Papers by Hua Chai
D-Artemis: A Deliberative Cognitive Framework for Mobile GUI Multi-Agents (2026.findings-acl)
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Hongze Mi, Yibo Feng, WenJie Lu, Yuqi Wang, Jinyuan Li, Song Cao, He Cui, Tengfei Tian, Xuelin Zhang, Haotian Luo, Di Sun, Jun Fang, Hua Chai, Naiqiang Tan, Gang Pan
| Challenge: | Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents aim to automate a wide spectrum of human tasks by emulating user interaction. |
| Approach: | They propose a deliberative framework that leverages a fine-grained tip retrieval mechanism to inform its decision-making process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves SOTA among open-source general models on AndroidWorld and ScreenSpot-V2 . it leverages a fine-grained, app-specific tip retrieval mechanism to inform its decision-making process . |
Clip-Tuning: Towards Derivative-free Prompt Learning with a Mixture of Rewards (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing work does not take full advantage of over-parameterized characteristics of large pre-trained language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses frozen "thinned" networks to obtain a mixture of rewards and advance the derivative-free prompt learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms previous gradient-free prompt learning methods and achieves parity with gradient-based counterparts on seven language understanding benchmarks under few-shot settings. |
Autoregressive Pre-Training on Pixels and Texts (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | pixel-based language modeling integrates visual and textual data to improve performance of language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that integrates visual and textual data into an autoregressive framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves performance of pixel-based language models by incorporating visual and textual data. |
On Training Data Influence of GPT Models (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | generative language models have redefined performance standards across tasks . current research on the influence of training data on autoregressivity remains underexplored . |
| Approach: | They propose a parameterized simulation to assess the impact of training examples on the training dynamics of GPT models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach compares existing methods with existing methods across training scenarios in generative language models, spanning tasks across 14 million to 2.8 billion parameters. |
ERNIE-Code: Beyond English-Centric Cross-lingual Pretraining for Programming Languages (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | ERNIE-Code is a unified pre-trained language model for 116 NLs and 6 PLs. |
| Approach: | They propose a unified pre-trained language model for 116 NLs and 6 PLs . they employ span-corruption language modeling that learns patterns from monolingual NL or PL . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms previous multilingual models for NL or NL across end tasks. |
Curiosity-Driven Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has proven effective in aligning large language models with human preferences, but often at the cost of reduced output diversity. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that incorporates intrinsic rewards for novel states alongside traditional sparse extrinsic rewards to optimize both output diversity and alignment quality. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves significant gains in diversity on multiple diversity-oriented metrics while maintaining alignment with human preferences comparable to standard RLHF. |