← Search

Liang Yao

16 accepted papers

2026

AirNavigation: Let UAV Navigation Tell Its Own Story

AAAI 2026technical

Testing autonomous navigation algorithms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in real-world scenarios often entails significant safety risks. In this paper, we aim to build a flexible yet user-friendly UAV autonomous navigation simulator. Ideally, it should closely emulate real-world environments, sup

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

RemoteReasoner: Towards Unifying Geospatial Reasoning Workflow

AAAI 2026technical

Remote sensing imagery presents vast, inherently unstructured spatial data, necessitating sophisticated reasoning to interpret complex user intents and contextual relationships beyond simple recognition tasks. In this paper, we aim to construct an Earth observation workflow to handle complex queries

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Bootstrapping LLM-based Fact-checking via Iterative Rationalization Finetuning

ICASSP 2025accepted

Fact-checking, the task of reasoning about a claim’s truthfulness based on evidence, has become increasingly crucial with the rapid spread of misinformation. In real-world scenarios, fact-checking often involves checking complex claims necessitating multi-step reasoning, thus imposing a high require…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Chain-of-Talkers (CoTalk): Fast Human Annotation of Dense Image Captions

EMNLP 2025

While densely annotated image captions significantly facilitate the learning of robust vision-language alignment, methodologies for systematically optimizing human annotation efforts remain underexplored. We introduce Chain-of-Talkers (CoTalk), an AI-in-the-loop methodology designed to maximize the

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Enhancing Emotion Reasoning for Image Multi-Emotion Prediction

ICASSP 2025accepted

Image multi-emotion prediction aims to identify the emotions evoked by images in humans. In the real world, individual cognitive differences can lead to different viewers experiencing varied emotions. Most existing researchers primarily focus on analyzing image features, which are limited to the per…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

RemoteTrimmer: Adaptive Structural Pruning for Remote Sensing Image Classification

ICASSP 2025accepted

Since high resolution remote sensing image classifi-cation often requires a relatively high computation complexity, lightweight models tend to be practical and efficient. Model pruning is an effective method for model compression. However, existing methods rarely take into account the specificity of…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

UnCo: Uncertainty-Driven Collaborative Framework of Large and Small Models for Grounded Multimodal NER

EMNLP 2025

Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (GMNER) is a new information extraction task. It requires models to extract named entities and ground them to real-world visual objects. Previous methods, relying on domain-specific fine-tuning, struggle with unseen multimodal entities due to limited know

2024

A Decision-Making Algorithm for Robotic Breast Ultrasound High-Quality Imaging via Broad Reinforcement Learning From Demonstration

RA-L 2024

Robotic breast ultrasound (RBUS) aims to standardize breast ultrasonography, reduce the workload of sonographers, and provide high-quality ultrasound (US) images for subsequent diagnosis. In the process of RBUS screening, adjusting the US probe correctly and efficiently to acquire high-quality US im

Cited by 11SourceScholar
2022

Bridging the Gap between Training and Inference: Multi-Candidate Optimization for Diverse Neural Machine Translation

NAACL 2022findings

Diverse NMT aims at generating multiple diverse yet faithful translations given a source sentence. In this paper, we investigate a common shortcoming in existing diverse NMT studies: the model is usually trained with single reference, while expected to generate multiple candidate translations in inf…

2022

DIRL: Domain-Invariant Representation Learning for Generalizable Semantic Segmentation

AAAI 2022technical

Model generalization to the unseen scenes is crucial to real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, which requires robust vision systems. To enhance the model generalization, domain generalization through learning the domain-invariant representation has been widely studied. However, most ex…

Cited by 56SourcePDFScholar
2022

Medical Ultrasound Image Quality Assessment for Autonomous Robotic Screening

RA-L 2022

Autonomous ultrasound scanning robots have attracted the attention of researchers, and the real-time quality assessment of ultrasound images is the key technology of them. Existing robot systems usually use pixel-level feature statistical methods such as grayscale, confidence map, etc. However, in c

Cited by 18SourceScholar
2022

Self-supervised Product Title Rewrite for Product Listing Ads

NAACL 2022industry

Product Listing Ads (PLAs) are primary online advertisements merchants pay to attract more customers. However, merchants prefer to stack various attributes to the title and neglect the fluency and information priority. These seller-created titles are not suitable for PLAs as they fail to highlight t…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2022

Unsupervised Preference-Aware Language Identification

ACL 2022findings

Recognizing the language of ambiguous texts has become a main challenge in language identification (LID). When using multilingual applications, users have their own language preferences, which can be regarded as external knowledge for LID. Nevertheless, current studies do not consider the inter-pers…

2021

Towards User-Driven Neural Machine Translation

ACL 2021long

A good translation should not only translate the original content semantically, but also incarnate personal traits of the original text. For a real-world neural machine translation (NMT) system, these user traits (e.g., topic preference, stylistic characteristics and expression habits) can be preser…

2020

Domain Transfer based Data Augmentation for Neural Query Translation

COLING 2020main

Query translation (QT) serves as a critical factor in successful cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR). Due to the lack of parallel query samples, neural-based QT models are usually optimized with synthetic data which are derived from large-scale monolingual queries. Nevertheless, such kind of…