Papers by Hang Ye

5 papers
AnyGPT: Unified Multimodal LLM with Discrete Sequence Modeling (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing language models that use discrete representations for unified processing of various modalities are limited to text generation and do not include multimodal output.
Approach: They propose a multimodal language model that utilizes discrete representations for unified processing of various modalities.
Outcome: The proposed model can be trained stably without any alterations to existing models or training paradigms.
Guardian-as-an-Advisor: Advancing Next-Generation Guardian Models for Trustworthy LLMs (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: prevailing taxonomies neglect robustness and honesty, yielding safer-on-paper but less useful systems.
Approach: They propose a soft-gating pipeline where a guardian predicts a binary risk label plus a concise explanation and prepends this advice to the original query for re-inference.
Outcome: The proposed model maintains safety while reducing over-refusal.
HICD: Hallucination-Inducing via Attention Dispersion for Contrastive Decoding to Mitigate Hallucinations in Large Language Models (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) often generate hallucinations, producing outputs that are contextually inaccurate or factually incorrect.
Approach: They propose a method that selects attention heads crucial to the model's prediction as inducing heads and induces hallucinations by dispersing attention of these inducers.
Outcome: The proposed method significantly improves performance on tasks requiring contextual faithfulness, reading comprehension, and question answering.
ZeroGen: Efficient Zero-shot Learning via Dataset Generation (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to generate training data with pre-trained language models have been found effective in various scenarios.
Approach: They propose an unsupervised zero-shot learning method that generates a dataset from scratch and trains a tiny task model under supervision of the synthesized dataset.
Outcome: The proposed method is annotated-free and efficient, but can provide useful insights from the perspective of data-free model-agnostic knowledge distillation and unreferenced text generation evaluation.
DiMo-GUI: Advancing Test-time Scaling in GUI Grounding via Modality-Aware Visual Reasoning (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: DiMo-GUI is a training-free framework for GUI grounding that splits input into textual elements and iconic elements, allowing the model to reason over each modality independently using general-purpose vision-language models.
Approach: They propose a training-free framework for GUI grounding that leverages two core strategies: dynamic visual grounding and modality-aware optimization.
Outcome: The proposed framework splits the input into textual elements and iconic elements, allowing the model to reason over each modality independently using general-purpose vision-language models.

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