Xunyi Jiang (江迅一)

Xunyi Jiang is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science advised by Professor Hongyi Wen in the MAPS Research Group. Prior to that, she earned her M.S. degree in Computer Science from UCSD. Currently, her research interest lies in LLM understanding and evaluation, Human-AI interaction.

Publications

• Xunyi Jiang, Junda Wu, Yuxin Xiong, Sheldon Yu, Tong Yu, David Arbour, Ritwik Sinha, Julian McAuley, and Hongyi Wen. “Toward Latent Language Model Skills Steering and Optimization: An Empirical Study.” Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2026.

• Yash Vishe*, Eric Xue, Xunyi Jiang, Zachary Novack, Junda Wu, Julian McAuley, and Xin Xu. “Evaluating Music Context Preservation: A Multi-facet Framework for Music Editing Systems.” International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2026.

• Xuran Zhou, Xunyi Jiang, Churan Zhi, Junda Wu, and Julian McAuley. “MixWeaver: Stem-Aware Automatic DJ Transition Generation via Structured Discrete Optimization.” International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2026.

• Junda Wu, Boyang Wang, Xunyi Jiang, Aditya Yadavalli, Ziyu Wang, Qianqi Yan, Hongyi Wen, and Julian McAuley. “SymSkill: Skill Graph for Symbolic Music Understanding.” International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2026.

• Boyang Wang, Yash Vishe, Xin Xu, Zachary Novack, Xunyi Jiang, Julian McAuley, and Junda Wu. “CSyMR: Benchmarking Compositional Music Information Retrieval in Symbolic Music Reasoning.” Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), pp. 4244–4249, 2026.

• Xunyi Jiang, Dingyi Chang, Julian McAuley, and Xin Xu. “When Benchmarks Age: Temporal Misalignment through Large Language Model Factuality Evaluation.” Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Volume 2: Short Papers, pp. 500–512, 2026.

• Yurui Huang, Xuesen Cheng, Chaolin Tian, Xunyi Jiang, Langtian Ma, and Yifang Ma. “Talent Hat, Cross-Border Mobility, and Career Development in China.” Quantitative Science Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 516–532, 2024.