Papers by Jiaqi Liu
Ontology-Guided Reverse Thinking Makes Large Language Models Stronger on Knowledge Graph Question Answering (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods rely on entity vector matching, but the purpose of the question is abstract and difficult to match with specific entities. Existing approaches rely only on entity-vector matching, and there is a problem with multi-hop reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that constructs reasoning paths from purposes back to conditions using the KG ontology. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on the WebQSP and CWQ datasets show that ORT significantly improves the capability of large language models in knowledge graph question answering tasks (KGQA). |
AgentGym2: Benchmarking Large Language Model Agents in De-Idealized Real-World Environments (2026.acl-long)
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Zhiheng Xi, Dingwen Yang, Jiaqi Liu, Jixuan Huang, Honglin Guo, Baodai Huang, Tinggang Chen, Qi Zhang, Zhonghang Lu, Chenyu Liu, Jiajun Sun, Jiazheng Zhang, Dingwei Zhu, Xin Guo, Junzhe Wang, Zhihao Zhang, Yuming Yang, Junjie Ye, Minghe Gao, Dongrui Liu, Jiaming Ji, Guohao Li, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks evaluate agents in simplified, idealized settings, relying on pre-packaged tool interfaces, overlooking critical steps, and assume inputs are clean and fully specified. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that evaluates language agents in simplified, idealized settings . they show that even SOTA systems like Gemini and GPT-5 struggle on AgentGym2 . |
| Outcome: | Experiments on 15 proprietary and open-source models show that even SOTA systems like Gemini and GPT-5 struggle on AgentGym2 . |
Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent for Data Science (2025.findings-acl)
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Sirui Hong, Yizhang Lin, Bang Liu, Bangbang Liu, Binhao Wu, Ceyao Zhang, Danyang Li, Jiaqi Chen, Jiayi Zhang, Jinlin Wang, Li Zhang, Lingyao Zhang, Min Yang, Mingchen Zhuge, Taicheng Guo, Tuo Zhou, Wei Tao, Robert Tang, Xiangtao Lu, Xiawu Zheng, Xinbing Liang, Yaying Fei, Yuheng Cheng, Yongxin Ni, Zhibin Gou, Zongze Xu, Yuyu Luo, Chenglin Wu
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in various domains but face challenges when applied to data science workflows due to their complex, multi-stage nature. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical graph-based agent that represents complexity and a progressive strategy for step-by-step verification, refinement, and consistent context management. |
| Outcome: | The proposed agent surpasses state-of-the-art baselines on the MATH dataset and performs better on InfiAgent-DABench. |
SGPVT: Self-Generated Proximal Visual Tokens for Mitigating Proximal Collateral Damage in MLLM Unlearning (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches focus on general utility metrics, overlooking the preservation of semantically related concepts. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that introduces self-generated proximal visual tokens to prevent forgetting vulnerability. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods in preserving semantically related concepts while achieving effective target unlearning. |
MinerU2.5: A Decoupled Vision-Language Model for Efficient High-Resolution Document Parsing (2026.acl-industry)
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Junbo Niu, Zheng Liu, Zhuangcheng Gu, Bin Wang, Linke Ouyang, Zhiyuan Zhao, Tao Chu, Tianyao He, Fan Wu, Qintong Zhang, Zhenjiang Jin, Guang Liang, Rui Zhang, Wenzheng Zhang, Yuan Qu, Zhifei Ren, Yuefeng Sun, Zirui Tang, Boyu Niu, Yuanhong Zheng, Dongsheng Ma, Ziyang Miao, Hejun Dong, Siyi Qian, Junyuan Zhang, Fangdong Wang, Jingzhou Chen, Xiaomeng Zhao, Liqun Wei, Wei Li, Shasha Wang, RuiLiang Xu, Yuanyuan Cao, Lu Chen, Qianqian Wu, Huaiyu Gu, Lindong Lu, Dechen Lin, null Shenguanlin, Xuanhe Zhou, Linfeng Zhang, Yuhang Zang, Xiaoyi Dong, Jiaqi Wang, Bo Zhang, Lei Bai, Pei Chu, Weijia Li, Jiang Wu, Lijun Wu, Zhenxiang Li, Guangyu Wang, Zhongying Tu, Chao Xu, Kai Chen, Bowen Zhou, Dahua Lin, Wentao Zhang, Conghui He
| Challenge: | Document images are characterized by higher resolutions, denser content, and more complex structural layouts. |
| Approach: | They propose a 1.2B-parameter document parsing vision-language model that decouples layout analysis from local content recognition. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model surpasses general-purpose and domain-specific models on multiple benchmarks while maintaining significantly lower computational overhead. |
GeoQA: A Geometric Question Answering Benchmark Towards Multimodal Numerical Reasoning (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to solve geometric problems are dependent on handcraft rules and limited on small-scale datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose a Geometric Question Answering dataset with 5,010 geometric problems with corresponding annotated programs to illustrate the solving process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is significantly lower than human performance on the proposed dataset than on a publicly available dataset. |
Adaptive Preference Optimization with Uncertainty-aware Utility Anchor (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Offline preference optimization methods are efficient for large language models (LLMs) alignment. |
| Approach: | They propose an offline preference optimization framework that estimates uncertainties from preference data . the method enables training even in scenarios where the data is unpaired . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method enables training even in scenarios where the data is unpaired . |
SongComposer: A Large Language Model for Lyric and Melody Generation in Song Composition (2025.acl-long)
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Shuangrui Ding, Zihan Liu, Xiaoyi Dong, Pan Zhang, Rui Qian, Junhao Huang, Conghui He, Dahua Lin, Jiaqi Wang
| Challenge: | Creating lyrics and melodies in symbolic format requires expert knowledge of melody and an advanced understanding of lyrics. |
| Approach: | They introduce SongComposer, a music-specialized large language model that can create symbolic lyrics and melodies following instructions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models in symbolic song composition tasks. |
Graph Reasoning Paradigm: Structured and Symbolic Reasoning with Topology-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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Runxuan Liu, Xianhao Ou, Xinyan Ma, Jiyuan Wang, Jiafeng Liang, Jiaqi Li, Tao He, Zheng Chu, Rongchuan Mu, Zekun Wang, Baoxin Wang, Dayong Wu, Ming Liu, Shijin Wang, Guoping Hu, Bing Qin
| Challenge: | Existing methods for long chain-of-thought (LCoT) are coarse-grained, reward hacking, and poor generalization. |
| Approach: | They propose a Long Chain-of-Thought (LCoT) model that integrates reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards with a process-aware verification approach. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves reasoning and code generation tasks while reducing the cost of training and performance bottlenecks. |
Confronting LLMs with Traditional ML: Rethinking the Fairness of Large Language Models in Tabular Classifications (2024.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies suggest using large language models to make tabular classifications . however, LLMs have been shown to exhibit harmful social biases based on stereotypes and inequalities present in society. |
| Approach: | They propose to use large language models to make tabular classifications . they show that LLMs inherit biases from their training data . |
| Outcome: | The proposed models exhibit harmful biases that reflect stereotypes and inequalities in society. |
LRQuant: Learnable and Robust Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for post-training quantization (PTQ) are limited by the complexity of the quantization parameter and performance degradations when tested on unseen datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose a learnable smooth-based PTQ framework that allows for rapid adaptation during testing. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves performance on unseen datasets and reduces memory constraints. |
LASA: Language-Agnostic Semantic Alignment at the Semantic Bottleneck for LLM Safety (2026.acl-long)
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Junxiao Yang, Haoran Liu, Jinzhe Tu, Jiale Cheng, Zhexin Zhang, Shiyao Cui, Jiaqi Weng, Jialing Tao, Hui Xue, Hongning Wang, Han Qiu, Minlie Huang
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated better safety performance in high-resource languages than in low-resourced languages. |
| Approach: | They propose language-agnostic semantic alignment (LASA) which anchors safety alignment directly in semantic bottlenecks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach significantly improves safety across all languages: average attack success rate drops from 24.7% to 2.8% on LLaMA-3.1-8B-Instruct and remains within 3–4% across Qwen2.5 and Qwend3 Instruct models (7B–32B). |
Response-G1: Explicit Scene Graph Modeling for Proactive Streaming Video Understanding (2026.acl-long)
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Ke Ma, Jiaqi Tang, Bin Guo, Xueting Han, Ruonan Xu, Qingfeng He, Ziheng Wang, Xu Wang, Qifeng Chen, Zhiwen Yu, Yunhao Liu
| Challenge: | Existing methods for streaming video understanding are query-agnostic and implicitly model video evidence. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that establishes explicit, structured alignment between the accumulated video evidence and the query’s expected response conditions via scene graphs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves more interpretable and accurate response timing decisions on both proactive and reactive tasks. |
ReflectEvo: Improving Meta Introspection of Small LLMs by Learning Self-Reflection (2025.findings-acl)
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Jiaqi Li, Xinyi Dong, Yang Liu, Zhizhuo Yang, Quansen Wang, Xiaobo Wang, Song-Chun Zhu, Zixia Jia, Zilong Zheng
| Challenge: | ReflectEvo-460k is a large-scale, comprehensive, self-generated reflection dataset with broadened instructions and diverse multi-domain tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a pipeline that iteratively generates self-reflection for self-training and a large-scale reflection dataset with broadened instructions and diverse multi-domain tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline improves Llama-3 reasoning ability by up to 71.2% and Mistral by upto 44.4%. |
LongVideoAgent: Multi-Agent Reasoning with Long Videos (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a key emerging challenge is robust long video understanding, authors say . current methods compress content into lossy summaries or rely on limited toolsets . |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-agent framework where a master LLM coordinates a grounding agent and a vision agent to extract targeted textual observations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms strong non-agent baselines on episode-level datasets . the proposed model significantly outperformed existing models on other datasets. |
InternLM-XComposer2.5-Reward: A Simple Yet Effective Multi-Modal Reward Model (2025.findings-acl)
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Yuhang Zang, Xiaoyi Dong, Pan Zhang, Yuhang Cao, Ziyu Liu, Shengyuan Ding, Shenxi Wu, Yubo Ma, Haodong Duan, Wenwei Zhang, Kai Chen, Dahua Lin, Jiaqi Wang
| Challenge: | Despite the promising performance of Large Vision Language Models, they sometimes generate incorrect outputs. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-modal reward model that aligns LVLMs with human preferences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves excellent results on the latest multi-modal reward model benchmark and shows competitive performance on text-only reward model. |
BrainECHO: Semantic Brain Signal Decoding through Vector-Quantized Spectrogram Reconstruction for Whisper-Enhanced Text Generation (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Current EEG/MEG-to-text decoding systems rely on teacher-forcing methods . pre-trained large language models are over-dominant in decoding text from brain activity . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that employs decoupled representation learning to achieve state-of-the-art performance on EEG and MEG datasets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on EEG and MEG datasets. |
Exploring the Secrets Behind the Learning Difficulty of Meaning Representations for Semantic Parsing (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies show that the design of Meaning Representation (MR) greatly influences the final model performance of a neural semantic parser. |
| Approach: | They propose a data-aware metric called ISS to measure the final performance of MRs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed metric denoting incremental structural stability (ISS) of MRs can be used as an indicator for MR design to avoid the costly training-testing process. |
Structured Preference Optimization for Vision-Language Long-Horizon Task Planning (2025.emnlp-main)
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Xiwen Liang, Min Lin, Weiqi Ruan, Rongtao Xu, Yuecheng Liu, Jiaqi Chen, Bingqian Lin, Yuzheng Zhuang, Xiaodan Liang
| Challenge: | Existing vision-language planning methods struggle with long-horizon reasoning in dynamic environments due to the difficulty of training models to generate high-quality reasoning processes. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that enhances reasoning and action selection for long-horizon task planning through structured evaluation and optimized training. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods on short-horizon tasks but struggles with long-horizon reasoning in dynamic environments. |
S2R: Teaching LLMs to Self-verify and Self-correct via Reinforcement Learning (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to incentivize LLMs’ deep thinking abilities require large-scale data or significant training efforts. |
| Approach: | They introduce an efficient framework that enhances LLM reasoning by teaching models to self-verify and self-correct during inference. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms models trained on long-CoT distilled data with 3.1k initialization samples and achieves an accuracy improvement of 51.0% to 81.6%. |
M2C: Towards Automatic Multimodal Manga Complement (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Multimodal manga analysis focuses on enhancing manga understanding with visual and textual features. |
| Approach: | They propose a task to enhance manga understanding with visual and textual features by providing a shared semantic space for vision and language understanding. |
| Outcome: | The proposed task provides a shared semantic space for vision and language understanding. |
SimpleOCR: Rendering Visual Questions to Teach MLLMs to Read (2026.findings-acl)
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Yibo Peng, Peng Xia, Ding Zhong, Kaide Zeng, Siwei Han, Yiyang Zhou, Jiaqi Liu, Ruiyi Zhang, Huaxiu Yao
| Challenge: | MLLMs lack visual grounding mechanism to read text embedded in images, or rely on parametric shortcuts . despite strong OCR capabilities, models suffer performance degradation of 12.7% in the VQ setting . |
| Approach: | They propose a plug-and-play training strategy that invalidates shortcuts in text prompts . they propose 'vq' setting where text queries are rendered directly onto images . |
| Outcome: | The proposed training strategy surpasses the base model by 5.4% and GRPO based on original images by 2.7% on four representative OOD benchmarks. |
Shadow-Activated Backdoor Attacks on Multimodal Large Language Models (2025.findings-acl)
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Ziyi Yin, Muchao Ye, Yuanpu Cao, Jiaqi Wang, Aofei Chang, Han Liu, Jinghui Chen, Ting Wang, Fenglong Ma
| Challenge: | Existing backdoor attacks on Multimodal Large Language Models are less applicable to open-ended conversations with users. |
| Approach: | They propose a shadow-activated backdoor attack scenario where attackers inject malicious content into the responses of MLLMs when the responses explicitly relate to the shadowed object. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves the desired behaviors by constructing a poisoned dataset and implementing an attention-regularized tuning strategy. |
FaStFact: Faster, Stronger Long-Form Factuality Evaluations in LLMs (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Yingjia Wan, Haochen Tan, Xiao Zhu, Xinyu Zhou, Zhiwei Li, Qingsong Lv, Changxuan Sun, Jiaqi Zeng, Yi Xu, Jianqiao Lu, Yinhong Liu, Zhijiang Guo
| Challenge: | Prior evaluation pipelines fail to evaluate factuality of long-form LLMs due to inefficiency and costly human assessment. |
| Approach: | They propose a fast and strong evaluation pipeline that can evaluate factuality of long-form LLMs . they propose 'faStFact' to reduce cost of web searching and inference calling . |
| Outcome: | The proposed evaluation pipeline achieves highest alignment with human evaluation and efficiency among existing baselines. |
Jointly Learning to Repair Code and Generate Commit Message (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing work performs code repair and commit message generation independently. |
| Approach: | They propose a cascaded method to repair program codes and generate commit messages in a unified framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model significantly outperforms baselines on a buggy-fixed-commit dataset. |
Debiasing In-Context Learning by Instructing LLMs How to Follow Demonstrations (2024.findings-acl)
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Lvxue Li, Jiaqi Chen, Xinyu Lu, Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Shuheng Zhou, Huijia Zhu, Weiqiang Wang, Zhongyi Liu, Xianpei Han, Le Sun
| Challenge: | In-context learning (ICL) has gained considerable attention due to its data efficiency and task adaptability. |
| Approach: | They propose to de-biase demonstration bias in in-context learning by focusing on semantic ambiguity induced by demonstrations and reducing the semantic hazard. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods significantly improve performance on six datasets. |
PrismRAG: Boosting RAG Factuality with Distractor Resilience and Strategized Reasoning (2025.emnlp-industry)
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Mohammad Kachuee, Teja Gollapudi, Minseok Kim, Yin Huang, Kai Sun, Xiao Yang, Jiaqi Wang, Nirav Shah, Yue Liu, Aaron Colak, Anuj Kumar, Wen-tau Yih, Xin Luna Dong
| Challenge: | Existing methods to improve factuality of large language models (LLMs) rely on human-engineered instructions. |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-augmented generation framework that trains the model with distractor-aware QA pairs mixing gold evidence with subtle distractor passages and instills reasoning-centric habits that make the LLM plan, rationalize, and synthesize without extensive human engineered instructions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art solutions across 12 open-book RAG QA benchmarks and is being deployed in production. |
Chase: A Large-Scale and Pragmatic Chinese Dataset for Cross-Database Context-Dependent Text-to-SQL (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | XDTS is a cross-database context-dependent text-to-sql problem with wide range of applications. |
| Approach: | They present a large-scale Chinese dataset for cross-database context-dependent Text-to-SQL . they find that only 35% of questions are context-independent and 28% of SQL queries are easy . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves an exact match accuracy of 40% over all questions and 16% over all question sequences. |
Molweni: A Challenge Multiparty Dialogues-based Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset with Discourse Structure (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Multiparty dialog applications such as discourse parsing and meeting summarization are now mainstream research. |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate a machine reading comprehension dataset with discourse structure built over multiparty dialog using a modified Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) style. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contributes large-scale discourse dependency annotations in a modified Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) style for all of its multiparty dialogs, and achieves only 67.7% F1 on Molweni’s questions, a 20+% significant drop as compared against its SQuAD 2.0 performance. |
PEAP: Proactive Embodied Action Sequence Planning with Joint Understanding of Vision and Audio Perception (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Embodied action sequence planning focuses on the capability of embodied agents to implement action planning via environmental perception without explicit human instructions. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a multimodal dataset to evaluate the performance of multiple large language models to evaluate their models' environmental perception capabilities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model shows that it lacks accurate environmental perception capabilities and that it can improve on the PEAP dataset. |
TARN-VIST: Topic Aware Reinforcement Network for Visual Storytelling (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for visual storytelling ignore latent topic information. |
| Approach: | They propose a topic-aware reinforcement network for VIsual StoryTelling that takes topic information into account to generate a coherent story. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms most of the competing models across multiple evaluation metrics. |
Weakly Supervised Semantic Parsing by Learning from Mistakes (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Weakly supervised semantic parsing requires searching consistent logical forms in a huge space and dealing with spurious logical form. |
| Approach: | They propose a learning framework that trains parsers via utterance-denotation pairs . they use utterrance-logical form pairs created from mistakes to bootstrap parser . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on WikiSQL, TabFact and other datasets. |
m3P: Towards Multimodal Multilingual Translation with Multimodal Prompt (2024.lrec-main)
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Jian Yang, Hongcheng Guo, Yuwei Yin, Jiaqi Bai, Bing Wang, Jiaheng Liu, Xinnian Liang, LinZheng Chai, Liqun Yang, Zhoujun Li
| Challenge: | Existing multimodal neural machine translation models focus on bilingual translation, but experimental results show that they outperform the text-only baselines and multilingual multimodal methods by a large margin. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to leverage the multimodal prompt to guide the Multimodal Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (m3P) this framework aligns the representations of different languages with the same meaning and generates the conditional vision-language memory for translation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms previous text-only baselines and multilingual multimodal methods by a large margin. |
Bridging the Sensory Gap: Visual Injection for Taxonomy Completion (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing text-only methods suffer from a "Sensory Gap" in integrating new concepts into existing hierarchies. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework leveraging Visual Injection for Taxonomy Completion that maps synthesized images into intrinsic pseudo-tokens and decouples magnitude from selection to prevent visual signals from being drowned out. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on three datasets show that VITC achieves state-of-the-art performance . it delivers an average absolute gain of over 19% in Hit@1. |
Towards Real-world Scenario: Imbalanced New Intent Discovery (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on detecting known and previously undefined categories of user intent . skewed and long-tailed distributions often encountered in open-world scenarios . |
| Approach: | They propose to use imbalanced new intent discovery task to identify familiar and novel intent categories within long-tailed distributions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the existing benchmark on three datasets to simulate the real-world long-tail distributions. |
EMA: An Episodic Memory Agent for Efficient and Selective Memory (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing memory-augmented methods often incorporate full dialog histories without filtering, resulting in information redundancy and inference latency. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that abstracts conversational context into Episodic Memory Units (EMUs) they propose EMA, MemDecider and a filtering decision module to reduce noise and improve overall performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces token consumption by 11.48% while improving performance on two widely-used benchmarks. |
SemRegex: A Semantics-Based Approach for Generating Regular Expressions from Natural Language Specifications (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to generate programs from natural language do not address program aliasing . semantically equivalent programs may have many syntactically different forms . |
| Approach: | They propose a semantics-based approach to generate regular expressions from natural language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves on three public datasets. |
Chinese Court Simulation with LLM-Based Agents System (2026.findings-acl)
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Kaiyuan Zhang, Jiaqi Li, Yueyue Wu, Haitao Li, Cheng Luo, Shaokun Zou, Yujia Zhou, Weihang Su, Yiqun Liu, Qingyao Ai
| Challenge: | Existing studies have neglected the systematic design and procedure evaluation of court simulations, which are critical to the credibility and usage of court simulators in practice. |
| Approach: | They propose a court simulation paradigm based on the real-world procedure structure of Chinese courts and a framework that focuses on both legal judgment prediction and court procedure analysis. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms judges and lawyers from the real trials in many aspects. |
Awakening Latent Grounding from Pretrained Language Models for Semantic Parsing (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent years pretrained language models (PLMs) have shown their power on modeling language . however, few efforts have been made to explore grounding capabilities of PLMs . |
| Approach: | They propose to use pretrained language models to explore syntactic structures . they propose to combine their approach with an erasingthen-awakening approach . their results show that the approach can awaken latent grounding, which is understandable to humans . |
| Outcome: | Empirical studies show that the proposed approach can awaken latent grounding . it shows great potential to benefit downstream semantic parsing models, it says . |
BIPEFT: Budget-Guided Iterative Search for Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Pretrained Language Models (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for parameter-efficient fine-tuning are limited by computational and storage requirements. |
| Approach: | They propose a budget-guided iterative search strategy to disentangle binary module and rank dimension search spaces and early selection strategies based on parameter budgets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly improves search efficiency on public benchmarks. |
DialogVCS: Robust Natural Language Understanding in Dialogue System Upgrade (2024.naacl-long)
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Zefan Cai, Xin Zheng, Tianyu Liu, Haoran Meng, Jiaqi Han, Gang Yuan, Binghuai Lin, Baobao Chang, Yunbo Cao
| Challenge: | Existing models for natural language understanding are based on a well-defined intent 1 ontology. |
| Approach: | They propose to retrain the natural language understanding model as new data from real users are merged into existing data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model shows that the semantically entangled intents can be recognized with an automatic workflow. |
Towards Complex Text-to-SQL in Cross-Domain Database with Intermediate Representation (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | IRNet synthesizes SQL queries in an end-to-end manner, but it yields unsatisfactory performance on public benchmarks. |
| Approach: | They propose a neural approach called IRNet for complex and cross-domain Text-to-SQL. |
| Outcome: | IRNet achieves 46.7% accuracy on the Spider benchmark, a 19.5% improvement over state-of-the-art approaches. |
Benchmarking Meaning Representations in Neural Semantic Parsing (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing work on meaning representations is not comprehensively evaluated due to the lack of readily-available execution engines. |
| Approach: | They propose a unified benchmark on meaning representations by integrating existing semantic parsing datasets, completing the missing logical forms, and implementing the missing execution engines. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark combines existing parsing datasets, completes missing logical forms, and implements missing execution engines. |