Papers by Bing Xie
Towards Fine-Grained and Multi-Granular Contrastive Language-Speech Pre-training (2026.acl-long)
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Yifan Yang, Bing Han, Hui Wang, Wei Wang, Ziyang Ma, Long Zhou, Zengrui Jin, Guanrou Yang, Tianrui Wang, Xu Tan, Xie Chen
| Challenge: | Existing models for fine-grained speaking styles are limited in terms of accuracy, coverage, and naturalness. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that pre-trains with coarse captions and annotates with a pipeline that grounds captions in audio. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models with fine-grained style annotations . it integrates global and fine-granular supervision, enabling unified representations based on the proposed model . |
Making LLMs Better Many-to-Many Speech-to-Text Translators with Curriculum Learning (2025.acl-long)
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Yexing Du, Youcheng Pan, Ziyang Ma, Bo Yang, Yifan Yang, Keqi Deng, Xie Chen, Yang Xiang, Ming Liu, Bing Qin
| Challenge: | Existing studies on English-centric translation tasks have focused on multimodal large language models, but the exploration of many-to-many translation is limited by the scarcity of parallel data. |
| Approach: | They propose a three-stage curriculum learning strategy that leverages the machine translation capabilities of large language models and adapts them to S2TT tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed strategy achieves state-of-the-art average performance in 1514 language pairs, requiring fewer than 10 hours of speech data per language to achieve competitive results. |
LongLeader: A Comprehensive Leaderboard for Large Language Models in Long-context Scenarios (2025.naacl-long)
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Pei Chen, Hongye Jin, Cheng-Che Lee, Rulin Shao, Jingfeng Yang, Mingyu Zhao, Zhaoyu Zhang, Qin Lu, Kaiwen Men, Ning Xie, Huasheng Li, Bing Yin, Han Li, Lingyun Wang
| Challenge: | LongLeader aims to assess different LLMs' long-context comprehension abilities . long-constext comprehension is a key bottleneck for many use cases . |
| Approach: | They propose a leaderboard to assess different LLMs' long-context comprehension abilities . they offer open-source access to the benchmarks and maintain a dedicated website . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model assesses different LLMs on selected benchmarks and provides open-source access to the benchmarks. |
SoRFT: Issue Resolving with Subtask-oriented Reinforced Fine-Tuning (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing issue-resolving frameworks rely on commercial models, leading to high costs and privacy concerns. |
| Approach: | They propose a training approach to enhance issue resolving capability of LLMs by decomposing issue reasolving into subtasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves issue-resolving performance and generalizes model . it is cost-effective and provides a cost-efficient alternative to commercial models . |
STARD: A Chinese Statute Retrieval Dataset Derived from Real-life Queries by Non-professionals (2024.findings-emnlp)
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Weihang Su, Yiran Hu, Anzhe Xie, Qingyao Ai, Quezi Bing, Ning Zheng, Yun Liu, Weixing Shen, Yiqun Liu
| Challenge: | Existing statute retrieval benchmarks emphasize formal and professional queries from sources like bar exams and legal case documents . existing retrieval approaches that lack domain-specific knowledge may struggle to capture the meanings of specialized terms accurately. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset that captures the complexity and diversity of real queries from the general public. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset captures the complexity and diversity of real queries from the general public. |
MCGA: A Multi-task Classical Chinese Literary Genre Audio Corpus (2026.findings-acl)
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Yexing Du, Kaiyuan Liu, Bihe Zhang, Youcheng Pan, Bo Yang, Liangyu Huo, Xiyuan Zhang, Jian Xie, Daojing He, Yang Xiang, Ming Liu, Bing Qin
| Challenge: | Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have advanced Chinese Classical Studies (CCS) but the audio dimension of CCS remains underexplored due to a lack of high-quality, domain-specific audio corpora. |
| Approach: | They propose a 119-hour audio corpus comprising 22,000 audio samples to bridge this gap . it encompasses a diverse range of literary genres across six tasks . |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus encompasses a diverse range of literary genres across six tasks: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Speech-to-Text Translation (S2TT), Speech Emotion Captioning (SEC), Spoken Question Answering ( SQA), Speech Understanding (SU), and Speech Reasoning (SR). |
WebAnchor: Anchoring Agent Planning to Stabilize Long-Horizon Web Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for reinforcement learning (RL)-based agents struggle with long-horizon planning and strategy coherence. |
| Approach: | They propose a reinforcement learning framework that decouples planning and execution. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline and first-step RL frameworks on four benchmarks. |
UCS-SQL: Uniting Content and Structure for Enhanced Semantic Bridging In Text-to-SQL (2025.findings-acl)
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Zhenhe Wu, Zhongqiu Li, JieZhangChinaTele JieZhangChinaTele, Zhongjiang He, Jian Yang, Yu Zhao, Ruiyu Fang, Bing Wang, Hongyan Xie, Shuangyong Song, Zhoujun Li
| Challenge: | Existing methods overlook the challenge of effectively transforming structure information from NL to SQL. |
| Approach: | They propose a text-to-SQL framework that unites content and structure pipes to bridge the gap between NL and SQL. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework bridges the gap between natural language questions and SQL by combining content and structure pipes. |