Xiangwen Kong
2026
SenseJudge: Human-Centric Preference-Driven Judgment Framework
Rui Li | Junfeng Liu | Xiangwen Kong | Zhifang Sui
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Rui Li | Junfeng Liu | Xiangwen Kong | Zhifang Sui
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Large Language Models (LLMs) as judges across various scenarios such as assessing model responses is becoming an increasingly accepted paradigm. However, existing judgment approaches often rely on trained judgers using fixed preference data, which tend to overlook diverse user preferences and struggle to adapt to real-world human-AI dialogue scenarios. To address these limitations, we propose SenseJudge, a customizable judgment framework driven by human preferences and SenseBench, a diverse and challenging instruction following benchmark derived from real-world multi-turn interactions. We applied the automatic judgment framework and benchmark to two tasks: 1) LLMs as personalized judges, and 2) model ranking. We conducted extensive experiments, and the results demonstrate that the SenseJudge framework surpasses other judgment methods and models in the LLMs-as-personalized-judges task and achieves model ranking that aligns with real human sense. Additionally, we conducted analyses on position bias and consistency, alongside ablation studies, which affirmed the robustness of SenseJudge.
PaCoRe: Learning to Scale Test-Time Compute with Parallel Coordinated Reasoning
Jingcheng Hu | Yinmin Zhang | Shijie Shang | Xiaobo Yang | Yue Peng | Zhewei Huang | Hebin Zhou | Xin Wu | Jie Cheng | Fanqi Wan | Xiangwen Kong | Chengyuan Yao | Kaiwen Yan | Ailin Huang | Hongyu Zhou | Qi Han | Zheng Ge | Xiangyu Zhang | Heung-Yeung Shum
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Jingcheng Hu | Yinmin Zhang | Shijie Shang | Xiaobo Yang | Yue Peng | Zhewei Huang | Hebin Zhou | Xin Wu | Jie Cheng | Fanqi Wan | Xiangwen Kong | Chengyuan Yao | Kaiwen Yan | Ailin Huang | Hongyu Zhou | Qi Han | Zheng Ge | Xiangyu Zhang | Heung-Yeung Shum
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
We introduce Parallel Coordinated Reasoning (PaCoRe), a training-and-inference framework designed to overcome a central limitation of contemporary language models: their inability to scale test-time compute (TTC) far beyond sequential reasoning under a fixed context window. PaCoRe departs from the traditional sequential paradigm by driving TTC through massive parallel exploration coordinated via a message-passing architecture in multiple rounds. Each round launches many parallel reasoning trajectories, compacts their findings into context-bounded messages, and synthesizes these messages to guide the next round and ultimately produce the final answer. Trained end-to-end with large-scale, outcome-based reinforcement learning, the model masters the synthesis abilities required by PaCoRe and scales to multi-million-token effective TTC without exceeding context limits. The approach yields strong improvements across diverse domains and notably pushes reasoning beyond frontier systems in mathematics: an 8B model reaches 94.5% on HMMT 2025, surpassing GPT-5’s 93.2% by scaling effective TTC to roughly two million tokens. We open-source model checkpoints, training data, and the full inference pipeline to accelerate follow-up work.