Papers by Dongsheng Chen

15 papers
LiteVL: Efficient Video-Language Learning with Enhanced Spatial-Temporal Modeling (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent large-scale video-language pre-trained models have shown appealing performance on downstream tasks.
Approach: They propose a video-text model that adapts a pre-trained image-language model into a text-based model without heavy pre-training.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing models on video-text retrieval and video question answering tasks without heavy pre-training.
AdaMARP: An Adaptive Multi-Agent Interaction Framework for General Immersive Role-Playing (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing LLMs lack immersion and adaptability, resulting in limited character orchestration and on-the-fly character introduction.
Approach: They propose an LLM-based framework that allows actors to interact with users in an ongoing narrative.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms commercial LLMs in character consistency, environment grounding, and narrative coherence.
PACE: Prefix-Protected and Difficulty-Aware Compression for Efficient Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing LRMs often suffer from "overthinking" and excessively long reasoning traces . a dual-level framework for length compression of LRM is proposed .
Approach: They propose a framework for prefix-protected and difficulty-aware compression under hierarchical supervision.
Outcome: The proposed framework reduces token usage while improving accuracy on math benchmarks.
Enhancing Code-Switching for Cross-lingual SLU: A Unified View of Semantic and Grammatical Coherence (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing models rely on annotated training data, limiting their scalability to low-resource languages.
Approach: They propose a method termed SoGo for zero-shot cross-lingual SLU that uses keywords as substitution options to extract keywords and a token-level alignment strategy to ensure grammatical coherence.
Outcome: The proposed method improves zero-shot cross-lingual SLU across nine languages on MultiATIS++.
EvoAgent: Towards Automatic Multi-Agent Generation via Evolutionary Algorithms (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Existing work on extending specialized agents to multi-agent systems is dependent on human-designed frameworks, limiting the functional scope and scalability of agent systems.
Approach: They propose a generic method to automatically extend specialized agents to multi-agent systems via evolutionary algorithm . they consider existing agent frameworks as the initial individual and apply evolutionary operators to generate multiple agents with diverse settings.
Outcome: The proposed method can extend specialized agents to multi-agent systems . it can generate multiple agents with diverse settings, and improves performance across tasks .
Towards Unified Spoken Language Understanding Decoding via Label-aware Compact Linguistics Representations (2023.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for intent detection and slot filling decoders could result in misaligned predictions for both tasks.
Approach: They propose a method that leverages label embeddings to jointly guide the decoding process.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing methods on two single- and multi-intent SLU benchmarks and can be incorporated into existing models.
Zero-Shot Spoken Language Understanding via Large Language Models: A Preliminary Study (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown promising results in zero-shot settings, which motivates us to explore prompt-based methods.
Approach: They propose a two-stage framework which transforms the SLU task into a question-answering problem by directly prompting LLMs.
Outcome: The proposed framework can be built by directly prompting LLMs to understand user needs without training data.
MCLF: A Multi-grained Contrastive Learning Framework for ASR-robust Spoken Language Understanding (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Trending ASR-robust SLU systems have seen impressive improvements through global contrastive learning, but they can easily lead to severe semantic changes.
Approach: They propose a two-stage multi-grained contrastive learning framework to improve ASR robustness . they first adapt pre-trained language models to downstream SLU datasets and then fine-tune it on the corresponding dataset.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves on four datasets and four BERT-like backbone models.
Dynamic PMI-Guided Contrastive Decoding Reduces Hallucination in Large Language Models: A Unified Framework of Fine-Grained Input Transformations (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Despite the remarkable generation capabilities of large language models, the issue of hallucination remains a critical challenge.
Approach: They propose a contrastive decoding framework based on dynamic pointwise mutual information that disentangles spurious dependencies induced by context priors, lexical co-occurrences, and syntactic structures and prioritizes causal logic.
Outcome: The proposed framework significantly improves the model’s factuality and reasoning robustness while maintaining high computational efficiency.
EASYTOOL: Enhancing LLM-based Agents with Concise Tool Instruction (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: EASYTOOL combines tools from diverse tool documentation into a single tool instruction.
Approach: They propose a framework that transforms tool documentation into a unified tool instruction.
Outcome: EASYTOOL combines extensive tool documentation into a concise tool instruction . it reduces token consumption and improves performance of LLM-based agents .
Syntax Matters: Towards Spoken Language Understanding via Syntax-Aware Attention (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing studies on SLU systems have focused on integrating syntactic information into language models.
Approach: They propose a model where attention scopes are constrained based on syntactic relationships.
Outcome: The proposed model improves on three datasets and can be integrated into other language models to further boost their performance.
Improving Factual Consistency in Abstractive Summarization with Sentence Structure Pruning (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Abstractive summarization models suffer from factual inconsistency problem . post-editing methods focus on replacing suspicious entities, failing to modify incorrect content hidden in sentence structures.
Approach: They propose to use sentence pruning operation to correct possible errors . they propose to apply sentence pruning operations to the syntactic dependency tree .
Outcome: The proposed method improves factual consistency on the FRANK dataset compared with baselines . it is model-independent and can serve as the final step in ensuring factual consistentness.
Exploring Multi-Modal Data with Tool-Augmented LLM Agents for Precise Causal Discovery (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing statistical causal discovery methods rely on observational data and often overlook the semantic cues inherent in cause-and-effect relationships.
Approach: They propose a multi-agent system powered by tool-augmented Large Language Models that can combine data from multiple modalities and integrate multi-modal data for knowledge-driven reasoning.
Outcome: The proposed system has two agents: a Data Augmentation agent that retrieves and processes modality-augmented data, and a Causal Constraint agent that integrates multi-modal data for knowledge-driven reasoning.
Improving Large Language Models in Event Relation Logical Prediction (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Event relation extraction tasks require rigorous logical reasoning and semantic comprehension, a challenge for narrative understanding and reasoning.
Approach: They propose three approaches to endow LLMs with event relation logic to generate more coherent answers across different scenarios.
Outcome: The proposed approach improves on a set of ERE tasks and provides insights for future work.

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