Papers by Yuheng Wang
ChatMap: Mining Human Thought Processes for Customer Service Chatbots via Multi-Agent Collaboration (2025.findings-acl)
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Xinyi Jiang, Tianyi Hu, Yuheng Qin, Guoming Wang, Zhou Huan, Kehan Chen, Gang Huang, Rongxing Lu, Siliang Tang
| Challenge: | Existing methods for enhancing dialogue performance rely on summarizing behavior . e-commerce chatbots need to align their dialogue strategies with human behavior to achieve coherent, human-like conversations with customers. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to extract core patterns from dialogue data and integrate them into models by mining service thought processes using a multi-agent aPproach. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms manual methods and outperfies baselines on Taobao in China. |
Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent for Data Science (2025.findings-acl)
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Sirui Hong, Yizhang Lin, Bang Liu, Bangbang Liu, Binhao Wu, Ceyao Zhang, Danyang Li, Jiaqi Chen, Jiayi Zhang, Jinlin Wang, Li Zhang, Lingyao Zhang, Min Yang, Mingchen Zhuge, Taicheng Guo, Tuo Zhou, Wei Tao, Robert Tang, Xiangtao Lu, Xiawu Zheng, Xinbing Liang, Yaying Fei, Yuheng Cheng, Yongxin Ni, Zhibin Gou, Zongze Xu, Yuyu Luo, Chenglin Wu
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in various domains but face challenges when applied to data science workflows due to their complex, multi-stage nature. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical graph-based agent that represents complexity and a progressive strategy for step-by-step verification, refinement, and consistent context management. |
| Outcome: | The proposed agent surpasses state-of-the-art baselines on the MATH dataset and performs better on InfiAgent-DABench. |
TransBench: Breaking Barriers for Transferable Graphical User Interface Agents in Dynamic Digital Environments (2025.findings-acl)
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Yuheng Lu, Qian Yu, Hongru Wang, Zeming Liu, Wei Su, Yanping Liu, Yuhang Guo, Maocheng Liang, Yunhong Wang, Haifeng Wang
| Challenge: | Existing GUI agents struggle to adapt to dynamic and interconnected nature of real-world digital environments, authors show . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate the transferability of GUI agents across three key dimensions . transBench includes 15 app categories with diverse functionalities . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark shows that existing GUI agents struggle to adapt to dynamic, interconnected environments. |
RBPtool: A Deep Language Model Framework for Multi-Resolution RBP-RNA Binding Prediction and RNA Molecule Design (2025.emnlp-main)
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Jiyue Jiang, Yitao Xu, Zikang Wang, Yihan Ye, Yanruisheng Shao, Yuheng Shan, Jiuming Wang, Xiaodan Fan, Jiao Yuan, Yu Li
| Challenge: | RNA-binding proteins play key roles in post-transcriptional gene regulation . existing methods focus on shallow sequence features or coarse structural representations . large language models allow for precise modeling and biologically informed de novo RNA design . |
| Approach: | They extend RPI15223 into a multi-resolution, structure-level RBP-RNA dataset and introduce RBPtool, a framework that fuses sequence and structural information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on public benchmarks and the RPI15223 dataset while supporting fine-grained level predictions. |
TESTEVAL: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Test Case Generation (2025.findings-naacl)
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Wenhan Wang, Chenyuan Yang, Zhijie Wang, Yuheng Huang, Zhaoyang Chu, Da Song, Lingming Zhang, An Ran Chen, Lei Ma
| Challenge: | Existing methods to generate test cases using large language models are limited in their ability to generate unit test cases. |
| Approach: | They propose a test case generation benchmark that uses large language models to generate unit test cases. |
| Outcome: | The proposed test case generation benchmarks compare LLMs with commercial and open-source LLM platforms and find that they lack the ability to comprehend program logic and execution paths. |
CuMA: Aligning LLMs with Sparse Cultural Values via Demographic-Aware Mixture of Adapters (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have a global audience, so alignment must extend to cultural resonance. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that frames alignment as a conditional capacity separation problem. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms both dense baselines and semantic-only MoEs on three large language models. |
LM2Protein: A Structure-to-Token Protein Large Language Model (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | RNA-binding proteins are critical for various molecular functions, relying on their precise tertiary structures. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to integrate protein 3D structural data within a sequence processing framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves high sequence recovery in inverse folding and protein-conditioned RNA design. |
Unveiling Factual Recall Behaviors of Large Language Models through Knowledge Neurons (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in Large Language Models have underscored their exceptional reasoning prowess with natural language understanding across a broad spectrum of tasks. |
| Approach: | They examine whether Large Language Models actively recall or retrieve their internal repositories of factual knowledge when faced with reasoning tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves reasoning performance while suppressing it leads to notable degradation. |
SATBench: Benchmarking LLMs’ Logical Reasoning via Automated Puzzle Generation from SAT Formulas (2025.emnlp-main)
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Anjiang Wei, Yuheng Wu, Yingjia Wan, Tarun Suresh, Huanmi Tan, Zhanke Zhou, Sanmi Koyejo, Ke Wang, Alex Aiken
| Challenge: | SATBench is a benchmark for evaluating the logical reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) through logical puzzles derived from Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problems. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate logical reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) using logical puzzles derived from Boolean satisfiability problems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves 65.0% accuracy on hard UNSAT problems, close to the baseline of 50%. |
Controlled Low-Rank Adaptation with Subspace Regularization for Continued Training on Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to mitigate catastrophic forgetting can be broadly categorized into data-based, architecture-based and learning-based methods. |
| Approach: | They propose a subspace regularization method on LoRA structure that imposes constraints on direction of updating matrix’s null space. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces scale of output change while introducing minimal constraint on model capacity. |
Evaluating the Expressive Appropriateness of Speech in Rich Contexts (2026.acl-long)
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Tianrui Wang, Ziyang Ma, Yizhou Peng, Haoyu Wang, Zhikang Niu, Zikang Huang, Yihao Wu, Yi-Wen Chao, Yu Jiang, Yuheng Lu, Guanrou Yang, Xuanchen Li, Hexin Liu, Chunyu Qiang, Cheng Gong, Yifan Yang, Tianchi Liu, Junyu Wang, Nana Hou, Meng Ge, Fuming You, Yang Wei, Zhongqian Sun, Hu Haifeng, Xiaobao Wang, Eng Siong Chng, Xie Chen, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang
| Challenge: | Existing methods for evaluating expressive speech focus on word accuracy, naturalness, signal quality, or emotional intensity at the utterance level. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for Evaluating Expressive Appropriateness in speech that assesses whether a speech sample aligns with the underlying communicative intent implied by its discourse-level narrative context. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing speech evaluation and analysis systems on a human-annotated test set. |
EngiBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Engineering Problem Solving (2026.findings-acl)
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Xiyuan Zhou, Xinlei Wang, Yirui He, Ruixi Zou, Yang Wu, Yuheng Cheng, Yulu Xie, Wenxuan Liu, Huan Zhao, Yan Xu, Jinjin Gu, Junhua Zhao
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks focus on well-defined or abstract reasoning and fail to capture real-world engineering problems. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical benchmark to evaluate large language models on engineering problems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs well under well-defined conditions and is based on three levels of difficulty and covers diverse engineering subfields. |
Cracking the Code of Hallucination in LVLMs with Vision-aware Head Divergence (2025.acl-long)
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Jinghan He, Kuan Zhu, Haiyun Guo, Junfeng Fang, Zhenglin Hua, Yuheng Jia, Ming Tang, Tat-Seng Chua, Jinqiao Wang
| Challenge: | Existing methods focus on alignment training or decoding refinements but address symptoms at the generation stage without probing the underlying causes. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free approach to mitigate hallucination by enhancing the role of vision-aware attention heads. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art approaches in mitigating hallucinations while maintaining high efficiency with negligible additional time overhead. |
Cracking Factual Knowledge: A Comprehensive Analysis of Degenerate Knowledge Neurons in Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are believed to store extensive factual knowledge, yet the mechanisms of knowledge storage in LLMs remain largely unexplored. |
| Approach: | They propose that some multi-layer perceptron neurons can store "knowledge". |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can store "knowledge" in multi-layer perceptron neurons, but not redundancy. |
From Completion to Editing: Unlocking Context-Aware Code Infilling via Search-and-Replace Instruction Tuning (2026.acl-long)
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Jiajun Zhang, Zeyu Cui, Jiaxi Yang, Lei Zhang, Yuheng Jing, Zeyao Ma, Tianyi Bai, Zilei Wang, Qiang Liu, Liang Wang, Binyuan Hui, Junyang Lin
| Challenge: | Fill-in-the-Middle (FIM) models suffer from performance degradation and prohibitive latency. |
| Approach: | They propose a search-and-replace infilling framework that integrates agentic verification and editing into a single-pass inference process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework harmonizes completion tasks with the instruction-following priors of Chat LLMs, extending the paradigm from static infilling to dynamic context-aware editing. |
TeachMaster: Generative Teaching via Code (2026.acl-industry)
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Yuheng Wang, Runde Yang, Lin Wu, Jie Zhang, Jingru Fan, Tianle Zhou, Ruoyu Fu, Huatao Li, Ruijie Shi, Siheng Chen, Weinan E, Chen Qian
| Challenge: | Existing methods for creating video content are limited by high costs and slow update cycles. |
| Approach: | They propose a paradigm shifting educators from manual creators to high-level directors who focus on pedagogical intents while agents handle execution. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces production costs to 0.3% of traditional course videos and provides a robust solution for scalable education. |