 9,106 code-verifiable samples and evaluate 18 LLMs .
Outcome: The proposed framework improves instruction following performance without compromising general performance.
Self-Improvement Towards Pareto Optimality: Mitigating Preference Conflicts in Multi-Objective Alignment (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to optimize large language models with human preferences suffer from preference conflicts in the data.
Approach: They propose to construct Pareto-optimal responses to resolve preference conflicts by using a self-improving DPO framework that enables LLMs to self-generate and select Paret-optimized responses.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves superior Pareto Front performance over baselines on two datasets.
The Evolution of Thought: Tracking LLM Overthinking via Reasoning Dynamics Analysis (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Explicit reasoning trajectories increase performance but often trigger overthinking . despite its importance, this study examines how each step of reasoning affects the final outcome .
Approach: They propose a Reasoning Completion Point Detector that detects the RCP by monitoring rank dynamics of termination tokens.
Outcome: The proposed method reduces token usage by up to 44% while preserving accuracy.
AgencyBench: Benchmarking the Frontiers of Autonomous Agents in 1M-Token Real-World Contexts (2026.acl-long)

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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.
GOVERN: Gradient Orientation Vote Ensemble for Multi-Teacher Reinforced Distillation (2024.emnlp-industry)

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Challenge: Pre-trained language models have achieved remarkable performance in OpenQA, but for practical deployment, knowledge distillation is crucial to maintain high performance while operating under computational constraints.
Approach: They propose an algorithm to perform unsupervised knowledge distillation without the guidance of labels to achieve 99.5% of performance.
Outcome: The proposed algorithm achieves 99.5% of performance in a commercial question-answering system.

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