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Yun Zhu

33 accepted papers

2026

Adaptive Thinking: Large Language Models Know When to Think in Latent Space

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) test-time computing have introduced the capability to perform intermediate chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning (thinking) before generating answers. While increasing the thinking budget yields smooth performance improvements at inference time, the relatio…

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2026

Few-Shot Incremental 3D Object Detection in Dynamic Indoor Environments

CVPR 2026

Incremental 3D object perception is a critical step toward embodied intelligence in dynamic indoor environments. However, existing incremental 3D detection methods rely on extensive annotations of novel classes for satisfactory performance. To address this limitation, we propose FI3Det, a Few-shot I

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2026

FineFocus: Benchmarking and Improving Fine-Grained Text-to-Image Alignment via Paired Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2026poster

While recent autoregressive models have achieved text-to-image generation performance comparable to diffusion models, they significantly struggle with fine-grained semantic alignment. To rigorously evaluate this limitation, we introduce DeltaBench, a benchmark featuring paired prompts with subtle fi…

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2026

Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge: Representation-as-a-Judge with Small Language Models via Semantic Capacity Asymmetry

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as reference-free evaluators via prompting, but this “LLM-as-a-Judge” paradigm is costly, opaque, and sensitive to prompt design. In this work, we investigate whether smaller models can serve as efficient evaluators by leveraging internal representations…

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2026

WiseEdit: Benchmarking Cognition- and Creativity-Informed Image Editing

CVPR 2026

Recent image editing models boast next-level intelligent capabilities, facilitating cognition- and creativity-informed image editing. Yet, existing benchmarks provide too narrow a scope for evaluation, failing to holistically assess these advanced abilities. To address this, we introduce WiseEdit, a

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2025

Accelerating Inference of Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Sparse Context Selection

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) augmented with retrieval exhibit robust performance and extensive versatility by incorporating external contexts. However, the input length grows linearly in the number of retrieved documents, causing a dramatic increase in latency. In this paper, we propose a novel para…

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2025

FACT: Examining the Effectiveness of Iterative Context Rewriting for Multi-fact Retrieval

NAACL 2025findings

Large Language Models (LLMs) are proficient at retrieving single facts from extended contexts, yet they struggle with tasks requiring the simultaneous retrieval of multiple facts, especially during generation. This paper identifies a novel “lost-in-the-middle” phenomenon, where LLMs progressively lo…

2025

Learning Crossmodal Interaction Patterns via Attributed Bipartite Graphs for Single-Cell Omics

NeurIPS 2025poster

Crossmodal matching in single-cell omics is essential for explaining biological regulatory mechanisms and enhancing downstream analyses. However, current single-cell crossmodal models often suffer from three limitations: sparse modality signals, underutilization of biological attributes, and insuffi…

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2025

Meta-Reflection: A Feedback-Free Reflection Learning Framework

ACL 2025long

Despite the remarkable capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in natural language understanding and reasoning, they often display undesirable behaviors, such as generating hallucinations and unfaithful reasoning. A prevalent strategy to mitigate these issues is the use of reflection, which ref…

2025

M³GQA: A Multi-Entity Multi-Hop Multi-Setting Graph Question Answering Benchmark

ACL 2025long

Recently, GraphRAG systems have achieved remarkable progress in enhancing the performance and reliability of large language models (LLMs). However, most previous benchmarks are template-based and primarily focus on few-entity queries, which are monotypic and simplistic, failing to offer comprehensiv…

2025

NaviFormer: A Spatio-Temporal Context-Aware Transformer for Object Navigation

AAAI 2025technical

Learning discriminative state representations of agents, encompassing the spatial layout and temporal pose trajectory, is essential for effective navigation decisions. However, existing approaches often rely on simplistic plain networks for navigation information fusion, overlooking the complex long…

2025

R3Mem: Bridging Memory Retention and Retrieval via Reversible Compression

ACL 2025finding

Memory plays a key role in enhancing LLMs’ performance when deployed to real-world applications. Existing solutions face trade-offs: explicit memory designs based on external storage require complex management and incur storage overhead, while implicit memory designs that store information via param…

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2025

ScreenQA: Large-Scale Question-Answer Pairs Over Mobile App Screenshots

NAACL 2025long

We introduce ScreenQA, a novel benchmarking dataset designed to advance screen content understanding through question answering. The existing screen datasets are focused either on low-level structural and component understanding, or on a much higher-level composite task such as navigation and task c…

2025

System-1.5 Reasoning: Traversal in Language and Latent Spaces with Dynamic Shortcuts

NeurIPS 2025poster

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning enables large language models (LLMs) to move beyond fast System-1 responses and engage in deliberative System-2 reasoning. However, this comes at the cost of significant inefficiency due to verbose intermediate output. Recent latent-space reasoning methods improve ef…

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2025

WeatherGen: A Unified Diverse Weather Generator for LiDAR Point Clouds via Spider Mamba Diffusion

CVPR 2025poster

3D scene perception demands a large amount of adverse-weather LiDAR data, yet the cost of LiDAR data collection presents a significant scaling-up challenge. To this end, a series of LiDAR simulators have been proposed. Yet, they can only simulate a single adverse weather with a single physical model…

2024

Bridging Local Details and Global Context in Text-Attributed Graphs

EMNLP 2024main

Representation learning on text-attributed graphs (TAGs) is vital for real-world applications, as they combine semantic textual and contextual structural information. Research in this field generally consist of two main perspectives: local-level encoding and global-level aggregating, respectively re…

2024

Efficient Tuning and Inference for Large Language Models on Textual Graphs

IJCAI 2024poster

Rich textual and topological information of textual graphs need to be modeled in real-world applications such as webpages, e-commerce, and academic articles. Practitioners have been long following the path of adopting a shallow text encoder and a subsequent graph neural network (GNN) to solve this p…

2024

Enhancing Reinforcement Learning with Dense Rewards from Language Model Critic

EMNLP 2024main

Reinforcement learning (RL) can align language models with non-differentiable reward signals, such as human preferences. However, a major challenge arises from the sparsity of these reward signals - typically, there is only a single reward for an entire output. This sparsity of rewards can lead to i…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2024

Fusion-Eval: Integrating Assistant Evaluators with LLMs

EMNLP 2024industry

Evaluating natural language generation (NLG) systems automatically poses significant challenges.Recent studies have employed large language models (LLMs) as reference-free metrics for NLG evaluation, enhancing adaptability to new tasks tasks. However, these methods still show lower correspondence wi…

2024

Proofread: Fixes All Errors with One Tap

ACL 2024system demonstrations

The impressive capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) provide a powerful approach to reimagine users’ typing experience. This paper demonstrates the Proofread feature in Gboard, a virtual keyboard running on mobile phones. Proofread enables seamless sentence-level and paragraph-level correctio…

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2024

RedCoast: A Lightweight Tool to Automate Distributed Training of LLMs on Any GPU/TPUs

NAACL 2024system demonstrations

The recent progress of AI can be largely attributed to large language models (LLMs). However, their escalating memory requirements introduce challenges for machine learning (ML) researchers and engineers. Addressing this requires developers to partition a large model to distribute it across multiple…

2024

RewriteLM: An Instruction-Tuned Large Language Model for Text Rewriting

AAAI 2024technical

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in creative tasks such as storytelling and E-mail generation. However, as LLMs are primarily trained on final text results rather than intermediate revisions, it might be challenging for them to perform text rewriting tasks. Mos…

2024

SPGroup3D: Superpoint Grouping Network for Indoor 3D Object Detection

AAAI 2024technical

Current 3D object detection methods for indoor scenes mainly follow the voting-and-grouping strategy to generate proposals. However, most methods utilize instance-agnostic groupings, such as ball query, leading to inconsistent semantic information and inaccurate regression of the proposals. To this…

2024

Speaker-Adaptive Lipreading Via Spatio-Temporal Information Learning

ICASSP 2024accepted

Lipreading has been rapidly developed recently with the help of large-scale datasets and large models. Despite the significant progress made, the performance of lipreading models still falls short when dealing with unseen speakers. Therefore, it is necessary to utilize the speaker’s videos for fine-…

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2024

Towards an On-device Agent for Text Rewriting

NAACL 2024findings

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities for text rewriting. However creating a smaller yet potent language model for text rewriting presents two formidable challenges: costly data collection and absence of emergent capabilities.In this paper we present solutions to add…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2023

Cappy: Outperforming and Boosting Large Multi-Task LMs with a Small Scorer

NeurIPS 2023poster

Large language models (LLMs) such as T0, FLAN, and OPT-IML excel in multi-tasking under a unified instruction-following paradigm, where they also exhibit remarkable generalization abilities to unseen tasks. Despite their impressive performance, these LLMs, with sizes ranging from several billion to…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2023

Measure and Countermeasure of the Capsulation Attack Against Backdoor-Based Deep Neural Network Watermarks

ICASSP 2023accepted

Backdoor-based watermarking schemes were proposed to protect the intellectual property of deep neural networks under the black-box setting. However, additional security risks emerge after the schemes have been published for as forensics tools. This paper reveals the capsulation attack that can easil…

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2023

SmartBERT: A Promotion of Dynamic Early Exiting Mechanism for Accelerating BERT Inference

IJCAI 2023poster

Dynamic early exiting has been proven to improve the inference speed of the pre-trained language model like BERT. However, all samples must go through all consecutive layers before early exiting and more complex samples usually go through more layers, which still exists redundant computation. In thi…

2022

Fostering The Robustness Of White-Box Deep Neural Network Watermarks By Neuron Alignment

ICASSP 2022accepted

The wide application of deep learning techniques is boosting the regulation of deep learning models, especially deep neural networks (DNN), as commercial products. A necessary prerequisite for such regulations is identifying the owner of deep neural networks, which is usually done through the waterm…

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2022

Massively Multilingual ASR: A Lifelong Learning Solution

ICASSP 2022accepted

The development of end-to-end models has largely sped up the research in massively multilingual automatic speech recognition (MMASR). Previous research has demonstrated the feasibility to build high quality MMASR models. In this work, we study the impact of adding more languages and propose a lifelo…

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2022

RoSA: A Robust Self-Aligned Framework for Node-Node Graph Contrastive Learning

IJCAI 2022poster

Graph contrastive learning has gained significant progress recently. However, existing works have rarely explored non-aligned node-node contrasting. In this paper, we propose a novel graph contrastive learning method named RoSA that focuses on utilizing non-aligned augmented views for node-level rep…

2021

Convolutional Dropout and Wordpiece Augmentation for End-to-End Speech Recognition

ICASSP 2021accepted

Regularization and data augmentation are crucial to training end-to-end automatic speech recognition systems. Dropout is a popular regularization technique, which operates on each neuron independently by multiplying it with a Bernoulli random variable. We propose a generalization of dropout, called…

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2021

Mixture of Informed Experts for Multilingual Speech Recognition

ICASSP 2021accepted

When trained on related or low-resource languages, multilingual speech recognition models often outperform their monolingual counterparts. However, these models can suffer from loss in performance for high resource or unrelated languages. We investigate the use of a mixture-of-experts approach to as…

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