Papers by Jiapeng Zhang
We-Math: Does Your Large Multimodal Model Achieve Human-like Mathematical Reasoning? (2025.acl-long)
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Runqi Qiao, Qiuna Tan, Guanting Dong, MinhuiWu MinhuiWu, Chong Sun, Xiaoshuai Song, Jiapeng Wang, Zhuoma GongQue, Shanglin Lei, YiFan Zhang, Zhe Wei, Miaoxuan Zhang, Runfeng Qiao, Xiao Zong, Yida Xu, Peiqing Yang, Zhimin Bao, Muxi Diao, Chen Li, Honggang Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks focus more on end-to-end performance, but neglect the underlying principles of knowledge acquisition and generalization. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark specifically designed to explore the problem-solving principles by decomposing 6.5K visual math problems into 10.9K step-level questions for evaluation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark covers 6.5K visual math problems and 10.9K step-level questions spanning 5 layers of knowledge granularity and 67 hierarchical knowledge concepts. |
Sequential LLM Framework for Fashion Recommendation (2024.emnlp-industry)
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Han Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Tianlang Chen, Jiapeng Liu, Indu Indu, Henry Zou, Peng Dai, Roberto Galan, Michael Porter, Dongmei Jia, Ning Zhang, Lian Xiong
| Challenge: | Existing fashion recommendation systems struggle with the unique challenges of the fashion domain. |
| Approach: | They propose a sequential fashion recommendation framework that leverages a pre-trained large language model enhanced with recommendation-specific prompts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly improves fashion recommendation performance on Amazon fashion. |
Cross-Lingual Document Retrieval with Smooth Learning (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Cross-lingual document search is an information retrieval task in which the queries’ language and the documents’ language are different. |
| Approach: | They propose a robust framework that measures the relevance and a loss function that is a novel objective function. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves significant gains under commonly used ranking metrics on cross-lingual document retrieval task in a variety of languages. |
RV-Syn: Rational and Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning Data Synthesis based on Structured Function Library (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for generating high-quality reasoning data are limited in quality and availability. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that constructs mathematical operations and generates verifiable graphs that are back-translated into complex problems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves a 6.3% performance gain over existing methods on LLaMA-3-8B and outperforms others with only half the training data (50k vs. 100k). |
Text Detoxification: Data Efficiency, Semantic Preservation and Model Generalization (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for detoxification of text often rely on manually annotated data . xiangli: "detoxification of texts is a powerful way to remove toxic content" |
| Approach: | They propose a reinforcement learning framework that optimizes detoxification and semantic preservation without annotating large amounts of data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method overcomes major limitations and surpasses humanannotated references across multiple benchmarks. |
Gardener: An Agentic AI System for Single-Cell RNA Sequence Analysis (2026.acl-demo)
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| Challenge: | Existing large language models encode workflow progress as conversational state and rely on cloud-centric execution, which hinders traceability and auditability. |
| Approach: | Gardener is an open-source desktop application for macOS and windows under the Apache License 2.0. |
| Outcome: | Gardener is released as an open-source desktop application for macOS and Windows under the Apache License 2.0. |
V-Oracle: Making Progressive Reasoning in Deciphering Oracle Bones for You and Me (2025.acl-long)
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Runqi Qiao, Qiuna Tan, Guanting Dong, MinhuiWu MinhuiWu, Jiapeng Wang, YiFan Zhang, Zhuoma GongQue, Chong Sun, Yida Xu, Yadong Xue, Ye Tian, Zhimin Bao, Lan Yang, Chen Li, Honggang Zhang
| Challenge: | Deciphering oracle bone scripts using AI technology is not an overnight task due to the evolution of written language over millennia. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that utilizes Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) for interpreting Oracle Bone Script (OBS). |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework provides quantitative analyses and superior deciphering capability. |
ChemActor: Enhancing Automated Extraction of Chemical Synthesis Actions with LLM-Generated Data (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for extracting chemical procedures from literature are insufficient and low-quality due to the inherent ambiguity of chemical language and the high cost of human annotation. |
| Approach: | They propose a fully fine-tuned large language model (LLM) as a chemical executor to convert between unstructured experimental procedures and structured action sequences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the baseline model on R2D and D2A tasks by 10%. |