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2026
ChronoClinQA: A Longitudinal Multi-Admission Benchmark for Clinical Reasoning over Electronic Health Records
Tong Chen | Zimu Wang | Dongzhe Fan | Luoyao Chen | Haoyi Lian | Yifan Wang | Zhengni Yang | Zhengyong Jiang | Procheta Sen | Wei Wang | Jionglong Su | Qiaoyu Tan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Tong Chen | Zimu Wang | Dongzhe Fan | Luoyao Chen | Haoyi Lian | Yifan Wang | Zhengni Yang | Zhengyong Jiang | Procheta Sen | Wei Wang | Jionglong Su | Qiaoyu Tan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on medical question answering benchmarks, yet existing evaluations remain limited in assessing longitudinal clinical reasoning across multiple hospital admissions. We introduce ChronoClinQA, a large-scale benchmark for longitudinal clinical reasoning grounded in multi-admission electronic health records. Built from longitudinal discharge summaries in MIMIC-IV-Note, ChronoClinQA contains 15,067 QA pairs spanning six clinically grounded reasoning dimensions and three complementary question formats: open-ended, adversarial, and unanswerable multiple-choice questions. Each instance requires reasoning over temporally accumulated patient trajectories, with contexts averaging over 16K tokens across up to eight hospital admissions. Experiments on both general-purpose and medical LLMs reveal substantial performance degradation in longitudinal and adversarial settings, highlighting persistent challenges in integrating cross-admission evidence and in temporal clinical reasoning. Our findings position ChronoClinQA as a challenging benchmark for advancing clinically grounded long-context reasoning in medical LLMs.
SinoGlyphBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Chinese Glyph-Level Obfuscation in Language-Model Moderation
Yifan Wang | Zimu Wang | Suliu Qin | Changyu Zeng | Tong Chen | Siqi Chen | Yijie Lin | Lingyu Jiang | Jionglong Su | Yushan Pan | Haiyang Zhang | Wei Wang | Qiaoyu Tan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Yifan Wang | Zimu Wang | Suliu Qin | Changyu Zeng | Tong Chen | Siqi Chen | Yijie Lin | Lingyu Jiang | Jionglong Su | Yushan Pan | Haiyang Zhang | Wei Wang | Qiaoyu Tan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Glyph-level obfuscation can leave harmful Chinese content readable to humans while degrading automated moderation. We introduce SinoGlyphBench, a diagnostic benchmark that identifies label-critical semantic anchors and creates matched original and glyph-obfuscated inputs in text and image modalities. By perturbing anchors, background context, or both, this design distinguishes corruption of moderation-relevant evidence from general surface variation. Across 176,916 paired evaluations of 12 LLMs and MLLMs, obfuscation increases harmful false-negative and false-positive rates by 6.1 and 4.7 percentage points, respectively, and reduces four-way accuracy by 5.0 points. Models retain 75.7% of the decisions that were correct on the matched original inputs. Full-scope perturbations cause the largest degradation, anchor-only perturbations are more damaging than background-only perturbations, and cross-script substitution is particularly difficult in the text modality. Analysis of structured outputs identifies observable mismatches in visible-form reading, intended-message recovery, and final safety judgment. The evaluated models, therefore, remain brittle to Chinese content written with non-canonical glyphs. Resources are available at https://github.com/fengshun124/SinoGlyphBench.
GraphRAG-Router: Learning Cost-Efficient Routing over GraphRAGs and LLMs with Reinforcement Learning
Dongzhe Fan | Chuanhao Ji | Zimu Wang | Tong Chen | Qiaoyu Tan
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Dongzhe Fan | Chuanhao Ji | Zimu Wang | Tong Chen | Qiaoyu Tan
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for knowledge-intensive question answering, especially for tasks that require structured evidence organization and multi-hop reasoning. However, existing GraphRAG systems are typically built in a one-size-fits-all manner, relying on a fixed retrieval framework and a single, often large and costly, generator LLM for all queries. This static design limits their ability to adapt to the complexity of varying questions and often incurs unnecessary computational cost. To fill in the gap, we propose GraphRAG-Router, a cost-efficient framework that adopts a hierarchical routing strategy to coordinate heterogeneous GraphRAGs and generator LLMs. Specifically, GraphRAG-Router is first warmed up through supervised fine-tuning and then optimized with a two-stage reinforcement learning procedure, whose second stage introduces a curriculum cost-aware reward to encourage difficulty-aware and economical generator allocation. Extensive experiments on six general-domain and multi-hop QA benchmarks show that GraphRAG-Router consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, reducing the overuse of large LLMs by nearly 30% while maintaining strong generalization capability.
2025
MedFact: A Large-scale Chinese Dataset for Evidence-based Medical Fact-checking of LLM Responses
Tong Chen | Zimu Wang | Yiyi Miao | Haoran Luo | Yuanfei Sun | Wei Wang | Zhengyong Jiang | Procheta Sen | Jionglong Su
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Tong Chen | Zimu Wang | Yiyi Miao | Haoran Luo | Yuanfei Sun | Wei Wang | Zhengyong Jiang | Procheta Sen | Jionglong Su
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Medical fact-checking has become increasingly critical as more individuals seek medical information online. However, existing datasets predominantly focus on human-generated content, leaving the verification of content generated by large language models (LLMs) relatively unexplored. To address this gap, we introduce MedFact, the first evidence-based Chinese medical fact-checking dataset of LLM-generated medical content. It consists of 1,321 questions and 7,409 claims, mirroring the complexities of real-world medical scenarios. We conduct comprehensive experiments in both in-context learning (ICL) and fine-tuning settings, showcasing the capability and challenges of current LLMs on this task, accompanied by an in-depth error analysis to point out key directions for future research. Our dataset is publicly available at https://github.com/AshleyChenNLP/MedFact.