Lingxuan Huang
Author directory2026
Why Your Deep Research Agent Fails? On Hallucination Evaluation in Full Research Trajectory
Yuhao Zhan | Tianyu Fan | Lingxuan Huang | Zirui Guo | Chao Huang
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Grounding Language Models: Learning Faithfully and Efficiently (GroundLM 2026)
Yuhao Zhan | Tianyu Fan | Lingxuan Huang | Zirui Guo | Chao Huang
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Grounding Language Models: Learning Faithfully and Efficiently (GroundLM 2026)
Diagnosing failure patterns in Deep Research Agents (DRAs) remains a critical challenge. Existing benchmarks predominantly rely on end-to-end evaluation, obscuring intermediate hallucinations that accumulate throughout the research trajectory. To bridge this gap, we propose a shift from outcome-based to **process-aware evaluation** by auditing hallucinations in the full *plan-search-summarize* trajectory. We introduce the **PING Taxonomy**, which categorizes DRA hallucinations into four complementary types: **P**ropagation, **I**ntent, **N**oise-induced, and **G**rounding. We further instantiate this taxonomy into a fine-grained evaluation framework that decomposes trajectories into atomic actions, claims, and sub-queries for rigorous verification, and we validate its reliability on standard fact-checking benchmarks and human-reviewed trajectories. Leveraging this framework to isolate 100 hallucination-prone tasks, including adversarial scenarios, we curate **DeepHalluBench**. Experiments on six representative DRAs show that, on our hallucination-prone stress-test set, all evaluated systems still exhibit non-negligible reliability gaps. Furthermore, our diagnostic analysis traces these failures to systemic deficits, especially hallucination propagation and cognitive biases, providing actionable insights for future architectural optimization. Code and data are available at https://github.com/yuhao-zhan/DeepHalluBench.
VideoAgent: All-in-One Framework for Video Understanding and Editing
Hengji Zhou | Lingxuan Huang | Jian Wang | Bing Zhou | Si Wu | Lianghao Xia | Chao Huang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Hengji Zhou | Lingxuan Huang | Jian Wang | Bing Zhou | Si Wu | Lianghao Xia | Chao Huang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Video editing has become essential in digital media creation, yet existing automated systems are restricted to short segment processing and domain-specific tasks. They face two critical limitations: i) inability to handle diverse video comprehension and editing operations, and ii) lack of long-video understanding for coherent narrative creation. We propose VideoAgent, an all-in-one agentic framework addressing these challenges through two key innovations. First, we develop automated video shot creation with shot planning agents for coherent narratives and cross-modal retrieval for aligned visual content. Second, we design a multi-agent orchestration framework integrating over thirty specialized editing agents. Intent parsing filters relevant tools while textual-gradient graph optimization assembles complex editing pipelines. Extensive experiments on our newly proposed VideoEdit benchmark and public datasets demonstrate VideoAgent’s superiority over existing multimodal LLMs and agentic systems. VideoAgent achieves 87-95% orchestration success rates while reducing API costs by 60%. Human evaluation across six video categories shows that VideoAgent produces professional-quality content approaching human-level performance, with ratings only 4% below human-created videos.