Papers by Gang Li

40 papers
Exploring and Detecting Self-disclosure in Multi-modal posts on Chinese Social Media (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Self-disclosure can provide psychological comfort but can also pose privacy concerns . a lack of high-quality corpora, analysis, and methods for detection is limiting research .
Approach: They construct a high-quality text-image corpus on Chinese multimodal social media platforms . they analyze the distribution of self-disclosure types, modality preferences, user intent .
Outcome: The proposed corpus analyzes self-disclosure behaviors on Chinese social media platforms . it fine-tunes five multimodal large language models to enhance self-discovery detection .
SumSurvey: An Abstractive Dataset of Scientific Survey Papers for Long Document Summarization (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: a growing need for long document summarization datasets with 16k input is causing problems.
Approach: They propose to use a dataset to analyze salient information in long document summarizations.
Outcome: The proposed dataset outperforms existing models and LLMs in the distribution form of salient information and the distribution of salinal information is an indicator of quality.
Efficient Inference for Large Vision-Language Models: Bottlenecks, Techniques, and Prospects (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large Vision-Language Models are hindered by a systemic efficiency barrier known as visual token dominance.
Approach: They propose a systematic taxonomy of efficiency techniques structured around the inference lifecycle . they examine visual encoding, prefilling, and decoding to understand bottlenecks .
Outcome: The proposed techniques reveal how upstream decisions dictate downstream bottlenecks . the proposed techniques include hybrid compression and modality-aware decoding .
Draft & Verify: Lossless Large Language Model Acceleration via Self-Speculative Decoding (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for accelerating Large Language Models have been criticized for their inference costs and inefficient decoding.
Approach: They propose a self-speculative decoding approach for accelerating Large Language Models without an auxiliary model.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves a speedup of up to 1.99 with no additional neural network training and no extra memory footprint.
Meta-Reflection: A Feedback-Free Reflection Learning Framework (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to improve large language models' ability to understand and reason are limited by external feedback.
Approach: They propose a feedback-free reflection mechanism that requires only a single inference pass without external feedback.
Outcome: The proposed method is based on an industrial e-commerce benchmark and public datasets.
Can Language Models Capture Human Writing Preferences for Domain-Specific Text Summarization? (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Recent studies employ large language models as auxiliary tools for humancentered NLP.
Approach: They construct a model to capture human writing preferences by fine-tuning pre-trained models with data and designing prompts to optimize the output of large language models.
Outcome: The proposed model captures human writing preferences through the dimensions of length, content depth, tone & style, and summary format.
D-Artemis: A Deliberative Cognitive Framework for Mobile GUI Multi-Agents (2026.findings-acl)

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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 .
T2DR: A Two-Tier Deficiency-Resistant Framework for Incomplete Multimodal Learning (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing incomplete multimodal learning frameworks are inadequate for integrating multimodal data.
Approach: They propose a framework for incomplete multimodal learning that is deficiency-resistant and provides two modules to address fine-grained deficiencies.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms the SOTA models on two well-known multimodal benchmarks.
Document Segmentation Matters for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing rule-based chunking methods lead to suboptimal splits, where overly large chunks introduce irrelevant information and small chunks lack semantic coherence.
Approach: They propose a method that leverages document summaries as pseudo-instructions to guide chunking by computing semantic similarity between sentences and the summary.
Outcome: Experiments on multiple open-domain question-answering benchmarks show that PIC significantly improves retrieval accuracy (Hits@k) and end-to-end QA performance (Exact Match) without any additional training.
HyperLoRA: Efficient Cross-task Generalization via Constrained Low-Rank Adapters Generation (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to adapt pre-trained language models (PLMs) to emerging tasks are costly and inefficient.
Approach: They propose a meta-network that generates task-specific weights without any optimization.
Outcome: The proposed approach has flexible generalization ability and superior performance over hypenetworks.
Prompting ChatGPT in MNER: Enhanced Multimodal Named Entity Recognition with Auxiliary Refined Knowledge (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing methods to enhance textual entity prediction neglect the need for external knowledge or encounter high redundancy in the retrieved knowledge.
Approach: They propose a framework that leverages ChatGPT as an implicit knowledge base and heuristically generates auxiliary knowledge for more efficient entity prediction.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two classic datasets and exhibits a stronger robustness and generalization capability.
EBERT: Efficient BERT Inference with Dynamic Structured Pruning (2021.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Pruning has been demonstrated as an effective way of reducing computational complexity for deep networks, especially CNNs for computer vision tasks.
Approach: They propose a dynamic structured pruning algorithm that prunes model weights at run-time . they propose to prune the unimportant heads in multi-head self-attention layers .
Outcome: The proposed algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art methods on different tasks.
HFMRE: Constructing Huffman Tree in Bags to Find Excellent Instances for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to extract sentence-level features are labor-intensive and time-consuming.
Approach: They propose a distantly supervised relation extraction algorithm that uses circular cosine similarity to show intrinsic associations between sentences within a bag.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms baselines on the popular DSRE datasets.
Audio De-identification - a New Entity Recognition Task (N19-2)

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Challenge: Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important step in de-identification (de-ID) of medical records, many of which are recorded conversations between a patient and a doctor.
Approach: They propose to use Named Entity Recognition (NER) to detect audio spans with entity mentions in medical records and then use it to evaluate the results.
Outcome: The proposed pipeline is based on a large labeled segment of the Switchboard and Fisher audio datasets and compares it with a benchmark.
SpecVLM: Enhancing Speculative Decoding of Video LLMs via Verifier-Guided Token Pruning (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Video large language models (Vid-LLMs) rely on dense video token representations and require substantial memory and computational overhead in both prefilling and decoding.
Approach: They propose a training-free speculative decoding framework that prunes up to 90% of video tokens to enable efficient speculation without sacrificing accuracy.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves 2.68 speedup on LLaVA-OneVision-72B and 2.11 speed up on Qwen2.5-VL-32B.
LycheeCluster: Efficient Long-Context Inference with Structure-Aware Chunking and Hierarchical KV Indexing (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing retrieval-based methods compromise semantic integrity through fixed-size chunking and suffer from inefficient linear scanning.
Approach: They propose a method that preserves local semantic coherence through boundary-aware chunking and constructs a recursive hierarchical index rooted in the triangle inequality.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves 3.6 end-to-end inference speedup with negligible degradation in model performance.
RULE: Reliable Multimodal RAG for Factuality in Medical Vision Language Models (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing medical large vision language models often generate inaccurate and irrelevant answers that do not align with established medical facts.
Approach: They propose a strategy for controlling factuality risk through calibrated selection of the number of retrieved contexts and a preference dataset to fine-tune the model.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves an average improvement of 20.8% on three medical VQA datasets.
Data Contamination Calibration for Black-box LLMs (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Despite the rapid advancements of Large Language Models, the unchecked ultra-large-scale training sets introduce a series of potential risks like data contamination.
Approach: They propose a method to detect contaminated training data and diminish the contamination effect by using a to-be-released dataset.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing methods by at least 4.5% on more 4 dataset formats, with more than 10 base LLMs.
LLM-Powered Test Case Generation for Detecting Bugs in Plausible Programs (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: TrickCatcher generates test cases that pass existing tests yet contain bugs . a recent study found that tricky bugs are not detected by test suites .
Approach: They propose an LLM-powered approach to generating test cases for uncovering bugs in plausible programs . they use a PUT and specification to generate program variants, an input generator and an Llm to construct test inputs .
Outcome: The proposed approach achieves recall, precision, and F1 scores that are 1.80, 2.65, and 1.66 . trickCatcher generates program variants based on the program under test and its specification .
Visual Enhanced Entity-Level Interaction Network for Multimodal Summarization (2024.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Existing methods to generate concise summarizations rely on coarse-grained textual and visual information, but they are underutilized.
Approach: They propose a Visual Enhanced Entity-Level Interaction Network to address underutilization of multimodal inputs at a fine-grained level.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing models on two MMS datasets and proposes new metrics to measure factual consistency of entities in the output.
Knowledge-to-Verification: Exploring RLVR for LLMs in Knowledge-Intensive Domains (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in reasoning, but their applications on knowledge-intensive domains have not been explored due to the scarcity of high-quality verifiable data.
Approach: They propose a framework that extends reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) to knowledge-intensive domains through automated verififiability data synthesis while enabling verification of the LLM's reasoning process.
Outcome: Extensive experiments show that the proposed framework enhances the reasoning of large language models in knowledge-intensive domains without significantly compromising the model’s general capabilities.
Entity-level Interaction via Heterogeneous Graph for Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (2022.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing methods for name-based entity recognition neglect the integrity of entity semantics and conduct cross-modal interaction at token-level.
Approach: They propose a multimodal named entity recognition model that captures visual information and fuses it into tokens to rid non-entity tokens of visual noise.
Outcome: The proposed model captures entity-related visual information and fuses it into tokens . it eliminates visual noise and makes non-entity tokens easily misidentified as entities .
ASD-iLLM:An Intervention Large Language Model for Autistic Children based on Real Clinical Dialogue Intervention Dataset (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Currently, leveraging large language models (LLMs) for autism intervention is a significant yet challenging task, especially when directly employing LLMs as an intervention doctor.
Approach: They propose a framework for training LLMs to conduct dialogue interventions in accordance with the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) they also propose 'role-play' strategy in which LLM act as autistic children to comprehensively evaluate the doctor model's capabilities at the dialogue level.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms existing models in both automatic and human evaluation, with intervention strategies and dialogue style more closely resembling those of clinical intervention doctors.
VP-MEL: Visual Prompts Guided Multimodal Entity Linking (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for multimodal entity linking rely on mention words as retrieval cues, which limits their ability to effectively utilize information from both images and text.
Approach: They propose a visual prompt-guided multimodal entity linking task for a text-image pair . they propose VPWiki to facilitate this task and a framework to capture latent information.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods on a VPWiki dataset.
MedVerse: Efficient and Reliable Medical Reasoning via DAG-Structured Parallel Execution (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent advances in large reasoning models have broadened the capabilities of medical artificial intelligence.
Approach: They propose a reasoning framework for complex medical inference that reformulates medical reasoning as a parallelizable directed acyclic graph process based on Petri Net theory.
Outcome: The proposed reasoning framework improves strong general-purpose LLMs by up to 8.9%.
DemoSG: Demonstration-enhanced Schema-guided Generation for Low-resource Event Extraction (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Current Event Extraction methods focus on high-resource scenarios, which requires large amount of annotated data.
Approach: They propose a demonstration-based learning paradigm for EE to fully use annotated data . they propose EE as a natural language generation task guided by schema-based prompts .
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms current methods in low-resource scenarios.
Enhanced Visual Instruction Tuning with Synthesized Image-Dialogue Data (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: OpenAI's GPT-4 has demonstrated remarkable multimodal capabilities, but specific mechanics of GPT4 remain unknown.
Approach: They propose a data collection methodology that synchronously synthesizes images and dialogues for visual instruction tuning.
Outcome: The proposed method improves on ten commonly assessed models and provides greater flexibility compared to existing methods.
SGCD: Subtask-Guided Causal-Debiasing Framework for Robust Cross-Utterance Sentiment Quadruple Extraction in Dialogues (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: a new framework for sentiment analysis in dialogues addresses cross-utterance elements and focus biases . SGCD framework employs multi-granularity attention paths to enhance cross-interaction matching .
Approach: a framework is developed to help analyze sentiments in multi-turn dialogues . it leverages subtask-specific features to guide learning of token-level features .
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods in analyzing conversational data . cross-utterance elements and focus bias are challenges, authors say .
Widget Captioning: Generating Natural Language Description for Mobile User Interface Elements (2020.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing tools for examining and fixing missing captions are lacking in mobile UIs.
Approach: They propose a task for automatically generating language descriptions for UI elements from multimodal input including both the image and structural representations of user interfaces.
Outcome: The proposed task can generate captions from image and structural representations of UI elements.
LLMs as Bridges: Reformulating Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (GMNER) lack a strong correlation between image-text pairs and is ungroundable.
Approach: They propose a framework that reformulates GMNER into a joint MNER-VE-VG task by leveraging large language models as a connecting bridge.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on the existing GMNER dataset and achieves absolute leads of 10.65%, 6.21%, and 8.83% in all three subtasks.
SPEAK: Spiking Neurons as an Entropy-Aware Tokenizer for Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing tokenizers fail to explicitly leverage historical tokenization results . large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness across NLP tasks .
Approach: They propose a tokenizer that integrates spiking neurons to explicitly leverage historical tokenization results.
Outcome: The proposed tokenizer leverages historical tokenization results, but does not selectively leverage history based on contextual relevance.
MUG: Interactive Multimodal Grounding on User Interfaces (2024.findings-eacl)

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Challenge: Prior studies modeled multimodal UI grounding in one round, but such an interaction is inherently iterative.
Approach: They propose a task where a user and an agent collaborate on an interface screen . they use a dataset of 77,820 sequences of human user-agent interaction on mobile interfaces .
Outcome: The proposed task improves the absolute task completion by 18% over the entire test set and 31% over the challenging split.
Noise Robust Named Entity Understanding for Voice Assistants (2021.naacl-industry)

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Challenge: Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking are challenging for voice assistants . utterances are relatively short, so there is not much context to help disambiguate .
Approach: They propose a Named Entity Understanding system that combines NER and EL in a joint reranking module.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves NER accuracy by up to 3.13% and EL accuracy by 3.6% in F1 score . it also leads to better accuracies in other natural language understanding tasks .
GUI Agents: A Survey (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large Foundation Models (LFMs) have transformed the landscape of AI research and day-to-day life.
Approach: They propose a framework that delineates GUI agents' perception, reasoning, planning, and acting capabilities.
Outcome: The proposed framework delineates their perception, reasoning, planning, and acting capabilities.
A Zero-Shot Language Agent for Computer Control with Structured Reflection (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Recent works require a model to learn from trace examples of a task via supervised learning or few/many-shot prompting.
Approach: They propose a model that iteratively learns from its mistakes via self-reflection and structured thought management.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms previous models on easy tasks with more efficient reasoning and self-reflection.
The Medical Scribe: Corpus Development and Model Performance Analyses (2020.lrec-1)

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Challenge: Existing tools to assist in clinical note generation using audio of provider-patient encounters are lacking.
Approach: They develop an annotation scheme to extract relevant clinical concepts from audio of provider-patient encounters and train a state-of-the-art tagging model.
Outcome: The proposed model is more useful than the F-scores reflect and can be used in clinical notes.
GATEAU: Selecting Influential Samples for Long Context Alignment (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing studies have attempted to scale up the available data volume by synthesizing long instruction-following samples, but a lack of a well-defined strategy for ensuring data quality may introduce low-quality samples and restrict the model’s performance.
Approach: They propose a framework to identify influential samples enriched with long-range dependency relations that can be used to align large language models to handle instructions with extremely long contexts.
Outcome: The proposed framework identifies samples with long-range dependency relations and shows that the model trained on these samples exhibits better instruction-following and long-context understanding capabilities.
LongTableBench: Benchmarking Long-Context Table Reasoning across Real-World Formats and Domains (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Evaluating 52 LLMs reveals that only the strongest models maintain robust performance under increasing context lengths and format diversity.
Approach: They propose a benchmark for evaluating long-context reasoning over semi-structured tables across diverse formats, tasks, and domains.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms compression-based approaches on tasks requiring semantic integration.
The Digital Dunning-Kruger Effect: Decoupling Hallucinations via Geometric Hidden-state Observation for Semantic Truthfulness (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) often generate overconfident yet factually incorrect hallucinations.
Approach: They propose a black-box-based framework that captures stubborn hallucinations by integrating internal geometric dynamics with output probability distributions.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms white-box methods and reduces computational overhead by over 90%.
See the Forest for the Trees: Loosely Speculative Decoding via Visual-Semantic Guidance for Efficient Inference of Video LLMs (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for video understanding suffer from autoregressive generation of tokens.
Approach: They propose a training-free loosely SD framework for Video-LLMs that uses visual-relevant tokens to accurately pinpoint the latter.
Outcome: The proposed framework boosts the accepted length and speedup ratio by 136% and 35% compared to SOTA training-free SD methods for Video-LLMs.

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