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Yangning Li

30 accepted papers

2026

Process-Level Trajectory Evaluation for Environment Configuration in Software Engineering Agents

ICLR 2026poster

Large language model-based agents show promise for software engineering, but environment configuration remains a bottleneck due to heavy manual effort and scarce large-scale, high-quality datasets. Existing benchmarks assess only end-to-end build/test success, obscuring where and why agents succeed…

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2026

RECODE: A Benchmark for Research Code DEvelopment with Interactive Human Feedback

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) show the promise in supporting scientific research implementation, yet their ability to generate correct and executable code remains limited. Existing works largely adopt one-shot settings, ignoring the iterative and feedback-driven nature of realistic workflows of scien…

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2026

Set Representation Auxiliary Learning with Adversarial Encoding Perturbation and Optimization

ICLR 2026poster

Sets are a fundamental data structure, and learning their vectorized representations is crucial for many computational problems. Existing methods typically focus on intra-set properties such as permutation invariance and cardinality independence. While effective at preserving basic intra-set semanti…

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2025

A Survey of RAG-Reasoning Systems in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) lifts the factuality of Large Language Models (LLMs) by injecting external knowledge, yet it falls short on problems that demand multi-step inference; conversely, purely reasoning-oriented approaches often hallucinate or mis-ground facts. This survey synthesizes

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2025

AdmTree: Compressing Lengthy Context with Adaptive Semantic Trees

NeurIPS 2025poster

The quadratic complexity of self-attention limits Large Language Models (LLMs) in processing long contexts, a capability vital for many advanced applications. Context compression aims to mitigate this computational barrier while preserving essential semantic information. However, existing methods of…

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2025

Atomic Thinking of LLMs: Decoupling and Exploring Mathematical Reasoning Abilities

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated outstanding performance in mathematical reasoning capabilities. However, we argue that current large-scale reasoning models primarily rely on scaling up training datasets with diverse mathematical problems and long thinking chains, which raises question…

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2025

Benchmarking Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation with Dynamic VQA Dataset and Self-adaptive Planning Agent

ICLR 2025poster

Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (mRAG) plays an important role in mitigating the “hallucination” issue inherent in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Although promising, existing heuristic mRAGs typically predefined fixed retrieval processes, which causes two issues: (1) Non-adaptiv…

2025

DAST: Context-Aware Compression in LLMs via Dynamic Allocation of Soft Tokens

ACL 2025finding

Large Language Models (LLMs) face computational inefficiencies and redundant processing when handling long context inputs, prompting a focus on compression techniques. While existing semantic vector-based compression methods achieve promising performance, these methods fail to account for the intrin…

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2025

Embracing Trustworthy Brain-Agent Collaboration as Paradigm Extension for Intelligent Assistive Technologies

NeurIPS 2025poster

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) offer a direct communication pathway between the human brain and external devices, holding significant promise for individuals with severe neurological impairments. However, their widespread adoption is hindered by critical limitations, such as low information transf…

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2025

Exploring the Implicit Semantic Ability of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Pilot Study on Entity Set Expansion

ICASSP 2025accepted

The rapid development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has brought significant improvements to a wide range of tasks in realworld applications. However, LLMs still exhibit certain limitations in extracting implicit semantic information. In this paper, we applies MLLMs to the Multi-modal E…

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2025

Loss-Aware Curriculum Learning for Chinese Grammatical Error Correction

ICASSP 2025accepted

Chinese grammatical error correction (CGEC) aims to detect and correct errors in the input Chinese sentences. Recently, Pre-trained Language Models (PLMS) have been employed to improve the performance. However, current approaches ignore that correction difficulty varies across different instances an…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Multi-Agent Autonomous Driving Systems with Large Language Models: A Survey of Recent Advances, Resources, and Future Directions

EMNLP 2025

Autonomous Driving Systems (ADSs) are revolutionizing transportation by reducing human intervention, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing safety. Large Language Models (LLMs), known for their exceptional planning and reasoning capabilities, have been integrated into ADSs to assist with dr

2025

One Example Shown, Many Concepts Known! Counterexample-Driven Conceptual Reasoning in Mathematical LLMs

ICML 2025poster

Leveraging mathematical Large Language Models (LLMs) for proof generation is a fundamental topic in LLMs research. We argue that the ability of current LLMs to prove statements largely depends on whether they have encountered the relevant proof process during training. This reliance limits their dee…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2025

RAISE: Reinforced Adaptive Instruction Selection For Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Instruction tuning of large language models (LLMs) benefits more from a handful of high-quality examples than from hordes of low-quality ones. Existing selection methods typically rely on static, heuristic quality scores and are executed only once before training. Consequently, they neither adapt to

2025

Refine Knowledge of Large Language Models via Adaptive Contrastive Learning

ICLR 2025poster

How to alleviate the hallucinations of Large Language Models (LLMs) has always been the fundamental goal pursued by the LLMs research community. Looking through numerous hallucination-related studies, a mainstream category of methods is to reduce hallucinations by optimizing the knowledge representa…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2025

Teaching According to Talents! Instruction Tuning LLMs with Competence-Aware Curriculum Learning

EMNLP 2025

Efficient instruction tuning aims to enhance the ultimate performance of large language models (LLMs) trained on a given instruction dataset. Curriculum learning as a typical data organization strategy has shown preliminary effectiveness in instruction tuning. However, current curriculum tuning meth

2025

TestNUC: Enhancing Test-Time Computing Approaches and Scaling through Neighboring Unlabeled Data Consistency

ACL 2025long

Test-time computing approaches, which leverage additional computational resources during inference, have been proven effective in enhancing large language model performance. This work introduces a novel, linearly scaling approach, TestNUC, that improves test-time predictions by leveraging the local…

2024

Depth Aware Hierarchical Replay Continual Learning for Knowledge Based Question Answering

COLING 2024main

Continual learning is an emerging area of machine learning that deals with the issue where models adapt well to the latest data but lose the ability to remember past data due to changes in the data source. A widely adopted solution is by keeping a small memory of previous learned data that use repla…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

EcomGPT: Instruction-Tuning Large Language Models with Chain-of-Task Tasks for E-commerce

AAAI 2024technical

Recently, instruction-following Large Language Models (LLMs) , represented by ChatGPT, have exhibited exceptional performance in general Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, the unique characteristics of E-commerce data pose significant challenges to general LLMs. An LLM tailored specif…

2024

Evaluating Robustness of Generative Search Engine on Adversarial Factoid Questions

ACL 2024findings

Generative search engines have the potential to transform how people seek information online, but generated responses from existing large language models (LLMs)-backed generative search engines may not always be accurate. Nonetheless, retrieval-augmented generation exacerbates safety concerns, since…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

MESED: A Multi-Modal Entity Set Expansion Dataset with Fine-Grained Semantic Classes and Hard Negative Entities

AAAI 2024technical

The Entity Set Expansion (ESE) task aims to expand a handful of seed entities with new entities belonging to the same semantic class. Conventional ESE methods are based on mono-modality (i.e., literal modality), which struggle to deal with complex entities in the real world such as (1) Negative enti…

2024

SeqGPT: An Out-of-the-Box Large Language Model for Open Domain Sequence Understanding

AAAI 2024technical

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive abilities for open-domain NLP tasks. However, LLMs are sometimes too footloose for natural language understanding (NLU) tasks which always have restricted output and input format. Their performances on NLU tasks are highly related to prompts or demo…

2024

Towards Real-World Writing Assistance: A Chinese Character Checking Benchmark with Faked and Misspelled Characters

ACL 2024long

Writing assistance aims to improve the correctness and quality of input texts, with character checking being crucial in detecting and correcting wrong characters. In the real world where handwriting occupies the vast majority, characters that humans get wrong include faked characters (i.e., untrue c…

2024

When LLMs Meet Cunning Texts: A Fallacy Understanding Benchmark for Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) make remarkable evolutions in language understanding and generation. Following this, various benchmarks for measuring all kinds of capabilities of LLMs have sprung up. In this paper, we challenge the reasoning and understanding abilities of LLMs by proposing a…

2023

A Frustratingly Easy Plug-and-Play Detection-and-Reasoning Module for Chinese Spelling Check

EMNLP 2023long findings

In recent years, Chinese Spelling Check (CSC) has been greatly improved by designing task-specific pre-training methods or introducing auxiliary tasks, which mostly solve this task in an end-to-end fashion. In this paper, we propose to decompose the CSC workflow into detection, reasoning, and search…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

CLEME: Debiasing Multi-reference Evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction

EMNLP 2023long main

Evaluating the performance of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) systems is a challenging task due to its subjectivity. Designing an evaluation metric that is as objective as possible is crucial to the development of GEC task. However, mainstream evaluation metrics, i.e., reference-based metrics, i…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

Contextual Similarity is More Valuable Than Character Similarity: An Empirical Study for Chinese Spell Checking

ICASSP 2023accepted

Chinese Spell Checking (CSC) task aims to detect and correct Chinese spelling errors. Recently, related researches focus on introducing character similarity from confusion set to enhance the CSC models, ignoring the context of characters that contain richer information. To make better use of context…

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2023

MixEdit: Revisiting Data Augmentation and Beyond for Grammatical Error Correction

EMNLP 2023long findings

Data Augmentation through generating pseudo data has been proven effective in mitigating the challenge of data scarcity in the field of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC). Various augmentation strategies have been widely explored, most of which are motivated by two heuristics, i.e., increasing the d…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

Vision, Deduction and Alignment: An Empirical Study on Multi-Modal Knowledge Graph Alignment

ICASSP 2023accepted

Entity alignment (EA) for knowledge graphs (KGs) plays a critical role in knowledge engineering. Existing EA methods mostly focus on utilizing the graph structures and entity attributes (including literals), but ignore images that are common in modern multi-modal KGs. In this study we first construc…

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2022

The Past Mistake is the Future Wisdom: Error-driven Contrastive Probability Optimization for Chinese Spell Checking

ACL 2022findings

Chinese Spell Checking (CSC) aims to detect and correct Chinese spelling errors, which are mainly caused by the phonological or visual similarity. Recently, pre-trained language models (PLMs) promote the progress of CSC task. However, there exists a gap between the learned knowledge of PLMs and the…