Papers by Fang Sun
Model Composition for Multimodal Large Language Models (2024.acl-long)
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Chi Chen, Yiyang Du, Zheng Fang, Ziyue Wang, Fuwen Luo, Peng Li, Ming Yan, Ji Zhang, Fei Huang, Maosong Sun, Yang Liu
| Challenge: | Existing methods for creating versatile MLLMs rely on joint training with paired instruction data, which is resource-intensive and challenging to extend to new modalities. |
| Approach: | They propose a new paradigm for multimodal large language models by reusing modality encoders and merging LLM parameters. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model retains the modal understanding capabilities of each original model. |
Context-DPO: Aligning Language Models for Context-Faithfulness (2025.findings-acl)
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Baolong Bi, Shaohan Huang, Yiwei Wang, Tianchi Yang, Zihan Zhang, Haizhen Huang, Lingrui Mei, Junfeng Fang, Zehao Li, Furu Wei, Weiwei Deng, Feng Sun, Qi Zhang, Shenghua Liu
| Challenge: | Context-DPO is the first alignment method specifically designed to enhance contextfaithfulness for large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark that simulates Retrieval-Augmented Generation scenarios with knowledge conflicts to evaluate context-faithfulness. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves LLMs' context-faithfulness by 35% to 280% over open-source models. |
LightningDOT: Pre-training Visual-Semantic Embeddings for Real-Time Image-Text Retrieval (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing pre-trained models suffer from slow inference speed due to cross-modal attention in transformer architecture. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal approach that accelerates the inference time of ITR by thousands of times . they extract pre-cached feature indexes offline and employ instant dot-product matching online . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing models that consume 1000 times magnitude of computational hours using the same features. |
Cluster-Former: Clustering-based Sparse Transformer for Question Answering (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing models for encoding long sequences in deep learning suffer from high latency and memory demands. |
| Approach: | They propose a clustering-based sparse Transformer framework to perform attention across chunked sequences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art on several major QA benchmarks. |
If an LLM Were a Character, Would It Know Its Own Story? Evaluating Lifelong Learning in LLMs (2026.acl-long)
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Siqi Fan, Xiusheng Huang, Yiqun Yao, Xuezhi Fang, Kang Liu, Peng Han, Shuo Shang, Aixin Sun, Yequan Wang
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) fail to capture these dynamics, focusing on static, open-ended evaluations. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to assess lifelong learning in large language models . they use two episodic datasets rich in narrative structure and character interactions . |
| Outcome: | Experiments on LLMs show that non-parametric methods outperform parametric ones in managing stateful learning. |
D-Artemis: A Deliberative Cognitive Framework for Mobile GUI Multi-Agents (2026.findings-acl)
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Hongze Mi, Yibo Feng, WenJie Lu, Yuqi Wang, Jinyuan Li, Song Cao, He Cui, Tengfei Tian, Xuelin Zhang, Haotian Luo, Di Sun, Jun Fang, Hua Chai, Naiqiang Tan, Gang Pan
| Challenge: | Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents aim to automate a wide spectrum of human tasks by emulating user interaction. |
| Approach: | They propose a deliberative framework that leverages a fine-grained tip retrieval mechanism to inform its decision-making process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves SOTA among open-source general models on AndroidWorld and ScreenSpot-V2 . it leverages a fine-grained, app-specific tip retrieval mechanism to inform its decision-making process . |
Contrastive Distillation on Intermediate Representations for Language Model Compression (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to compress language models use a simple L_2 loss to distill knowledge in the intermediate representations of a large BERT model to a smaller one. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses knowledge distillation to distill knowledge through intermediate layers of the teacher via a contrastive objective. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on the GLUE benchmark. |
Listening Like Humans: Semantics-Guided Noise-Robust Multimodal Speech Recognition (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Severe acoustic degradation results in unreliable ASR outputs . et al., 2024b): critical concerns regarding reliability and fairness of ASR . |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal framework that reframes ASR as semantics-guided speech reconstruction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves an average reduction in WER while also attaining 98.71% BERTScore and 96.7% USE over advanced baselines. |
Human-in-the-loop Robotic Grasping Using BERT Scene Representation (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches for robotic grasping in cluttered scenes are expensive and lack structure information. |
| Approach: | They propose a human-in-the-loop framework for robotic grasping in cluttered scenes . they substitute scene-graph representation with a text representation of the scene using BERT . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms object-agnostic and scene-graph based methods on robots and physical robots. |
Backdooring Neural Code Search (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Neural code search models are used to find code snippets from online repositories . however, their security aspect is rarely studied . |
| Approach: | They propose to use off-the-shelf code snippets from online repositories to find desired code . they propose to inject a backdoor into neural code search models which return buggy code if attacker modifies one variable/function name . |
| Outcome: | The proposed attack outperforms baselines on two neural code search models by 60%. |
Beyond Quantity: Trajectory Diversity Scaling for Code Agents (2026.findings-acl)
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Guhong Chen, Chenghao Sun, Cheng Fu, Qiyao Wang, Zhihong Huang, ChaoPeng Wei, Guangxu Chen, Feiteng Fang, Ahmadreza Argha, Bing Zhao, Xander Xu, Qi Han, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Qiang Qu, Binhua Li, Shiwen Ni, Min Yang, HU Wei, Yongbin Li
| Challenge: | Code large language models (LLMs) are becoming tool-interactive agents . quantity-centric scaling exhibits an early bottleneck that underutilizes trajectory data . et al.: a new approach to scale trajectory diversity improves tool-use generalization . |
| Approach: | They propose a Trajectory Diversity Scaling-based data synthesis framework for code agents that scales performance through diversity rather than raw volume. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on general tool-use benchmarks and code agent tasks show that TDScaling improves tool-user generalization and inherent coding proficiency. |
Ouroboros: Generating Longer Drafts Phrase by Phrase for Faster Speculative Decoding (2024.emnlp-main)
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Weilin Zhao, Yuxiang Huang, Xu Han, Wang Xu, Chaojun Xiao, Xinrong Zhang, Yewei Fang, Kaihuo Zhang, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
| Challenge: | Speculative decoding is a widely used method that accelerates the generation process of large language models (LLMs) drafting efficiency has become a bottleneck in the final speedup of speculative drafting, therefore generating longer drafts at less cost can lead to better speedup. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses existing model to drafting and target LLM to verify draft in a low-cost parallel manner. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can achieve speedups of up to 2.4 over speculative decoding and 3.9 over vanilla decoding without fine-tuning draft and target models. |
SciExplore: Evaluating Autonomous Agents from Scientific Navigation to Information Integration (2026.findings-acl)
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Yinhao Tang, Youqing Fang, Yanan Sun, Wenran Liu, Weiming Zhang, Bin Liu, Kuikun Liu, Wenwei Zhang, Kai Chen
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks emphasize general-domain retrieval or static scientific question answering . SciExplore focuses on scientific database navigation, ambiguous literature retrieval, missing reference completion, and cross-source structured knowledge synthesis tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate scientific information-seeking and reasoning capabilities of LLMs and agents. |
| Outcome: | The new benchmark assesses the capabilities of state-of-the-art LLMs and agents in scientific research workflows. |
T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Text-to-image (T2I) generative models have demonstrated exceptional capability in synthesizing high-quality images from textual prompts. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to explore the knowledge-driven reasoning capabilities of T2I models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark examines the knowledge-driven reasoning capabilities of T2I models. |
FocusLLM: Precise Understanding of Long Context by Dynamic Condensing (2025.acl-long)
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Zhenyu Li, Yike Zhang, Tengyu Pan, Yutao Sun, Zhichao Duan, Junjie Fang, Rong Han, Zixuan Wang, Jianyong Wang
| Challenge: | Existing context condensing methods cannot accurately understand the full context, as there is a considerable amount of information loss in the condensed process. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to extend the fixed context length of any decoder-only LLM by distilling crucial information from long sequences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework extends the fixed context length of any decoder-only LLM, allowing it to focus on relevant information from very long sequences. |
Cross-Thought for Sentence Encoder Pre-training (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing models to pretrain sentence encoders with large unlabeled corpus are lacking in linguistic information retrieval. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel approach to pre-training sequence encoder using transformers . they propose to train a Transformer-based sequence encoded over a large set of short sequences based on a set of masked words . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art encoders on hotpotQA by improving intermediate information retrieval performance. |
NL2Lean: Translating Natural Language into Lean 4 through Multi-Aspect Reinforcement Learning (2025.emnlp-main)
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Yue Fang, Shaohan Huang, Xin Yu, Haizhen Huang, Zihan Zhang, Weiwei Deng, Furu Wei, Feng Sun, Qi Zhang, Zhi Jin
| Challenge: | Existing formal proof assistants rely on instruction tuning and lack fine-grained structural and semantic alignment. |
| Approach: | They propose a reinforcement learning framework that enables LLMs to translate natural language into formal language such as Lean 4 . they use a model with basic translation ability to refine the model's reinforcement learning . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baseline models on NL-to-Lean 4 tasks. |
Multi-stage Distillation Framework for Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity Matching (2022.findings-naacl)
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Kunbo Ding, Weijie Liu, Yuejian Fang, Zhe Zhao, Qi Ju, Xuefeng Yang, Rong Tian, Zhu Tao, Haoyan Liu, Han Guo, Xingyu Bai, Weiquan Mao, Yudong Li, Weigang Guo, Taiqiang Wu, Ningyuan Sun
| Challenge: | Existing studies have shown that cross-lingual knowledge distillation can improve the performance of pre-trained models for cross-linguistic similarity matching tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-stage distillation framework for constructing a small-size but high-performance cross-lingual model using contrastive learning, bottleneck, and parameter recurrent strategies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can compress the size of XLM-R and MiniLM by more than 50% while the performance is only reduced by about 1%. |
Leveraging Knowledge in Multilingual Commonsense Reasoning (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Commonsense reasoning is a language-agnostic process, but most comprehensive knowledge sources are limited to a small number of languages, especially English. |
| Approach: | They propose to use English as a pivot language to integrate commonsense reasoning into models using a translate-retrieve-translate strategy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art on the XCSR benchmarks. |
GUICourse: From General Vision Language Model to Versatile GUI Agent (2025.acl-long)
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Wentong Chen, Junbo Cui, Jinyi Hu, Yujia Qin, Junjie Fang, Yue Zhao, Chongyi Wang, Jun Liu, Guirong Chen, Yupeng Huo, Yuan Yao, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
| Challenge: | Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are a pivotal medium for human-computer interaction. |
| Approach: | They propose a series of datasets for training visual-based GUI agents using general VLMs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed GUICourse datasets show that even a small-sized GUI agent performs better on GUI tasks. |
Sequential-NIAH: A Needle-In-A-Haystack Benchmark for Extracting Sequential Needles from Long Contexts (2025.emnlp-main)
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Yifei Yu, Qian-Wen Zhang, Lingfeng Qiao, Di Yin, Fang Li, Jie Wang, Chen Zeng Xi, Suncong Zheng, Xiaolong Liang, Xing Sun
| Challenge: | Recent models have extended Corresponding Author. context lengths to millions of tokens while maintaining reasoning and comprehension capabilities. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate the ability of large language models to extract sequential information items from long contexts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves maximum accuracy of 63.50% on six well-known LLMs. |
Hierarchical Graph Network for Multi-hop Question Answering (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing multi-hop question answering models focus on multi-level reasoning across multiple documents or paragraphs. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical graph network that aggregates clues from scattered texts . they use a set of contextual encoders to initialize nodes on different levels of granularity . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing multi-hop QA approaches on the HotpotQA benchmark. |
AMPO: Automatic Multi-Branched Prompt Optimization (2024.emnlp-main)
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Sheng Yang, Yurong Wu, Yan Gao, Zineng Zhou, Bin Zhu, Xiaodi Sun, Jian-Guang Lou, Zhiming Ding, Anbang Hu, Yuan Fang, Yunsong Li, Junyan Chen, Linjun Yang
| Challenge: | Existing prompt engineering techniques are limited to producing single flow instructions, struggling with handling diverse patterns. |
| Approach: | They propose an automatic prompt optimization method that iteratively develops a multi-branched prompt using failure cases as feedback. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves the best results across five tasks and demonstrates significant optimization efficiency due to adoption of a minimal search strategy. |
AutoFigure-Edit: Generating Editable Scientific Illustrations via Reference-Guided Styling (2026.acl-demo)
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Zhen Lin, Qiujie Xie, Minjun Zhu, Shichen Li, QiYao Sun, Enhao Gu, Yiran Ding, Ke Sun, Fang Guo, Panzhong Lu, Zhiyuan Ning, Yixuan Weng, Yue Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing automated systems for scientific illustrations are limited in editability, stylistic controllability, and efficiency. |
| Approach: | They propose an end-to-end system that generates fully editable scientific illustrations from long-form scientific text while enabling flexible style adaptation through user-provided reference images. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system generates fully editable scientific illustrations from long-form scientific texts while enabling flexible style adaptation through user-provided reference images. |
UniCorn: Towards Self-Improving Unified Multimodal Models through Self-Generated Supervision (2026.acl-long)
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Zhen Fang, Ruiyan Han, XinYu Sun, Yuchen Ma, Ziheng Wang, Yu Zeng, Zehui Chen, Lin Chen, Wenxuan Huang, Wei-Jie Xu, Yi Cao, Feng Zhao
| Challenge: | Unified Multimodal Models have achieved remarkable success in cross-modal comprehension, but a gap persists in their ability to translate internal knowledge into faithful and controllable synthesis. |
| Approach: | They propose a self-improvement framework that partitions a single UMM into three collaborative roles: Proposer, Solver, and Judge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on TIIF, DPG, CompBench and UniCycle benchmarks. |
Automated Molecular Concept Generation and Labeling with Large Language Models (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Concept-based models lack explainability and need predefined concepts and manual labeling in molecular science. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that leverages Large Language Models to generate and label predictive molecular concepts without human input. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing models on several benchmarks while maintaining explainability and allowing easy intervention. |
MT-OSC: Path for LLMs that Get Lost in Multi-Turn Conversation (2026.findings-acl)
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Jyotika Singh, Fang Tu, Miguel Ballesteros, Weiyi Sun, Sandip Ghoshal, Michelle Yuan, Yassine Benajiba, Sujith Ravi, Dan Roth
| Challenge: | Large language models suffer performance degradation when user instructions and context are distributed over multiple conversational turns. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that condenses chat history in the background without disrupting the user experience. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces token counts by up to 72% in 10-turn dialogues while remaining robust to distractors and irrelevant turns. |
Do Vision-Language Models Have Internal World Models? Towards an Atomic Evaluation (2025.findings-acl)
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Qiyue Gao, Xinyu Pi, Kevin Liu, Junrong Chen, Ruolan Yang, Xinqi Huang, Xinyu Fang, Lu Sun, Gautham Kishore, Bo Ai, Stone Tao, Mengyang Liu, Jiaxi Yang, Chao-Jung Lai, Chuanyang Jin, Jiannan Xiang, Benhao Huang, Zeming Chen, David Danks, Hao Su, Tianmin Shu, Ziqiao Ma, Lianhui Qin, Zhiting Hu
| Challenge: | Recent studies have evaluated and shown limitations in specific capabilities such as visual understanding, but a systematic evaluation of VLMs’ fundamental WM abilities remains absent. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that assesses perception and prediction to provide an atomic evaluation of VLMs as WMs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework assesses perception and prediction abilities on 15 latest VLMs and compares them to human-level models. |
Train in Vain: Functionality-Preserving Poisoning to Prevent Unauthorized Use of Code Datasets (2026.findings-acl)
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Yuan Xiao, Jiaming Wang, Yuchen Chen, Wei Song, Jun Sun, Shiqing Ma, Yanzhou Mu, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Jin Song Dong, Zhenyu Chen
| Challenge: | Existing methods for dataset poisoning require full-dataset poison, which breaks code compilability. |
| Approach: | They propose a functionality-preserving poisoning approach that injects short, compilable weak-use fragments into executed code paths. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method contaminates 10% of the dataset while maintaining 100% compilability and functional correctness. |
Why Are We Moral? An LLM-based Agent Simulation Approach to the Study of Moral Evolution (2026.acl-long)
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Zhou Ziheng, Huacong Tang, Mingjie Bi, Wanying He, Fang Sun, Yizhou Sun, Ying Nian Wu, Demetri Terzopoulos, Yipeng Kang, Fangwei Zhong
| Challenge: | Existing models of moral evolution must abstract away cognitive processes . et al. (2017): evolution of morality presents a puzzle: natural selection favors selfish . |
| Approach: | They propose an LLM-based agent simulation framework that manipulates cognitive factors to understand moral evolution. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model exploits cognitive realism to explore moral evolution in a hunter-gatherer society. |
Infinite Babble: Inflating 3D Vision-Language Model Inference Overhead via Adversarial Geometric Perturbation (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | 3D Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are critical cognitive backbone for spatial intelligence, but their reliance on autoregressive decoding introduces a fundamental vulnerability regarding inference efficiency. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that triggers computational and economic exhaustion in 3D-VLMs by injecting imperceptible noise that forces the model into a state of pathological verbosity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework amplifies output length and energy consumption by up to 6.45, demonstrating a potent capability to drain system resources. |
QuantumQA: Enhancing Scientific Reasoning via Physics-Consistent Dataset and Verification-Aware Reinforcement Learning (2026.acl-long)
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Songxin Qu, Tai-Ping Sun, Yun-Jie Wang, Huan-Yu Liu, Cheng Xue, Xiao-Fan Xu, Han Fang, Yang Yang, Yu-Chun Wu, Guo-Ping Guo, Zhao-Yun Chen
| Challenge: | Large language models lack reliability in scientific domains that require strict adherence to physical constraints. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale dataset constructed via a task-adaptive strategy and a hybrid verification protocol that combines deterministic solvers with semantic auditing to guarantee scientific rigor. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baselines and general-purpose preference models and is competitive with proprietary models. |
GraphICL: Unlocking Graph Learning Potential in LLMs through Structured Prompt Design (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs) are a powerful tool for understanding complex systems and relationships. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate large language models for graph-structured data using prompts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark outperforms state-of-the-art graph LLMs and graph neural networks on graph learning tasks without training. |
MQuinE: a Cure for “Z-paradox” in Knowledge Graph Embedding (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge graph embedding models suffer from Z-paradox, a deficiency in expressiveness . Embedding-based models map each entity and relation into a vector or matrix . |
| Approach: | They propose a new knowledge graph embedding model that does not suffer from Z-paradox while preserves strong expressiveness to model various relation patterns with theoretical justification. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models on link prediction tasks while maintaining strong expressiveness. |
LastingBench: Defend Benchmarks Against Knowledge Leakage (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to detect and safeguard LLMs against knowledge leakage fail to address the long-term challenge of mitigating it. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to reinforce and safeguard existing benchmarks against knowledge leakage by perturbation-based detection and counterfactual rewriting to disrupt memorization while preserving original intent. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces memorization effects in long-context QA benchmarks, providing a more accurate assessment of model reasoning and generalization abilities. |
SimpleDeepSearcher: Deep Information Seeking via Web-Powered Reasoning Trajectory Synthesis (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Shuang Sun, Huatong Song, Yuhao Wang, Ruiyang Ren, Jinhao Jiang, Junjie Zhang, Fei Bai, Jia Deng, Xin Zhao, Zheng Liu, Lei Fang, Zhongyuan Wang, Ji-Rong Wen
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to deep search training lack high-quality training trajectories, prohibitive computational costs and lack of high-fidelity training data. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that synthesizes high-quality training data by simulating real user interactions in live web search environments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework synthesizes high-quality training data by simulating user interactions in live web search environments. |
JTPRO: A Joint Tool–Prompt Reflective Optimization Framework for Language Agents (2026.findings-acl)
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Sandip Ghoshal, Anshul Mittal, Jyotika Singh, Miguel Ballesteros, Weiyi Sun, Fang Tu, Shailender Singh, Yassine Benajiba, Fahad Shah, Sujeeth Bharadwaj, Sujith Ravi, Dan Roth
| Challenge: | Large language model agents struggle with ambiguous tool descriptions and underspecified tool schemas that ignore tool-specific nuances. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for improving tool-calling reliability in trace-supervised settings by rolling out-driven reflection. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baselines and reflective prompt optimizers by 5%–20% on OSR. |
AiraXiv: An AI-Driven Open-Access Platform for Human and AI Scientists (2026.acl-demo)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have accelerated the growth of both human-authored and AI-generated research outputs. |
| Approach: | They propose an AI-driven open-access platform built on open preprints, AI-augmented analysis and review, and reader feedback. |
| Outcome: | The proposed platform supports human scientists through an interactive UI and AI scientists through Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based interactions. |
Training Data is More Valuable than You Think: A Simple and Effective Method by Retrieving from Training Data (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Experimental results show that REtrieving from the traINing datA only can lead to significant gains on multiple NLG and NLU tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to retrieve training instances from traINing datA and concatenate them with input to generate output. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results on XSum, BigPatent, and CommonsenseQA. |