Yilin Jiang
Author directory2026
HACHIMI: Scalable and Controllable Student Persona Generation via Orchestrated Agents
Yilin Jiang | Fei Tan | Xuanyu Yin | Leng Jing | Aimin Zhou
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Yilin Jiang | Fei Tan | Xuanyu Yin | Leng Jing | Aimin Zhou
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Student Personas (SPs) are emerging as infrastructure for educational LLMs, yet prior work often relies on ad-hoc prompting or hand-crafted profiles with limited control over educational theory and population distributions. We formalize this as Theory-Aligned and Distribution-Controllable Persona Generation (TAD-PG) and introduce HACHIMI, a multi-agent Propose-Validate-Revise framework that generates theory-aligned, quota-controlled personas. HACHIMI factorizes each persona into a theory-anchored educational schema, enforces developmental and psychological constraints via a neuro-symbolic validator, and combines stratified sampling with semantic deduplication to reduce mode collapse. The resulting HACHIMI-1M corpus comprises 1 million personas for Grades 1-12. Intrinsic evaluation shows near-perfect schema validity, accurate quotas, and substantial diversity, while external evaluation instantiates personas as student agents answering CEPS and PISA 2022 surveys; across 16 cohorts, math and curiosity/growth constructs align strongly between humans and agents, whereas classroom-climate and well-being constructs are only moderately aligned, revealing a fidelity gradient. All personas are generated with Qwen2.5-72B, and HACHIMI provides a standardized synthetic student population for group-level benchmarking and social-science simulations. Resources available at https://github.com/ZeroLoss-Lab/HACHIMI.
ADE: Agentic Data Evolution Framework for Human-Centered Objectives
Yang Yu | Yilin Jiang | Zexuan Fei | Yiming Luo | Xingkai Song | Kaiyi Huang | Aimin Zhou | Xin Lin | Fei Tan
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yang Yu | Yilin Jiang | Zexuan Fei | Yiming Luo | Xingkai Song | Kaiyi Huang | Aimin Zhou | Xin Lin | Fei Tan
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Aligning large language models to human-centered objectives is difficult when targets are non-executable and context-dependent, limiting reliable verification and scalable supervision. Although synthetic data expands coverage, weak verification shifts the bottleneck from generation to selection. Noisy signals destabilize iterative refinement and can cause silent regressions. We propose Agentic Data Evolution (ADE), a data-centric framework that organizes synthetic supervision as evolving data snapshots. ADE improves data snapshots through a closed-loop Observation-Variation-Selection (OVS) procedure, where a steady-state admission mechanism acts as a quality ratchet that conservatively gates updates for sustained cross-round improvement. We validate these improvements through complementary intrinsic trend tracking and extrinsic post-training evaluation. On DEV300, ADE raises the intrinsic win rate from 50% to 75.81% and the extrinsic win rate from 55.20% to 68.86%, consistent performance gains across diverse benchmarks. Blind expert evaluation further confirms this, with a 66.11% preference for evolved answers. These gains generalize effectively across various model scales, post-training methods, and beyond weakly verifiable objectives. Resources are available at https://github.com/ZeroLoss-Lab/Agentic-Data-Evolution.
2025
EMNLP: Educator-role Moral and Normative Large Language Models Profiling
Yilin Jiang | Mingzi Zhang | Sheng Jin | Zengyi Yu | Xiangjie Kong | Binghao Tu
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yilin Jiang | Mingzi Zhang | Sheng Jin | Zengyi Yu | Xiangjie Kong | Binghao Tu
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Simulating Professions (SP) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to emulate professional roles. However, comprehensive psychological and ethical evaluation in these contexts remains lacking. This paper introduces EMNLP, an Educator-role Moral and Normative LLMs Profiling framework for personality profiling, moral development stage measurement, and ethical risk under soft prompt injection. EMNLP extends existing scales and constructs 88 teacher-specific moral dilemmas, enabling profession-oriented comparison with human teachers. A targeted soft prompt injection set evaluates compliance and vulnerability in teacher SP. Experiments on 14 LLMs show teacher-role LLMs exhibit more idealized and polarized personalities than human teachers, excel in abstract moral reasoning, but struggle with emotionally complex situations. Models with stronger reasoning are more vulnerable to harmful prompt injection, revealing a paradox between capability and safety. The model temperature and other hyperparameters have limited influence except in some risk behaviors. This paper presents the first benchmark to assess ethical and psychological alignment of teacher-role LLMs for educational AI. Resources are available at https://e-m-n-l-p.github.io/.