Papers by Xuesong Wang
FAER: Benchmarking VLMs for Failure-Aware Embodied Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Visual-language models (VLMs) are the core component of embodied agents in perceiving the environment and making decisions. |
| Approach: | They propose a failure-aware benchmark to evaluate the performance of visual language models (VLMs) in long-horizon tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark evaluates the performance of 16 widely utilized VLMs and 4 LLMs for FAER tasks. |
Dynamic Model-Bank Test-Time Adaptation for Automatic Speech Recognition (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing ASR TTA methods struggle with instability under continual and long-term distribution shifts. |
| Approach: | They propose a continuous adaptive model-bank framework that adapts to domain shifts in ASR test-time scenarios. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on diverse, continuously shifting ASR benchmarks show that DMSUTA outperforms existing continual TTA baselines. |
RouterHGC: Optimized Router for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems via Heterogeneous Graph Contrastive Learning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs)-driven Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have demonstrated remarkable scalability and generalizability across complex tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a new framework for routing using large language models . they formalize routing as node selection through edge-weight prediction . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the best single LLM and baselines on five datasets . it achieves 0.80%–6.17% accuracy gains on MATH and HotpotQA while reducing inference cost by 27.40%. |
ToolHop: A Query-Driven Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Multi-Hop Tool Use (2025.acl-long)
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Junjie Ye, Zhengyin Du, Xuesong Yao, Weijian Lin, Yufei Xu, Zehui Chen, Zaiyuan Wang, Sining Zhu, Zhiheng Xi, Siyu Yuan, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Jiecao Chen
| Challenge: | Effective evaluation of multi-hop tool use is critical for analyzing the understanding, reasoning, and function-calling capabilities of large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset that provides rigorous evaluation of multi-hop tool use. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves 49.04% accuracy across five model families. |
Example Quality Matters: Multi-Aspects Example Augmentation for Private Library Programming (2026.acl-long)
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Yuhao Li, Haifeng Sun, Xuesong Zhang, Shu Yao, Haoyu Zheng, Yvchuan Wang, Huazheng Wang, Zirui Zhuang, Qi Qi, Jianxin Liao, Jingyu Wang
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to code generation fail to consider the quality of retrieved examples. |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-augmented generation method that combines existing API examples to improve complexity and readability. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves up to 22% accuracy improvement over baseline methods. |
NeKo: Cross-Modality Post-Recognition Error Correction with Tasks-Guided Mixture-of-Experts Language Model (2025.acl-industry)
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Yen-Ting Lin, Zhehuai Chen, Piotr Zelasko, Zhen Wan, Xuesong Yang, Zih-Ching Chen, Krishna C Puvvada, Ke Hu, Szu-Wei Fu, Jun Wei Chiu, Jagadeesh Balam, Boris Ginsburg, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Chao-Han Huck Yang
| Challenge: | Existing methods to train a model on a mixture of domain datasets require separate correction language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-task correction MoE that trains experts to become an "expert" of speech-to-text, language-totext and vision-to text datasets by learning to route each dataset’s tokens to its mapped expert. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms GPT-3.5 and Claude-3.5-Sonnet on the Open ASR Leaderboard and reaches an average relative 5.0% WER reduction and substantial improvements in BLEU scores. |