Papers by Bin Wei

43 papers
RETAIL: Towards Real-world Travel Planning for Large Language Models (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing travel planning systems assume users provide explicit queries, limiting their practical utility.
Approach: They propose a dataset RETAIL which supports decision-making for implicit queries while covering explicit queries.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves a 1.0% pass rate, suggesting real-world travel planning remains challenging.
Mixture of Diverse Size Experts (2024.emnlp-industry)

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Challenge: Recent large language models (LLMs) have shown superior performance in a variety of tasks due to the sub-linearly increasing computational costs.
Approach: They propose a new MoE architecture with designed layers where experts have different sizes to mitigate this defect.
Outcome: The proposed architecture surpasses existing MoEs by adaptively assigning the parameter budget to experts while maintaining the same total parameter size and number of experts.
HiCoLoRA: Addressing Context-Prompt Misalignment via Hierarchical Collaborative LoRA for Zero-Shot DST (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to zero-shot Dialog State Tracking (zs-DST) are inadequate to generalize to new domains without extensive training.
Approach: They propose a framework that enhances zero-shot slot inference through robust prompt alignment.
Outcome: Experiments on multi-domain datasets show that HiCoLoRA outperforms baselines, achieving SOTA in zs-DST.
Rethinking Text-to-SQL: Dynamic Multi-turn SQL Interaction for Real-world Database Exploration (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Structured Query Language (SQL) is the cornerstone for data-driven decision-making.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to rigorously evaluate Large Language Models within a dynamic interaction framework.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark aims to rigorously evaluate LLMs within a dynamic interaction framework.
CoinMath: Harnessing the Power of Coding Instruction for Math LLM (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in solving mathematical problems, with code-based solutions proving particularly effective.
Approach: They propose a learning strategy to enhance mathematical reasoning by diversifying the coding styles of code-based rationales.
Outcome: The proposed learning strategy outperforms its baseline model, MAmmoTH, which uses code-based solutions.
Resilience of Large Language Models for Noisy Instructions (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) are powerful tools for interpreting human commands and generating text.
Approach: They examine the resilience of large language models against five common types of disruptions including ASR, OCR, grammatical errors, typographical errors and distractive content.
Outcome: The models show resistance to noise, but their performance suffers . authors evaluated the models against five common types of disruptions based on their results .
PALM: Pre-training an Autoencoding&Autoregressive Language Model for Context-conditioned Generation (2020.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing techniques for natural language understanding and generation use autoencoding and/or autoregressive objectives to train models.
Approach: They propose a self-supervised pre-training scheme that pre-trains an autoencoding and autoregressive language model on a large unlabeled corpus for generating new text conditioned on context.
Outcome: The proposed scheme achieves state-of-the-art results on a variety of language generation benchmarks covering generative question answering, abstractive summarization and conversational response generation.
Pruning Large Language Models to Intra-module Low-rank Architecture with Transitional Activations (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Structured pruning is a feasible solution for end-side LLM deployment . however, achieving a high compression ratio for scaled-up LLMs remains a challenge .
Approach: They propose a task-agnostic structured pruning approach coupled with a compact Transformer architecture to prune LLMs into an intra-module low-rank architecture.
Outcome: The proposed approach reduces transitional activations inside multi-head attention (MHA) and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) modules while preserving inter-module activations sensitive to perturbations.
Incorporating External Knowledge into Machine Reading for Generative Question Answering (D19-1)

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Challenge: Existing knowledge-aware QA models do not have commonsense and background knowledge to answer nontrivial questions.
Approach: They propose a new neural model which exploits external knowledge to generate answers in natural language for a given question with context.
Outcome: The proposed model improves answer quality over existing models without knowledge and knowledge-aware models, a study shows . state officials in Hawaii confirmed that president Barack Obama was born in the U.S.
AC-EVAL: Evaluating Ancient Chinese Language Understanding in Large Language Models (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: AC-EVAL is a benchmark designed to assess the advanced knowledge and reasoning capabilities of LLMs within the context of ancient Chinese.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to assess the advanced knowledge and reasoning capabilities of LLMs in ancient Chinese.
Outcome: AC-EVAL aims to assess the comprehension of ancient Chinese texts . the benchmark covers 13 tasks covering historical facts, geography, social customs, art, philosophy, classical poetry and prose.
A Comprehensive Evaluation of Quantization Strategies for Large Language Models (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Quantization studies have focused on instruction-tuned LLMs, leaving their performance on other benchmarks unclear.
Approach: They propose a framework to evaluate quantized large language models using four dimensions . they propose to reduce the bits needed for model weights or activations with minimal performance loss .
Outcome: The proposed framework can retain comparable performance to non-quantized LLMs on most benchmarks.
Focus-Constrained Attention Mechanism for CVAE-based Response Generation (2020.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing models generate high-frequency but trivial responses such as "I don't know" or "I'm ok" due to the discrepancy in discourse-level information, standard models generate one-to-many relationships.
Approach: They propose to transform coarse-grained discourse-level information into fine-grounded word-level knowledge by introducing a fine-grain focus signal and a focus-constrained attention mechanism to take full advantage of focus.
Outcome: The proposed model can generate more diverse and informative responses compared with state-of-the-art models.
ADEPT-SQL: A High-performance Text-to-SQL Application for Real-World Enterprise-Level Databases (2025.acl-demo)

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Challenge: et al., 2017) address domain-specific knowledge barriers, schemas complexity, and computational costs of large LLMs.
Approach: They propose a domain-adapted Text2SQL system that addresses critical deployment challenges in professional fields.
Outcome: The proposed system achieves 97% execution accuracy on real-world databases . it is faster than existing systems and has a higher performance than existing ones.
Mobile-Bench: An Evaluation Benchmark for LLM-based Mobile Agents (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing benchmarks for LLM-based mobile agents are insufficient to evaluate their capabilities.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to evaluate LLM-based mobile agents' planning capabilities . they expand UI operations by incorporating 103 APIs to accelerate task completion .
Outcome: The proposed benchmarks are based on 103 collected APIs and real user queries . the data is categorized into three distinct groups: SAST, SAMT, and MAMT .
Global Eye: Breaking the “Fixed Thinking Pattern” during the Instruction Expansion Process (2025.acl-long)

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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.
Multilingual Machine Translation with Open Large Language Models at Practical Scale: An Empirical Study (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) have shown continuously improving multilingual capabilities.
Approach: They evaluate the ability of open LLMs to handle multilingual machine translation tasks using a parallel-first monolingual-second data mixing strategy.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models and achieves competitive performance with Google Translate and GPT-4-turbo.
TailorKV: A Hybrid Framework for Long-Context Inference via Tailored KV Cache Optimization (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing work mitigates memory overhead by offloading or compressing the Key-Value cache.
Approach: They propose a method that integrates quantization and offloading into a generative large language model by using a hybrid compression method.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art in long-context evaluations.
Addressing Semantic Drift in Generative Question Answering with Auxiliary Extraction (2021.acl-short)

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Challenge: Recent work focuses on question answering based on machine reading comprehension . current approaches treat QA as extracting a consecutive piece of text to a given question.
Approach: They propose a generative QA model that incorporates an extractive mechanism into a model.
Outcome: The proposed model improves quality and semantic accuracy over baseline models.
DetermLR: Augmenting LLM-based Logical Reasoning from Indeterminacy to Determinacy (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the landscape of reasoning tasks.
Approach: They propose a new approach that rethinks the reasoning process as an evolution from indeterminacy to determinacy.
Outcome: The proposed model surpasses all baselines on various logical reasoning benchmarks.
C3KG: A Chinese Commonsense Conversation Knowledge Graph (2022.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing commonsense knowledge bases organize tuples in an isolated manner, causing problems for chatbots .
Approach: They create a Chinese commonsense conversation knowledge graph which integrates social commonsensm and dialog flow information.
Outcome: The proposed graph incorporates social commonsense knowledge and dialog flow information.
PMSS: Pretrained Matrices Skeleton Selection for LLM Fine-tuning (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Low-rank adaptation and its variants have been popular due to their ability to avoid excessive inference costs.
Approach: They propose a low-rank adaptation method that enables high-rank updates with low costs while leveraging semantic and linguistic information inherent in pre-trained weight.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms LoRA and other fine-tuning methods across tasks with less trainable parameters.
ReachAgent: Enhancing Mobile Agent via Page Reaching and Operation (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Existing mobile AI agents focus on most task-relevant elements at each step, leading to local optimal solutions and ignoring the overall GUI flow.
Approach: They propose a mobile AI agent that breaks tasks into page reaching and operation subtasks and a framework that focuses on improving its task-completion abilities.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves IoU accuracy and text accuracy by 7.12% and 7.69% on step-level and 4.72% and 4.63% on task-level compared to the SOTA agent.
MobileVLM: A Vision-Language Model for Better Intra- and Inter-UI Understanding (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Recent mobile AI agents based on VLMs lack basic mobile capabilities due to their pre-trained nature.
Approach: They propose a mobile AI agent based on VLMs that includes additional pre-training stages to enhance both intra- and inter-UI understanding.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing VLMs on the Chinese mobile dataset Mobile3M .
PACE: Predictive Adaptive Context Extraction for Long-Horizon LLM Agents (2026.acl-long)

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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.
Crowdsource, Crawl, or Generate? Creating SEA-VL, a Multicultural Vision-Language Dataset for Southeast Asia (2025.acl-long)

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Samuel Cahyawijaya, Holy Lovenia, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Tack Hwa Wong, Mohammad Rifqi Farhansyah, Thant Thiri Maung, Frederikus Hudi, David Anugraha, Muhammad Ravi Shulthan Habibi, Muhammad Reza Qorib, Amit Agarwal, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Hitesh Laxmichand Patel, Vicky Feliren, Bahrul Ilmi Nasution, Manuel Antonio Rufino, Genta Indra Winata, Rian Adam Rajagede, Carlos Rafael Catalan, Mohamed Fazli Mohamed Imam, Priyaranjan Pattnayak, Salsabila Zahirah Pranida, Kevin Pratama, Yeshil Bangera, Adisai Na-Thalang, Patricia Nicole Monderin, Yueqi Song, Christian Simon, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Richardy Lobo Sapan, Taki Hasan Rafi, Bin Wang, null Supryadi, Kanyakorn Veerakanjana, Piyalitt Ittichaiwong, Matthew Theodore Roque, Karissa Vincentio, Takdanai Kreangphet, Phakphum Artkaew, Kadek Hendrawan Palgunadi, Yanzhi Yu, Rochana Prih Hastuti, William Nixon, Mithil Bangera, Adrian Xuan Wei Lim, Aye Hninn Khine, Hanif Muhammad Zhafran, Teddy Ferdinan, Audra Aurora Izzani, Ayushman Singh, Evan Evan, Jauza Akbar Krito, Michael Anugraha, Fenal Ashokbhai Ilasariya, Haochen Li, John Amadeo Daniswara, Filbert Aurelian Tjiaranata, Eryawan Presma Yulianrifat, Can Udomcharoenchaikit, Fadil Risdian Ansori, Mahardika Krisna Ihsani, Giang Nguyen, Anab Maulana Barik, Dan John Velasco, Rifo Ahmad Genadi, Saptarshi Saha, Chengwei Wei, Isaiah Edri W. Flores, Kenneth Chen Ko Han, Anjela Gail D. Santos, Wan Shen Lim, Kaung Si Phyo, Tim Santos, Meisyarah Dwiastuti, Jiayun Luo, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Ming Shan Hee, Ikhlasul Akmal Hanif, M.Alif Al Hakim, Muhammad Rizky Sya’ban, Kun Kerdthaisong, Lester James Validad Miranda, Fajri Koto, Tirana Noor Fatyanosa, Alham Fikri Aji, Jostin Jerico Rosal, Jun Kevin, Robert Wijaya, Onno P. Kampman, Ruochen Zhang, Börje F. Karlsson, Peerat Limkonchotiwat
Challenge: Southeast Asia is underrepresented in vision-language research . SEA-VL is an open-source initiative dedicated to developing culturally relevant datasets for SEA languages.
Approach: They propose to use crowdsourced, automated image crawling and synthetic image generation to develop culturally relevant datasets for SEA languages.
Outcome: The proposed datasets capture SEA cultural nuances and contexts better than existing datasets.
GRAPHIA: Harnessing Social Graph Data to Enhance LLM-Based Social Simulation (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Social graphs provide high-quality supervision signals that encode local interactions and global network structure, yet they remain underutilized for LLM training.
Approach: They propose a general LLM-based social graph simulation framework that leverages graph data as supervision for LLM training.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves micro-level alignment by 6.1% on three real-world networks compared to the strongest baseline.
DyBBT: Dynamic Balance via Bandit-inspired Targeting for Dialog Policy with Cognitive Dual Systems (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Task oriented dialog systems often rely on static exploration strategies that do not adapt to dynamic dialog contexts.
Approach: They propose a dialog policy learning framework that formalizes the exploration challenge through a structured cognitive state space C.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves SOTA performance in success rate, efficiency, and generalization.
TEACH: A Contrastive Knowledge Adaptive Distillation Framework for Classical Chinese Understanding (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Traditional methods for processing classical Chinese segment language understanding into discrete tasks, which overlook crucial background information and reduce user engagement.
Approach: They propose a framework that integrates word sense disambiguation with sentence translation to minimize hallucinations and improve semantic analysis.
Outcome: The proposed framework integrates word sense disambiguation with sentence translation to minimize hallucinations and improve semantic analysis.
MoQAE: Mixed-Precision Quantization for Long-Context LLM Inference via Mixture of Quantization-Aware Experts (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to optimize large language models for long-context inference are inefficient and consume memory.
Approach: They propose a mixed-precision quantization method via mixture of experts that inputs tokens into router chunk by chunk to reduce inference overhead.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art KV cache quantization methods on multiple benchmark datasets.
MoralDial: A Framework to Train and Evaluate Moral Dialogue Systems via Moral Discussions (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: A moral dialogue system aligned with users’ values could enhance conversation engagement and user connections.
Approach: They propose a framework to train and evaluate moral dialogue systems based on communication mechanisms of morality and a method to construct moral discussions between simulated users and the dialogue system.
Outcome: The proposed framework can train and evaluate moral dialogue systems based on simulated users and their values .
Enhanced Visual Instruction Tuning with Synthesized Image-Dialogue Data (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: OpenAI's GPT-4 has demonstrated remarkable multimodal capabilities, but specific mechanics of GPT4 remain unknown.
Approach: They propose a data collection methodology that synchronously synthesizes images and dialogues for visual instruction tuning.
Outcome: The proposed method improves on ten commonly assessed models and provides greater flexibility compared to existing methods.
Exploring Question Guidance and Answer Calibration for Visually Grounded Video Question Answering (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing methods for videoQA lack temporal localization labels, leading to inaccurate localization.
Approach: They propose a Question-Guided and Answer-Calibrated TRansformer which guides and calibrates localization using question and option texts without localization labels.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves comparable accuracy to large-scale pretrained models and leads in localization aspects.
ToolPlanner: A Tool Augmented LLM for Multi Granularity Instructions with Path Planning and Feedback (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent studies have shown that tool-augmented large language models can interact with external tools in multiple rounds and provide a final answer.
Approach: They propose a tool-augmented large language model that can interact with external tools in multiple rounds and provide a final answer to an instruction.
Outcome: The proposed framework significantly improves Match Rate, Pass Rate and Win Rate by 26.8%, 20.2%, and 5.6% compared to the SOTA model.
HoPE: A Novel Positional Encoding Without Long-Term Decay for Enhanced Context Awareness and Extrapolation (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing positional encodings exhibit long-term decay, based on an entrenched and long-standing opinion that tokens farther away from the current position carry less relevant information.
Approach: They propose a high-frequency rotary position encoding (HoPE) that replaces specific components in RoPE with position-independent ones, retaining only high- frequency signals.
Outcome: The proposed method exhibits greater robustness to the out-of-distribution behavior in attention patterns during extrapolation.
Bridging the Gap between Synthetic and Natural Questions via Sentence Decomposition for Semantic Parsing (2023.tacl-1)

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Challenge: Existing methods to train a parser to perform zero-shot learning are limited by the lack of training data.
Approach: They propose a decomposition-based method to unify the sentence structures of questions . their method can generalize to natural questions with novel text expressions .
Outcome: The proposed method improves on synthetic data and on complex web questions with novel expressions.
StructuralLM: Structural Pre-training for Form Understanding (2021.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing pre-trained language models focus on text-only representation, neglecting cell-level layout information.
Approach: They propose a pre-training approach to leverage cell and layout information from scanned documents.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art in various downstream tasks . it uses 2Dposition embeddings to model word-level layout information .
mPLUG: Effective and Efficient Vision-Language Learning by Cross-modal Skip-connections (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing pre-trained vision-language models suffer from inefficiency and linguistic signal overwhelmed by long visual sequences in cross-modal alignment.
Approach: They propose a vision-language foundation model with cross-modal skip-connections that can be pre-trained end-to-end on large-scale image-text pairs with both discriminative and generative objectives.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art results on a wide range of vision-language downstream tasks, including image captioning, image-text retrieval, visual grounding and visual question answering.
Evaluating Test-Time Scaling LLMs for Legal Reasoning: OpenAI o1, DeepSeek-R1, and Beyond (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Experimental results show that Legal-R1 delivers competitive performance across diverse tasks.
Approach: They propose to evaluate 12 large language models across 17 legal tasks across statutory and case-law traditions to determine their general reasoning performance.
Outcome: The proposed model performs well across 17 legal tasks across statutory and case-law traditions.
ToolRerank: Adaptive and Hierarchy-Aware Reranking for Tool Retrieval (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Recent studies have proposed tool learning, which augments LLMs with external tools.
Approach: They propose an adaptive and hierarchy-aware reranking method to refine retrieval results by truncating the retrieval result related to seen and unseen tools at different positions.
Outcome: The proposed method improves retrieval results, leading to better execution results generated by the LLM.
TRIPS: Efficient Vision-and-Language Pre-training with Text-Relevant Image Patch Selection (2022.emnlp-main)

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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.
OpenRLHF: A Ray-based Easy-to-use, Scalable and High-performance RLHF Framework (2025.emnlp-demos)

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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.
VECO: Variable and Flexible Cross-lingual Pre-training for Language Understanding and Generation (2021.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing work in multilingual pretraining relies on the shared vocabulary and bilingual contexts to encourage the correlation across languages.
Approach: They propose to plug a cross-attention module into a Transformer encoder to explicitly build the interdependence between languages.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing models on XTREME and English-to-French translation datasets.

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