Papers by Ziming Zhao
MedAgents: Large Language Models as Collaborators for Zero-shot Medical Reasoning (2024.findings-acl)
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Xiangru Tang, Anni Zou, Zhuosheng Zhang, Ziming Li, Yilun Zhao, Xingyao Zhang, Arman Cohan, Mark Gerstein
| Challenge: | Large language models face unique challenges such as domain-specific terminologies and reasoning over specialized knowledge. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-disciplinary collaboration framework that leverages LLM-based agents in a role-playing setting. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework excels at mining and harnessing medical expertise within LLMs, as well as extending its reasoning abilities. |
BiBL: AMR Parsing and Generation with Bidirectional Bayesian Learning (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to AMR focus on one-side improvements despite the duality of the two tasks . instead, we propose data-efficient Bidirectional Bayesian learning (BiBL) to facilitate bidirectional information transition. |
| Approach: | They propose a data-efficient bidirectional Bayesian learning approach to facilitate bidirectional information transition by adopting a single-stage multitasking strategy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models on benchmark datasets without extra training data. |
See the World, Discover Knowledge: A Chinese Factuality Evaluation for Large Vision Language Models (2025.findings-acl)
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Jihao Gu, Yingyao Wang, Pi Bu, Chen Wang, Ziming Wang, Tengtao Song, Donglai Wei, Jiale Yuan, Yingxiu Zhao, Yancheng He, Shilong Li, Jiaheng Liu, Meng Cao, Jun Song, Yingshui Tan, Xiang Li, Wenbo Su, Xiaoyong Zhu, Bo Zheng
| Challenge: | Existing models for large vision language models do not fully reflect their knowledge capacity and reliability, resulting in erroneous outputs that do not align with the image content or provide answers lacking knowledge evidence. |
| Approach: | They propose a Chinese-based benchmark for visual factuality across 8 major topics and 56 subtopics and a multi-hop question construction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model decouples visual factuality into two parts: seeing the world and discovering knowledge. |
Explainable Quantum Program Repair with Verifiable Proof Traces (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to program repair provide only post-hoc, non-verifiable explanations that are not executable or verifiably. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that couples repair generation with machine-checkable executable explanations for quantum programs where correctness hinges on subtle semantic properties such as circuit equivalence and fidelity preservation. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on QASMBench with mutation-generated quantum program bugs show that the proposed framework improves both semantic precision and explanation faithfulness over baselines that rely on unconstrained or purely natural-language explanations. |
A.S.E: A Repository-Level Benchmark for Evaluating Security in AI-Generated Code (2026.findings-acl)
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Keke Lian, Wang Bin, Lei Zhang, Libo Chen, Junjie Wang, Ziming Zhao, Yujiu Yang, Miaoqian Lin, Haotong Duan, Haoran Zhao, Shuang Liao, Mingda Guo, Quan Jiazheng, Yilu Zhong, Chenhao He, Chen Zichuan, Jie Wu, Haoling Li, Zhaoxuan Li, Jiongchi Yu, Hui LI, Dong Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing security evaluation benchmarks lack relevance to real-world AI programming tasks . current LLMs struggle with secure coding, research shows . |
| Approach: | They propose a repository-level evaluation benchmark to assess security of AI-generated code. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework mirrors real-world AI programming tasks and offers valuable insights into the state of AI code generation. |
QUARTZ: Quantile-Aware Routing and Queueing for TTFT SLOs in LLM Serving (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Prefill costs scale with prompt length and decode lengths are uncertain, and prefix locality creates strong performance skew across requests. |
| Approach: | They propose a quantile-aware routing and queueing layer that predicts conservative quantiles rather than point estimates using lightweight router-visible signals. |
| Outcome: | The proposed layer predicts conservative quantile-based request-cost proxies, rather than point estimates, using lightweight router-visible signals. |
Mobile-R1: Towards Interactive Capability for VLM-Based Mobile Agent via Systematic Training (2026.acl-long)
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Jihao Gu, Qihang Ai, Yingyao Wang, Pi Bu, Jingxuan Xing, Yue Cao, Zekun Zhu, Wei Jiang, Ziming Wang, Yingxiu Zhao, Ming-Liang Zhang, Jun Song, Yuning Jiang, Bo Zheng
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to training agents for visual-language models trap them in local optima, hindering exploration and error correction with the environment. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical training recipe that bridges atomic action execution and strategic task completion. |
| Outcome: | The proposed training recipe bridges atomic action execution and strategic task completion. |