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Hyungjoo Chae

16 accepted papers

2025

Can You Share Your Story? Modeling Clients’ Metacognition and Openness for LLM Therapist Evaluation

ACL 2025finding

Understanding clients’ thoughts and beliefs is fundamental in counseling, yet current evaluations of LLM therapists often fail to assess this ability. Existing evaluation methods rely on client simulators that clearly disclose internal states to the therapist, making it difficult to determine whethe…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Do LLMs Have Distinct and Consistent Personality? TRAIT: Personality Testset designed for LLMs with Psychometrics

NAACL 2025findings

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to their adaptation in various domains as conversational agents. We wonder: can personality tests be applied to these agents to analyze their behavior, similar to humans? We introduce TRAIT, a new benchmark consisting of 8K multi-choice qu…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
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

The BiGGen Bench: A Principled Benchmark for Fine-grained Evaluation of Language Models with Language Models

NAACL 2025long

As language models (LMs) become capable of handling a wide range of tasks, their evaluation is becoming as challenging as their development. Most generation benchmarks currently assess LMs using abstract evaluation criteria-like helpfulness and harmlessness-which often lack the flexibility and granu…

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

Towards Lifelong Dialogue Agents via Timeline-based Memory Management

NAACL 2025long

To achieve lifelong human-agent interaction, dialogue agents need to constantly memorize perceived information and properly retrieve it for response generation (RG). While prior studies focus on getting rid of outdated memories to improve retrieval quality, we argue that such memories provide rich,…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Web Agents with World Models: Learning and Leveraging Environment Dynamics in Web Navigation

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have recently gained much attention in building autonomous agents. However, performance of current LLM-based web agents in long-horizon tasks is far from optimal, often yielding errors such as repeatedly buying a non-refundable flight ticket. By contrast, humans can avoi…

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

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

Evidence-Focused Fact Summarization for Knowledge-Augmented Zero-Shot Question Answering

EMNLP 2024main

Recent studies have investigated utilizing Knowledge Graphs (KGs) to enhance Quesetion Answering (QA) performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet structured KG verbalization remains challenging. Existing methods, like concatenation or free-form textual conversion of triples, have limitations, i…

2024

Language Models as Compilers: Simulating Pseudocode Execution Improves Algorithmic Reasoning in Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

Algorithmic reasoning tasks that involve complex logical patterns, such as completing Dyck language, pose challenges for large language models (LLMs), despite their recent success. Prior work has used LLMs to generate programming language and applied external compilers for such tasks. Yet, when on t…

2024

VerifiNER: Verification-augmented NER via Knowledge-grounded Reasoning with Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

Recent approaches in domain-specific named entity recognition (NER), such as biomedical NER, have shown remarkable advances. However, they still lack of faithfulness, producing erroneous predictions. We assume that knowledge of entities can be useful in verifying the correctness of the predictions.…

2023

Dialogue Chain-of-Thought Distillation for Commonsense-aware Conversational Agents

EMNLP 2023long main

Human-like chatbots necessitate the use of commonsense reasoning in order to effectively comprehend and respond to implicit information present within conversations. Achieving such coherence and informativeness in responses, however, is a non-trivial task. Even for large language models (LLMs), the…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

TUTORING: Instruction-Grounded Conversational Agent for Language Learners

AAAI 2023technical

In this paper, we propose Tutoring bot, a generative chatbot trained on a large scale of tutor-student conversations for English-language learning. To mimic a human tutor's behavior in language education, the tutor bot leverages diverse educational instructions and grounds to each instruction as add…

2022

Mind the Gap! Injecting Commonsense Knowledge for Abstractive Dialogue Summarization

COLING 2022main

In this paper, we propose to leverage the unique characteristics of dialogues sharing commonsense knowledge across participants, to resolve the difficulties in summarizing them. We present SICK, a framework that uses commonsense inferences as additional context. Compared to previous work that solely…