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20232026
most citedKoLA: Carefully Benchmarking World Knowledge of Large Language Models

24 citations · 35 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.AI2026

TRAJDEBUG: Tracing Error Lifecycle to Identify Critical Failures in Long-Horizon Agent Trajectories

Yunjia Qi, Zehua Yin, Xintong Shi +10

LLM-based agentic systems have shown remarkable capabilities in complex domains, while suffering from cascading errors and difficulty in debugging. Critical error detection aims to…

cs.CL2026

Can LLM-as-a-Judge Reliably Verify Rubrics in Agentic Scenarios?

Yangda Peng, Yunjia Qi, Haotian Xia +8

Rubric-based scoring has become a widely used paradigm in model evaluation, typically with LLM-as-a-Judge (LaaJ) for rubric scoring. However, the reliability of LaaJ for rubric sco…

cs.CL2026

StoryAlign: Evaluating and Training Reward Models for Story Generation

Haotian Xia, Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi +4

Story generation aims to automatically produce coherent, structured, and engaging narratives. Although large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced text generation, sto…

cs.CL2026

WildReward: Learning Reward Models from In-the-Wild Human Interactions

Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi, Xiaozhi Wang +3

Reward models (RMs) are crucial for the training of large language models (LLMs), yet they typically rely on large-scale human-annotated preference pairs. With the widespread deplo…

cs.CL2026

On the Paradoxical Interference between Instruction-Following and Task Solving

Yunjia Qi, Hao Peng, Xintong Shi +5

Instruction following aims to align Large Language Models (LLMs) with human intent by specifying explicit constraints on how tasks should be performed. However, we reveal a counter…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Hydro-Science and Engineering Knowledge of Large Language Models

Shiruo Hu, Wenbo Shan, Yingjia Li +16

Hydro-Science and Engineering (Hydro-SE) is a critical and irreplaceable domain that secures human water supply, generates clean hydropower energy, and mitigates flood and drought…

cs.LG2025

LoSiA: Efficient High-Rank Fine-Tuning via Subnet Localization and Optimization

Xujia Wang, Yunjia Qi, Bin Xu

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods, such as LoRA, significantly reduce the number of trainable parameters by introducing low-rank decomposition matrices. However, exist…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

StoryWriter: A Multi-Agent Framework for Long Story Generation

Haotian Xia, Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi +4

Long story generation remains a challenge for existing large language models (LLMs), primarily due to two main factors: (1) discourse coherence, which requires plot consistency, lo…

cs.CL2025

VerIF: Verification Engineering for Reinforcement Learning in Instruction Following

Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi, Xiaozhi Wang +3

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a key technique for enhancing large language models (LLMs), with verification engineering playing a central role. H…

cs.AI2025

AGENTIF: Benchmarking Instruction Following of Large Language Models in Agentic Scenarios

Yunjia Qi, Hao Peng, Xiaozhi Wang +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated advanced capabilities in real-world agentic applications. Growing research efforts aim to develop LLM-based agents to address practic…

cs.CL2025

Agentic Reward Modeling: Integrating Human Preferences with Verifiable Correctness Signals for Reliable Reward Systems

Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi, Xiaozhi Wang +4

Reward models (RMs) are crucial for the training and inference-time scaling up of large language models (LLMs). However, existing reward models primarily focus on human preferences…

cs.CL2024

Constraint Back-translation Improves Complex Instruction Following of Large Language Models

Yunjia Qi, Hao Peng, Xiaozhi Wang +3

Large language models (LLMs) struggle to follow instructions with complex constraints in format, length, etc. Following the conventional instruction-tuning practice, previous works…

cs.CL2024

MAVEN-Fact: A Large-scale Event Factuality Detection Dataset

Chunyang Li, Hao Peng, Xiaozhi Wang +4

Event Factuality Detection (EFD) task determines the factuality of textual events, i.e., classifying whether an event is a fact, possibility, or impossibility, which is essential f…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

LLMAEL: Large Language Models are Good Context Augmenters for Entity Linking

Amy Xin, Yunjia Qi, Zijun Yao +5

Specialized entity linking (EL) models are well-trained at mapping mentions to unique knowledge base (KB) entities according to a given context. However, specialized EL models stru…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

ADELIE: Aligning Large Language Models on Information Extraction

Yunjia Qi, Hao Peng, Xiaozhi Wang +3

Large language models (LLMs) usually fall short on information extraction (IE) tasks and struggle to follow the complex instructions of IE tasks. This primarily arises from LLMs no…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

When does In-context Learning Fall Short and Why? A Study on Specification-Heavy Tasks

Hao Peng, Xiaozhi Wang, Jianhui Chen +8

In-context learning (ICL) has become the default method for using large language models (LLMs), making the exploration of its limitations and understanding the underlying causes cr…

cs.CL2023★ 24 cited

KoLA: Carefully Benchmarking World Knowledge of Large Language Models

Jifan Yu, Xiaozhi Wang, Shangqing Tu +32

The unprecedented performance of large language models (LLMs) necessitates improvements in evaluations. Rather than merely exploring the breadth of LLM abilities, we believe meticu…