Papers by Haoyuan Ma
DB-Explore: Automated Database Exploration and Instruction Synthesis for Text-to-SQL (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Recent text-to-SQL systems that use large language models struggle with complex database structures and domain-specific queries. |
| Approach: | a framework that aligns large language models with database knowledge is proposed . DB-Explore constructs database graphs to capture complex relational schemas . |
| Outcome: | a new framework outperforms existing text-to-SQL systems by outperforming existing systems. |
Leveraging Outline-Optimized Generative Interactions and Critique for Self-Refining Outlines with Reinforcement Learning (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Logic-RL is a framework that transforms critique-guided outline refinement into a learnable policy through reinforcement learning. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that transforms critique-guided outline refinement into a learnable policy through reinforcement learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on FreshWiki and WikiOutline . it can be iteratively applied, with improved quality continuing through three refinement rounds before diminishing returns. |
Logic: Long-form Outline Generation via Imitative and Critical Self-refinement (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for long-form outline generation have low knowledge density and lack detail . retrieval-augmented approaches struggle to maintain logical coherence across retrieved information . |
| Approach: | They propose a system that mimics human writers' refinement process by mimicking outlines through imitation and critical self-refinement. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system improves on the FreshWiki and WikiOutline datasets and establishes a coherent planning framework and structured knowledge base. |
Boundary Matters: Leveraging Structured Text Plots for Long Text Outline Generation (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for generating readable outlines are inability to segment long texts . |
| Approach: | They propose an unsupervised framework to guide large language model outline generation . framework ensures each structured plot encapsulates complete causality by accurately identifying plot boundaries. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework ensures that each structured plot encapsulates complete causality by accurately identifying plot boundaries. |