Papers by Guoxin Yu
Rethinking the Evaluation of In-Context Learning for LLMs (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies evaluate In-context learning methods based on task performance . however, this evaluation protocol overlooks the significant cost associated with the demonstration configuration process . |
| Approach: | They propose a two-dimensional evaluation paradigm that considers both configuration costs and task performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed evaluation paradigm can be applied to any ICL method as a plugin. |
Beyond Query Memorization: Large Language Model Routing with Query Decomposition and Historical Matching (2026.acl-long)
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Bo Lv, Jingbo Sun, Jianwei Lv, Chen Tang, Shaojie Zhang, Nayu Liu, Guoxin Yu, Zihao Li, Qichao Zhang, Dongbin Zhao, Ping Luo, Yue Yu
| Challenge: | Existing routing methods rely on direct mapping from queries to models based on surface-level features, leading to poor generalizability on out-of-distribution data. |
| Approach: | They propose a new routing framework that recasts the routing task as a matching process of sifting similar queries from historical logs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves matching accuracy while lowering inference costs . it decouples linguistic surface forms from task-intrinsic requirements . |
Self Question-answering: Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis by Role Flipped Machine Reading Comprehension (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | unified Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) aims to couple aspect terms with their corresponding opinion terms, which might make it easier to predict sentiment polarities. |
| Approach: | They propose a new paradigm to pair aspect terms with their corresponding opinion terms . they propose to use a machine learning paradigm to solve the unified ABSA task . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can solve the ABSA task without any additional data annotation or transformation. |
Making Better Use of Training Corpus: Retrieval-based Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction via Label Interpolation (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to extract sentimental triplets are infeasible and counterproductive . aspect Sentiment Triplets Extraction (ASTE) task is an emerging sub-task of Aspect-based Sentimence Analysis . |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-based approach to the Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction task . they retrieve semantic similar triplets from the training corpus and interpolate their label information . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach establishes a new state-of-the-art on the Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction task. |
Retrieval-Augmented Few-shot Text Classification (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for retrieval-augmented text classification are successful in the few-shot scenario with limited retrieval space. |
| Approach: | They propose to use EM-L and R-L to provide task-specific guidance to retrieval metric . they also propose to incorporate retrieved memory alongside parameters for better generalization . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods perform better on the few-shot scenario with limited retrieval space. |
Can Reasoning Path still be Effective as Input? Bridging Post-Reasoning to Chain-of-Thought Compression (2026.acl-long)
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Chengzhengxu Li, Xiaoming Liu, Zhaohan Zhang, Shengchao Liu, Guoxin Ma, Yu Lan, Cong Wang, Chao Shen
| Challenge: | Existing work on reducing CoT generation in reasoning impairs the necessary information for deriving the correct answer. |
| Approach: | They propose a reasoning paradigm that takes CoT as a part of context to simplify the reasoning task for Large Language Models (LLMs). |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces the generation length of LLMs, but its effectiveness hinges on the efficiency and reliability of the contextual CoT generation. |
SEER: Facilitating Structured Reasoning and Explanation via Reinforcement Learning (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods focus on single-step reasoning, ignoring logical dependencies between steps. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that maximizes a structure-based return to facilitate structured reasoning and explanation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on EntailmentBank and STREET benchmarks. |
Table-Critic: A Multi-Agent Framework for Collaborative Criticism and Refinement in Table Reasoning (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to decompose large language models (LLMs) lack effective mechanisms to identify and correct errors in intermediate reasoning steps, leading to cascading error propagation. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-agent framework that facilitates collaborative criticism and iterative refinement of the reasoning process until convergence to correct solutions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves superior accuracy and error correction rates while maintaining computational efficiency and lower solution degradation rate. |
Making Flexible Use of Subtasks: A Multiplex Interaction Network for Unified Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies aim to integrate multiple sub-tasks into a unified ABSA model but suffer from major disadvantages . |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-task learning approach to make use of sub-tasks for a unified ABSA. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can work well when some sub-tasks are absent, and the interactive relations among subtasks not adequate. |
EFSA: Towards Event-Level Financial Sentiment Analysis (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a large-scale Chinese dataset contains 12,160 news articles and 13,725 quintuples . a four-hop Chain-of-Thought LLM-based approach is devised for this task . |
| Approach: | They propose to extend financial sentiment analysis to event-level since events usually serve as the subject of the sentiment in financial text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can reach the current state-of-the-art on a large-scale Chinese dataset. |