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Binyuan Hui

45 accepted papers

2026

BIRD-INTERACT: Re-imagining Text-to-SQL Evaluation via Lens of Dynamic Interactions

ICLR 2026oral

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on single-turn text-to-SQL tasks, but real-world database applications predominantly require multi-turn interactions to handle ambiguous queries, execution errors, and evolving user requirements. Existing multi-turn benchmarks fal…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Bringing Code ALIVE: Optimizing Interactive Frontend Mini-Games via Automated Play and Reinforcement Learning at Scale

ICML 2026poster

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has empowered even non-programmers to create visually appealing frontend mini-games with a single instruction. However, open-source models significantly lag behind proprietary counterparts in this domain. The core bottleneck is the lack of an evalu…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

PlotCraft: Pushing the Limits of LLMs for Complex and Interactive Data Visualization

ICML 2026poster

Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in code generation. However, their ability to create complex visualizations for scaled and structured data remains largely unevaluated and underdeveloped. To address this gap, we introduce **PlotCraft**, a new benchmark fea…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

SWE-RM: Execution-free Feedback for Software Engineering Agents

ICLR 2026poster

Execution-based feedback like unit testing is widely used in the development of coding agents through test-time scaling (TTS) and reinforcement learning (RL). This paradigm requires scalable and reliable collection of unit test cases to provide accurate feedback, and the resulting feedback is often…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Scaling Agentic Verifier for Competitive Coding

ICML 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong coding capabilities but still struggle to solve competitive programming problems correctly in a single attempt. Execution-based re-ranking offers a promising test-time scaling strategy, yet existing methods are constrained by either difficult tes…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Towards Better Correctness and Efficiency in Code Generation

AAAI 2026technical

While code large language models have demonstrated remarkable progress in code generation, the generated code often exhibits poor runtime efficiency, limiting its practical application in performance-sensitive scenarios. To address this limitation, we propose an efficiency-oriented reinforcement lea

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

VideoAgentTrek: Computer-Use Pretraining from Unlabeled Videos

ICLR 2026poster

Training computer-use agents requires massive amounts of GUI interaction data, but manually annotating action trajectories at scale is prohibitively expensive. We present VideoAgentTrek, a scalable pipeline that automatically mines training data from publicly available screen-recorded videos, elimin…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions

ICLR 2025oral

Task automation has been greatly empowered by the recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) via Python code, where the tasks range from software engineering development to general-purpose reasoning. While current benchmarks have shown that LLMs can solve tasks using programs like human develop…

Cited by 609SourcePDFScholar
2025

CodeArena: Evaluating and Aligning CodeLLMs on Human Preference

EMNLP 2025

We present CodeArena to emulate the complexity/diversity of real-world coding tasks, spanning 40 categories and 44 PLs. A 20B diverse synthetic instruction corpus is created by scaling instructions to help Qwen2.5-SynCoder achieve SOTA performance. Abstract: Code large language models (codeLLMs) hav

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

DEEM: Diffusion models serve as the eyes of large language models for image perception

ICLR 2025spotlight

The development of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the emergence of large multimodal models (LMMs). While LMMs have achieved tremendous success by promoting the synergy between multimodal comprehension and creation, they often face challenges when confronted with out-of-distr…

2025

Fine-Tuning Language Models with Collaborative and Semantic Experts

AAAI 2025technical

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have broadened their application scope but revealed challenges in balancing capabilities across general knowledge, coding, and mathematics. To address this, we introduce a Collaborative and Semantic Experts (CoE) approach for supervised fine-tuning…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

IW-Bench: Evaluating Large Multimodal Models for Converting Image-to-Web

ACL 2025finding

Recently, advancements in large multimodal models have led to significant strides in image comprehension capabilities. Despite these advancements, there is a lack of a robust benchmark specifically for assessing the image‐to‐web conversion proficiency of these large models. It is essential to ensure…

2025

Large Language Models Meet Symbolic Provers for Logical Reasoning Evaluation

ICLR 2025poster

First-order logic (FOL) reasoning, which involves sequential deduction, is pivotal for intelligent systems and serves as a valuable task for evaluating reasoning capabilities, particularly in chain-of-thought (CoT) contexts. Existing benchmarks often rely on extensive human annotation or handcrafted…

2025

OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models

ICLR 2025oral

We introduce OLMoE, a fully open, state-of-the-art language model leveraging sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE). OLMoE-1B-7B has 7 billion (B) parameters but uses only 1B per input token. We pretrain it on 5 trillion tokens and further adapt it to create OLMoE-1B-7B-Instruct. Our models outperform all…

2025

OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents

ICLR 2025poster

Software is one of the most powerful tools that we humans have at our disposal; it allows a skilled programmer to interact with the world in complex and profound ways. At the same time, thanks to improvements in large language models (LLMs), there has also been a rapid development in AI agents that…

Cited by 32SourcePDFScholar
2025

Parallel Scaling Law for Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

It is commonly believed that scaling language models should commit a significant space or time cost, by increasing the parameters (parameter scaling) or output tokens (inference-time scaling). We introduce another and more inference-efficient scaling paradigm: increasing the model's parallel computa…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Prompting Large Language Models to Tackle the Full Software Development Lifecycle: A Case Study

COLING 2025main

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced their coding capabilities. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focused on simplified or isolated aspects of coding, such as single-file code generation or repository issue debugging, falling short of measuring the…

2025

Qwen2.5-xCoder: Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multilingual Code Instruction Tuning

ACL 2025long

Recent advancement in code understanding and generation demonstrates that code LLMs fine-tuned on a high-quality instruction dataset can gain powerful capabilities to address wide-ranging code-related tasks. However, most previous existing methods mainly view each programming language in isolation a…

2025

START: Self-taught Reasoner with Tools

EMNLP 2025

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex reasoning through long chain-of-thought, yet they struggle with precise computations and algorithmic operations. Integrating computational tools with LRMs remains challenging, particularly in activating and enhancing

2025

SWE-SQL: Illuminating LLM Pathways to Solve User SQL Issues in Real-World Applications

NeurIPS 2025poster

Resolution of complex SQL issues persists as a significant bottleneck in real-world database applications. Current Large Language Models (LLMs), while adept at text-to-SQL translation, have not been rigorously evaluated on the more challenging task of debugging on SQL issues. In order to address thi…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

SWE-smith: Scaling Data for Software Engineering Agents

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Despite recent progress in Language Models (LMs) for software engineering, collecting training data remains a significant pain point. Existing datasets are small, with at most 1,000s of training instances from 11 or fewer GitHub repositories. The procedures to curate such datasets are often complex,…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Synthesizing Software Engineering Data in a Test-Driven Manner

ICML 2025poster

We introduce **SWE-Flow**, a novel data synthesis framework grounded in Test-Driven Development (TDD). Unlike existing software engineering data that rely on human-submitted issues, **SWE-Flow** automatically infers incremental development steps directly from unit tests, which inherently encapsulate…

2025

Turning the Tide: Repository-based Code Reflection

EMNLP 2025

Code large language models (LLMs) enhance programming by understanding and generating code across languages, offering intelligent feedback, bug detection, and code updates through reflection, improving development efficiency and accessibility. While benchmarks (e.g. HumanEval/LiveCodeBench) evaluate

2024

Iterative Forward Tuning Boosts In-Context Learning in Language Models

ACL 2024long

Despite the advancements in in-context learning (ICL) for large language models (LLMs), current research centers on specific prompt engineering, such as demonstration selection, with the expectation that a single iteration of demonstrations processing can generalize effectively to a given test sampl…

2024

Lemur: Harmonizing Natural Language and Code for Language Agents

ICLR 2024spotlight

We introduce Lemur and Lemur-Chat, openly accessible language models optimized for both natural language and coding capabilities to serve as the backbone of versatile language agents. The evolution from language chat models to functional language agents demands that models not only master human inte…

2024

OctoPack: Instruction Tuning Code Large Language Models

ICLR 2024spotlight

Finetuning large language models (LLMs) on instructions leads to vast performance improvements on natural language tasks. We apply instruction tuning using code, leveraging the natural structure of Git commits, which pair code changes with human instructions. We compile CommitPack: 4 terabytes of Gi…

2024

One-Shot Learning as Instruction Data Prospector for Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

Contemporary practices in instruction tuning often hinge on enlarging data scaling without a clear strategy for ensuring data quality, inadvertently introducing noise that may compromise model performance. To address this challenge, we introduce Nuggets, a novel and efficient methodology that levera…

2024

Out-of-Domain Intent Detection Considering Multi-Turn Dialogue Contexts

COLING 2024main

Out-of-Domain (OOD) intent detection is vital for practical dialogue systems, and it usually requires considering multi-turn dialogue contexts. However, most previous OOD intent detection approaches are limited to single dialogue turns. In this paper, we introduce a context-aware OOD intent detectio…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

Synthesizing Text-to-SQL Data from Weak and Strong LLMs

ACL 2024long

The capability gap between open-source and closed-source large language models (LLMs) remains a challenge in text-to-SQL tasks. In this paper, we introduce a synthetic data approach that combines data produced by larger, more powerful models (strong models) with error information data generated by s…

2024

Tree-Instruct: A Preliminary Study of the Intrinsic Relationship between Complexity and Alignment

COLING 2024main

Training large language models (LLMs) with open-domain instruction data has yielded remarkable success in aligning to end tasks and human preferences. Extensive research has highlighted the importance of the quality and diversity of instruction data. However, the impact of data complexity, as a cruc…

2023

An Investigation of LLMs’ Inefficacy in Understanding Converse Relations

EMNLP 2023long main

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in many formal language oriented tasks, such as structural data-to-text and semantic parsing. However current benchmarks mostly follow the data distribution of the pre-training data of LLMs. Therefore, a natural question rises that do LLM…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

Can LLM Already Serve as A Database Interface? A BIg Bench for Large-Scale Database Grounded Text-to-SQLs

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Text-to-SQL parsing, which aims at converting natural language instructions into executable SQLs, has gained increasing attention in recent years. In particular, GPT-4 and Claude-2 have shown impressive results in this task. However, most of the prevalent benchmarks, i.e., Spider, and WikiSQL, focu…

2023

Graphix-T5: Mixing Pre-trained Transformers with Graph-Aware Layers for Text-to-SQL Parsing

AAAI 2023technical

The task of text-to-SQL parsing, which aims at converting natural language questions into executable SQL queries, has garnered increasing attention in recent years. One of the major challenges in text-to-SQL parsing is domain generalization, i.e., how to generalize well to unseen databases. Recently…

2023

History Semantic Graph Enhanced Conversational KBQA with Temporal Information Modeling

ACL 2023long

Context information modeling is an important task in conversational KBQA. However, existing methods usually assume the independence of utterances and model them in isolation. In this paper, we propose a History Semantic Graph Enhanced KBQA model (HSGE) that is able to effectively model long-range se…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2023

Multimodal Recommendation Dialog with Subjective Preference: A New Challenge and Benchmark

ACL 2023findings

Existing multimodal task-oriented dialog data fails to demonstrate the diverse expressions of user subjective preferences and recommendation acts in the real-life shopping scenario. This paper introduces a new dataset SURE (Multimodal Recommendation Dialog with Subjective Preference), which contains…

2023

PaCE: Unified Multi-modal Dialogue Pre-training with Progressive and Compositional Experts

ACL 2023long

Perceiving multi-modal information and fulfilling dialogues with humans is a long-term goal of artificial intelligence. Pre-training is commonly regarded as an effective approach for multi-modal dialogue. However, due to the limited availability of multi-modal dialogue data, there is still scarce re…

2023

SPRING: Situated Conversation Agent Pretrained with Multimodal Questions from Incremental Layout Graph

AAAI 2023technical

Existing multimodal conversation agents have shown impressive abilities to locate absolute positions or retrieve attributes in simple scenarios, but they fail to perform well when complex relative positions and information alignments are involved, which poses a bottleneck in response quality. In thi…

2023

Transaudio: Towards the Transferable Adversarial Audio Attack Via Learning Contextualized Perturbations

ICASSP 2023accepted

In a transfer-based attack against Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, attacks are unable to access the architecture and parameters of the target model. Existing attack methods are mostly investigated in voice assistant scenarios with restricted voice commands, prohibiting their applicabilit…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

TrojanSQL: SQL Injection against Natural Language Interface to Database

EMNLP 2023long main

The technology of text-to-SQL has significantly enhanced the efficiency of accessing and manipulating databases. However, limited research has been conducted to study its vulnerabilities emerging from malicious user interaction. By proposing TrojanSQL, a backdoor-based SQL injection framework for t…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2022

S2SQL: Injecting Syntax to Question-Schema Interaction Graph Encoder for Text-to-SQL Parsers

ACL 2022findings

The task of converting a natural language question into an executable SQL query, known as text-to-SQL, is an important branch of semantic parsing. The state-of-the-art graph-based encoder has been successfully used in this task but does not model the question syntax well. In this paper, we propose S…

Cited by 92SourcePDFScholar
2022

SPACE-2: Tree-Structured Semi-Supervised Contrastive Pre-training for Task-Oriented Dialog Understanding

COLING 2022main

Pre-training methods with contrastive learning objectives have shown remarkable success in dialog understanding tasks. However, current contrastive learning solely considers the self-augmented dialog samples as positive samples and treats all other dialog samples as negative ones, which enforces dis…

2022

STAR: SQL Guided Pre-Training for Context-dependent Text-to-SQL Parsing

EMNLP 2022finding

In this paper, we propose a novel SQL guided pre-training framework STAR for context-dependent text-to-SQL parsing, which leverages contextual information to enrich natural language (NL) utterance and table schema representations for text-to-SQL conversations. Concretely, we propose two novel pre-tr…

2022

SUN: Exploring Intrinsic Uncertainties in Text-to-SQL Parsers

COLING 2022main

This paper aims to improve the performance of text-to-SQL parsing by exploring the intrinsic uncertainties in the neural network based approaches (called SUN). From the data uncertainty perspective, it is indisputable that a single SQL can be learned from multiple semantically-equivalent questions.…

2021

Dynamic Hybrid Relation Exploration Network for Cross-Domain Context-Dependent Semantic Parsing

AAAI 2021technical

Semantic parsing has long been a fundamental problem in natural language processing. Recently, cross-domain context-dependent semantic parsing has become a new focus of research. Central to the problem is the challenge of leveraging contextual information of both natural language queries and databas…

Cited by 61SourcePDFScholar