Papers by Cheng Peng

44 papers
Complex Evolutional Pattern Learning for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (2022.acl-short)

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Challenge: Existing models for TKG reasoning focus on modeling fact sequences of a fixed length, which cannot discover complex evolutional patterns that vary in length.
Approach: They propose to use a length-aware Convolutional Neural Network to handle evolutional patterns of different lengths via an easy-to-difficult curriculum learning strategy.
Outcome: The proposed model improves performance under both offline and online learning strategies.
Generation-Augmented Retrieval: Rethinking the Role of Large Language Models in Zero-Shot Relation Extraction (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Recent advances in Relation Extraction (RE) emphasize Zero-Shot methodologies, aiming to recognize unseen relations between entities with no annotated data.
Approach: They propose a plug-in retrieval adjuster that allows rapid fine-tuning without accessing LLMs’ parameters.
Outcome: The proposed model demonstrates comparable performance on multiple benchmarks.
RoboFailRing: Retrieval-Augmented and Language Grounding Failure Detection for VLM-enabled Robotic Manipulation (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: RoboFailRing enables timely failure detection during task execution and enhances reasoning accuracy of VLMs.
Approach: They propose a robot-based failure detection system that enables timely failure detection . they evaluate a large-scale simulated dataset and provide a grounded failure report .
Outcome: The proposed method achieves rapid failure detection and returns similarity-based decision on large-scale simulated failures.
RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: recurrent neural networks struggle to match the performance of Transformers due to limitations in parallelization and scalability.
Approach: They propose a model architecture that combines the efficient parallelizable training of transformers with the efficient inference of RNNs.
Outcome: The proposed model performs on par with similarly sized RNNs, suggesting future work can leverage this architecture to create more efficient models.
Velocitune: A Velocity-based Dynamic Domain Reweighting Method for Continual Pre-training (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods to optimise pretraining performance have not addressed the complexities of domain-adaptive continual pretraining.
Approach: They propose a framework that dynamically assesses learning velocity and adjusts data proportions accordingly, favouring slower learning domains while de-emphasising faster learning ones.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves performance gains in math and code reasoning tasks and command-line generation benchmarks.
NL2Logic: AST-Guided Translation of Natural Language into First-Order Logic with Large Language Models (2026.findings-eacl)

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Challenge: Structured reasoning approaches that parse first-order logic rules from natural language lack syntax control and semantic faithfulness.
Approach: They propose a structured reasoning paradigm that parses first-order logic rules from natural language and delegates inference to automated solvers.
Outcome: a proposed framework parses first-order logic rules from natural language and delegates inference to automated solvers.
UHGEval: Benchmarking the Hallucination of Chinese Large Language Models via Unconstrained Generation (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) produce hallucinated text, compromising their practical utility in professional contexts.
Approach: They have developed an unconstrained hallucination generation evaluation benchmark that contains hallucines generated by large language models with minimal restrictions.
Outcome: The proposed benchmarks are based on a Chinese-language dataset that is lacking in the field.
AgentBank: Towards Generalized LLM Agents via Fine-Tuning on 50000+ Interaction Trajectories (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing studies focus on specialized agents designed for particular tasks.
Approach: They propose to scale annotated interaction trajectories and fine-tune LLMs on AgentBank to get a series of agent models, Samoyed.
Outcome: The proposed model can scale to get generalized agent capabilities.
DLTKG: Denoising Logic-based Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Current approaches to temporal knowledge representation face limited generalization to unseen facts and insufficient interpretability of reasoning processes.
Approach: They propose a framework that uses a denoising diffusion process to complete reasoning tasks . they propose introducing a noise source and historical conditionguiding mechanism to improve interpretability .
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on three benchmark datasets.
Data Mixing Agent: Learning to Re-weight Domains for Continual Pre-training (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for reweighting data mixtures rely on manual designation with certain heuristics based on intuition or empirical results.
Approach: They propose a model-based framework that learns to re-weight domains by reinforcement learning on large quantities of data mixing trajectories with corresponding feedback from an evaluation environment.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms baselines in achieving balanced performance across source and target fields and domain spaces without retraining.
PaCoRe: Learning to Scale Test-Time Compute with Parallel Coordinated Reasoning (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Parallel Coordinated Reasoning (PaCoRe) overcomes a central limitation of contemporary language models: their inability to scale test-time compute (TTC) far beyond sequential reasoning under a fixed context window.
Approach: They propose a training-and-inference framework to overcome a central limitation of language models: their inability to scale test-time compute (TTC) under a fixed context window.
Outcome: The proposed model scales to multi-million-token effective TTC without exceeding context limits.
BigVideo: A Large-scale Video Subtitle Translation Dataset for Multimodal Machine Translation (2023.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing datasets focus on captions describing images or videos, which are not large and diverse enough.
Approach: They propose a large-scale video subtitle translation dataset to facilitate multi-modality machine translation.
Outcome: The proposed dataset is 10 times larger than the widely used *How2* and *VaTeX* datasets.
Not All Modalities at Once: Dynamic Dropout and Bidirectional Fusion for Robust Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Completion (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing MKGC methods train with all modalities available, implicitly assuming consistent complementarity . however, this often induces modality dependence and modality competition under heterogeneous noise, which can hinder robust multi-modal fusion and limit overall performance.
Approach: They propose a framework to infer missing links in multimodal knowledge graphs by leveraging structured triples together with auxiliary modalities such as text and images.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms baselines and achieves new state-of-the-art results.
HiSMatch: Historical Structure Matching based Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (2022.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) store facts as triples in the form of subject, relation, object, timestamps.
Approach: They propose a Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) model that extends each triple with a timestamp to describe dynamic facts.
Outcome: The proposed model improves on six benchmark datasets with up to 5.6% performance improvement compared to the state-of-the-art models.
Retaining Key Information under High Compression Ratios: Query-Guided Compressor for LLMs (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods to compress long contexts have degraded dramatically as compression ratios increase, sometimes even falling to the closed-book level.
Approach: They propose a query-guided compression method that preserves key information within the compressed context.
Outcome: The proposed method can consistently perform well even at high compression ratios, and offers significant benefits in terms of inference cost and throughput.
DEEM: Dynamic Experienced Expert Modeling for Stance Detection (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Existing work on stance detection tasks using large language models shows promising results, but it may not be able to provide detailed background knowledge.
Approach: They propose a method which leverages the generated experienced experts and lets LLMs reason in a semi-parametric way.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms methods with self-consistency reasoning and reduces bias.
Tackling Distractor Documents in Multi-Hop QA with Reinforcement and Curriculum Learning (2026.findings-eacl)

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Challenge: Existing work on retrieval-augmented generation systems has shown that retrievers exhibit imperfect recall and precision, limiting downstream performance.
Approach: They propose a retrieval-augmented generation model that generates answers from larger sets of retrieved contexts.
Outcome: The proposed model generates answers and cites relevant information from larger sets of retrieved contexts.
Inference-Time Decontamination: Reusing Leaked Benchmarks for Large Language Model Evaluation (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Current LLMs are achieving better performance on various benchmarks, but their performance in practical applications does not always match their benchmark results.
Approach: They propose to detect and rewrite leaked benchmarks without altering their difficulties by using Inference-Time Decontamination (ITD) to mitigate performance inflation caused by memorizing leaked samples.
Outcome: The proposed method reduces inflated accuracy by 22.9% on GSM8K and 19.0% on MMLU.
Dual-Gated Fusion with Prefix-Tuning for Multi-Modal Relation Extraction (2023.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for multi-modal relation extraction lack useful visual information.
Approach: They propose a novel multi-modal relation extraction framework to capture deeper correlations of text, entity pair, and image/objects.
Outcome: The proposed framework captures the deeper correlations of text, entity pair, and image/objects, and extracts useful information.
Prompt-Guided Retrieval Augmentation for Non-Knowledge-Intensive Tasks (2023.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Recent studies focus on retrieval to solve knowledge-intensive tasks, but the potential of retrieval for non-knowledge-intensive (NKI) tasks remains under-explored.
Approach: They propose a task-agnostic retrieval framework for NKI tasks that uses a static index and a prompt-guided reranker to re-rank the nearest evidence according to task-specific relevance.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art retrieval-augmented methods on NKI tasks and will be released for further research.
On the Safety of Conversational Models: Taxonomy, Dataset, and Benchmark (2022.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Dialogue safety problems severely limit the real-world deployment of generative conversational models.
Approach: They propose a taxonomy for dialogue safety specifically designed to capture unsafe behaviors in human-bot dialogue settings.
Outcome: The proposed taxonomy captures unsafe behaviors in human-bot dialogue settings with rich context-sensitive unsafe examples.
Editing Large Language Models: Problems, Methods, and Opportunities (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent advances in model editing for LLMs have created challenges and opportunities for the community.
Approach: They propose to alter the behavior of LLMs efficiently within a specific domain without negatively impacting performance across other inputs.
Outcome: The proposed method alters behavior of LLMs efficiently within a specific domain without negatively impacting performance across other inputs.
ECom-Bench: Can LLM Agent Resolve Real-World E-commerce Customer Support Issues? (2025.emnlp-industry)

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Challenge: ECom-Bench is a benchmark framework for evaluating LLM agent with multimodal capabilities in e-commerce customer support domain.
Approach: They introduce a benchmark framework for evaluating LLM agent with multimodal capabilities in the e-commerce customer support domain.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark features dynamic user simulation based on persona information from real e-commerce customer interactions and a realistic task dataset derived from authentic ecommerce dialogues.
KELE: A Multi-Agent Framework for Structured Socratic Teaching with Large Language Models (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Socratic teaching places high demands on teachers’ expertise and real-time feedback capabilities, making it difficult to scale in large educational settings.
Approach: They propose a multi-agent framework for structured Socratic teaching with LLMs that integrates a structured SocRule and a consultant-teacher collaborative teaching mechanism.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms existing LLMs in natural language generation and dialogue comprehension in the classroom.
LEDGER: Scaling Agentic Document Editing with Dependency-aware Graph Retrieval (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Document editing requires full-context awareness of dependencies, but processing entire documents for each edit incurs prohibitive token costs and latency.
Approach: a framework that constructs lightweight dependency graphs captures semantic relationships and structural hierarchies across document elements is proposed for agentic document editing . a scaLing agentic agentic framework is based on a dependency graph framework that captures dependencies and refactors function dependencies.
Outcome: a new framework achieves 76 consistency versus 56 baseline while reducing token usage by 85 . the framework is based on a framework that captures semantic relationships and structural hierarchies across document elements . it can be used to improve document consistency, but it also reduces token costs and latency .
On the Impact of Cross-Domain Data on German Language Models (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Traditionally, large language models have been trained on general web crawls or domain-specific data.
Approach: They present a German dataset and a dataset aimed at containing high-quality data to examine the importance of data diversity over quality.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms models trained on quality data on multiple downstream tasks.
Leveraging Language-based Representations for Better Solving Symbol-related Problems with Large Language Models (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Symbols are used in abstract reasoning, chemical property prediction, and tabular question-answering.
Approach: They propose a method that converts symbols to language-based representations to improve their accuracy.
Outcome: The proposed method improves the accuracy of symbols in language-based models.
Watch Every Step! LLM Agent Learning via Iterative Step-level Process Refinement (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent approaches to enhance agent performance focus on outcome rewards, which may lead to errors or suboptimal actions due to the absence of process supervision signals.
Approach: They propose a step-level framework that provides detailed step-by-step guidance to enhance agent training by using Monte Carlo methods.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms strong baselines on three tasks and shows that it is effective in augmenting efficiency and its applicability to diverse models.
EasyEdit: An Easy-to-use Knowledge Editing Framework for Large Language Models (2024.acl-demos)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) suffer from knowledge cutoff or fallacy issues, which means they are unaware of unseen events or generate text with incorrect facts owing to outdated/noisy data.
Approach: They propose an easy-to-use knowledge editing framework for Large Language Models that allows users to easily edit updated knowledge and adjust undesired behavior while minimizing the impact on unrelated inputs.
Outcome: The proposed framework surpasses traditional fine-tuning in terms of reliability and generalization.
StableToolBench: Towards Stable Large-Scale Benchmarking on Tool Learning of Large Language Models (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have witnessed remarkable advancements in recent years, prompting the exploration of tool learning.
Approach: They propose a virtual API server and stable evaluation system to assess the stability of large-scale real-time APIs.
Outcome: The proposed benchmarks demonstrate the stability of the proposed system and its caching system.
Con-ReCall: Detecting Pre-training Data in LLMs via Contrastive Decoding (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods analyze training data with member and non-member contexts, overlooking potential insights from both member and not-member.
Approach: They propose a method that leverages asymmetric distributional shifts induced by member and non-member contexts through contrastive decoding to enhance membership inference.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms the current state-of-the-art on the WikiMIA benchmark and is robust against various text manipulation techniques.
Robustness Testing of Language Understanding in Task-Oriented Dialog (2021.acl-long)

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Challenge: a lack of systematic studies on the robustness of language understanding models in task-oriented dialog systems is limiting . authors propose a model-agnostic toolkit LAUG to approximate natural language perturbations .
Approach: They propose a model-agnostic toolkit LAUG to approximate natural language perturbations for testing the robustness of language understanding models in task-oriented dialog systems.
Outcome: The proposed toolkit reveals critical robustness issues in state-of-the-art models.
OneGen: Efficient One-Pass Unified Generation and Retrieval for LLMs (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the generative capabilities for various NLP tasks, but they still suffer from hallucinations due to their exclusive reliance on parametric knowledge.
Approach: They propose a framework that integrates retrieval tokens generated autoregressively into a single LLM to handle both tasks simultaneously in a unified forward pass.
Outcome: The proposed framework bridges the traditionally separate training approaches for generation and retrieval by incorporating retrieval tokens generated autoregressively.
Evaluating the Expressive Appropriateness of Speech in Rich Contexts (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for evaluating expressive speech focus on word accuracy, naturalness, signal quality, or emotional intensity at the utterance level.
Approach: They propose a framework for Evaluating Expressive Appropriateness in speech that assesses whether a speech sample aligns with the underlying communicative intent implied by its discourse-level narrative context.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms existing speech evaluation and analysis systems on a human-annotated test set.
TAGPRIME: A Unified Framework for Relational Structure Extraction (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing models for natural language processing (NLP) do not address common tasks.
Approach: They propose to take a unified view of all the tasks and introduce a model that appends priming words about the condition to the input text.
Outcome: The proposed model is based on ten datasets across five different languages and covers ten tasks that cover ten languages.
NewsBench: A Systematic Evaluation Framework for Assessing Editorial Capabilities of Large Language Models in Chinese Journalism (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: a novel evaluation framework assesses the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) for editorial capabilities in Chinese journalism.
Approach: They propose to use a benchmark dataset to assess the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) for editorial capabilities in Chinese journalism.
Outcome: The proposed evaluation framework is based on a dataset of 1,267 test samples in 24 news domains.
Harnessing Negative Signals: Reinforcement Distillation from Teacher Data for LLM Reasoning (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent advances in model distillation show that data from advanced reasoning models can effectively train smaller student models.
Approach: They propose a method to use both positive and negative distilled reasoning traces to maximize LLM reasoning performance in offline settings.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing methods in the distillation context.
LLMBox: A Comprehensive Library for Large Language Models (2024.acl-demos)

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Challenge: a library to facilitate the development, use, and evaluation of large language models (LLMs) is presented.
Approach: They propose a unified library to facilitate the development, use and evaluation of large language models (LLMs).
Outcome: The proposed library is based on extensive experiments in a variety of evaluation settings.
A Multi-Task Incremental Learning Framework with Category Name Embedding for Aspect-Category Sentiment Analysis (2020.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Sentiment analysis is an increasingly popular natural language processing task in academia and industry.
Approach: They propose to use category name encoding network to weaken catastrophic forgetting problem . they set both encoder and decoder shared among all categories to weaker the catastrophic forgetting problem a .
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art on two (T)ACSA benchmark datasets.
Filter-then-Generate: Large Language Models with Structure-Text Adapter for Knowledge Graph Completion (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Empirical evidence suggests that LLMs perform worse than conventional KGC approaches.
Approach: They propose a filter-then-generate paradigm and a multiple-choice question format to harness the capability of LLMs while mitigating the issue casused by hallucinations.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves substantial performance gain compared to existing state-of-the-art methods.
Critic Rule Induction: Improving Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting with Generator-Critic Language Models (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for predicting future facts from time-evolving graphs rely on statistical co-occurrences and extensive path enumeration.
Approach: They propose a Critic-Guided Rule Induction method which treats temporal rules as rule hypotheses to be examined and adopts a decoupled Generation-Discrimination pipeline to induce rules that are high-coverage and high-precision.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms strong baselines on three benchmarks and achieves state-of-the-art performance.
Frame First, Then Extract: A Frame-Semantic Reasoning Pipeline for Zero-Shot Relation Triplet Extraction (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods to extract triplets for unseen relations rely on costly fine-tuning and lack structured semantic guidance.
Approach: They propose a framework that adopts a "frame first, then extract" paradigm to extract triplets from unstructured text.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves competitive zero-shot performance on multiple benchmarks and can be used to enhance existing extraction methods.
Re-Cent: A Relation-Centric Framework for Joint Zero-Shot Relation Triplet Extraction (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods to extract triplets from context often decompose into named entity recognition and relation classification, which may introduce error propagation.
Approach: They propose a Relation-centric joint ZSRTE method which leverages unseen relation labels to extract triplets in one go.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance with fewer parameters and does not rely on synthetic data or manual labor.
BiasFilter: An Inference-Time Debiasing Framework for Large Language Models (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing methods for debiasing large language models incur high human and computational costs and are limited in their effectiveness.
Approach: They propose a model-agnostic, inference-time debiasing framework that enforces fairness by filtering generation outputs in real time.
Outcome: The proposed framework mitigates social bias across a range of LLMs while preserving overall generation quality.

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