Langzhou He
2026
LLM-Based Human-Agent Collaboration and Interaction Systems: A Survey
Henry Peng Zou | Wei-Chieh Huang | Yaozu Wu | Jizhou Guo | Yankai Chen | Chunyu Miao | Hoang H Nguyen | Yue Zhou | Weizhi Zhang | Liancheng Fang | Hanrong Zhang | Fangxin Wang | Pengfei Zhang | Langzhou He | Yangning Li | Dongyuan Li | Renhe Jiang | Philip S. Yu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Henry Peng Zou | Wei-Chieh Huang | Yaozu Wu | Jizhou Guo | Yankai Chen | Chunyu Miao | Hoang H Nguyen | Yue Zhou | Weizhi Zhang | Liancheng Fang | Hanrong Zhang | Fangxin Wang | Pengfei Zhang | Langzhou He | Yangning Li | Dongyuan Li | Renhe Jiang | Philip S. Yu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have sparked growing interest in building fully autonomous agents. However, fully autonomous LLM-based agents still face significant challenges, including limited reliability due to hallucinations, difficulty in handling complex tasks, and substantial safety and ethical risks, all of which limit their feasibility and trustworthiness in real-world applications. To overcome these limitations, LLM-based human-agent systems (LLM-HAS) incorporate human-provided information, feedback, or control into the agent system to enhance system performance, reliability, and safety. These human-agent collaboration systems enable humans and LLM-based agents to collaborate effectively by leveraging their complementary strengths.This paper provides the first comprehensive and structured survey of LLM-HAS. It clarifies fundamental concepts, systematically presents core components shaping these systems, including environment and profiling, human feedback, interaction types, orchestration, and communication, explores emerging applications, and discusses unique challenges and opportunities arising from human-AI collaboration. By consolidating current knowledge and offering a structured overview, we aim to foster further research and innovation in this rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field. Paper lists and resources are available at https://github.com/HenryPengZou/Awesome-Human-Agent-Collaboration-Interaction-Systems.
Why LLMs Hallucinate on Structured Knowledge: A Mechanistic Analysis of Reasoning over Linearized Representations
Shanghao Li | Jinda Han | Yibo Wang | Yuanjie Zhu | Zihe Song | Langzhou He | Kenan Kamel A Alghythee | Philip S. Yu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Shanghao Li | Jinda Han | Yibo Wang | Yuanjie Zhu | Zihe Song | Langzhou He | Kenan Kamel A Alghythee | Philip S. Yu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
In many reasoning tasks, large language models (LLMs) rely on structured external knowledge, such as graphs and tables, which is typically linearized into sequential token representations. However, even when sufficient knowledge is available, LLMs can still produce hallucinated outputs, and the underlying mechanisms behind such failures remain poorly understood. We investigate these mechanisms and find that hallucinations arise from systematic internal dynamics rather than random noise. First, attention disproportionately concentrates toward shortcut-like structural cues rather than distributing across the full context. Second, feed-forward representations fail to ground the provided knowledge, causing the model to revert to parametric memory. Moreover, our results indicate that hallucination is consistently associated with failures in semantic grounding within feed-forward layers, while attention allocation exhibits greater task-dependent variability. Finally, we show that these mechanistic patterns generalize beyond single-hop graphs to multi-hop and tabular settings, enabling effective hallucination detection across structured knowledge formats.
Deep Research with Open-Domain Evaluation and Multi-Stage Guardrails for Safety
Wei-Chieh Huang | Henry Peng Zou | Yaozu Wu | Dongyuan Li | Yankai Chen | Weizhi Zhang | Yangning Li | Angelo Zangari | Jizhou Guo | Chunyu Miao | Liancheng Fang | Langzhou He | Yinghui Li | Renhe Jiang | Philip S. Yu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Wei-Chieh Huang | Henry Peng Zou | Yaozu Wu | Dongyuan Li | Yankai Chen | Weizhi Zhang | Yangning Li | Angelo Zangari | Jizhou Guo | Chunyu Miao | Liancheng Fang | Langzhou He | Yinghui Li | Renhe Jiang | Philip S. Yu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Deep research frameworks have shown promising capabilities in synthesizing comprehensive reports from web sources. While deep research possesses significant potential to address complex issues through planning and research cycles, existing frameworks are deficient in sufficient evaluation procedures and stage-specific protections. They typically treat evaluation as exact match accuracy of question-answering, but overlook crucial aspects of report quality such as credibility, coherence, breadth, depth, and safety. This oversight may result in hazardous or malicious sources being integrated into the final report. To address this, we introduce DeepResearchGuard, a framework featuring four-stage safeguards with open-domain evaluation, and DRSafeBench, a novel stage-wise safety benchmark. Evaluating across GPT-4o, o4-mini, Gemini-2.5-flash, DeepSeek-v3, and GPT-5, DeepResearchGuard improves defense success rates by an absolute 16.53% while reducing over-refusal rates to approximately 6%. Through extensive experiments, we show that DeepResearchGuard enables comprehensive open-domain evaluation and stage-aware defenses that effectively block harmful content propagation, while systematically improving report quality without excessive over-refusal rates.