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Dongjin Kang

7 accepted papers

2025

Rethinking Reward Model Evaluation Through the Lens of Reward Overoptimization

ACL 2025long

Reward models (RMs) play a crucial role in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), aligning model behavior with human preferences. However, existing benchmarks for reward models show a weak correlation with the performance of optimized policies, suggesting that they fail to accurately ass…

2025

ToolHaystack: Stress-Testing Tool-Augmented Language Models in Realistic Long-Term Interactions

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in using external tools to address user inquiries. However, most existing evaluations assume tool use in short contexts, offering limited insight into model behavior during realistic long-term interactions. To fill this gap, we intro

2025

Web-Shepherd: Advancing PRMs for Reinforcing Web Agents

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Web navigation is a unique domain that can automate many repetitive real-life tasks and is challenging as it requires long-horizon sequential decision making beyond typical multimodal large language model (MLLM) tasks. Yet, specialized reward models for web navigation that can be utilized during bot…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

Cactus: Towards Psychological Counseling Conversations using Cognitive Behavioral Theory

EMNLP 2024finding

Recently, the demand for psychological counseling has significantly increased as more individuals express concerns about their mental health. This surge has accelerated efforts to improve the accessibility of counseling by using large language models (LLMs) as counselors. To ensure client privacy, t…

2024

Can Large Language Models be Good Emotional Supporter? Mitigating Preference Bias on Emotional Support Conversation

ACL 2024long

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) is a task aimed at alleviating individuals’ emotional distress through daily conversation. Given its inherent complexity and non-intuitive nature, ESConv dataset incorporates support strategies to facilitate the generation of appropriate responses. Recently, desp…

2024

Coffee-Gym: An Environment for Evaluating and Improving Natural Language Feedback on Erroneous Code

EMNLP 2024main

This paper presents Coffee-Gym, a comprehensive RL environment for training models that provide feedback on code editing. Coffee-Gym includes two major components: (1) Coffee, a dataset containing humans’ code edit traces for coding questions and human-written feedback for editing erroneous code; (2…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Large Language Models Are Clinical Reasoners: Reasoning-Aware Diagnosis Framework with Prompt-Generated Rationales

AAAI 2024technical

Machine reasoning has made great progress in recent years owing to large language models (LLMs). In the clinical domain, however, most NLP-driven projects mainly focus on clinical classification or reading comprehension, and under-explore clinical reasoning for disease diagnosis due to the expensive…