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Man Lan

26 accepted papers

2026

Activating Visual Context and Commonsense Reasoning Through Masked Prediction in VLMs

AAAI 2026technical

Recent breakthroughs in reasoning models have markedly advanced the reasoning capabilities of large language models, particularly via training on tasks with verifiable rewards. Yet, a significant gap persists in their adaptation to real-world multimodal scenarios, most notably, vision-language tasks

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

FinDABench: Benchmarking Financial Data Analysis Ability of Large Language Models

COLING 2025main

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a wide range of tasks. However, their proficiency and reliability in the specialized domain of financial data analysis, particularly focusing on data-driven thinking, remain uncertain. To bridge this gap, we introduce FinD…

2025

K-Level Reasoning: Establishing Higher Order Beliefs in Large Language Models for Strategic Reasoning

NAACL 2025long

Strategic reasoning is a complex yet essential capability for intelligent agents. It requires Large Language Model (LLM) agents to adapt their strategies dynamically in multi-agent environments. Unlike static reasoning tasks, success in these contexts depends on anticipating other agents’ beliefs an…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

LSDC: An Efficient and Effective Large-Scale Data Compression Method for Supervised Fine-tuning of Large Language Models

NAACL 2025findings

With the scale of Large Language Models(LLMs) and the size of the training data continuing to expand, the computational costs required for training or tuning have significantly increased as well. In this work we propose an efficient and effective Large-Scale Data Compression (LSDC) method to substan…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Protein Design with Dynamic Protein Vocabulary

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Protein design is a fundamental challenge in biotechnology, aiming to design novel sequences with specific functions within the vast space of possible proteins. Recent advances in deep generative models have enabled function-based protein design from textual descriptions, yet struggle with structura…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

ReactGPT: Understanding of Chemical Reactions via In-Context Tuning

AAAI 2025technical

The interdisciplinary field of chemistry and artificial intelligence (AI) is an active area of research aimed at accelerating scientific discovery. Large language Models (LLMs) have shown significant promise in biochemical tasks, especially the molecule caption translation, which aims to align betwe…

2025

Semantic Attention and LLM-based Layout Guidance for Text-to-Image Generation

ICASSP 2025accepted

Diffusion models have substantially advanced text-to-image generation, achieving remarkable performance in creating high-quality images from textual prompts. However, they often struggle with accurately generating images representing spatial locations described or implied in the prompts. To address…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Towards Comprehensive Argument Analysis in Education: Dataset, Tasks, and Method

ACL 2025long

Argument mining has garnered increasing attention over the years, with the recent advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) further propelling this trend. However, current argument relations remain relatively simplistic and foundational, struggling to capture the full scope of argument information…

2024

Are U a Joke Master? Pun Generation via Multi-Stage Curriculum Learning towards a Humor LLM

ACL 2024findings

Although large language models (LLMs) acquire extensive world knowledge and some reasoning abilities, their proficiency in generating humorous sentences remains a challenge. Previous research has demonstrated that the humor generation capabilities of ChatGPT are confined to producing merely 25 uniqu…

2024

CEAMC: Corpus and Empirical Study of Argument Analysis in Education via LLMs

EMNLP 2024finding

This paper introduces the Chinese Essay Argument Mining Corpus (CEAMC), a manually annotated dataset designed for argument component classification on multiple levels of granularity. Existing argument component types in education remain simplistic and isolated, failing to encapsulate the complete ar…

2024

From Coarse to Fine: A Distillation Method for Fine-Grained Emotion-Causal Span Pair Extraction in Conversation

AAAI 2024technical

We study the problem of extracting emotions and the causes behind these emotions in conversations. Existing methods either tackle them separately or jointly model them at the coarse-grained level of emotions (fewer emotion categories) and causes (utterance-level causes). In this work, we aim to joi…

2024

TOREE: Evaluating Topic Relevance of Student Essays for Chinese Primary and Middle School Education

ACL 2024findings

Topic relevance of an essay demands that the composition adheres to a clear theme and aligns well with the essay prompt requirements, a critical aspect of essay quality evaluation. However, existing research of Automatic Essay Scoring (AES) for Chinese essays has overlooked topic relevance and lacks…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2024

Towards Explainable Chinese Native Learner Essay Fluency Assessment: Dataset, Tasks, and Method

EMNLP 2024finding

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is a crucial technique in Automated Essay Scoring (AES) for evaluating the fluency of essays. However, in Chinese, existing GEC datasets often fail to consider the importance of specific grammatical error types within compositional scenarios, lack research on data…

2023

A Multi-Task Dataset for Assessing Discourse Coherence in Chinese Essays: Structure, Theme, and Logic Analysis

EMNLP 2023long main

This paper introduces the \textbf{C}hinese \textbf{E}ssay \textbf{D}iscourse \textbf{C}oherence \textbf{C}orpus (\textbf{CEDCC}), a multi-task dataset for assessing discourse coherence. Existing research tends to focus on isolated dimensions of discourse coherence, a gap which the CEDCC addresses by…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

An Effective and Efficient Time-aware Entity Alignment Framework via Two-aspect Three-view Label Propagation

IJCAI 2023poster

Entity alignment (EA) aims to find the equivalent entity pairs between different knowledge graphs (KGs), which is crucial to promote knowledge fusion. With the wide use of temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs), time-aware EA (TEA) methods appear to enhance EA. Existing TEA models are based on Graph Neura…

2023

Connective Prediction for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition via Knowledge Distillation

ACL 2023long

Implicit discourse relation recognition (IDRR) remains a challenging task in discourse analysis due to the absence of connectives. Most existing methods utilize one-hot labels as the sole optimization target, ignoring the internal association among connectives. Besides, these approaches spend lots o…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2022

A Simple Temporal Information Matching Mechanism for Entity Alignment between Temporal Knowledge Graphs

COLING 2022main

Entity alignment (EA) aims to find entities in different knowledge graphs (KGs) that refer to the same object in the real world. Recent studies incorporate temporal information to augment the representations of KGs. The existing methods for EA between temporal KGs (TKGs) utilize a time-aware attenti…

2022

An Effective and Efficient Entity Alignment Decoding Algorithm via Third-Order Tensor Isomorphism

ACL 2022long

Entity alignment (EA) aims to discover the equivalent entity pairs between KGs, which is a crucial step for integrating multi-source KGs.For a long time, most researchers have regarded EA as a pure graph representation learning task and focused on improving graph encoders while paying little attenti…

2022

Few Clean Instances Help Denoising Distant Supervision

COLING 2022main

Existing distantly supervised relation extractors usually rely on noisy data for both model training and evaluation, which may lead to garbage-in-garbage-out systems. To alleviate the problem, we study whether a small clean dataset could help improve the quality of distantly supervised models. We sh…

2022

LightEA: A Scalable, Robust, and Interpretable Entity Alignment Framework via Three-view Label Propagation

EMNLP 2022main

Entity Alignment (EA) aims to find equivalent entity pairs between KGs, which is the core step to bridging and integrating multi-source KGs. In this paper, we argue that existing complex EA methods inevitably inherit the inborn defects from their neural network lineage: poor interpretability and wea…

2022

Prompt-based Connective Prediction Method for Fine-grained Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition

EMNLP 2022finding

Due to the absence of connectives, implicit discourse relation recognition (IDRR) is still a challenging and crucial task in discourse analysis. Most of the current work adopted multitask learning to aid IDRR through explicit discourse relation recognition (EDRR) or utilized dependencies between dis…

2022

Understanding Gender Bias in Knowledge Base Embeddings

ACL 2022long

Knowledge base (KB) embeddings have been shown to contain gender biases. In this paper, we study two questions regarding these biases: how to quantify them, and how to trace their origins in KB? Specifically, first, we develop two novel bias measures respectively for a group of person entities and a…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2021

From Alignment to Assignment: Frustratingly Simple Unsupervised Entity Alignment

EMNLP 2021main

Cross-lingual entity alignment (EA) aims to find the equivalent entities between crosslingual KGs (Knowledge Graphs), which is a crucial step for integrating KGs. Recently, many GNN-based EA methods are proposed and show decent performance improvements on several public datasets. However, existing G…

2017

A Learning Error Analysis for Structured Prediction with Approximate Inference

NeurIPS 2017poster

In this work, we try to understand the differences between exact and approximate inference algorithms in structured prediction. We compare the estimation and approximation error of both underestimate and overestimate models. The result shows that, from the perspective of learning errors, performance…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar