Papers by Huawei Li
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. |
PRDetect: Perturbation-Robust LLM-generated Text Detection Based on Syntax Tree (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Recent methods for detecting LLM-generated text have shown impressive performance, but in real-world scenarios, users often introduce perturbations to the text. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that detects syntactic trees that are minimally affected by perturbations and exhibit distinct differences between human-written and LLM-generated text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method shows that it is significantly better against perturbations on the HC3 and GPT-3.5-mixed datasets and also has the shortest time expenditure. |
Chain-of-Memory: Lightweight Memory Construction with Dynamic Evolution for LLM Agents (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing paradigms for large language model (LLM) agents use memory construction and retrieval-augmented generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that advocates for a paradigm shift toward lightweight construction paired with sophisticated utilization. |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that CoM outperforms baselines with accuracy gains of 7.5%–10.4% while reducing computational overhead to approximately 2.7% of token consumption and 6.0% of latency compared to complex memory architectures. |
ChipSeek: Optimizing Verilog Generation via EDA-Integrated Reinforcement Learning (2026.acl-long)
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Zhirong Chen, Kaiyan Chang, Zhuolin Li, Cangyuan Li, Xinyang He, Chujie Chen, Mengdi Wang, Haobo Xu, Yinhe Han, Huawei Li, Ying Wang
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to optimize Register-Transfer Level (RTL) code fail to simultaneously optimize functional correctness and hardware efficiency metrics such as Power, Performance, and Area (PPA). |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical reward based reinforcement learning framework that integrates direct feedback from EDA simulators and synthesis tools into a reward mechanism. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework integrates direct feedback from EDA simulators and synthesis tools into a hierarchical reward based reinforcement learning framework. |
Meta-CQG: A Meta-Learning Framework for Complex Question Generation over Knowledge Bases (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods train one encoder-decoder-based model to fit all questions . however, such a one-size-fits-all strategy may not perform well for complex questions involving multiple KB relations or functional constraints. |
| Approach: | They propose a meta-learning framework for complex question generation over knowledge bases . they propose he meta-trained generator can acquire universal meta-knowledge . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can acquire universal and transferable meta-knowledge and quickly adapt to long-tailed samples under different dimensions. |
Unlocking the Power of Large Language Models for Entity Alignment (2024.acl-long)
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Xuhui Jiang, Yinghan Shen, Zhichao Shi, Chengjin Xu, Wei Li, Zixuan Li, Jian Guo, Huawei Shen, Yuanzhuo Wang
| Challenge: | Entity Alignment (EA) is a crucial step in unifying data from heterogeneous sources and plays a critical role in data-driven AI applications. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that incorporates large language models to improve EA. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework incorporates large language models (LLMs) to improve EA accuracy while preserving efficiency. |
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. |
Plot Retrieval as an Assessment of Abstract Semantic Association (2024.acl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Existing information retrieval datasets cannot capture abstract semantic associations well. |
| Approach: | They propose a task that retrieves relevant plots from the book for a query using a labeled dataset. |
| Outcome: | The proposed task can be used to evaluate the performance of IR models on the novel task Plot Retrieval. |