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Cheng Gao

8 accepted papers

2026

Teaching Large Language Models to Maintain Contextual Faithfulness via Synthetic Tasks and Reinforcement Learning

AAAI 2026technical

Teaching large language models (LLMs) to be faithful in the provided context is crucial for building reliable information-seeking systems. Therefore, we propose a systematic framework, CANOE, to reduce faithfulness hallucinations of LLMs across different downstream tasks without human annotations. S

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2025

Aligning Large Language Models to Follow Instructions and Hallucinate Less via Effective Data Filtering

ACL 2025long

Training LLMs on data containing unfamiliar knowledge during the instruction tuning stage can encourage hallucinations. To address this challenge, we introduce NOVA, a novel framework designed to identify high-quality data that aligns well with the LLM’s learned knowledge to reduce hallucinations. N…

2025

Document Segmentation Matters for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

ACL 2025finding

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge. A critical yet underexplored challenge in RAG is document segmentation, also known as document chunking. Existing widely-used rule-based chunking methods usually lead to suboptimal splits, w…

2025

GLTW: Joint Improved Graph Transformer and LLM via Three-Word Language for Knowledge Graph Completion

ACL 2025finding

Knowledge Graph Completion (KGC), which aims to infer missing or incomplete facts, is a crucial task for KGs. However, integrating the vital structural information of KGs into Large Language Models (LLMs) and outputting predictions deterministically remains challenging. To address this, we propose a…

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2024

Enhancing Legal Case Retrieval via Scaling High-quality Synthetic Query-Candidate Pairs

EMNLP 2024main

Legal case retrieval (LCR) aims to provide similar cases as references for a given fact description. This task is crucial for promoting consistent judgments in similar cases, effectively enhancing judicial fairness and improving work efficiency for judges. However, existing works face two main chall…

2024

Global Convergence in Training Large-Scale Transformers

NeurIPS 2024poster

Despite the widespread success of Transformers across various domains, their optimization guarantees in large-scale model settings are not well-understood. This paper rigorously analyzes the convergence properties of gradient flow in training Transformers with weight decay regularization. First, we…

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2024

One-Layer Transformer Provably Learns One-Nearest Neighbor In Context

NeurIPS 2024poster

Transformers have achieved great success in recent years. Interestingly, transformers have shown particularly strong in-context learning capability -- even without fine-tuning, they are still able to solve unseen tasks well purely based on task-specific prompts. In this paper, we study the capabilit…

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2019

Block-randomized Stochastic Proximal Gradient for Constrained Low-rank Tensor Factorization

ICASSP 2019accepted

This work focuses on canonical polyadic decomposition (CPD) for large-scale tensors. Many prior works rely on data sparsity to develop scalable CPD algorithms, which are not suitable for handling dense tensor, while dense tensors often arise in applications such as image and video processing. As an…

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