Papers by Feng Ge
DisCo_Speech: Controllable Zero-Shot Speech Generation with A Disentangled Speech Codec (2026.acl-long)
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Tao Li, Wenshuo Ge, Zhichao Wang, Zihao Cui, Yong Ma, Yingying Gao, Chao Deng, Shilei Zhang, Junlan Feng
| Challenge: | DisCo-Speech is a zero-shot controllable text-to-speech framework . standard codecs entangle timbre and prosody, which hinders independent control in continuation-based LMs. |
| Approach: | They propose a disentangled speech codec and an LM-based generator to solve this problem . they propose fusion and reconstruction that merges content and prosody into unified tokens . |
| Outcome: | DisCo-Speech achieves competitive voice cloning and superior zero-shot prosody control. |
Simulating Crisis Cognition: A Computational Framework for Hypothesis Generation in Crisis Communication (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable fidelity in simulating social dynamics, yet using them to inform high-stakes crisis policy requires rigorous causal evaluation. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that functions as an in-silico hypothesis generator to evaluate communication strategies by coupling real-world telemetry with 1,813 agents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework provides a rigorous testbed for evaluating strategies before human-subject trials. |
Resource-Limited Joint Multimodal Sentiment Reasoning and Classification via Chain-of-Thought Enhancement and Distillation (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Current approaches for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) rely on parameter-heavy LLMs for classification, overlooking multimodal sentiment reasoning generation in resource-limited environments. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal sentiment reasoning distillation model that employs a teacher-assistant-student paradigm to address deployment constraints in resource-limited environments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs well on a resource-limited JMSRC task with only 3B parameters and shows generalization and interpretability. |
MMRC: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Understanding Multimodal Large Language Model in Real-World Conversation (2025.acl-long)
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Haochen Xue, Feilong Tang, Ming Hu, Yexin Liu, Qidong Huang, Yulong Li, Chengzhi Liu, Zhongxing Xu, Chong Zhang, Chun-Mei Feng, Yutong Xie, Imran Razzak, Zongyuan Ge, Jionglong Su, Junjun He, Yu Qiao
| Challenge: | Existing multimodal large language models lack the ability to memorize, recall, and reason in sustained interactions. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal real-world conversation benchmark for evaluating open-ended abilities of multimodal large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks show that the models perform better in open-ended conversations. |
LJPCheck: Functional Tests for Legal Judgment Prediction (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing LJP models fail to evaluate specific aspects of their performance, such as legal fairness and judicial fairness. |
| Approach: | They propose a suite of functional tests for LJP models to comprehend LJp models’ behaviors and offer diagnostic insights. |
| Outcome: | Extensive tests reveal weaknesses in LJP models and provide diagnostic insights. |
RAAMove: A Corpus for Analyzing Moves in Research Article Abstracts (2024.lrec-main)
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Hongzheng Li, Ruojin Wang, Ge Shi, Xing Lv, Lei Lei, Chong Feng, Fang Liu, Jinkun Lin, Yangguang Mei, Linnan Xu
| Challenge: | RAAMove is a comprehensive multi-domain corpus dedicated to the annotation of move structures in Research Article (RA) abstracts. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-domain corpus dedicated to the annotation of move structures in RA abstracts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus is based on a human-annotated dataset and a BERT-based model to verify its effectiveness. |
CLaMP 2: Multimodal Music Information Retrieval Across 101 Languages Using Large Language Models (2025.findings-naacl)
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Shangda Wu, Yashan Wang, Ruibin Yuan, Guo Zhancheng, Xu Tan, Ge Zhang, Monan Zhou, Jing Chen, Xuefeng Mu, Yuejie Gao, Yuanliang Dong, Jiafeng Liu, Xiaobing Li, Feng Yu, Maosong Sun
| Challenge: | Current music information retrieval systems struggle to meet linguistic diversity challenges . current systems struggle with text queries in non-English languages . |
| Approach: | They propose a music information retrieval system that supports both ABC notation and MIDI . CLaMP 2 includes a multilingual text encoder and a multiple-modal music encoder . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves state-of-the-art results in multilingual semantic search and music classification across modalities. |
Towards Exploiting Sticker for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Social Media: A New Dataset and Baseline (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Sentiment analysis in social media is challenging because of the lack of context. |
| Approach: | They propose to use stickers to perform a multimodal sentiment analysis task using Chinese stickers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs best compared with other models. |
Arxiv Copilot: A Self-Evolving and Efficient LLM System for Personalized Academic Assistance (2024.emnlp-demo)
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| Challenge: | Existing solutions for document QA fail to provide personalized and up-to-date information efficiently. |
| Approach: | They propose to deploy a self-evolving, efficient LLM system that can offer personalized research services, maintaining a real-time updated database. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system saves 69.92% of time after efficient deployment. |
Don’t Miss the Potential Customers! Retrieving Similar Ads to Improve User Targeting (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | a method for user targeting is developed to identify online users to whom an ad should be targeted. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for automatic augmentation of positive and negative clickthrough data for user targeting models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can increase positive and negative instances of positive training instances on two datasets. |
Can Graph Descriptive Order Affect Solving Graph Problems with LLMs? (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant success in reasoning tasks, including mathematical reasoning and logical deduction. |
| Approach: | They conduct the first comprehensive analysis of how the order of graph descriptions impacts LLM performance. |
| Outcome: | The results show that graph descriptions significantly improve LLMs’ comprehension of graph structures, and the robustness of LLM models to graph description order varies across different tasks. |
Can MLLMs Understand the Deep Implication Behind Chinese Images? (2025.acl-long)
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Chenhao Zhang, Xi Feng, Yuelin Bai, Xeron Du, Jinchang Hou, Kaixin Deng, Guangzeng Han, Qinrui Li, Bingli Wang, Jiaheng Liu, Xingwei Qu, Yifei Zhang, Qixuan Zhao, Yiming Liang, Ziqiang Liu, Feiteng Fang, Min Yang, Wenhao Huang, Chenghua Lin, Ge Zhang, Shiwen Ni
| Challenge: | MLLMs perform poorly on traditional culture images, indicating limitations in understanding high-level semantics and lacking a deep knowledge base of Chinese traditional culture. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Chinese images to assess MLLMs' higher-order perception and understanding of Chinese visual content. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model incorporates images that represent Chinese traditional culture, such as famous Chinese traditional paintings, to ensure the authenticity of the Chinese context. |
LLaMA Pro: Progressive LLaMA with Block Expansion (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies have demonstrated that pre-trained LLMs are limited in certain domains, such as programming, mathematics, biomedical, or finance. |
| Approach: | They propose a new post-pretraining method with an expansion of Transformer blocks to tune the expanded blocks using only new corpus, efficiently and effectively improving the model’s knowledge while mitigating forgetting. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models in programming and math and its instruction-following counterpart LLaMA Pro-8.3B in general tasks, programming, and mathematics. |
Sample-Efficient Human Evaluation of Large Language Models via Maximum Discrepancy Competition (2025.acl-long)
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Kehua Feng, Keyan Ding, Tan Hongzhi, Kede Ma, Zhihua Wang, Shuangquan Guo, Cheng Yuzhou, Ge Sun, Guozhou Zheng, Qiang Zhang, Huajun Chen
| Challenge: | Existing methods for evaluation of large language models are inefficient and inefficient due to inaccuracy of standard metrics in human perception of text quality and inefficiency in sampling informative test examples. |
| Approach: | They propose a sample-efficient human evaluation method for large language models based on the principle of MAximum Discrepancy (MAD) competition. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves the “golden” ranking of LLMs with a minimum set of input instructions, which in turn reveal their relative strengths and weaknesses. |
COIG-P: A High-Quality and Large-Scale Chinese Preference Dataset for Alignment with Human Values (2026.findings-eacl)
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Siwei Wu, JinCheng Ren, Xeron Du, Shuyue Guo, Xingwei Qu, Yiming Liang, Jie Liu, Yunwen Li, Tyler Loakman, Tianyu Zheng, Boyu Feng, Huaqing Yuan, Zili Wang, Jiaheng Liu, Wenhao Huang, Chenglin Cai, Haoran Que, Jian Yang, Yuelin Bai, Zekun Moore Wang, Zhouliang Yu, Qunshu Lin, Ding Pan, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Tiannan Wang, Wangchunshu Zhou, Shenzhi Wang, Xingyuan Bu, Minghao Liu, Guoyin Wang, Ge Zhang, Chenghua Lin
| Challenge: | Existing Chinese preference datasets suffer from limited scale, restricted domain coverage, and insufficiently rigorous data validation. |
| Approach: | They propose an LLM-based data annotation pipeline with no human intervention to annotate Chinese preference datasets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline outperforms existing Chinese preference datasets on AlignBench and Chinese Reward Benchmark. |
Boosting Event Extraction with Denoised Structure-to-Text Augmentation (2023.findings-acl)
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Bo Wang, Heyan Huang, Xiaochi Wei, Ge Shi, Xiao Liu, Chong Feng, Tong Zhou, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin
| Challenge: | Existing methods for event extraction neglect grammatical incorrectness, structure misalignment, and semantic drifting . et al., 2004; Ahn, 2006) show that the proposed method generates more diverse text representations for event extracting compared with the state-of-the-art. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for event extraction that generates additional training data and iteratively selects the effective subset from the generated training data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method generates more diverse representations of training data and achieves comparable results with the state-of-the-art. |
Aligning Generative Language Models with Human Values (2022.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for learning human values do not consider contextual and abstract nature of human values. |
| Approach: | They propose a reinforcement learning based method that embeds human values judgements into each step of language generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on human values judgements and shows higher alignment performance. |
CMDL: A Large-Scale Chinese Multi-Defendant Legal Judgment Prediction Dataset (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) has attracted significant attention in recent years. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale Chinese Multi-Defendant LJP dataset . they propose case-level evaluation metrics dedicated for the multi-defendant scenario . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods show weaknesses when applied to cases involving multiple defendants. |
Genre Separation Network with Adversarial Training for Cross-genre Relation Extraction (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to extract genre-specific and genre-agnostic features require great human effort. |
| Approach: | They propose to use two encoders to explicitly extract genre-specific and genre-agnostic features. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art by 1.7% on three distinct genres. |
Bi-Tuning with Collaborative Information for Controllable LLM-based Sequential Recommendation (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to optimize sequential recommendation systems rely on item ID sequences, but they lack collaborative knowledge and limited controllability. |
| Approach: | They propose a simple bi-tuning framework with collaborative information for controllable Large Language Model-based Sequential Recommendation (Laser) they incorporate learnable virtual tokens at prefix and suffix of input text to adapt LLMs with collaborative knowledge . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art recommendations on real-world datasets. |
Mitigating the Discrepancy Between Video and Text Temporal Sequences: A Time-Perception Enhanced Video Grounding method for LLM (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing video LLMs excel at capturing the overall description of a video but lack the ability to demonstrate an understanding of temporal dynamics and localized content within the video. |
| Approach: | They propose a Time-Perception Enhanced Video Grounding via Boundary Perception and Temporal Reasoning to improve LLMs' understanding of video temporality. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on three datasets: ActivityNet, Charades, and DiDeMo (up to 11.2% improvement on R@0.3). |
Enhancing Interpretable Image Classification Through LLM Agents and Conditional Concept Bottleneck Models (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) map visual representations to a set of humanunderstandable textual concepts, which are then interpreted by a linear combination of these concept scores. |
| Approach: | They propose a dynamic, agent-based approach that adjusts the concept bank in response to environmental feedback, optimizing the number of concepts for sufficiency yet concise coverage. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves classification accuracy by 6% and interpretability assessments by 30%. |