Papers by Yuchi Wang
PrinciplismQA: A Philosophy-Grounded Approach to Assessing LLM-Human Clinical Medical Ethics Alignment (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks lack systematic approaches to integrate philosophical frameworks and expert validation for ethical reasoning assessment. |
| Approach: | They propose a philosophy-grounded approach to assess medical ethics alignment . PrinciplismQA comprises 3,648 expert-validated questions spanning knowledge assessment and clinical reasoning . |
| Outcome: | PrinciplismQA provides a philosophy-grounded approach to assessing medical ethics alignment. |
LaDiC: Are Diffusion Models Really Inferior to Autoregressive Counterparts for Image-to-Text Generation? (2024.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing models for text-to-image generation have been underperforming in image-totext generation tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that uses a split BERT to create a dedicated latent space for captions and integrates a regularization module to manage varying text lengths. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on the MS COCO dataset with 38.2 BLEU@4 and 126.2 CIDEr . |
From Conversation to Evaluation: Benchmarking LLMs on Development Knowledge via SimpleDevQA (2026.findings-acl)
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Jing Zhang, Lianghong Guo, Yanlin Wang, Terry Yue Zhuo, Yong Wang, Mingwei Liu, Jiachi Chen, Ensheng Shi, Yuchi Ma, Hongyu Zhang, Zibin Zheng
| Challenge: | Existing Dev Knowledge QA benchmarks are limited in development knowledge scope and often not built from real user queries. |
| Approach: | They conduct preliminary analysis of real user–LLM dialogues from WildChat to investigate the importance of Dev Knowledge QA in AI-assisted software development scenarios. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark is based on real user–LLM dialogues from WildChat. |
Rethinking Semantic Parsing for Large Language Models: Enhancing LLM Performance with Semantic Hints (2025.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Semantic Parsing improves performance of smaller models, but it is unclear whether it extends similarly to large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a prompting approach that embeds semantic hints within the prompt to improve LLM performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves LLMs’ performance across various tasks, highlighting the potential of integrating semantic information to improve LLM capabilities. |
Human or LLM as Standardized Patients? A Comparative Study in Medical Education (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Standardized patients (VSPs) are indispensable for clinical skills training but remain expensive and difficult to scale. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-agent VSP framework that separates case-grounded information disclosure from response generation to support stable, inquiry-conditioned patient behavior. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework more closely matches human SP behavior than existing VSPs, particularly in case consistency and controlled disclosure. |
RICO: Improving Accuracy and Completeness in Image Recaptioning via Visual Reconstruction (2025.emnlp-main)
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Yuchi Wang, Yishuo Cai, Shuhuai Ren, Sihan Yang, Linli Yao, Yuanxin Liu, Yuanxing Zhang, Pengfei Wan, Xu Sun
| Challenge: | Existing recaptioning methods suffer from inaccuracies due to missing fine-grained details. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that refines captions through visual reconstruction using a text-to-image model and a visual reconstruction framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baselines on CapsBench and CompreCap by 10%. |
PCA-Bench: Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models in Perception-Cognition-Action Chain (2024.findings-acl)
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Liang Chen, Yichi Zhang, Shuhuai Ren, Haozhe Zhao, Zefan Cai, Yuchi Wang, Peiyi Wang, Xiangdi Meng, Tianyu Liu, Baobao Chang
| Challenge: | a new multimodal decision-making benchmark evaluates the integrated capabilities of multimodal large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal decision-making benchmark for evaluating MLLMs . they propose an automatic evaluation protocol to assess 10 prevalent ML models . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark improves performance of multimodal large language models in three scenarios . the model is required to integrate multiple capabilities to make accurate decisions . |
FedDQC: Data Quality Control in Federated Instruction-tuning of Large Language Models (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Federated Learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative instruction tuning of large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a federated instruction tuning framework with dynamic data quality control to solve this problem. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves performance on mixed-quality datasets on synthetic and real-world datasets. |