Papers by Xianjie Shi
CodeAgent: Enhancing Code Generation with Tool-Integrated Agent Systems for Real-World Repo-level Coding Challenges (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models excel in simple tasks such as generating standalone code units, but real-world software development often involves complex code repositories with complex dependencies and extensive documentation. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel LLM-based agent framework that employs external tools for effective repo-level code generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms commercial products like Github Copilot in the humanEval benchmark and shows that it is adaptable and efficient across multiple code generation tasks. |
Why Supervised Fine-Tuning Fails to Learn: A Systematic Study of Incomplete Learning in Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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Chao Xue, Yao Wang, Mengqiao Liu, Di Liang, Xingsheng Han, Peiyang Liu, Xianjie Wu, Chenyao Lu, Lei Jiang, Yu Lu, Haibo Shi, Shuang Liang, Minlong Peng, Flora D. Salim
| Challenge: | Incomplete learning is widespread and heterogeneous in large language models . authors identify five recurrent sources of incomplete learning: missing prerequisite knowledge, conflicts between SFT supervision and pre-training knowledge, internal inconsistencies within SFT data, left-side forgetting during sequential fine-tuning, and insufficient optimization for rare or complex patterns. |
| Approach: | They propose a diagnostic-first framework that maps incomplete learning to causes . they identify five recurrent sources of incomplete learning: missing prerequisite knowledge, conflicts between supervision and pre-training knowledge, internal inconsistencies, left-side forgetting during sequential fine-tuning, and insufficient optimization for rare or complex patterns. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework maps incomplete learning to causes using observable training and inference signals. |
Reason Only When Needed: Efficient Generative Reward Modeling via Model-Internal Uncertainty (2026.findings-acl)
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Chao Xue, Yao Wang, Mengqiao Liu, Di Liang, Xingsheng Han, Peiyang Liu, Xianjie Wu, Chenyao Lu, Lei Jiang, Yu Lu, Haibo Shi, Shuang Liang, Minlong Peng, Flora D. Salim
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to generating reward models rely on voting-based mechanisms to evaluate CoT outputs. |
| Approach: | They propose an efficient generative reward modeling framework grounded in model-internal uncertainty. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces inference cost while improving answer accuracy. |
KoCo-Bench: Can Large Language Models Leverage Domain Knowledge in Software Development? (2026.acl-long)
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Xue Jiang, Ge Li, Jiaru Qian, Xianjie Shi, Chenjie Li, Hao Zhu, Ziyu Wang, Jielun Zhang, Zeyu Zhao, Kechi Zhang, Jia Li, Wenpin Jiao, Zhi Jin, Yihong Dong
| Challenge: | Existing domain-specific code benchmarks focus on assessing what knowledge LLMs possess rather than how they acquire and apply new knowledge. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate domain specialization methods in real-world software development. |
| Outcome: | KOCO-bench is a new benchmark for evaluating domain specialization methods in real-world software development. |