Shengwei An
Author directory2026
ManimAgent: Self-Evolving Multimodal Agents for Visual Education
Wenjia Jiang | Zongyuan Cai | Yuanhang Shao | Chenru Wang | Boyan Han | Zhixue Song | Keyu Chen | Shengwei An | Xu Yang | Zhou Yang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Wenjia Jiang | Zongyuan Cai | Yuanhang Shao | Chenru Wang | Boyan Han | Zhixue Song | Keyu Chen | Shengwei An | Xu Yang | Zhou Yang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Multi-round reflection lets agents built on large language models recover from failures within a single task, but lessons learned across many reflection rounds on one task are discarded before the next begins. We study this gap on a code-generation task: from a scientific paper section, the agent writes executable Manim code. We present ManimAgent, a self-evolving multimodal agent that carries reflection experience across tasks through a dual-channel Episodic Memory Bank grown entirely from its own task stream, with no weight updates and no human seeds. After each animation converges, a vision–language model scores the rendered keyframes; the resulting signals populate a positive channel ℳ+ that stores success rationales as soft Reference Examples, and a negative channel ℳ- that stores VLM-screened failure patterns as hard Known Pitfalls. On a fixed-probe evaluation against no-memory, matched-budget retrieval-augmented generation, and shuffled-memory baselines, blind human Pass@1 rises and reflection rounds fall as memory size grows. We will release the code, frozen memory snapshots, and the task stream.
2025
Profiler: Black-box AI-generated Text Origin Detection via Context-aware Inference Pattern Analysis
Hanxi Guo | Siyuan Cheng | Xiaolong Jin | Zhuo Zhang | Guangyu Shen | Kaiyuan Zhang | Shengwei An | Guanhong Tao | Xiangyu Zhang
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Hanxi Guo | Siyuan Cheng | Xiaolong Jin | Zhuo Zhang | Guangyu Shen | Kaiyuan Zhang | Shengwei An | Guanhong Tao | Xiangyu Zhang
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
With the increasing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), the proliferation of AI-generated texts has become a serious concern. Given the diverse range of organizations providing LLMs, it is crucial for governments and third-party entities to identify the origin LLM of a given AI-generated text to enable accurate mitigation of potential misuse and infringement. However, existing detection methods, primarily designed to distinguish between human-generated and LLM-generated texts, often fail to accurately identify the origin LLM due to the high similarity of AI-generated texts from different LLMs. In this paper, we propose a novel black-box AI-generated text origin detection method, dubbed Profiler, which accurately predicts the origin of an input text by extracting distinct context inference patterns through calculating and analyzing novel context losses between the surrogate model’s output logits and the adjacent input context. Extensive experimental results show that Profiler outperforms 10 state-of-the-art baselines, achieving more than a 25% increase in AUC score on average across both natural language and code datasets when evaluated against five of the latest commercial LLMs under both in-distribution and out-of-distribution settings.