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Feng Yao

13 accepted papers

2026

Contamination Detection for VLMs Using Multi‑Modal Semantic Perturbations

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in Vision–Language Models (VLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on numerous benchmark tasks. However, the use of internet-scale, often proprietary, pretraining corpora raises a critical concern for both practitioners and users: inflated performance due to \emph{test-set l…

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2026

IsoCompute Playbook: Optimally Scaling Sampling Compute for LLM RL

ICML 2026poster

While scaling laws guide compute allocation for LLM pre-training, analogous prescriptions for reinforcement learning (RL) post-training of LLMs remain poorly understood. We study the compute-optimal allocation of sampling compute for on-policy RL methods in LLMs, framing scaling as a compute-constra…

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2025

Cuckoo: An IE Free Rider Hatched by Massive Nutrition in LLM’s Nest

ACL 2025long

Massive high-quality data, both pre-training raw texts and post-training annotations, have been carefully prepared to incubate advanced large language models (LLMs). In contrast, for information extraction (IE), pre-training data, such as BIO-tagged sequences, are hard to scale up. We show that IE m…

2025

ProDiff: Prototype-Guided Diffusion for Minimal Information Trajectory Imputation

ICML 2025poster

Trajectory data is crucial for various applications but often suffers from incompleteness due to device limitations and diverse collection scenarios. Existing imputation methods rely on sparse trajectory or travel information, such as velocity, to infer missing points. However, these approaches assu…

2025

Revisiting Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning from A Cross-Domain Perspective

NeurIPS 2025poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in enhancing large language model (LLM) reasoning, yet progress towards broader capabilities is limited by the availability of high-quality, multi-domain datasets. This work introduces \ours, a 92K RL-for-reasoning dataset designed to address this gap, c…

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2025

ShifCon: Enhancing Non-Dominant Language Capabilities with a Shift-based Multilingual Contrastive Framework

ACL 2025long

Although fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) with multilingual data can rapidly enhance the multilingual capabilities of LLMs, they still exhibit a performance gap between the dominant language (e.g., English) and non-dominant ones due to the imbalance of training data across languages. To furt…

2025

Training Language Models to Generate Quality Code with Program Analysis Feedback

NeurIPS 2025poster

Code generation with large language models (LLMs), often termed vibe coding, is increasingly adopted in production but fails to ensure code quality, particularly in security (e.g., SQL injection vulnerabilities) and maintainability (e.g., missing type annotations). Existing methods, such as supervis…

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2024

Beyond Scaling: Predicting Patent Approval with Domain-specific Fine-grained Claim Dependency Graph

ACL 2024long

Model scaling is becoming the default choice for many language tasks due to the success of large language models (LLMs). However, it can fall short in specific scenarios where simple customized methods excel. In this paper, we delve into the patent approval prediction task and unveil that simple dom…

2024

Data Contamination Can Cross Language Barriers

EMNLP 2024main

The opacity in developing large language models (LLMs) is raising growing concerns about the potential contamination of public benchmarks in the pre-training data. Existing contamination detection methods are typically based on the text overlap between training and evaluation data, which can be too…

2024

Evaluating the Smooth Control of Attribute Intensity in Text Generation with LLMs

ACL 2024findings

Controlling the attribute intensity of text generation is crucial across scenarios (e.g., writing conciseness, chatting emotion, and explanation clarity). The remarkable capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized text generation, prompting us to explore such smooth control of L…

2023

The Devil is in the Details: On the Pitfalls of Event Extraction Evaluation

ACL 2023findings

Event extraction (EE) is a crucial task aiming at extracting events from texts, which includes two subtasks: event detection (ED) and event argument extraction (EAE). In this paper, we check the reliability of EE evaluations and identify three major pitfalls: (1) The data preprocessing discrepancy m…

2023

Unsupervised Legal Evidence Retrieval via Contrastive Learning with Approximate Aggregated Positive

AAAI 2023technical

Verifying the facts alleged by the prosecutors before the trial requires the judges to retrieve evidence within the massive materials accompanied. Existing Legal AI applications often assume the facts are already determined and fail to notice the difficulty of reconstructing them. To build a practic…

2022

LEVEN: A Large-Scale Chinese Legal Event Detection Dataset

ACL 2022findings

Recognizing facts is the most fundamental step in making judgments, hence detecting events in the legal documents is important to legal case analysis tasks. However, existing Legal Event Detection (LED) datasets only concern incomprehensive event types and have limited annotated data, which restrict…