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Xinyu Ma

26 accepted papers

2026

EndoIR: Degradation-Agnostic All-in-One Endoscopic Image Restoration via Noise-Aware Routing Diffusion

AAAI 2026technical

Endoscopic images often suffer from diverse and co-occurring degradations such as low lighting, smoke, and bleeding, which obscure critical clinical details. Existing restoration methods are typically task-specific and often require prior knowledge of the degradation type, limiting their robustness

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2026

GPS: Directed Acyclic Graph guided Proactive Information Seeking in Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with the ability to proactively ask clarifying questions is essential to mitigate ambiguity when faced with underspecified user queries in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. However, existing methods often neglect the rule-based reasoning structures…

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2026

LearNAT: Learning NL2SQL with AST-guided Task Decomposition for Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) aims to translate natural language queries into executable SQL statements, offering non-expert users intuitive access to databases. While recent approaches leveraging large-scale private LLMs such as GPT-4 have achieved state-of-the-art results, they face two critica…

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2026

SPARKLING: Balancing Signal Preservation and Symmetry Breaking for Width-Progressive Learning

ICML 2026poster

Progressive Learning (PL) reduces pre-training computational overhead by gradually increasing model scale. While prior work has extensively explored depth expansion, width expansion remains significantly understudied, with the few existing methods limited to the early stages of training. However, ex…

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2026

Search for Truth from Reasoning: A Dynamic Representation Editing Framework for Steering LLM Trajectories

ICML 2026poster

Current approaches to enhance Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning, such as Chain-of-Thought and "Wait" prompts, primarily encourage models to think more, yet often fail to guide them toward Truth. While Representation Editing (RepE) offers a intrinsic control, its application to dynamic reasoning t…

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2026

ZeroGR: A Generalizable and Scalable Framework for Zero-Shot Generative Retrieval

ICLR 2026poster

Generative retrieval (GR) reformulates information retrieval (IR) by framing it as the generation of document identifiers (docids), thereby enabling an end-to-end optimization and seamless integration with generative language models (LMs). Despite notable progress under supervised training, GR still…

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2025

CDT: A Comprehensive Capability Framework for Large Language Models Across Cognition, Domain, and Task

EMNLP 2025

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced their capabilities, highlighting the need for comprehensive evaluation frameworks that extend beyond task-specific benchmarks.However, existing benchmarks often focus on isolated abilities, lacking a holistic framework for a

2025

CoRanking: Collaborative Ranking with Small and Large Ranking Agents

EMNLP 2025

Listwise ranking based on Large Language Models (LLMs) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in Information Retrieval (IR).However, their effectiveness often depends on LLMs with massive parameter scales and computationally expensive sliding window processing, leading to substantial efficiency b

2025

DRESSing Up LLM: Efficient Stylized Question-Answering via Style Subspace Editing

ICLR 2025poster

We introduce DRESS, a novel approach for generating stylized large language model (LLM) responses through representation editing. Existing methods like prompting and fine-tuning are either insufficient for complex style adaptation or computationally expensive, particularly in tasks like NPC creation…

2025

Evaluation of Text-to-Image Generation from a Creativity Perspective

EMNLP 2025

In recent years, driven by advancements in the diffusion process, Text-to-Image (T2I) models have rapidly developed. However, evaluating T2I models remains a significant challenge. While previous research has thoroughly assessed the quality of generated images and image-text alignment, there has bee

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2025

Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is widely utilized to incorporate external knowledge into large language models, thereby enhancing factuality and reducing hallucinations in question-answering (QA) tasks. A standard RAG pipeline consists of several components, such as query rewriting, document r…

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2025

Knowledge Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for LLM-based Recommendation

ACL 2025long

Recommender systems have become increasingly vital in our daily lives, helping to alleviate the problem of information overload across various user-oriented online services. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has yielded remarkable achievements, demonstrating their potential for the devel…

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2025

Parenting: Optimizing Knowledge Selection of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models with Parameter Decoupling and Tailored Tuning

ACL 2025long

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) offers an effective solution to the issues faced by Large Language Models (LLMs) in hallucination generation and knowledge obsolescence by incorporating externally retrieved knowledge. However, existing methods lack effective control mechanisms for integrating in…

2025

Sliding Windows Are Not the End: Exploring Full Ranking with Long-Context Large Language Models

ACL 2025long

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown exciting performance in listwise passage ranking. Due to the limited input length, existing methods often adopt the sliding window strategy. Such a strategy, though effective, is inefficient as it involves repetitive and serialized processing, which usually re…

2025

TC–RAG: Turing–Complete RAG’s Case study on Medical LLM Systems

ACL 2025long

In the pursuit of enhancing domain-specific Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) emerges as a promising solution to mitigate issues such as hallucinations, outdated knowledge, and limited expertise in highly specialized queries. However, existing approaches to RAG fall…

2025

TP-RAG: Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Model Agents for Spatiotemporal-Aware Travel Planning

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating travel planning, yet they often fall short in addressing nuanced spatiotemporal rationality. While existing benchmarks focus on basic plan validity, they neglect critical aspects such as route efficiency, POI appeal, and real-time adaptab

2025

The Mirage of Model Editing: Revisiting Evaluation in the Wild

ACL 2025long

Despite near-perfect results reported in the literature, the effectiveness of model editing in real-world applications remains unclear. To bridge this gap, we introduce QAEdit, a new benchmark aligned with widely used question answering (QA) datasets, and WILD, a task-agnostic evaluation framework d…

2024

3AM: An Ambiguity-Aware Multi-Modal Machine Translation Dataset

COLING 2024main

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) is a challenging task that seeks to improve translation quality by incorporating visual information. However, recent studies have indicated that the visual information provided by existing MMT datasets is insufficient, causing models to disregard it and overestim…

2024

Combating Label Sparsity in Short Text Topic Modeling via Nearest Neighbor Augmentation

ACL 2024findings

Extracting semantic topics from short texts presents a significant challenge in the field of data mining. While efforts have been made to mitigate data sparsity issue, the limited length of short documents also results in the absence of semantically relevant words, causing biased evidence lower boun…

2024

MAIR: A Massive Benchmark for Evaluating Instructed Retrieval

EMNLP 2024main

Recent information retrieval (IR) models are pre-trained and instruction-tuned on massive datasets and tasks, enabling them to perform well on a wide range of tasks and potentially generalize to unseen tasks with instructions. However, existing IR benchmarks focus on a limited scope of tasks, making…

2024

Parameter Efficient Quasi-Orthogonal Fine-Tuning via Givens Rotation

ICML 2024poster

With the increasingly powerful performances and enormous scales of pretrained models, promoting parameter efficiency in fine-tuning has become a crucial need for effective and efficient adaptation to various downstream tasks. One representative line of fine-tuning methods is Orthogonal Fine-tuning (…

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2024

The Butterfly Effect of Model Editing: Few Edits Can Trigger Large Language Models Collapse

ACL 2024findings

Although model editing has shown promise in revising knowledge in Large Language Models (LLMs), its impact on the inherent capabilities of LLMs is often overlooked. In this work, we reveal a critical phenomenon: even a single edit can trigger model collapse, manifesting as significant performance de…

2024

The Fall of ROME: Understanding the Collapse of LLMs in Model Editing

EMNLP 2024finding

Despite significant progress in model editing methods, their application in real-world scenarios remains challenging as they often cause large language models (LLMs) to collapse. Among them, ROME is particularly concerning, as it could disrupt LLMs with only a single edit. In this paper, we study th…

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2023

Clustering Pseudo Language Family in Multilingual Translation Models with Fisher Information Matrix

EMNLP 2023short main

In multilingual translation research, the comprehension and utilization of language families are of paramount importance. Nevertheless, clustering languages based solely on their ancestral families can yield suboptimal results due to variations in the datasets employed during the model's training ph…

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2023

Fused Gromov-Wasserstein Graph Mixup for Graph-level Classifications

NeurIPS 2023poster

Graph data augmentation has shown superiority in enhancing generalizability and robustness of GNNs in graph-level classifications. However, existing methods primarily focus on the augmentation in the graph signal space and the graph structure space independently, neglecting the joint interaction bet…

2023

Is ChatGPT Good at Search? Investigating Large Language Models as Re-Ranking Agents

EMNLP 2023long main

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot generalization across various language-related tasks, including search engines. However, existing work utilizes the generative ability of LLMs for Information Retrieval (IR) rather than direct passage ranking. The discrepancy betwe…

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