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Muyun Yang

25 accepted papers

2026

Culture In a Frame: C$^3$B as a Comic-Based Benchmark for Multimodal Culturally Awareness

ICLR 2026poster

Cultural awareness capabilities has emerged as a critical capability for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, current benchmarks lack progressed difficulty in their task design and are deficient in cross-lingual tasks. Moreover, current benchmarks often use real-world images. Each real…

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2026

Long-form RewardBench: Evaluating Reward Models for Long-form Generation

AAAI 2026technical

The widespread adoption of reinforcement learning-based alignment highlights the growing importance of reward models. Various benchmarks have been built to evaluate reward models in various domains and scenarios. However, a significant gap remains in assessing reward models for long-form generation,

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Lost in Benchmarks? Rethinking Large Language Model Benchmarking with Item Response Theory

AAAI 2026technical

The evaluation of large language models (LLMs) via benchmarks is widespread, yet inconsistencies between different leaderboards and poor separability among top models raise concerns about their ability to accurately reflect authentic model capabilities. This paper provides a critical analysis of ben

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2026

RM-Distiller: Exploiting Generative LLM for Reward Model Distillation

IJCAI 2026

Reward models (RMs) play a pivotal role in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. Due to the difficulty of obtaining high-quality human preference annotations, distilling preferences from generative LLMs has emerged as a standard practice. However, existing approaches predomin

Cited by 0Scholar
2026

User-Aware Active Knowledge Acquisition for Emotional Support Dialogue

ICML 2026poster

Emotional support plays an important role in dialogue systems, and its success depends on adapting to a user’s evolving and implicit needs across multi-turn interactions while leveraging the strong reasoning capacity of large language models (LLMs). However, since user needs are often weakly supervi…

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2025

A Chain-of-Task Framework for Instruction Tuning of LLMs Based on Chinese Grammatical Error Correction

COLING 2025main

Over-correction is a critical issue for large language models (LLMs) to address Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) task, esp. for Chinese. This paper proposes a Chain-of-Task (CoTask) framework to reduce over-correction. The CoTask framework is applied as multi-task instruction tuning of LLMs by dec…

2025

An Empirical Study of LLM-as-a-Judge for LLM Evaluation: Fine-tuned Judge Model is not a General Substitute for GPT-4

ACL 2025finding

Recently, there has been a growing trend of utilizing Large Language Model (LLM) to evaluate the quality of other LLMs. Many studies have fine-tuned judge models based on open-source LLMs for evaluation. While the fine-tuned judge models are claimed to achieve comparable evaluation capability with G…

2025

Benchmarking LLMs for Translating Classical Chinese Poetry: Evaluating Adequacy, Fluency, and Elegance

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in general translation tasks. However, the increasing demand for high-quality translations that are not only adequate but also fluent and elegant. To assess the extent to which current LLMs can meet these demands, we introduce a suitable

2025

HiRes: Hierarchical Feature Optimization and Rescorer for Automatic ICD Coding

ICASSP 2025accepted

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding assigns standardized codes to diseases. Automating this process enhances the efficiency and accuracy of clinical records processing. However, current methods struggle with noisy and lengthy clinical texts, making it difficult to ensure the re…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

LLM-based Translation Inference with Iterative Bilingual Understanding

ACL 2025finding

The remarkable understanding and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have greatly improved translation performance. However, incorrect understanding of the sentence to be translated can degrade translation quality. To address this issue, we proposed a novel Iterative Bilingual Un…

2025

Legal Fact Prediction: The Missing Piece in Legal Judgment Prediction

EMNLP 2025

Legal judgment prediction (LJP), which enables litigants and their lawyers to forecast judgment outcomes and refine litigation strategies, has emerged as a crucial legal NLP task. Existing studies typically utilize legal facts, i.e., facts that have been established by evidence and determined by the

2025

LoRA-drop: Efficient LoRA Parameter Pruning based on Output Evaluation

COLING 2025main

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is currently the most commonly used Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method. However, it still faces high computational and storage costs to models with billions of parameters. Most previous studies have tackled this issue by using pruning techniques. Nonetheless, th…

Cited by 20SourcePDFScholar
2025

Look Before You Leap: Enhance Attention and Vigilance Regarding Harmful Content with GuidelineLLM

AAAI 2025technical

Despite being empowered with alignment mechanisms, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly vulnerable to emerging jailbreak attacks that can compromise their alignment mechanisms. This vulnerability poses significant risks to real-world applications. Existing work faces challenges in both tra…

2025

MADAWSD: Multi-Agent Debate Framework for Adversarial Word Sense Disambiguation

EMNLP 2025

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a fundamental yet challenging task in natural language processing. In recent years, the advent of large language models (LLMs) has led to significant advancements in regular WSD tasks. However, most existing LLMs face two major issues that hinder their performance

2025

Make Imagination Clearer! Stable Diffusion-based Visual Imagination for Multimodal Machine Translation

ACL 2025long

Visual information has been introduced for enhancing machine translation (MT), and its effectiveness heavily relies on the availability of large amounts of bilingual parallel sentence pairs with manual image annotations. In this paper, we introduce a stable diffusion-based imagination network into a…

2025

Memory-augmented Query Reconstruction for LLM-based Knowledge Graph Reasoning

ACL 2025finding

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on knowledge graph question answering (KGQA) tasks by planning and interacting with knowledge graphs. However, existing methods often confuse tool utilization with knowledge reasoning, harming readability of model outputs and giving r…

2025

MuSC: Improving Complex Instruction Following with Multi-granularity Self-Contrastive Training

ACL 2025long

Complex instruction-following with elaborate constraints is imperative for Large Language Models (LLMs). While existing methods have constructed data for complex instruction alignment, they all rely on a more advanced model, especially GPT-4, limiting their application. In this paper, we propose a M…

2025

Thinking in Character: Advancing Role-Playing Agents with Role-Aware Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has spurred significant interest in Role-Playing Agents (RPAs) for applications such as emotional companionship and virtual interaction. However, recent RPAs are often built on explicit dialogue data, lacking deep, human-like internal thought processes…

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2024

DUAL-REFLECT: Enhancing Large Language Models for Reflective Translation through Dual Learning Feedback Mechanisms

ACL 2024short

Recently, large language models (LLMs) enhanced by self-reflection have achieved promising performance on machine transla004 tion. The key idea is guiding LLMs to generate translation with human-like feedback. However, existing self-reflection methods lack effective feedback information, limiting th…

2024

Dynamic Planning for LLM-based Graphical User Interface Automation

EMNLP 2024finding

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has spurred considerable interest in advancing autonomous LLMs-based agents, particularly in intriguing applications within smartphone graphical user interfaces (GUIs). When presented with a task goal, these agents typically emulate human actions within a G…

2024

Self-Evaluation of Large Language Model based on Glass-box Features

EMNLP 2024finding

The proliferation of open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) underscores the pressing need for evaluation methods. Existing works primarily rely on external evaluators, focusing on training and prompting strategies. However, a crucial aspect – model-aware glass-box features – is overlooked. In this…

2023

Improving Translation Quality Estimation with Bias Mitigation

ACL 2023long

State-of-the-art translation Quality Estimation (QE) models are proven to be biased. More specifically, they over-rely on monolingual features while ignoring the bilingual semantic alignment. In this work, we propose a novel method to mitigate the bias of the QE model and improve estimation performa…

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2023

Iterative Nearest Neighbour Machine Translation for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

ACL 2023findings

Unsupervised domain adaptation of machine translation, which adapts a pre-trained translation model to a specific domain without in-domain parallel data, has drawn extensive attention in recent years. However, most existing methods focus on the fine-tuning based techniques, which is non-extensible.…

2022

Effective Graph Context Representation for Document-level Machine Translation

IJCAI 2022poster

Document-level neural machine translation (DocNMT) universally encodes several local sentences or the entire document. Thus, DocNMT does not consider the relevance of document-level contextual information, for example, some context (i.e., content words, logical order, and co-occurrence relation) is…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2020

Robust Machine Reading Comprehension by Learning Soft labels

COLING 2020main

Neural models have achieved great success on the task of machine reading comprehension (MRC), which are typically trained on hard labels. We argue that hard labels limit the model capability on generalization due to the label sparseness problem. In this paper, we propose a robust training method for…