Papers by Ziying Huang
OctoBench: Benchmarking Scaffold-Aware Instruction Following in Repository-Grounded Agentic Coding (2026.acl-long)
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Deming Ding, Shichun Liu, Enhui Yang, Jiahang Lin, Ziying Chen, Shihan Dou, Honglin Guo, Weiyu Cheng, Pengyu Zhao, Chengjun Xiao, Qunhong Zeng, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Qidi Xu, Tao Gui
| Challenge: | coding scaffolds that follow heterogeneous instructions remain under-examined in software engineering . coding models are capable software agents, but their ability to follow constraints remains under-explored . |
| Approach: | They introduce OctoBench, which benchmarks scaffold-aware instruction following in agentic coding. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark aims to accelerate the development of more scaffold-aware agents. |
The Model Agreed, But Didn’t Learn: Diagnosing Surface Compliance in Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models internalize vast world knowledge as parametric memory, yet inherit the staleness and errors of their source corpora. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that subjects models to discriminative self-assessment under diverse contextual pressures to scrutinize subtle behavioral nuances induced by memory modifications. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves high benchmarks without overwriting internal beliefs, while recursive modifications accumulate representational residues, triggering cognitive instability and permanently diminishing the reversibility of the model’s memory state. |