Jitao Sang
Also published as: 基韬 桑
2026
Memory as Action: Autonomous Context Curation for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks
Yuxiang Zhang | Jiangming Shu | Ye Ma | Xueyuan Lin | Shangxi Wu | Jitao Sang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Yuxiang Zhang | Jiangming Shu | Ye Ma | Xueyuan Lin | Shangxi Wu | Jitao Sang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Long-context Large Language Models, despite their expanded capacity, require careful working memory management to mitigate attention dilution during long-horizon tasks. Yet existing approaches rely on external mechanisms that lack awareness of the agent’s reasoning state, leading to suboptimal decisions. We propose Memory-as-Action (MemAct), a framework that treats working memory management as learnable policy actions. By formulating context management as in-place editing operations (deletion, insertion), MemAct enables joint optimization of information retention and task performance through end-to-end reinforcement learning. To address the computational challenges of dynamic context updates, we introduce Dynamic Context Policy Optimization, which restores training efficiency without compromising reasoning integrity. Experiments show that MemAct-RL-14B matches the accuracy of models 16× larger while reducing average context length by 51%, with learned strategies that adapt to model capabilities and generalize across task complexities. The code and datasets are available at https://github.com/ADaM-BJTU/MemAct.
GUITester: Enabling GUI Agents for Exploratory Defect Discovery
Yifei Gao | Jiang Wu | Xiaoyi Chen | Yifan Yang | Zhe Cui | Tianyi Ma | Jiaming Zhang | Jitao Sang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Yifei Gao | Jiang Wu | Xiaoyi Chen | Yifan Yang | Zhe Cui | Tianyi Ma | Jiaming Zhang | Jitao Sang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Exploratory GUI testing is essential for software quality but suffers from high manual costs. While Multi-modal Large Language Model (MLLM) agents excel in navigation, they fail to autonomously discover defects due to two core challenges: Goal-Oriented Masking, where agents prioritize task completion over reporting anomalies, and Execution-Bias Attribution, where system defects are misidentified as agent errors. To address these, we first introduce GUITestBench, the first interactive benchmark for this task, featuring 143 tasks across 26 defects. We then propose GUITester, a multi-agent framework that decouples navigation from verification via two modules: (i) a Planning-Execution Module (PEM) that proactively probes for defects via embedded testing intents, and (ii) a Hierarchical Reflection Module (HRM) that resolves attribution ambiguity through interaction history analysis. GUITester achieves an F1-score of 48.90% (Pass@3) on GUITestBench, outperforming state-of-the-art baselines (33.35%). Our work demonstrates the feasibility of autonomous exploratory testing and provides a robust foundation for future GUI quality assurance.
TiMem: Temporal-Hierarchical Memory Consolidation for Long-Horizon Conversational Agents
Kai Li | Xuanqing Yu | Ziyi Ni | Yi Zeng | Yao Xu | Zheqing Zhang | Xin Li | Jitao Sang | Xiaogang Duan | Xuelei Wang | Chengbao Liu | Jie Tan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Kai Li | Xuanqing Yu | Ziyi Ni | Yi Zeng | Yao Xu | Zheqing Zhang | Xin Li | Jitao Sang | Xiaogang Duan | Xuelei Wang | Chengbao Liu | Jie Tan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Long-horizon conversational agents have to manage ever-growing interaction histories that quickly exceed the finite context windows of large language models (LLMs). Existing memory frameworks provide limited support for temporally structured information across hierarchical levels, often leading to fragmented memories and unstable long-horizon personalization. We present TiMem, a temporal–hierarchical memory framework that organizes conversations through a Temporal Memory Tree (TMT), enabling systematic memory consolidation from raw conversational observations to progressively abstracted persona representations. TiMem is characterized by three core properties: (1) temporal–hierarchical organization through TMT; (2) semantic-guided consolidation that enables memory integration across hierarchical levels without fine-tuning; and (3) complexity-aware memory recall that balances precision and efficiency across queries of varying complexity. Under a consistent evaluation setup, TiMem achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on both benchmarks, reaching 75.30% on LoCoMo and 76.88% on LongMemEval-S. It outperforms all evaluated baselines while reducing the recalled memory length by 52.20% on LoCoMo. Manifold analysis indicates clear persona separation on LoCoMo and reduced dispersion on LongMemEval-S. Overall, TiMem treats temporal continuity as a first-class organizing principle for long-horizon memory in conversational agents. The code is available at https://github.com/TiMEM-AI/timem.
Beyond Modality Collapse: Taming Guided Modality Entropy for Omni-modal Emotion Reasoning
Xian Zhao | Rui Hu | Yuxiang Zhang | Delai Qiu | Yining Wang | Shengping Liu | Jian Yu | Jitao Sang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Xian Zhao | Rui Hu | Yuxiang Zhang | Delai Qiu | Yining Wang | Shengping Liu | Jian Yu | Jitao Sang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Omni-modal Large Language Models (OLLMs) excel in diverse tasks but struggle with complex emotional reasoning, which requires integrating textual, visual, and acoustic signals. We attribute this limitation to modality collapse, where models over-rely on a dominant modality while neglecting complementary cues. To address this issue, we introduce OmniCoT, a data paradigm that interleaves guided tokens (e.g., [vision], [audio]) into reasoning traces to enforce structured evidence extraction. To further internalize the reasoning behaviors instilled by OmniCoT and facilitate adaptive modality prioritization, we propose Dynamic Modality-Entropy GRPO (DyME-GRPO), which utilizes entropy-based uncertainty estimates over Guided Tokens (GTs) to regulate modality usage, thereby mitigating collapse and informational redundancy. By applying supervised fine-tuning with OmniCoT followed by DyME-GRPO, we develop EmoOmni based on the Qwen2.5-Omni-7B backbone. Extensive experiments demonstrate that EmoOmni achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple emotion recognition and reasoning benchmarks while preserving the general capabilities of the base model. These findings highlight the potential of our work for omni-modal reasoning across a broader range of complex tasks.
VAPO: End-to-end Slide-Enhanced Speech Recognition with Omni-modal Large Language Models
Rui Hu | Delai Qiu | Yining Wang | Shengping Liu | Jitao Sang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Rui Hu | Delai Qiu | Yining Wang | Shengping Liu | Jitao Sang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Omni-modal large language models (OLLMs) offer a promising end-to-end solution for slide-enhanced speech recognition due to their inherent multimodal capabilities. However, we found a fundamental issue faced by OLLMs: Visual Interference, where models show a bias towards visible text over auditory signals, causing them to hallucinate slide content that was never spoken. To address this, we propose Visually-Anchored Policy Optimization (VAPO), which aims to reshape models’ inference process to follow the human-like “Look-then-Listen” inference chain. Specifically, we design a temporally decoupled policy: the model first extracts visual priors in a think> block to serve as semantic anchors, then generates the transcription in an answer> block. The policy is optimized via multi-objective reinforcement learning. Furthermore, we introduce SlideASR-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark designed to address the scarcity of entity-rich data, comprising a large-scale synthetic corpus for training and a challenging real-world test set for evaluation. We conduct extensive evaluations demonstrating that VAPO effectively eliminates visual interference and achieves state-of-the-art performance on SlideASR-Bench and public datasets, significantly reducing entity recognition errors in specialized domains.
CSPO: Alleviating Reward Ambiguity for Structured Table-to-LaTeX Generation
Yunfan Yang | Cuiling Lan | Jitao Sang | Yan Lu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yunfan Yang | Cuiling Lan | Jitao Sang | Yan Lu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Tables contain rich structured information, yet when stored as images their contents remain "locked" within pixels. Converting table images into LaTeX code enables faithful digitization and reuse, but current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often fail to preserve structural, style, or content fidelity. Conventional post-training with reinforcement learning (RL) typically relies on a single aggregated reward, leading to reward ambiguity that conflates multiple behavioral aspects and hinders effective optimization. We propose Component-Specific Policy Optimization (CSPO), an RL framework that disentangles optimization across LaTeX tables components—structure, style, and content. In particular, CSPO assigns component-specific rewards and backpropagates each signal only through the tokens relevant to its component, alleviating reward ambiguity and enabling targeted component-wise optimization. To comprehensively assess performance, we introduce a set of hierarchical evaluation metrics. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of CSPO, underscoring the importance of component-specific optimization for reliable structured generation.
WebSynthesis: World Model-Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search for Efficient WebAgent Trajectory Synthesis
Yifei Gao | Junhong Ye | Yifan Yang | Jiaqi Wang | Yi Zhang | Zhang Ruichen | Jitao Sang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yifei Gao | Junhong Ye | Yifan Yang | Jiaqi Wang | Yi Zhang | Zhang Ruichen | Jitao Sang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled increasingly capable web agents, yet training such agents still relies on high-quality interaction trajectories that are difficult to obtain at scale. We identify two key challenges: (1) Infrastructure Overhead, where network instability and website access restrictions limit data collection scalability; and (2) Constrained Exploration, where irreversible state transitions preclude tree-based search and thus limit trajectory diversity. To address these challenges, we introduce WebSynthesis, a framework for scalable trajectory synthesis. WebSynthesis employs an LLM-based World Model to simulate state transitions without network dependencies, and integrates Monte Carlo Tree Search to enable reversible exploration over the simulated state space. Experiments on WebArena, WebVoyager, and Mind2Web-Online demonstrate that agents trained exclusively on synthesized trajectories outperform those trained on real-world data, providing a viable alternative to costly real-world data collection.
2025
Investigating and Enhancing Vision-Audio Capability in Omnimodal Large Language Models
Rui Hu | Delai Qiu | Shuyu Wei | Jiaming Zhang | Yining Wang | Shengping Liu | Jitao Sang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Rui Hu | Delai Qiu | Shuyu Wei | Jiaming Zhang | Yining Wang | Shengping Liu | Jitao Sang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Omnimodal Large Language Models (OLLMs) have shown significant progress in integrating vision and text, but still struggle with integrating vision and audio, often exhibiting suboptimal performance when processing audio queries compared to text queries. This disparity is primarily due to insufficient alignment between vision and audio modalities during training, leading to inadequate attention to visual information when using audio queries. To mitigate this issue, we propose a Self-Knowledge Distillation (Self-KD) training method where the vision-text component of the OLLM serves as the teacher and the vision-audio component as the student. This enables the model to process audio in a manner analogous to its text processing. Our experimental results demonstrate that Self-KD is an effective method for enhancing the vision-audio capabilities of OLLMs by learning from the vision-text components, which subsequently improves the interaction between audio and images and results in improved performance on multimodal tasks.
KG-FPQ: Evaluating Factuality Hallucination in LLMs with Knowledge Graph-based False Premise Questions
Yanxu Zhu | Jinlin Xiao | Yuhang Wang | Jitao Sang
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Yanxu Zhu | Jinlin Xiao | Yuhang Wang | Jitao Sang
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Recent studies have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) are susceptible to being misled by false premise questions (FPQs), leading to errors in factual knowledge, known as factuality hallucination. Existing benchmarks that assess this vulnerability primarily rely on manual construction, resulting in limited size and lack of expandability. In this work, we introduce an automated, scalable pipeline to create FPQs based on knowledge graphs (KGs). The first step is to modify true triplets extracted from KGs to create false premises. Subsequently, utilizing the state-of-the-art capabilities of GPTs, we generate semantically rich FPQs. Based on the proposed method, we present a comprehensive benchmark, the Knowledge Graph-based False Premise Questions (KG-FPQ), which contains approximately 178k FPQs across three knowledge domains, at six levels of confusability, and in two task formats. Using KG-FPQ, we conduct extensive evaluations on several representative LLMs and provide valuable insights. The KG-FPQ dataset and code are available at https://github.com/yanxuzhu/KG-FPQ.
2024
AutoRG:一种大小模型协同的自动报告生成框架(AutoRG: An automatic report generation framework for Large and small model collaboration)
Jing Zhang (张京) | Jiangming Shu (舒江明) | Yuxiang Zhang (张宇翔) | Bin Wu (吴斌) | Wei Wang (王巍) | Jian Yu (于剑) | Jitao Sang (桑基韬)
Proceedings of the 23rd Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Main Conference)
Jing Zhang (张京) | Jiangming Shu (舒江明) | Yuxiang Zhang (张宇翔) | Bin Wu (吴斌) | Wei Wang (王巍) | Jian Yu (于剑) | Jitao Sang (桑基韬)
Proceedings of the 23rd Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Main Conference)
“自动报告生成技术在提高工作效率和节约人力资源方面具有显著潜力。大语言模型的出现使得报告流畅度与可解释性得到提升。然而,现有工作仍依赖人工,缺乏灵活性和丰富度。同时,小模型错误或冗余的输出与大模型自身的随机性会导致报告质量不稳定。本文提出大小模型协同的自动报告生成框架AutoRG,通过大模型的工具理解与规划能力减少人工干预,提升报告丰富度,并通过信息修正与报告迭代机制提高报告的稳定性。本文以自动专利报告生成为场景,从多个维度对AutoRG进行全面测试。结果表明,该框架在提高报告生成的丰富度和质量稳定性方面具有显著优势。”
CDEval: A Benchmark for Measuring the Cultural Dimensions of Large Language Models
Yuhang Wang | Yanxu Zhu | Chao Kong | Shuyu Wei | Xiaoyuan Yi | Xing Xie | Jitao Sang
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP
Yuhang Wang | Yanxu Zhu | Chao Kong | Shuyu Wei | Xiaoyuan Yi | Xing Xie | Jitao Sang
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP
As the scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has dramatically enhanced their capabilities, there has been a growing focus on the alignment problem to ensure their responsible and ethical use. While existing alignment efforts predominantly concentrate on universal values such as the HHH principle, the aspect of culture, which is inherently pluralistic and diverse, has not received adequate attention. This work introduces a new benchmark, CDEval, aimed at evaluating the cultural dimensions of LLMs. CDEval is constructed by incorporating both GPT-4’s automated generation and human verification, covering six cultural dimensions across seven domains. Our comprehensive experiments provide intriguing insights into the culture of mainstream LLMs, highlighting both consistencies and variations across different dimensions and domains. The findings underscore the importance of integrating cultural considerations in LLM development, particularly for applications in diverse cultural settings. This benchmark serves as a valuable resource for cultural studies in LLMs, paving the way for more culturally aware and sensitive models.
2023
Towards Alleviating the Object Bias in Prompt Tuning-based Factual Knowledge Extraction
Yuhang Wang | Dongyuan Lu | Chao Kong | Jitao Sang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
Yuhang Wang | Dongyuan Lu | Chao Kong | Jitao Sang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
Many works employed prompt tuning methods to automatically optimize prompt queries and extract the factual knowledge stored in Pre-trained Language Models. In this paper, we observe that the optimized prompts, including discrete prompts and continuous prompts, exhibit undesirable object bias. To handle this problem, we propose a novel prompt tuning method called MeCoD consisting of three modules: Prompt Encoder, Object Equalization and Biased Object Obstruction. Experimental results show that MeCoD can significantly reduce the object bias and at the same time improve accuracy of factual knowledge extraction.
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