Hui Chen
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2026
AgentSwing: Adaptive Parallel Context Management Routing for Long-Horizon Web Agents
Zhaopeng Feng | Liangcai Su | Zhen Zhang | Xinyu Wang | Xiaobin Wang | Runnan Fang | Xiaotian Zhang | Hui Chen | Qi Zhang | Joey Tianyi Zhou | Pengjun Xie | Chenxiong Qian | Bryan Hooi | Zuozhu Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Zhaopeng Feng | Liangcai Su | Zhen Zhang | Xinyu Wang | Xiaobin Wang | Runnan Fang | Xiaotian Zhang | Hui Chen | Qi Zhang | Joey Tianyi Zhou | Pengjun Xie | Chenxiong Qian | Bryan Hooi | Zuozhu Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
As large language models (LLMs) evolve into autonomous agents for long-horizon information-seeking, managing finite context capacity has become a critical bottleneck. Existing context management methods typically commit to a single fixed strategy throughout the entire trajectory. Such static designs may work well in some states, but they cannot adapt as the usefulness and reliability of the accumulated context evolve during long-horizon search. To formalize this challenge, we introduce a probabilistic framework that characterizes long-horizon success through two complementary dimensions: search efficiency and terminal precision. Building on this perspective, we propose AgentSwing, a state-aware adaptive parallel context management routing framework. At each trigger point, AgentSwing expands multiple context-managed branches in parallel and uses lookahead routing to select the most promising continuation. Experiments across diverse benchmarks and agent backbones show that AgentSwing consistently outperforms strong static context management methods, often matching or exceeding their performance with substantially fewer interaction turns while also improving the ultimate performance ceiling of long-horizon web agents. Beyond the empirical gains, the proposed probabilistic framework provides a principled lens for analyzing and designing future context management strategies for long-horizon agents.
FineVerify: Scaling Test-Time Compute with Fine-Grained Self-Verification for Agentic Search
James Xu Zhao | Hui Chen | Bryan Hooi | See-Kiong Ng
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
James Xu Zhao | Hui Chen | Bryan Hooi | See-Kiong Ng
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Agentic search requires language model agents to explore many sources and answer complex information-seeking questions. Scaling test-time compute is a promising way to improve these agents, but current approaches can fail, because correct answers are often sparse and score-based selection depends on model calibration. We propose FineVerify, a fine-grained self-verification framework that decomposes each question into checkable sub-questions, verifies sampled candidates against each sub-question, and selects the candidate with the highest aggregated score. This per-check structure turns selection into simpler local judgments and produces scores under the same explicit criteria. Across four agentic search benchmarks and two models, FineVerify consistently outperforms standard scaling baselines. With only four sampled trajectories, it improves GPT-5-mini by 8.2 accuracy points and Gemini-3-flash by 5.6% on average. With 12 samples, FineVerify enables GPT-5-mini to surpass frontier GPT-5 on BrowseComp-Plus. Beyond accuracy, FineVerify produces interpretable verification traces that help audit benchmark errors, suggesting broader applications for inspecting agentic search systems.
2025
PREMISE: Matching-based Prediction for Accurate Review Recommendation
Wei Han | Hui Chen | Soujanya Poria
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025
Wei Han | Hui Chen | Soujanya Poria
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025
We present PREMISE, a new architecture for the matching-based learning in the multimodal fields for the MRHP task. Distinct to previous fusion-based methods which obtains multimodal representations via cross-modal attention for downstream tasks, PREMISE computes the multi-scale and multi-field representations, filters duplicated semantics, and then obtained a set of matching scores as feature vectors for the downstream recommendation task. This new architecture significantly boosts the performance for such multimodal tasks whose context matching content are highly correlated to the targets of that task, compared to the state-of-the-art fusion-based methods. Experimental results on two publicly available datasets show that PREMISE achieves promising performance with less computational cost.
2024
InstructCoder: Instruction Tuning Large Language Models for Code Editing
Kaixin Li | Qisheng Hu | James Xu Zhao | Hui Chen | Yuxi Xie | Tiedong Liu | Michael Shieh | Junxian He
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
Kaixin Li | Qisheng Hu | James Xu Zhao | Hui Chen | Yuxi Xie | Tiedong Liu | Michael Shieh | Junxian He
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
Code editing encompasses a variety of pragmatic tasks that developers deal with daily. Despite its relevance and practical usefulness, automatic code editing remains an underexplored area in the evolution of deep learning models, partly due to data scarcity. In this work, we explore the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to edit code based on user instructions. Evaluated on a novel human-written execution-based benchmark dubbed EditEval, we found current models often struggle to fulfill the instructions. In light of this, we contribute InstructCoder, the first instruction-tuning dataset designed to adapt LLMs for general-purpose code editing, containing high-diversity code-editing tasks such as comment insertion, code optimization, and code refactoring. It consists of over 114,000 instruction-input-output triplets and covers multiple distinct code editing scenarios. The collection process starts with filtered commit data sourced from GitHub Python repositories as seeds. Subsequently, the dataset is systematically expanded through an iterative process, where both seed and generated tasks are used to prompt ChatGPT for more data. Our findings reveal that open-source LLMs fine-tuned on InstructCoder can significantly enhance the accuracy of code edits, exhibiting superior code-editing performance matching advanced proprietary LLMs. The datasets and the source code are publicly available.