Jiannan Guan
Author directory2026
Learning Solvability Boundaries in LLMs: Improving Reasoning, Detecting Unsolvability, and Calibrating Refusal
Dengyun Peng | Qiguang Chen | Bofei Liu | Jiannan Guan | Libo Qin | Zheng Yan | Jinhao Liu | Jianshu Zhang | Wanxiang Che
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Dengyun Peng | Qiguang Chen | Bofei Liu | Jiannan Guan | Libo Qin | Zheng Yan | Jinhao Liu | Jianshu Zhang | Wanxiang Che
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Reasoning alignment usually assumes each query has a determinate answer, rewarding models for reaching it and penalizing or ignoring failures. This assumption breaks on flawed queries with missing information or contradictory constraints, causing models to hallucinate invalid answers or over-refuse difficult valid tasks. We study this failure mode as solvability boundary learning: separating input-side answerability defects from model-side inability on well-posed tasks. To address this, we introduce UnsolvableQA, a verifier-backed multi-domain benchmark built with deterministic checks and audited math verification, and UnsolvableRL, an alignment framework that decouples reasoning, unsolvability detection, and capability-calibrated refusal. UnsolvableRL yields over 85% unsolvability detection on Qwen3-4B while improving solvable accuracy from 43.4% to 69.4%, with a +35.4-point solvable-accuracy gain on Llama3-8B. Diagnostic tuning further distinguishes missing-information defects from constraint conflicts and transfers to interactive clarification, improving Detail Recovery from 47.8% to 60.7% for Llama3-8B. Ablations reveal Capability Collapse: refusal penalties degrade detection without unsolvable data, but act as a rigor regularizer when such data are included.
2025
Can Large Language Models Understand You Better? An MBTI Personality Detection Dataset Aligned with Population Traits
Bohan Li | Jiannan Guan | Longxu Dou | Yunlong Feng | Dingzirui Wang | Yang Xu | Enbo Wang | Qiguang Chen | Bichen Wang | Xiao Xu | Yimeng Zhang | Libo Qin | Yanyan Zhao | Qingfu Zhu | Wanxiang Che
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Bohan Li | Jiannan Guan | Longxu Dou | Yunlong Feng | Dingzirui Wang | Yang Xu | Enbo Wang | Qiguang Chen | Bichen Wang | Xiao Xu | Yimeng Zhang | Libo Qin | Yanyan Zhao | Qingfu Zhu | Wanxiang Che
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one of the most influential personality theories reflecting individual differences in thinking, feeling, and behaving. MBTI personality detection has garnered considerable research interest and has evolved significantly over the years. However, this task tends to be overly optimistic, as it currently does not align well with the natural distribution of population personality traits. Specifically, the self-reported labels in existing datasets result in data quality issues and the hard labels fail to capture the full range of population personality distributions. In this paper, we identify the task by constructing MBTIBench, the first manually annotated MBTI personality detection dataset with soft labels, under the guidance of psychologists. Our experimental results confirm that soft labels can provide more benefits to other psychological tasks than hard labels. We highlight the polarized predictions and biases in LLMs as key directions for future research.