Papers by Haolin Yang

4 papers
Title2Event: Benchmarking Open Event Extraction with a Large-scale Chinese Title Dataset (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing EE datasets define fixed event types and design specific schemas for each of them, failing to cover diverse events emerging from the online text.
Approach: They propose to use a sentence-level dataset to benchmark Open Event Extraction without restricting event types.
Outcome: The proposed dataset contains more than 42,000 news titles in 34 topics collected from Chinese web pages.
ExeSQL: Self-Taught Text-to-SQL Models with Execution-Driven Bootstrapping for SQL Dialects (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing text-to-SQL models are limited to SQLite due to dataset limitations . data generated through static prompting is noisy and unreliable, authors say .
Approach: They propose a text-to-SQL framework with execution-driven, agentic bootstrapping . ExeSQl bridges the dialect gap in text- to-Sql, achieving average improvements .
Outcome: ExeSQL bridges the dialect gap in text-to-SQl, with average improvements of 15.2%, 10.38%, and 4.49% over GPT-4o on PostgreSQLE, MySQL, and Oracle.
Decoding Scientific Experimental Images: The SPUR Benchmark for Perception, Understanding, and Reasoning (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Xu and Peng, 2025) . . SPUR is a comprehensive benchmark for scientific experimental image perception, understanding, and reasoning, comprising 4,264 question-answering (QA) pairs derived from 1,084 expert-curated images.
Approach: They propose to use 4,264 question-answering (QA) pairs derived from 1,084 expert-curated images to evaluate the visual perception of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) . they also propose to utilize cross-panel relation understanding to evaluate MLLM’s ability to decipher intricate cross-panel relations.
Outcome: The proposed model is based on 4,264 question-answering pairs derived from 1,084 expert-curated images.
APEX: Learning Adaptive Priorities for Multi-Objective Alignment in Vision-Language Generation (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: APEX optimizes for text-to-image generation by combining learning potential, conflict penalty, and progress need.
Approach: They propose an algorithm that stabilizes heterogeneous rewards and dynamically schedules objectives . they propose a method that achieves better Pareto trade-offs across four heterogenous objectives based on P3 Adaptive Priorities .
Outcome: The proposed algorithm achieves better pareto trade-offs across four heterogeneous objectives while maintaining competitive OCR accuracy.

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