Chen Shen
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2026
ABSOL: Aggregated Bayesian Subsampling Orchestrated with LLMs
Jackson Hassell | Chen Shen | Estevam Hruschka
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Jackson Hassell | Chen Shen | Estevam Hruschka
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Large language models are increasingly used as natural-language interfaces to structured data, yet they remain unreliable when answers require consistent evidence conditioning, dependency-aware reasoning, and uncertainty estimation. Bayesian networks provide an explicit probabilistic reasoning layer, but learning useful structures from data remains costly and fragile at scale. We introduce ABSOL, a hybrid LLM-guided Bayesian network structure-learning framework that uses LLMs as bounded semantic guides. Across five discrete BN benchmarks spanning 27 to 1041 nodes, ABSOL is the only evaluated method to produce a viable graph on every benchmark, and achieves the highest Edge F1 on every benchmark larger than 27 nodes with GPT-5.4. The four LLM augmentations, which contribute complementary semantic evidence to the statistical backbone, improve Edge F1 over the non-LLM aggregation backbone by +0.23 on average. Complementary post-hoc refinement experiments suggest that these gains depend in part on limiting the LLM’s authority over the final structure. Together, these results show that language-derived semantic knowledge can substantially improve scalable probabilistic structure learning when used as bounded guidance within a statistically grounded reasoning pipeline.
2025
AIPOM: Agent-aware Interactive Planning for Multi-Agent Systems
Hannah Kim | Kushan Mitra | Chen Shen | Dan Zhang | Estevam Hruschka
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Hannah Kim | Kushan Mitra | Chen Shen | Dan Zhang | Estevam Hruschka
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Large language models (LLMs) are being increasingly used for planning in orchestrated multi-agent systems. However, existing LLM-based approaches often fall short of human expectations and, critically, lack effective mechanisms for users to inspect, understand, and control their behaviors. These limitations call for enhanced transparency, controllability, and human oversight. To address this, we introduce AIPOM, a system supporting human-in-the-loop planning through conversational and graph-based interfaces. AIPOM enables users to transparently inspect, refine, and collaboratively guide LLM-generated plans, significantly enhancing user control and trust in multi-agent workflows. Our code and demo video are available at https://github.com/megagonlabs/aipom.