Papers by Haoyu Jin
EmoMM: Benchmarking and Steering MLLM for Multimodal Emotion Recognition under Conflict and Missingness (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in MER, but their internal decision-making mechanisms under modality conflict and missingness remain underexplored. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal large language model that can detect and control modality conflicts and missing subsets by a lightweight mechanism that detects and controls modality conflict. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves performance across settings, showing it can handle conflict and missing behaviors. |
End-to-End Modeling via Information Tree for One-Shot Natural Language Spatial Video Grounding (2022.acl-long)
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Mengze Li, Tianbao Wang, Haoyu Zhang, Shengyu Zhang, Zhou Zhao, Jiaxu Miao, Wenqiao Zhang, Wenming Tan, Jin Wang, Peng Wang, Shiliang Pu, Fei Wu
| Challenge: | Existing methods for grounding video frames with dense annotations require enormous amount of human effort. |
| Approach: | They propose to ground natural language in video frames with only one frame labeled . they propose an end-to-end model that eliminates interference of irrelevant frames . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can ground natural language in all video frames with only one frame labeled . the proposed model eliminates interference of irrelevant frames based on branch search and cropping techniques . |
RESIN-11: Schema-guided Event Prediction for 11 Newsworthy Scenarios (2022.naacl-demo)
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Xinya Du, Zixuan Zhang, Sha Li, Pengfei Yu, Hongwei Wang, Tuan Lai, Xudong Lin, Ziqi Wang, Iris Liu, Ben Zhou, Haoyang Wen, Manling Li, Darryl Hannan, Jie Lei, Hyounghun Kim, Rotem Dror, Haoyu Wang, Michael Regan, Qi Zeng, Qing Lyu, Charles Yu, Carl Edwards, Xiaomeng Jin, Yizhu Jiao, Ghazaleh Kazeminejad, Zhenhailong Wang, Chris Callison-Burch, Mohit Bansal, Carl Vondrick, Jiawei Han, Dan Roth, Shih-Fu Chang, Martha Palmer, Heng Ji
| Challenge: | Existing methods for event prediction are incomplete and noisy. |
| Approach: | They propose to use news-related event schemas to extract newsworthy events . they build a demo website and include a video demonstrating the framework . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can be applied to a wide variety of newsworthy scenarios. |
Generic Temporal Reasoning with Differential Analysis and Explanation (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing temporal reasoning models drop to random guessing on TODAY, suggesting that they heavily rely on spurious information rather than proper reasoning for temporal predictions. |
| Approach: | They propose a task called TODAY that evaluates whether systems can correctly understand the effect of incremental changes in temporal relation distributions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed task outperforms existing models, including GPT-3.5, on in-domain benchmarks while allowing for more appropriate annotations. |
CEMT:Controllable Element-Oriented Machine Translation via Structured Linguistic Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models suffer from paraphrasing errors, omissions, or hallucinations when input contains translation-specific elements that require strict preservation or controlled transformation. |
| Approach: | They propose a Controllable Element-Oriented Machine Translation framework that decomposes the translation process into a linguistically grounded analysis, strategy formulation, and final generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on the WMT23/24 Chinese–English benchmarks while significantly reducing element-level constraint violations. |