Papers by Haonan Song
OmniCharacter: Towards Immersive Role-Playing Agents with Seamless Speech-Language Personality Interaction (2025.acl-long)
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Haonan Zhang, Run Luo, Xiong Liu, Yuchuan Wu, Ting-En Lin, Pengpeng Zeng, Qiang Qu, Feiteng Fang, Min Yang, Lianli Gao, Jingkuan Song, Fei Huang, Yongbin Li
| Challenge: | Existing methods focus on replicating dialogues in textual form, neglecting the role’s voice traits as a crucial effect in interaction, which tends to be more immersive experiences in realistic scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a first seamless speech-language personality interaction model to achieve immersive RPAs with low latency. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model exhibits role-specific personality traits and vocal traits throughout the interaction, enabling a mixture of speech and language responses. |
MMEvol: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models with Evol-Instruct (2025.findings-acl)
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Run Luo, Haonan Zhang, Longze Chen, Ting-En Lin, Xiong Liu, Yuchuan Wu, Min Yang, Yongbin Li, Minzheng Wang, Pengpeng Zeng, Lianli Gao, Heng Tao Shen, Yunshui Li, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Xiaobo Xia, Jingkuan Song, Fei Huang
| Challenge: | a new framework for image-text instruction data evolution improves MLLM performance . lack of high-quality instruction data remains a major bottleneck in ML modeling . |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal instruction data evolution framework that iteratively enhances data quality through fine-grained perception, cognitive reasoning, and interaction evolution. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves MLLM performance in nine vision-language tasks while using significantly less data. |
FoE: Forest of Errors Makes the First Solution the Best in Large Reasoning Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a self-guided efficient reasoning framework that reduces FoE by pruning subs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms eight competitive baselines while reducing token consumption by 37.7% 70.4%. |
NeuReasoner: Towards Explainable, Controllable, and Unified Reasoning via Mixture-of-Neurons (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) lack explainability and controllability . Existing models target isolated levels without unification, while relying on RL . |
| Approach: | They propose an explainable, controllable, and unified reasoning framework driven by MoN. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves performance gains of 27.0% while reducing token consumption by 19.6% 63.3%. |
TinyJudge: Unverifiable Constraint Alignment via Lightweight Specialist Ensembles (2026.acl-long)
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Yirong Zeng, Yufei Liu, Xiao Ding, Yutai Hou, Yuxian Wang, Wu Ning, Haonan Song, Dandan Tu, Qixun Zhang, Yuxiang He, Bibo Cai, Ting Liu
| Challenge: | Instruction Following (IF) is a core capability of LLMs, requiring strict adherence to diverse constraints. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that uses tiny language models to evaluate instruction following . they propose to use a set of specialized tiny language model to provide rewards for soft constraints. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline models by 12% and speeds up training time by 3. |