Qihan Lin
Author directory2026
LongInsightBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Omni-Modal Models on Human-Centric Long-Video Understanding.
ZhaoYang Han | Qihan Lin | Hao Liang | Bowen Chen | Zhou Liu | Wentao Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
ZhaoYang Han | Qihan Lin | Hao Liang | Bowen Chen | Zhou Liu | Wentao Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
We introduce LongInsightBench, the first benchmark designed to assess models’ ability to understand long videos, with a focus on human language, viewpoints, actions, and other contextual elements, while integrating visual, audio, and text modalities. Our benchmark excels in three key areas: a) Long-Duration, Human-Centric Videos: We carefully selected approximately 1,000 videos from open-source datasets FineVideo based on duration limit and multi-modal information density, focusing on content like lectures, interviews, and vlogs, which contain rich human-centric semantic and contextual attributes. b) Diverse and Challenging Task Scenarios: We have designed six challenging task scenarios, including both Intra-Event and Inter-Event Tasks. c) Rigorous and Comprehensive Quality Assurance Pipelines: We have developed a three-step, semi-automated data quality assurance pipeline to ensure the difficulty and validity of the synthesized questions and answer options. Based on LongInsightBench, we designed a series of experiments. which shows that Omni-modal models(OLMs) still face challenge in tasks requiring precise temporal localization (T-Loc) and long-range causal inference (CE-Caus). Surprisingly, extended experiments reveal the information loss in modal fusion of OLMs, which we called the Fusion Deficit Paradox.
Rethinking Prospect Theory for LLMs: Revealing the Instability of Decision-Making under Epistemic Uncertainty
Rui Wang | Qihan Lin | Jiayu Liu | Qing Zong | Tianshi Zheng | Dadi Guo | Haochen Shi | Peixuan Han | Weiqi Wang | Yangqiu Song
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Rui Wang | Qihan Lin | Jiayu Liu | Qing Zong | Tianshi Zheng | Dadi Guo | Haochen Shi | Peixuan Han | Weiqi Wang | Yangqiu Song
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Real-world decision-making often involves uncertainty expressed in linguistic rather than numerical terms, and Prospect Theory (PT) provides a classic framework for modeling human behavior under such uncertainty. Although recent studies have developed frameworks to estimate PT parameters for Large Language Models (LLMs), few have examined whether PT itself adequately describes LLM decision-making behavior. To address these gaps, we develop a streamlined workflow grounded in a classic behavioral economics experimental paradigm. First, we estimate PT parameters and evaluate how well the resulting model captures LLM decision-making behavior. We then derive probability mappings for epistemic markers in the same context and inject them into prompts to examine the stability of PT parameters under linguistic uncertainty. Our findings suggest that PT does not consistently provide a reliable account of LLM decision-making across models, and that its application to LLMs is likely sensitive to epistemic uncertainty. The findings caution against the deployment of PT-based frameworks in real-world applications where epistemic ambiguity is prevalent, giving valuable insights in behaviour interpretation and future alignment direction for LLM decision-making.
PlanBench-XL: Evaluating Long-Horizon Planning of LLM Tool-Use Agents in Large-Scale Tool Ecosystems
Jiayu Liu | Qihan Lin | Cheng Qian | Rui Wang | Emre Can Acikgoz | Xiaocheng Yang | Qing Zong | Jiateng Liu | Zhenhailong Wang | Xiusi Chen | Heng Ji | Dilek Hakkani-Tür
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Jiayu Liu | Qihan Lin | Cheng Qian | Rui Wang | Emre Can Acikgoz | Xiaocheng Yang | Qing Zong | Jiateng Liu | Zhenhailong Wang | Xiusi Chen | Heng Ji | Dilek Hakkani-Tür
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
LLM agents increasingly operate in large tool ecosystems, where real-world tasks require discovering relevant tools, inferring implicit sub-goals, and adapting to dynamic environments over long horizons. However, existing benchmarks rarely evaluate planning under retrieval-limited tool visibility. To address this gap, we introduce PlanBench-XL, an interactive benchmark of 327 retail tasks over 1,665 tools that tests whether agents can iteratively retrieve usable tools, invoke them to uncover intermediate evidence for subsequent calls toward the final goal. PlanBench-XL further features an optional blocking mechanism that simulates real-world unpredictability through missing, failing, or distracting tool functions, forcing agents to detect disrupted paths and adapt at runtime. Experiments on ten leading LLMs show that massive-tool planning remains challenging: while GPT-5.4 achieves 51.90% accuracy in block-free settings, it collapses to 11.36% under the most severe blocking condition. Further analysis shows that agents are especially vulnerable when failures lack explicit error signals or when recovery requires longer alternative tool-use paths. These results establish PlanBench-XL as a testbed for diagnosing agentic planning failures and highlight the need for robust adaptive planning in long-horizon tasks with large, imperfect tool environments.