Papers by Heng Tian
Learning from Mistakes: Negative Reasoning Samples Enhance Out-of-Domain Generalization (2026.acl-long)
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Tian Xueyun, MingHua Ma, Bingbing Xu, Nuoyan Lyu, Wei Li, Heng Dong, Zheng Chu, Yuanzhuo Wang, Huawei Shen
| Challenge: | Recent studies show that supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a common approach for reasoning in large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose to use supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on chain-of-thought trajectories demonstrations . they find that incorporating negative traxories yields substantial OOD generalization gains . |
| Outcome: | The proposed scheme yields 5.51% OOD gain over positive-only training. |
Specialization without Sparsity: Efficient and Expressive Split-Path Experts for LLM Fine-Tuning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) is a low-cost alternative to full fine-timing due to the massive overhead. |
| Approach: | They propose a Mixture-of-Experts approach that enhances specialization while maintaining low resource overhead. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms or matches state-of-the-art methods on GLUE, GSM8K, MBPP, and a text rewriting task from SmolTalk. |
Timeline Summarization based on Event Graph Compression via Time-Aware Optimal Transport (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for timeline summarization ignore the events’ intra-structures and inter-structure connections. |
| Approach: | They propose to represent news articles as an event-graph, thus compressing the whole graph to its salient sub-graph. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly improves on the state-of-the-art on three real-world datasets, including two public benchmarks and a Timeline100 dataset. |
ROMA: Real-time Omni-Multimodal Assistant with Interactive Streaming Understanding (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing omni-multimodal large language models lack incomplete modality support or lack autonomous proactive monitoring. |
| Approach: | They propose a real-time omni-multimodal assistant for unified reactive and proactive interaction that decouples response initiation from generation to ensure precise triggering without task conflict. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on proactive tasks while competing in reactive settings. |