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Tao Gui

116 accepted papers

2026

AgentGym-RL: An Open-Source Framework to Train LLM Agents for Long-Horizon Decision Making via Multi-Turn RL

ICLR 2026oral

Training LLM agents for complex multi-turn decision-making tasks requires extensive exploration within their environment, with reinforcement learning (RL) as a natural way. However, the open-source community currently lacks a unified RL framework capable of training agents from scratch across divers…

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2026

ChartE$^{3}$: A Comprehensive Benchmark for End-to-End Chart Editing

ICML 2026poster

Charts are a fundamental visualization format for structured data analysis. Enabling end-to-end chart editing according to user intent is of great practical value, yet remains challenging due to the need for both fine-grained control and global structural consistency. Most existing approaches adopt …

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2026

Critique-RL: Training Critiquing Language Models Through Two-Stage RL for Improved Discrimination and Constructive Feedback

ICLR 2026poster

Training critiquing language models to assess and provide feedback on model outputs is a promising way to improve LLMs for complex reasoning tasks. However, existing approaches typically rely on stronger supervisors for annotating critique data. To address this, we propose Critique-RL, an online RL…

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2026

Does Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Improve Generalization of LLM Agents? An Empirical Study

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) has shown promise for training LLM agents to perform multi-turn decision-making based on environment feedback. However, most existing evaluations remain largely in-domain—training and testing are conducted in the same environment or even on the same tasks. In real-wor…

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2026

MHA2MLA-VLM: Enabling DeepSeek’s Economical Multi-Head Latent Attention Across Vision-Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

As vision-language models (VLMs) tackle increasingly complex and multimodal tasks, the rapid growth of Key-Value (KV) cache imposes significant memory and computational bottlenecks during inference. While Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) offers an effective means to compress the KV cache and accele

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2026

MathCritique: Enhancing LLM Reasoning via Critique Models with Test-Time and Training-Time Supervision

IJCAI 2026

Training critique models to provide useful feedback for actor models is an effective approach in scalable oversight, especially for complex tasks like math reasoning. However, current research lacks suitable datasets for effectively training critique models and integrating them in a principled way a

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2026

MetaAct-RL: Training Language Models for Reasoning Through Meta-Action-Based Reinforcement Learning

AAAI 2026technical

Outcome-based reinforcement learning has made notable advances in training language models (LMs) for reasoning. However, without explicit incentives and controls, this paradigm has limitations and instability in eliciting high-quality reasoning trajectories with diverse actions—particularly for mode

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2026

R-Horizon: How Far Can Your Large Reasoning Model Really Go in Breadth and Depth?

ICLR 2026poster

Recent trends in test-time scaling for reasoning models (e.g., OpenAI o1, DeepSeek-R1) have led to remarkable improvements through long Chain-of-Thought (CoT). However, existing benchmarks mainly focus on immediate, single-horizon tasks, failing to adequately evaluate models’ ability to understand a…

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2026

SciAgentGym: Benchmarking Multi-Step Scientific Tool-Use in LLM Agents

ICML 2026poster

Scientific reasoning inherently demands integrating sophisticated toolkits to navigate domain-specific knowledge. Yet, current benchmarks largely overlook agents' ability to orchestrate tools for such rigorous workflows. To bridge this gap, we introduce **SciAgentGym**, a scalable interactive enviro…

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2026

Stabilizing Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for LLMs via Balanced Policy Optimization with Adaptive Clipping

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently become the core paradigm for aligning and strengthening large language models (LLMs). Yet, applying RL in off-policy settings—where stale data from past policies are used for training—improves sample efficiency, but remains challenging: policy entropy decline…

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2026

Synthesizing Multimodal Verifiable Game Data to Boost VLMs' General Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Vision-language reinforcement learning (RL) has primarily focused on narrow domains (e.g. geometry or chart reasoning). This leaves broader training scenarios and resources underexplored, limiting the exploration and learning of Vision Language Models (VLMs) through RL. We find video games inherentl…

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2026

Unlocking the Essence of Beauty: Advanced Aesthetic Reasoning with Relative-Absolute Policy Optimization

ICLR 2026poster

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are well suited to image aesthetic assessment, as they can capture high-level aesthetic features leveraging their cross-modal understanding capacity. However, the scarcity of multimodal aesthetic reasoning data and the inherently subjective nature of aestheti…

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2026

What Makes a Good Speech Tokenizer for LLM-Centric Speech Generation? A Systematic Study

AAAI 2026technical

Speech-language models (SLMs) offer a promising path toward unifying speech and text understanding and generation. However, challenges remain in achieving effective cross-modal alignment and high-quality speech generation. In this work, we systematically investigate the role of speech tokenizer desi

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2026

Why Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Enables MLLMs Preserve Prior Knowledge Better: A Data Perspective

ICLR 2026poster

Post-training algorithms such as Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) are widely used to adapt multimodal large language models to downstream tasks. While effective at task adaptation, their impact on prior knowledge remains unclear. In this paper, we introduce jigsaw puz…

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2025

AgentGym: Evaluating and Training Large Language Model-based Agents across Diverse Environments

ACL 2025long

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising foundation to build generally-capable agents (LLM-based agents) that can handle multi-turn decision-making tasks across various environments. However, the community lacks a unified interactive framework that covers diverse environments for com…

2025

Alleviating Shifted Distribution in Human Preference Alignment through Meta-Learning

AAAI 2025technical

The capability of the reward model (RM) is crucial for the success of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) in aligning with human preferences. However, as training progresses, the output space distribution of the policy model shifts. The RM, initially trained on responses sampled from t…

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2025

Analyzing the Effects of Supervised Fine-Tuning on Model Knowledge from Token and Parameter Levels

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) acquire substantial world knowledge during pre-training, which is further shaped by post-training techniques such as supervised fine-tuning (SFT). However, the impact of SFT on a model’s knowledge remains underexplored, limiting our ability to control knowledge behavior

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2025

BMMR: A Large-Scale Bilingual Multimodal Multi-Discipline Reasoning Dataset

NeurIPS 2025poster

In this paper, we introduce BMMR, a large-scale bilingual, multimodal, multi-disciplinary reasoning dataset for the community to develop and evaluate large multimodal models (LMMs). BMMR comprises 100k university-level questions drawn from 300 UNESCO-defined subjects, spanning diverse formats—multip…

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2025

Better Process Supervision with Bi-directional Rewarding Signals

ACL 2025finding

Process supervision, i.e., evaluating each step, is critical for complex large language model (LLM) reasoning and test-time searching with increased inference compute. Existing approaches, represented by process reward models (PRMs), primarily focus on rewarding signals up to the current step, exhib…

2025

Beyond Boundaries: Learning a Universal Entity Taxonomy across Datasets and Languages for Open Named Entity Recognition

COLING 2025main

Open Named Entity Recognition (NER), which involves identifying arbitrary types of entities from arbitrary domains, remains challenging for Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent studies suggest that fine-tuning LLMs on extensive NER data can boost their performance. However, training directly on exis…

2025

CritiQ: Mining Data Quality Criteria from Human Preferences

ACL 2025long

Language model heavily depends on high-quality data for optimal performance. Existing approaches rely on manually designed heuristics, the perplexity of existing models, training classifiers, orcareful prompt engineering, which require significant expert experience and human annotation effort while…

2025

Distill Visual Chart Reasoning Ability from LLMs to MLLMs

EMNLP 2025

Solving complex chart Q&A tasks requires advanced visual reasoning abilities in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), including recognizing key information from visual inputs and conducting reasoning over it. While fine-tuning MLLMs for reasoning is critical, collecting and annotating charts and

2025

EvaLearn: Quantifying the Learning Capability and Efficiency of LLMs via Sequential Problem Solving

NeurIPS 2025poster

We introduce EvaLearn, a pioneering benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) on their learning capability and efficiency in challenging tasks, a critical, yet underexplored aspect of model potential. EvaLearn contains 648 challenging problems across six task types, grouped into 18…

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2025

Governance in Motion: Co-evolution of Constitutions and AI models for Scalable Safety

EMNLP 2025

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences is a central challenge for building reliable AI systems. Most existing alignment approaches rely on static signals, such as predefined principles or offline human annotations to guide model behavior toward a fixed approximation of human pr

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2025

Have the VLMs Lost Confidence? A Study of Sycophancy in VLMs

ICLR 2025poster

In the study of LLMs, sycophancy represents a prevalent hallucination that poses significant challenges to these models. Specifically, LLMs often fail to adhere to original correct responses, instead blindly agreeing with users' opinions, even when those opinions are incorrect or malicious. However,…

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2025

INST-IT: Boosting Instance Understanding via Explicit Visual Prompt Instruction Tuning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have made significant breakthroughs with the advancement of instruction tuning. However, while existing models can understand images and videos at a holistic level, they still struggle with instance-level understanding that requires a more fine-grained comprehension an…

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2025

LLMEval-Med: A Real-world Clinical Benchmark for Medical LLMs with Physician Validation

EMNLP 2025

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) in medicine is crucial because medical applications require high accuracy with little room for error. Current medical benchmarks have three main types: medical exam-based, comprehensive medical, and specialized assessments. However, these benchmarks have limit

2025

LoRACoE: Improving Large Language Model via Composition-based LoRA Expert

EMNLP 2025

The Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture improves large language models (LLMs) by utilizing sparsely activated expert sub-networks with a routing module, but it typically demands high training cost. Previous work introduces parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) modules, e.g., LoRA, to achieve a li

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2025

Lost in the Context: Insufficient and Distracted Attention to Contexts in Preference Modeling

ACL 2025long

In Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), the reward model (RM) evaluates the response quality based on the given context and assigns a reward. It plays a crucial role in aligning RLHF with human preferences. Although the current RM training paradigm concatenates the context and response…

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2025

Measuring Data Diversity for Instruction Tuning: A Systematic Analysis and A Reliable Metric

ACL 2025long

Data diversity is crucial for the instruction tuning of large language models. Existing studies have explored various diversity-aware data selection methods to construct high-quality datasets and enhance model performance. However, the fundamental problem of precisely defining and measuring data div…

2025

Mitigating Object Hallucinations in MLLMs via Multi-Frequency Perturbations

EMNLP 2025

Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in visual-language tasks. However, the authenticity of the responses generated by MLLMs is often compromised by object hallucinations. We identify that a key cause of these hallucinations is the model’s over-

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2025

Mitigating Tail Narrowing in LLM Self-Improvement via Socratic-Guided Sampling

NAACL 2025long

Self-improvement methods enable large language models (LLMs) to generate solutions themselves and iteratively train on filtered, high-quality rationales. This process proves effective and reduces the reliance on human supervision in LLMs’ reasoning, but the performance soon plateaus. We delve into t…

2025

PFDial: A Structured Dialogue Instruction Fine-tuning Method Based on UML Flowcharts

ACL 2025finding

Process-driven dialogue systems, which operate under strict predefined process constraints, are essential in customer service and equipment maintenance scenarios. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress in dialogue and reasoning, they still struggle to solve these strict…

2025

Parrot: A Training Pipeline Enhances Both Program CoT and Natural Language CoT for Reasoning

EMNLP 2025

Natural language chain-of-thought (N-CoT) and Program chain-of-thought (P-CoT) have emerged as two primary paradigms for large language models (LLMs) to solve mathematical reasoning problems. Current research typically endeavors to achieve unidirectional enhancement: P-CoT enhanced N-CoT or N-CoT en

2025

Pre-Trained Policy Discriminators are General Reward Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

We offer a novel perspective on reward modeling by formulating it as a policy discriminator, which quantifies the difference between two policies to generate a reward signal, guiding the training policy towards a target policy with desired behaviors. Based on this conceptual insight, we propose a sc…

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2025

RMB: Comprehensively benchmarking reward models in LLM alignment

ICLR 2025poster

Reward models (RMs) guide the alignment of large language models (LLMs), steering them toward behaviors preferred by humans. Evaluating RMs is the key to better aligning LLMs. However, the current evaluation of RMs may not directly correspond to their alignment performance due to the limited distrib…

2025

SPA-VL: A Comprehensive Safety Preference Alignment Dataset for Vision Language Models

CVPR 2025poster

The emergence of Vision Language Models (VLMs) has brought unprecedented advances in understanding multimodal information. The combination of textual and visual semantics in VLMs is highly complex and diverse, making the safety alignment of these models challenging. Furthermore, due to the limited s…

2025

TL-Training: A Task-Feature-Based Framework for Training Large Language Models in Tool Use

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable advancements by leveraging tools to interact with environments, a critical step toward generalized AI. However, the standard supervised fine-tuning (SFT) approach, which relies on large-scale datasets, often overlooks task-specific characteristics in t

2025

ToolEyes: Fine-Grained Evaluation for Tool Learning Capabilities of Large Language Models in Real-world Scenarios

COLING 2025main

Existing evaluations of tool learning primarily focus on validating the alignment of selected tools for large language models (LLMs) with expected outcomes. However, these approaches rely on a limited set of scenarios where answers can be pre-determined. Furthermore, a sole emphasis on outcomes disr…

2025

ToolHop: A Query-Driven Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Multi-Hop Tool Use

ACL 2025long

Effective evaluation of multi-hop tool use is critical for analyzing the understanding, reasoning, and function-calling capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, progress has been hindered by a lack of reliable evaluation datasets. To address this, we present ToolHop, a dataset comprisi…

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2025

Toward Optimal LLM Alignments Using Two-Player Games

EMNLP 2025

Alignment of large language models (LLM) is a process that ensures the model’s responses to user prompts align with human intentions and social values. This optimization typically relies on pre-collected prompts. The collection of these prompts often either requires careful human interventions or pr

2025

Towards Economical Inference: Enabling DeepSeek’s Multi-Head Latent Attention in Any Transformer-based LLMs

ACL 2025long

Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) is an innovative architecture proposed by DeepSeek, designed to ensure efficient and economical inference by significantly compressing the Key-Value (KV) cache into a latent vector. Compared to MLA, standard LLMs employing Multi-Head Attention (MHA) and its variants…

2025

Understanding Parametric and Contextual Knowledge Reconciliation within Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) provides additional contextual knowledge to complement the parametric knowledge in Large Language Models (LLMs). These two knowledge interweave to enhance the accuracy and timeliness of LLM responses. However, the internal mechanisms by which LLMs utilize thes…

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2024

A Soft Contrastive Learning-Based Prompt Model for Few-Shot Sentiment Analysis

ICASSP 2024accepted

Few-shot text classification has attracted great interest in both academia and industry due to the lack of labeled data in many fields. Different from general text classification (e.g., topic classification), few-shot sentiment classification is more challenging because the semantic distances among…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

AnyGPT: Unified Multimodal LLM with Discrete Sequence Modeling

ACL 2024long

We introduce AnyGPT, an any-to-any multimodal language model that utilizes discrete representations for the unified processing of various modalities, including speech, text, images, and music. AnyGPT can be trained stably without any alterations to the current large language model (LLM) architecture…

2024

Domain Generalization via Causal Adjustment for Cross-Domain Sentiment Analysis

COLING 2024main

Domain adaption has been widely adapted for cross-domain sentiment analysis to transfer knowledge from the source domain to the target domain. Whereas, most methods are proposed under the assumption that the target (test) domain is known, making them fail to generalize well on unknown test data that…

2024

Enhancing Contrastive Learning with Noise-Guided Attack: Towards Continual Relation Extraction in the Wild

ACL 2024long

The principle of continual relation extraction (CRE) involves adapting to emerging novel relations while preserving old knowledge. Existing CRE approaches excel in preserving old knowledge but falter when confronted with contaminated data streams, likely due to an artificial assumption of no annotat…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Improving Discriminative Capability of Reward Models in RLHF Using Contrastive Learning

EMNLP 2024main

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a crucial approach to aligning language models with human values and intentions. A fundamental challenge in this method lies in ensuring that the reward model accurately understands and evaluates human preferences. Current methods rely on ranking…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Improving Generalization of Alignment with Human Preferences through Group Invariant Learning

ICLR 2024spotlight

The success of AI assistants based on language models (LLMs) hinges crucially on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), which enables the generation of responses more aligned with human preferences. As universal AI assistants, there's a growing expectation for them to perform consistent…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2024

LLMEval: A Preliminary Study on How to Evaluate Large Language Models

AAAI 2024technical

Recently, the evaluation of Large Language Models has emerged as a popular area of research. The three crucial questions for LLM evaluation are ``what, where, and how to evaluate''. However, the existing research mainly focuses on the first two questions, which are basically what tasks to give the…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2024

LONGAGENT: Achieving Question Answering for 128k-Token-Long Documents through Multi-Agent Collaboration

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved tremendous success in understanding language and processing text. However, question-answering (QA) on lengthy documents faces challenges of resource constraints and a high propensity for errors, even for the most advanced models such as GPT-4 and Claude2.In…

2024

Length Generalization of Causal Transformers without Position Encoding

ACL 2024findings

Generalizing to longer sentences is important for recent Transformer-based language models. Besides algorithms manipulating explicit position features, the success of Transformers without position encodings (NoPE) provides a new way to overcome the challenge. In this paper, we study the length gener…

2024

LoRAMoE: Alleviating World Knowledge Forgetting in Large Language Models via MoE-Style Plugin

ACL 2024long

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a crucial step for large language models (LLMs), enabling them to align with human instructions and enhance their capabilities in downstream tasks. Substantially increasing instruction data is a direct solution to align the model with a broader range of downstream tas…

2024

LongHeads: Multi-Head Attention is Secretly a Long Context Processor

EMNLP 2024finding

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance in numerous domains but often struggle to process lengthy inputs effectively and efficiently due to limited length generalization and attention’s quadratic computational demands. Many sought to mitigate this by restricting the attenti…

2024

Making Harmful Behaviors Unlearnable for Large Language Models

ACL 2024findings

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential to empower various domains and are often customized by fine-tuning for the requirements of different applications. However, the powerful learning ability of LLMs not only enables them to learn new tasks but also makes them vulnerable to learnin…

2024

Modeling Layout Reading Order as Ordering Relations for Visually-rich Document Understanding

EMNLP 2024main

Modeling and leveraging layout reading order in visually-rich documents (VrDs) is critical in document intelligence as it captures the rich structure semantics within documents.Previous works typically formulated layout reading order as a permutation of layout elements, i.e. a sequence containing al…

2024

Navigating the OverKill in Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

Large language models are meticulously aligned to be both helpful and harmless. However, recent research points to a potential overkill which means models may refuse to answer benign queries. In this paper, we investigate the factors for overkill by exploring how models handle and determine the safe…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar
2024

ORTicket: Let One Robust BERT Ticket Transfer across Different Tasks

COLING 2024main

Pretrained language models can be applied for various downstream tasks but are susceptible to subtle perturbations. Most adversarial defense methods often introduce adversarial training during the fine-tuning phase to enhance empirical robustness. However, the repeated execution of adversarial train…

2024

P4: Plug-and-Play Discrete Prompting for Large Language Models Personalization

ACL 2024findings

Empowering Large Language Models (LLMs) with distinct human-like personality traits has become an innovative task for developing advanced dialog systems.Although LLMs demonstrate impressive capabilities in following instructions, directly prompting them to exhibit certain personalities through manua…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

PDF-to-Tree: Parsing PDF Text Blocks into a Tree

EMNLP 2024finding

In many PDF documents, the reading order of text blocks is missing, which can hinder machine understanding of the document’s content.Existing works try to extract one universal reading order for a PDF file.However, applications, like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), require breaking long articl…

2024

Reward Modeling Requires Automatic Adjustment Based on Data Quality

EMNLP 2024finding

In Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), the reward model plays a crucial role in aligning language model outputs with human values. The human preference data used to train the reward model consists of a prompt and a response pair, with humans annotating which response better aligns wit…

2024

RoCoIns: Enhancing Robustness of Large Language Models through Code-Style Instructions

COLING 2024main

Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities in following human instructions. However, recent studies have raised concerns about the robustness of LLMs for natural language understanding (NLU) tasks when prompted with instructions combining textual adversarial samples. In this…

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2024

RoTBench: A Multi-Level Benchmark for Evaluating the Robustness of Large Language Models in Tool Learning

EMNLP 2024main

Tool learning has generated widespread interest as a vital means of interaction between Large Language Models (LLMs) and the physical world. Current research predominantly emphasizes LLMs’ capacity to utilize tools in well-structured environments while overlooking their stability when confronted wit…

2024

Self-Demos: Eliciting Out-of-Demonstration Generalizability in Large Language Models

NAACL 2024findings

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising abilities of in-context learning (ICL), adapting swiftly to new tasks with only few-shot demonstrations. However, current few-shot methods heavily depend on high-quality, query-specific demos, which are often lacking. When faced with out-of-demonstra…

2024

StepCoder: Improving Code Generation with Reinforcement Learning from Compiler Feedback

ACL 2024long

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly propelled the field of code generation. Previous work integrated reinforcement learning (RL) with compiler feedback for exploring the output space of LLMs to enhance code generation quality. However, the lengthy code generated by LLMs…

2024

Subspace Defense: Discarding Adversarial Perturbations by Learning a Subspace for Clean Signals

COLING 2024main

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are notoriously vulnerable to adversarial attacks that place carefully crafted perturbations on normal examples to fool DNNs. To better understand such attacks, a characterization of the features carried by adversarial examples is needed. In this paper, we tackle this cha…

2024

ToolSword: Unveiling Safety Issues of Large Language Models in Tool Learning Across Three Stages

ACL 2024long

Tool learning is widely acknowledged as a foundational approach or deploying large language models (LLMs) in real-world scenarios. While current research primarily emphasizes leveraging tools to augment LLMs, it frequently neglects emerging safety considerations tied to their application. To fill th…

2024

Training Large Language Models for Reasoning through Reverse Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2024poster

In this paper, we propose **R**$^3$: Learning **R**easoning through **R**everse Curriculum **R**einforcement Learning (RL), a novel method that employs only outcome supervision to achieve the benefits of process supervision for large language models. The core challenge in applying RL to complex reas…

2024

TransferTOD: A Generalizable Chinese Multi-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue System with Transfer Capabilities

EMNLP 2024main

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems aim to efficiently handle task-oriented conversations, including information collection. How to utilize TOD accurately, efficiently and effectively for information collection has always been a critical and challenging task. Recent studies have demonstrated that L…

2024

Unveiling Linguistic Regions in Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated considerable cross-lingual alignment and generalization ability. Current research primarily focuses on improving LLMs’ cross-lingual generalization capabilities. However, there is still a lack of research on the intrinsic mechanisms of how LLMs achieve…

2024

Unveiling and Consulting Core Experts in Retrieval-Augmented MoE-based LLMs

EMNLP 2024main

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) significantly improved the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve knowledge-intensive tasks. While existing research seeks to enhance RAG performance by retrieving higher-quality documents or designing RAG-specific LLMs, the internal mechanisms within L…

2023

A Confidence-based Partial Label Learning Model for Crowd-Annotated Named Entity Recognition

ACL 2023findings

Existing models for named entity recognition (NER) are mainly based on large-scale labeled datasets, which always obtain using crowdsourcing. However, it is hard to obtain a unified and correct label via majority voting from multiple annotators for NER due to the large labeling space and complexity…

2023

Actively Supervised Clustering for Open Relation Extraction

ACL 2023long

Current clustering-based Open Relation Extraction (OpenRE) methods usually adopt a two-stage pipeline, which simultaneously learns relation representations and assignments in the first stage, then manually labels relation for each cluster. However, unsupervised objectives struggle to explicitly opti…

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2023

Characterizing the Impacts of Instances on Robustness

ACL 2023findings

Building robust deep neural networks (DNNs) against adversarial attacks is an important but challenging task. Previous defense approaches mainly focus on developing new model structures or training algorithms, but they do little to tap the potential of training instances, especially instances with r…

2023

Coarse-to-fine Few-shot Learning for Named Entity Recognition

ACL 2023findings

Recently, Few-shot Named Entity Recognition has received wide attention with the growing need for NER models to learn new classes with minimized annotation costs. However, one common yet understudied situation is to transfer a model trained with coarse-grained classes to recognize fine-grained class…

2023

Connectivity Patterns are Task Embeddings

ACL 2023findings

Task embeddings are task-specific vectors designed to construct a semantic space of tasks, which can be used to predict the most transferable source task for a given target task via the similarity between task embeddings. However, existing methods use optimized parameters and representations as task…

2023

Correspondence Transformers With Asymmetric Feature Learning and Matching Flow Super-Resolution

CVPR 2023poster

This paper solves the problem of learning dense visual correspondences between different object instances of the same category with only sparse annotations. We decompose this pixel-level semantic matching problem into two easier ones: (i) First, local feature descriptors of source and target images…

2023

Detecting Adversarial Samples through Sharpness of Loss Landscape

ACL 2023findings

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven to be sensitive towards perturbations on input samples, and previous works highlight that adversarial samples are even more vulnerable than normal ones. In this work, this phenomenon is illustrated frWe first show that adversarial samples locate in steep…

2023

Farewell to Aimless Large-scale Pretraining: Influential Subset Selection for Language Model

ACL 2023findings

Pretrained language models have achieved remarkable success in various natural language processing tasks. However, pretraining has recently shifted toward larger models and larger data, which has resulted in significant computational and energy costs. In this paper, we propose Influence Subset Selec…

2023

Inductive Relation Inference of Knowledge Graph Enhanced by Ontology Information

EMNLP 2023long findings

The inductive inference of the knowledge graph aims to complete the potential relations between the new unknown entities in the graph. Most existing methods are based on entity-independent features such as graph structure information and relationship information to inference. However, the neighborho…

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2023

Learning “O” Helps for Learning More: Handling the Unlabeled Entity Problem for Class-incremental NER

ACL 2023long

As the categories of named entities rapidly increase, the deployed NER models are required to keep updating toward recognizing more entity types, creating a demand for class-incremental learning for NER. Considering the privacy concerns and storage constraints, the standard paradigm for class-increm…

2023

Loose lips sink ships: Mitigating Length Bias in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

EMNLP 2023long findings

Reinforcement learning from human feedback serves as a crucial bridge, aligning large language models with human and societal values. This alignment requires a vast corpus of human feedback to learn a reward model, which is subsequently used to finetune language models. However, we have identified t…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Modeling the Q-Diversity in a Min-max Play Game for Robust Optimization

ACL 2023findings

Models trained with empirical risk minimization (ERM) are revealed to easily rely on spurious correlations, resulting in poor generalization. Group distributionally robust optimization (group DRO) can alleviate this problem by minimizing the worst-case loss over pre-defined groups. While promising,…

2023

Open Set Relation Extraction via Unknown-Aware Training

ACL 2023long

The existing supervised relation extraction methods have achieved impressive performance in a closed-set setting, in which the relations remain the same during both training and testing. In a more realistic open-set setting, unknown relations may appear in the test set. Due to the lack of supervisio…

2023

Orthogonal Subspace Learning for Language Model Continual Learning

EMNLP 2023long findings

Benefiting from massive corpora and advanced hardware, large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities in language understanding and generation. However, their performance degrades in scenarios where multiple tasks are encountered sequentially, also known as catastrophic forgetting. In…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

RE-Matching: A Fine-Grained Semantic Matching Method for Zero-Shot Relation Extraction

ACL 2023long

Semantic matching is a mainstream paradigm of zero-shot relation extraction, which matches a given input with a corresponding label description. The entities in the input should exactly match their hypernyms in the description, while the irrelevant contexts should be ignored when matching. However,…

2023

Reading Order Matters: Information Extraction from Visually-rich Documents by Token Path Prediction

EMNLP 2023long main

Recent advances in multimodal pre-trained models have significantly improved information extraction from visually-rich documents (VrDs), in which named entity recognition (NER) is treated as a sequence-labeling task of predicting the BIO entity tags for tokens, following the typical setting of NLP.…

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2023

RealBehavior: A Framework for Faithfully Characterizing Foundation Models’ Human-like Behavior Mechanisms

EMNLP 2023long findings

Reports of human-like behaviors in foundation models are growing, with psychological theories providing enduring tools to investigate these behaviors. However, current research tends to directly apply these human-oriented tools without verifying the faithfulness of their outcomes. In this paper, we…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Self-Polish: Enhance Reasoning in Large Language Models via Problem Refinement

EMNLP 2023long findings

To enhance the multi-step reasoning capabilities of large language models, researchers have extensively explored prompting methods, notably the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) method which explicitly elicits human-like rationales. However, they have inadvertently overlooked the potential of enhancing model r…

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2023

TextMixer: Mixing Multiple Inputs for Privacy-Preserving Inference

EMNLP 2023long findings

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) are often deployed as cloud services, enabling users to upload textual data and perform inference remotely. However, users' personal text often contains sensitive information, and sharing such data directly with the service providers can lead to serious privacy l…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

TextObfuscator: Making Pre-trained Language Model a Privacy Protector via Obfuscating Word Representations

ACL 2023findings

In real-world applications, pre-trained language models are typically deployed on the cloud, allowing clients to upload data and perform compute-intensive inference remotely. To avoid sharing sensitive data directly with service providers, clients can upload numerical representations rather than pla…

2023

Towards Understanding Omission in Dialogue Summarization

ACL 2023long

Dialogue summarization aims to condense the lengthy dialogue into a concise summary, and has recently achieved significant progress. However, the result of existing methods is still far from satisfactory. Previous works indicated that omission is a major factor in affecting the quality of summarizat…

2022

CQG: A Simple and Effective Controlled Generation Framework for Multi-hop Question Generation

ACL 2022long

Multi-hop question generation focuses on generating complex questions that require reasoning over multiple pieces of information of the input passage. Current models with state-of-the-art performance have been able to generate the correct questions corresponding to the answers. However, most models…

2022

Causal Intervention Improves Implicit Sentiment Analysis

COLING 2022main

Despite having achieved great success for sentiment analysis, existing neural models struggle with implicit sentiment analysis. It is because they may latch onto spurious correlations (“shortcuts”, e.g., focusing only on explicit sentiment words), resulting in undermining the effectiveness and robus…

2022

Cross-Linguistic Syntactic Difference in Multilingual BERT: How Good is It and How Does It Affect Transfer?

EMNLP 2022main

Multilingual BERT (mBERT) has demonstrated considerable cross-lingual syntactic ability, whereby it enables effective zero-shot cross-lingual transfer of syntactic knowledge. The transfer is more successful between some languages, but it is not well understood what leads to this variation and whethe…

2022

Divide and Conquer: Text Semantic Matching with Disentangled Keywords and Intents

ACL 2022findings

Text semantic matching is a fundamental task that has been widely used in various scenarios, such as community question answering, information retrieval, and recommendation. Most state-of-the-art matching models, e.g., BERT, directly perform text comparison by processing each word uniformly. However…

2022

Efficient Adversarial Training with Robust Early-Bird Tickets

EMNLP 2022main

Adversarial training is one of the most powerful methods to improve the robustness of pre-trained language models (PLMs). However, this approach is typically more expensive than traditional fine-tuning because of the necessity to generate adversarial examples via gradient descent. Delving into the o…

2022

Flooding-X: Improving BERT’s Resistance to Adversarial Attacks via Loss-Restricted Fine-Tuning

ACL 2022long

Adversarial robustness has attracted much attention recently, and the mainstream solution is adversarial training. However, the tradition of generating adversarial perturbations for each input embedding (in the settings of NLP) scales up the training computational complexity by the number of gradien…

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2022

LFKQG: A Controlled Generation Framework with Local Fine-tuning for Question Generation over Knowledge Bases

COLING 2022main

Question generation over knowledge bases (KBQG) aims at generating natural questions about a subgraph, which can be answered by a given answer entity. Existing KBQG models still face two main challenges: (1) Most models often focus on the most relevant part of the answer entity, while neglecting the…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2022

MINER: Improving Out-of-Vocabulary Named Entity Recognition from an Information Theoretic Perspective

ACL 2022long

NER model has achieved promising performance on standard NER benchmarks. However, recent studies show that previous approaches may over-rely on entity mention information, resulting in poor performance on out-of-vocabulary(OOV) entity recognition. In this work, we propose MINER, a novel NER learning…

2022

Making Parameter-efficient Tuning More Efficient: A Unified Framework for Classification Tasks

COLING 2022main

Large pre-trained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated superior performance in industrial applications. Recent studies have explored parameter-efficient PLM tuning, which only updates a small amount of task-specific parameters while achieving both high efficiency and comparable performance again…

2022

PlugAT: A Plug and Play Module to Defend against Textual Adversarial Attack

COLING 2022main

Adversarial training, which minimizes the loss of adversarially perturbed examples, has received considerable attention. However, these methods require modifying all model parameters and optimizing the model from scratch, which is parameter inefficient and unfriendly to the already deployed models.…

2022

ProofInfer: Generating Proof via Iterative Hierarchical Inference

EMNLP 2022main

Proof generation focuses on deductive reasoning: given a hypothesis and a set of theories, including some supporting facts and logical rules expressed in natural language, the model generates a proof tree indicating how to deduce the hypothesis from given theories.Current models with state-of-the-ar…

2022

Read Extensively, Focus Smartly: A Cross-document Semantic Enhancement Method for Visual Documents NER

COLING 2022main

The introduction of multimodal information and pretraining technique significantly improves entity recognition from visually-rich documents. However, most of the existing methods pay unnecessary attention to irrelevant regions of the current document while ignoring the potentially valuable informati…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2022

Robust Lottery Tickets for Pre-trained Language Models

ACL 2022long

Recent works on Lottery Ticket Hypothesis have shown that pre-trained language models (PLMs) contain smaller matching subnetworks(winning tickets) which are capable of reaching accuracy comparable to the original models. However, these tickets are proved to be notrobust to adversarial examples, and…

2022

Searching for Optimal Subword Tokenization in Cross-domain NER

IJCAI 2022poster

Input distribution shift is one of the vital problems in unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA). The most popular UDA approaches focus on domain-invariant representation learning, trying to align the features from different domains into a similar feature distribution. However, these approaches ignore…

2022

Template-free Prompt Tuning for Few-shot NER

NAACL 2022long

Prompt-based methods have been successfully applied in sentence-level few-shot learning tasks, mostly owing to the sophisticated design of templates and label words. However, when applied to token-level labeling tasks such as NER, it would be time-consuming to enumerate the template queries over all…

2022

TextFusion: Privacy-Preserving Pre-trained Model Inference via Token Fusion

EMNLP 2022main

Recently, more and more pre-trained language models are released as a cloud service. It allows users who lack computing resources to perform inference with a powerful model by uploading data to the cloud. The plain text may contain private information, as the result, users prefer to do partial compu…

2021

A Relation-Oriented Clustering Method for Open Relation Extraction

EMNLP 2021main

The clustering-based unsupervised relation discovery method has gradually become one of the important methods of open relation extraction (OpenRE). However, high-dimensional vectors can encode complex linguistic information which leads to the problem that the derived clusters cannot explicitly align…

2021

A Unified Generative Framework for Various NER Subtasks

ACL 2021long

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of identifying spans that represent entities in sentences. Whether the entity spans are nested or discontinuous, the NER task can be categorized into the flat NER, nested NER, and discontinuous NER subtasks. These subtasks have been mainly solved by the tok…

2021

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Keyphrase Generation

EMNLP 2021main

The encoder–decoder framework achieves state-of-the-art results in keyphrase generation (KG) tasks by predicting both present keyphrases that appear in the source document and absent keyphrases that do not. However, relying solely on the source document can result in generating uncontrollable and in…

2021

Low-Resource Dialogue Summarization with Domain-Agnostic Multi-Source Pretraining

EMNLP 2021main

With the rapid increase in the volume of dialogue data from daily life, there is a growing demand for dialogue summarization. Unfortunately, training a large summarization model is generally infeasible due to the inadequacy of dialogue data with annotated summaries. Most existing works for low-resou…

2021

SENT: Sentence-level Distant Relation Extraction via Negative Training

ACL 2021long

Distant supervision for relation extraction provides uniform bag labels for each sentence inside the bag, while accurate sentence labels are important for downstream applications that need the exact relation type. Directly using bag labels for sentence-level training will introduce much noise, thus…

2020

Leveraging Document-Level Label Consistency for Named Entity Recognition

IJCAI 2020poster

Document-level label consistency is an effective indicator that different occurrences of a particular token sequence are very likely to have the same entity types. Previous work focused on better context representations and used the CRF for label decoding. However, CRF-based methods are inadequate f…