Papers by Bin Ren

10 papers
MINED: Probing and Updating with Multimodal Time-Sensitive Knowledge for Large Multimodal Models (2026.findings-acl)

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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.
Table-as-Search: Agentic Information Seeking is Table Completion (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Current Information Seeking (InfoSeeking) agents struggle to maintain focus and coherence during long-horizon exploration, as tracking search states within one plain-text context is inherently fragile.
Approach: They propose a structured planning framework that reformulates the InfoSeeking task as a Table Completion task.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art frameworks across three kinds of benchmarks, including multi-agent framework and commercial systems.
Are We Using the Right Benchmark: An Evaluation Framework for Visual Token Compression Methods (2026.acl-long)

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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.
Be Careful about Poisoned Word Embeddings: Exploring the Vulnerability of the Embedding Layers in NLP Models (2021.naacl-main)

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Challenge: Recent studies reveal a security threat to natural language processing models, called the Backdoor Attack.
Approach: They propose to hack a model by modifying one single word embedding vector without sacrificing accuracy on clean samples.
Outcome: The proposed method is more efficient and stealthier on sentiment analysis and sentence-pair classification tasks.
A Global Past-Future Early Exit Method for Accelerating Inference of Pre-trained Language Models (2021.naacl-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods to accelerate inference speed of pre-trained language models are limited to local representations of exit layer . current models are associated with large memory requirement and high computational cost, which slow down inference and further encumber the application of PLMs.
Approach: They propose a method to exit early without passing through all inference layers . they take into consideration all the linguistic information embedded in the past layers a global perspective .
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing methods by a large margin . it uses linguistic information embedded in the past layers and future features . the proposed method is scalable and cost-effective .
Fundamental Capabilities of Large Language Models and their Applications in Domain Scenarios: A Survey (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing benchmark-based evaluations cannot accurately reflect the performance of real-world applications.
Approach: They propose a reliable strategy for domains to choose more robust LLMs for real-world applications.
Outcome: The proposed strategy addresses the challenges faced by domains to choose more robust LLMs for real-world applications.
EdgeFormer: Latency-Aware Collaborative Multi-Head Attention of Transformer Inference in Edge Networks (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for inference in centralized cloud pose privacy risks due to sensitive data.
Approach: They propose a latency-aware framework for distributed Transformer inference in resource-constrained edge networks.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves 2.01 times inference acceleration over state-of-the-art baselines with leq1.06% accuracy loss, maintaining robustness under varying edge conditions.
Neural Network Surgery: Injecting Data Patterns into Pre-trained Models with Minimal Instance-wise Side Effects (2021.naacl-main)

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Challenge: Existing neural network tuning methods cause instance-wise side effects . et al., 2018: a new approach to perform neural network surgery .
Approach: They propose to perform neural network surgery by only changing 10-5 parameters . they propose to use a dynamic selecting method to achieve the best overall performance .
Outcome: The proposed method achieves the best overall performance and induces fewer instance-wise side effects by changing only 10-5 of the parameters.
Regularizing Dialogue Generation by Imitating Implicit Scenarios (2020.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing models for dialogue generation lack the flexibility to handle such freedoms.
Approach: They propose to take into account dialogue history and future conversation to implicitly reconstruct the scenario knowledge.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art models on diversity and relevance and expresses scenario-specific knowledge.

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