Papers by Bin Jiang

28 papers
Few-shot Named Entity Recognition via Superposition Concept Discrimination (2024.lrec-main)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) aims to identify entities of target types with limited number of illustrative instances.
Approach: They propose a superposition concept discriminator which solves the intrinsic generalization problem by an active learning paradigm.
Outcome: The proposed model significantly improves few-shot named entity recognition (FS-NER) with minimal additional efforts.
MINED: Probing and Updating with Multimodal Time-Sensitive Knowledge for Large Multimodal Models (2026.findings-acl)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing benchmarks for Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) are constrained by static representations, inadequately evaluating their ability to understand time-sensitive knowledge.
Approach: They propose a benchmark containing 2,104 time-sensitive knowledge samples spanning six knowledge types to evaluate temporal awareness along 6 key dimensions and 11 challenging tasks.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark measures temporal awareness along 6 key dimensions and 11 tasks, while most open-source LMMs still lack time understanding ability.
PaperRegister: Boosting Flexible-grained Paper Search via Hierarchical Register Indexing (2026.acl-long)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing paper search systems lack detailed information to support finer-grained queries.
Approach: They propose a paper-based index that transforms abstract-based corpus index into hierarchical index tree and offline can support paper search queries.
Outcome: The proposed system achieves the SOTA performance and excels in fine-grained scenarios.
Spatiotemporal Sycophancy: Negation-Based Gaslighting in Video Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing Vid-LLMs lack robust mechanisms for maintaining grounded spatiotemporal beliefs under conversational feedback.
Approach: They propose a negation-based gaslighting evaluation framework and introduce a benchmark to investigate spatiotemporal sycophancy.
Outcome: The proposed framework evaluates state-of-the-art Vid-LLMs across video understanding tasks.
ChatGPT Is a Knowledgeable but Inexperienced Solver: An Investigation of Commonsense Problem in Large Language Models (2024.lrec-main)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: acquiring and representing commonsense in machines has posed a long-standing challenge (Li et al., 2021; Zhang e t al, 2022; Zhou e al. 2023) .
Approach: They use a commonsense-based LLM to evaluate ChatGPT's commonsensing abilities by analyzing 11 datasets and generating knowledge descriptions.
Outcome: The proposed model can achieve good QA accuracies while still struggling with certain domains of datasets.
Are We Using the Right Benchmark: An Evaluation Framework for Visual Token Compression Methods (2026.acl-long)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Recent efforts to accelerate inference in Multimodal Large Language Models have focused on visual token compression.
Approach: They propose a framework that leverages downsampling as a discriminator to denoise existing benchmarks.
Outcome: The proposed evaluation framework leverages downsampling as a discriminator to denoise existing benchmarks.
BERT-MK: Integrating Graph Contextualized Knowledge into Pre-trained Language Models (2020.findings-emnlp)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing knowledge representation learning methods do not use graph contextualized knowledge.
Approach: They propose to model subgraphs in a medical KG and integrate it with a pre-trained language model to do knowledge generalization.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art on several medical NLP tasks . it improves on MedERNIE, and the proposed model is effective .
Retentive or Forgetful? Diving into the Knowledge Memorizing Mechanism of Language Models (2024.lrec-main)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Pre-trained language models have shown remarkable memory formation, but vanilla networks without pre-training suffer catastrophic forgetting problem.
Approach: They conduct experiments to investigate the retentive-forgetful contradiction between vanilla and pre-trained language models by controlling the target knowledge types, learning strategies and learning schedules.
Outcome: The results show that pre-trained language models are forgetful and pre-training leads to retentive models .
Global Eye: Breaking the “Fixed Thinking Pattern” during the Instruction Expansion Process (2025.acl-long)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing methods focus on constructing multi-perspective prompts to expand instructions, overlooking the “Fixed Thinking Pattern” issue of Large Language Models.
Approach: They propose a method that analyzes the statistical characteristics of newly generated instructions and updates the prompts after a fixed number of instruction expansions.
Outcome: The proposed method surpasses open-source LLMs and GPT3.5 in several metrics.
When Efficiency Meets Safety: A Benchmark Security Analysis of KV Cache Compression in Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Key-Value (KV) caching is widely used in large language models to enable long-context inference efficiently, yet its security implications remain underexplored.
Approach: They propose a history-aware, per-head feedback merging strategy that prevents safety degradation while maintaining efficiency.
Outcome: The proposed strategy prevents safety degradation while maintaining efficiency.
The Linguistic Connectivities Within Large Language Models (2025.findings-acl)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Recent studies have discovered notable disparities in their performance across different languages.
Approach: They conduct a systematic investigation into the behaviors of large language models across 27 different languages on 3 different scenarios and reveals a Linguistic Map correlates with the richness of available resources and linguistic family relations.
Outcome: The proposed model demonstrates that there are significant disparities in performance across languages across 27 different languages on 3 different scenarios.
READoc: A Unified Benchmark for Realistic Document Structured Extraction (2025.findings-acl)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Document Structured Extraction (DSE) is a field of document structure analysis that aims to extract structured content from raw documents.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to evaluate document structured extraction systems by converting unstructured PDFs into semantically rich Markdown.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark is based on 3,576 diverse and real-world documents from arXiv, GitHub, and Zenodo.
Towards Robust Comparisons of NLP Models: A Case Study (2025.coling-main)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing statistical tests to compare the test scores of different NLP models have been proposed to account for nuisance factors such as noise, randomness, or hyperparameter values.
Approach: They propose a regression analysis which isolates the effect of nuisance factors from the effects of the models’ capabilities.
Outcome: The proposed model is able to show that the difference between BioLinkBERT and MSR BiomedBERT is 7 times smaller than previously reported.
PACE: Predictive Adaptive Context Extraction for Long-Horizon LLM Agents (2026.acl-long)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Large Language Model (LLM) agents struggle with ultra-long-horizon tasks requiring hundreds or thousands of interaction steps.
Approach: They propose a framework that reconceptualizes context management as a Next Step Prediction problem.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves task success rates and robust cross-lingual performance.
Adaptive Convolution for Multi-Relational Learning (N19-1)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing convolutional neural networks fail to model full interactions between entities and relations, which limits the performance of link prediction.
Approach: They propose a convolutional network that maximizes entity-relation interactions in a convergent fashion.
Outcome: The proposed convolutional network performs better than baseline models on multiple datasets.
Why and How LLMs Benefit from Knowledge Introspection in Commonsense Reasoning (2025.emnlp-main)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) can improve commonsense reasoning by generating intermediate knowledge, but the effectiveness of this knowledge introspection is not always guaranteed.
Approach: They propose a training-free strategy that optimizes introspection via two stages: Knowledge Detection and Knowledge Regeneration.
Outcome: The proposed approach mitigates the limitations of standard introspection and has consistent performance gains across all settings.
Rethinking Repetition Problems of LLMs in Code Generation (2025.acl-long)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Recent studies have focused on content repetition, but structural repetition is a more prevalent problem in code generation.
Approach: They propose a decoding approach that eliminates repetition problems in code generation by identifying grammar rules and strategically decaying the likelihood of critical tokens that contribute to repetitions.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms baselines and humanEval benchmarks on CodeRepetEval dataset and MBPP benchmarks, effectively reducing repetitions and enhancing the quality of generated code.
A Semantic Search Engine for Mathlib4 (2024.findings-emnlp)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Lean is an interactive theorem prover that enables verification of formal proofs . however, searching for theoretical proofs in mathlib4 can be challenging for beginners . we present a semantic search engine that accepts informal queries and finds theorels .
Approach: They propose a semantic search engine for theorems in mathlib4 that accepts informal queries and finds relevant theorels.
Outcome: The proposed search engine accepts informal queries and finds theorems . it compares with other search engines that struggle to find theoretical proofs based on informal queries .
GATE: Graph-based Adaptive Tool Evolution Across Diverse Tasks (2026.acl-long)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing toolsets that use large language models are limited to single-task settings.
Approach: They propose a framework that dynamically constructs and evolves a hierarchical graph of reusable tools across multiple scenarios.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves up to 4.3 faster milestone completion in Minecraft compared to the previous state-of-the-art method and provides an average improvement of 9.23% over existing tool-making methods in code generation tasks and 10.03% in agent tasks.
Generalization or Memorization: Data Contamination and Trustworthy Evaluation for Large Language Models (2024.findings-acl)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Considering the vast size and wide-ranging sources of LLMs’ training data, it could explicitly or implicitly include test data.
Approach: They propose a Contamination Detection via output Distribution (CDD) which detects data contamination only by identifying the peakedness of LLM's output distribution.
Outcome: The proposed method improves performance by 21.8%-30.2% on humanEval and TED: trustworthy evaluation via output distribution.
METNet: A Mutual Enhanced Transformation Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (2020.coling-main)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing methods for learning complex sentences with multiple aspects are ill-equipped to learn complex sentences .
Approach: They propose a mutual enhanced transformation network for the ABSA task . it improves representation learning of the aspect with contextual semantic features .
Outcome: The proposed model improves representation learning of the aspect with contextual semantic features, giving the aspect more abundant information.
PEDNet: A Persona Enhanced Dual Alternating Learning Network for Conversational Response Generation (2020.coling-main)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing persona-based dialogue models generate personalized responses using predefined persona information, but they lack personality.
Approach: They propose a persona-based dual Alternating Learning Network that generates personalized responses using predefined persona information.
Outcome: The proposed method produces more personalized responses than baseline methods.
Gazetteer-Enhanced Attentive Neural Networks for Named Entity Recognition (D19-1)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental NLP task.
Approach: They propose a gazetteer-based attentive neural network which can enhance region-based NER . they first model the mention-context association and then an auxiliary gazetteers .
Outcome: The proposed approach can achieve state-of-the-art on ACE2005 named entity recognition benchmark.
Supervised neural machine translation based on data augmentation and improved training & inference process (D19-52)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: This paper describes the neural machine translation systems for the shared translation tasks of WAT 2019 .
Approach: They propose a model for translation tasks of WAT 2019 that employs a Transformer model as the baseline and a deep layer model to improve translation quality.
Outcome: The proposed methods can improve translation quality over traditional statistical machine translation (SMT) The proposed models can improve the translation quality of Japanese-English and Japanese-Chinese corpus.
TRIPS: Efficient Vision-and-Language Pre-training with Text-Relevant Image Patch Selection (2022.emnlp-main)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing vision-and-language pre-training models suffer from long visual sequences . experimental results show that TRIPS gains a speedup of 40% over previous similar VLP models .
Approach: They propose an efficient vision-and-language pre-training model with text-relevant image patch selection, TRIPS, which reduces the visual sequence progressively with a text-guided patch-selection layer in the visual backbone for efficient training and inference.
Outcome: The proposed model can speed up training and inference by 40% over previous models.
Improving Grammatical Error Correction by Correction Acceptability Discrimination (2024.lrec-main)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) methods overlook the assessment of sentence-level syntax and semantics in the corrected sentence.
Approach: They propose a correction acceptance discrimination task to assess sentence-level syntax and semantics in corrected sentences and a pipeline method to remove invalid corrections.
Outcome: The proposed method improves F0.5 score by 1.01% over 13 GEC systems in the BEA-2019 test set.
OpenRLHF: A Ray-based Easy-to-use, Scalable and High-performance RLHF Framework (2025.emnlp-demos)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing RLHF frameworks face inference bottlenecks and complexity barriers restricting their accessibility for newcomers.
Approach: They propose an open-source RLHF framework that can be used to train large language models.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves superior training efficiency with speedups ranging from 1.22 to 1.68 across different model sizes compared to state-of-the-art frameworks, while requiring significantly fewer lines of code for implementation.

What is GenGO?

GenGO is an NLP powered publication search system. It currenctly indexes 30k+ papers from ACL Anthology, and implements multi-aspect summarization, semantic search, and more!

Information

About
Limitations