Papers by Chenchen Yang

4 papers
WESR: A Benchmark and Strong Baseline for Word-level Event-Speech Recognition (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: aaron carroll: the precise localization of non-verbal vocal events remains a critical yet under-explored challenge. carroll says current methods suffer from insufficient task definitions with limited category coverage. carrol: knowing exactly where an event occurred is not enough; knowing exactly what it happened is.
Approach: They propose a taxonomy of 21 vocal events with a new categorization into discrete versus continuous types.
Outcome: The proposed model disentangles ASR errors from event detection while maintaining ASR quality.
Probabilistic Aggregation and Targeted Embedding Optimization for Collective Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have impressive moral reasoning abilities, yet they often diverge when confronted with complex, multi-factor moral dilemmas.
Approach: They propose a framework that synthesizes multiple LLMs’ moral judgments into a collectively formulated moral judgment, realigning models that deviate significantly from this consensus.
Outcome: The proposed framework synthesizes multiple LLMs’ moral judgments into a collectively formulated moral judgment, realigning models that deviate significantly from this consensus.
OpenCoder: The Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Code LLMs lack reproducible data pipelines and training protocols for reproducible advancements in code intelligence.
Approach: They propose a top-tier code LLM that releases model weights and inference code . reproducible data pipelines, rigorous experimental ablation results and training protocols are included .
Outcome: The proposed model achieves comparable performance to leading models and serves as an "open cookbook" reproducible training data, rigorous experimental ablation results, and detailed training protocols are also included in the model.
P-TA: Using Proximal Policy Optimization to Enhance Tabular Data Augmentation via Large Language Models (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Contemporary approaches to generate tabular data are limited due to the lack of external knowledge.
Approach: They propose to use proximal policy optimization to apply GANs and fine-tune Large Language Models to enhance the probability distribution of tabular features.
Outcome: The proposed method improves accuracy of GANs and LLMs over state-of-the-art over three real-world datasets.

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