Zefeng He
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2026
MathDebugger: A Benchmark for Type-Aware Error Detection in Synthetic Math Data
Hao Liang | Meiyi Qiang | Yuying Li | Zefeng He | Xiaochen Ma | Ruichuan An | Yongzhen Guo | Zhengzhou Zhu | Bin Cui | Wentao Zhang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Hao Liang | Meiyi Qiang | Yuying Li | Zefeng He | Xiaochen Ma | Ruichuan An | Yongzhen Guo | Zhengzhou Zhu | Bin Cui | Wentao Zhang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Synthetic math data is widely used to scale LLM training, but its correctness is not guaranteed. We introduce MathDebugger, the first text-only, type-aware benchmark for jointly detecting *and* classifying errors in synthetic mathematical questions and answers. MathDebugger contains 2,000 correct questions, 2,000 erroneous questions (balanced across four fine-grained error types), and 2,000 annotated answers (610 erroneous, across three error types), each annotated with both a correctness label and an error-type label, with per-error-type Fleiss’ 𝜅 ranging from 0.69 to 0.88. On 14 SOTA LLMs (6 closed-source, 8 open-source, 1.5B–72B) and 3 process reward models, even advanced systems such as GPT-o3 and DeepSeek-R1 remain far from saturating the benchmark, particularly on fine-grained error-type detection; we further surface a *solving-vs-verifying* gap that causes math-tuned and long-chain-reasoning models to trail their general-purpose siblings. Error-type annotations also provide actionable supervision for correction, with gains that are significant under paired bootstrap (p<0.01). Code and data: [https://anonymous.4open.science/r/MathDebugger-7C4A/README.md](https://anonymous.4open.science/r/MathDebugger-7C4A/README.md)
LatentMem: Customizing Latent Memory for Multi-Agent Systems
Muxin Fu | Xiangyuan Xue | Yafu Li | Zefeng He | Siyuan Huang | Xiaoye Qu | Yu Cheng | Yang Yang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Muxin Fu | Xiangyuan Xue | Yafu Li | Zefeng He | Siyuan Huang | Xiaoye Qu | Yu Cheng | Yang Yang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large language model (LLM)-powered multi-agent systems (MAS) demonstrate remarkable collective intelligence, with multi-agent memory serving as a pivotal mechanism for continual adaptation. However, existing multi-agent memory designs remain constrained by two fundamental bottlenecks: (i) memory homogenization caused by limited role-aware customization, and (ii) information overload induced by exposing agents to excessively fine-grained textual memories. To address these limitations, we propose LatentMem, a learnable multi-agent memory framework that customizes agent-specific experiential memories while reducing textual context. Specifically, LatentMem comprises an experience bank for lightweight storage of raw interaction trajectories and a memory composer that synthesizes compact latent memories conditioned on retrieved experience and agent-specific contexts. Further, we introduce Latent Memory Policy Optimization (LMPO), which propagates task-level optimization signals through latent memories to learn compact, high-utility latent representations. Extensive experiments across six benchmarks and four mainstream MAS frameworks show that LatentMem improves vanilla settings by up to 19.36% and consistently outperforms existing memory architectures, without requiring modifications to the agent-layer workflows.