Papers by Guangyuan Feng
Static Models, Dynamic World: A Unified Perspective on Temporal Perception in Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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Chenhao Li, Dandan Song, Changzhi Zhou, Jun Yang, Yuhang Tian, Huipeng Ma, Guangyuan Feng, Luan Zhang, Xudong Li, Ke Duan
| Challenge: | Large language models are trained on static corpora but deployed in a dynamic world . a foundational tension remains between time and the ability to understand it . |
| Approach: | They formalize temporal queries in an information-theoretic framework based on parametric reachability of temporal premises and answers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework formalizes temporal queries in an information-theoretic framework based on parametric reachability of temporal premises and answers . the framework induces four temporal information regimes corresponding to internal reasoning, answer recency, premise anchoring, and genuine world indeterminacy . |
Recurrent Knowledge Identification and Fusion for Language Model Continual Learning (2025.acl-long)
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Yujie Feng, Xujia Wang, Zexin Lu, Shenghong Fu, Guangyuan Shi, Yongxin Xu, Yasha Wang, Philip S. Yu, Xu Chu, Xiao-Ming Wu
| Challenge: | Continual learning (CL) is crucial for large language models without costly retraining. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for recurrent knowledge identification and fusion that enables dynamic estimation of parameter importance distributions to enhance knowledge transfer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework mitigates catastrophic forgetting and enhances knowledge transfer. |
TaSL: Continual Dialog State Tracking via Task Skill Localization and Consolidation (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Current methods for Continual Dialogue State Tracking (DST) struggle with catastrophic forgetting and knowledge transfer between tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for task skill localization and consolidation that enables effective knowledge transfer without relying on memory replay. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework shows a 7.6% increase in Avg. JGA and 11% rise in BWT metrics over existing state-of-the-art methods. |
Zero-shot Cross-domain Dialogue State Tracking via Context-aware Auto-prompting and Instruction-following Contrastive Decoding (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Previous studies have implemented slot-based input improvements, such as schema-driven descriptions and question-answering formats, but still suffer from negative transfer for seen slots and inefficient transfer for unseen slots due to the significant source-target domain gap. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that generates dynamic, context-aware slot queries to improve model transferability by penalizing deviations from the provided instructions. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on two datasets show that the proposed model performs better than existing models on the restaurant domain. |