Bowen Qin

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National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. eyuansu71@gmail.com

I am a 1st-year Ph.D. student at the National University of Singapore (NUS), advised by Prof. Yao Lu.

Previously, I was a researcher at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), specializing in the evaluation, alignment, and code intelligence of large language models (LLMs). Previously, I obtained my master’s degree with top honors from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), under the guidance of Prof. Min Yang in 2023. I was a research intern at Alibaba DAMO Academy mentored by Binyuan Hui.

I am a member of the BIRD team, which drives the development of text-to-SQL for real-world database applications.

Throughout my academic journey, I collaborated with many talented researchers, including: Jinyang Li, Duanyu Feng, Binyuan Hui and Yequan Wang.

news

Jul 01, 2024 Our team secured 7th place out of over 100 global competitors in the AI Safety and Security Challenge hosted by AI Singapore (AISG) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), and was invited to attend the Singapore International Cyber Week (SICW) 2024.

recent publications

  1. arXiv
    Agent Retrieval Bench: Evaluating Repository Context Retrieval for Coding Agents
    Bowen Qin and Yi Xie
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.24882, Jul 2026
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  2. arXiv
    Hint Tuning: Less Data Makes Better Reasoners
    Siqi Fan, Minghao Li, Xiaoqian Ma, and 6 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.08665, May 2026
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  3. arXiv
    LaoBench: A Large-Scale Multidimensional Lao Benchmark for Large Language Models
    J Gao, R Xuan, Z Kang, and 6 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.11334, Nov 2025
    PDF Cited by 1
  4. arXiv
    Beyond Multiple Choice: Verifiable OpenQA for Robust Vision-Language RFT
    Y Liu, H Li, H Xu, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.17405, Nov 2025
    PDF Cited by 1
  5. arXiv
    BIRD-INTERACT: Re-imagining Text-to-SQL Evaluation for Large Language Models via Lens of Dynamic Interactions
    Nan Huo, Xiaohan Xu, Jinyang Li, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.05318, Oct 2025
    PDF Cited by 8

selected publications

  1. arXiv
    FlagEval Findings Report: A Preliminary Evaluation of Large Reasoning Models on Automatically Verifiable Textual and Visual Questions
    Bowen Qin, C Yue, F Yin, and 7 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.17177, Sep 2025
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  2. arXiv
    Towards analyzing and understanding the limitations of DPO: A theoretical perspective
    Duanyu Feng, Bowen Qin, Chen Huang, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04626, 2024
    PDF Cited by 83
  3. ACL
    Before generation, align it! A novel and effective strategy for mitigating hallucinations in text-to-sql generation
    Ge Qu, Jinyang Li, Bowen Li, and 4 more authors
    In Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings), 2024
    PDF Cited by 122
  4. AAAI
    Graphix-t5: Mixing pre-trained transformers with graph-aware layers for text-to-sql parsing
    Jinyang Li, Binyuan Hui, Reynold Cheng, and 7 more authors
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023
    PDF Cited by 231
  5. NeurIPS
    Can LLM already serve as a database interface? A big bench for large-scale database grounded text-to-sqls
    Jinyang Li, Binyuan Hui, Ge Qu, and 8 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023
    PDF Cited by 1289
  6. ACL
    S^2 SQL: Injecting Syntax to Question-Schema Interaction Graph Encoder for Text-to-SQL Parsers
    Binyuan Hui, Ruiying Geng, Lihan Wang, and 4 more authors
    In Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings), 2022
    PDF Cited by 129
  7. COLING
    SUN: Exploring intrinsic uncertainties in text-to-SQL parsers
    Bowen Qin, Lihan Wang, Binyuan Hui, and 7 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022
    Best Paper PDF Cited by 14
  8. SIGKDD
    Proton: Probing schema linking information from pre-trained language models for text-to-sql parsing
    Lihan Wang, Bowen Qin, Binyuan Hui, and 8 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2022
    PDF Cited by 73
  9. arXiv
    A survey on text-to-sql parsing: Concepts, methods, and future directions
    Bowen Qin, Binyuan Hui, Lihan Wang, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.13629, 2022
    PDF Cited by 192