Papers by Jiaqi Xu

17 papers
SecFormer: Fast and Accurate Privacy-Preserving Inference for Transformer Models via SMPC (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: a growing number of cloud-based inference services are relying on SMPC to protect data privacy.
Approach: They propose a framework for Privacy-Preserving Inference for Transformer models that eliminates exponential and maximum operations in PPI without sacrificing model performance.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms MPCFormer in terms of performance and efficiency . it is 3.57 and 3.58 times faster than PUMA for BERTBASE and BERTLARGE .
Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent for Data Science (2025.findings-acl)

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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.
MIND: From Passive Mimicry to Active Reasoning through Capability-Aware Multi-Perspective CoT Distillation (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches restrict students to following a single golden rationale and treat different reasoning paths independently, causing suboptimal performance.
Approach: They propose a capability-adaptive framework that transitions distillation from passive mimicry to active cognitive construction and employ a feedback-driven inertia calibration mechanism to align supervision with the student’s current adaptability.
Outcome: Experiments show that the proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on both in-distribution and out-of distribution benchmarks.
Response-G1: Explicit Scene Graph Modeling for Proactive Streaming Video Understanding (2026.acl-long)

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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.
Unveiling the Generalization Power of Fine-Tuned Large Language Models (2024.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional multitasking abilities, but the comprehensive effects of fine-tuning on the LLMs’ generalization ability are not fully understood.
Approach: They conduct extensive experiments across five distinct language tasks on different datasets to investigate whether fine-tuning affects the generalization ability intrinsic to LLMs.
Outcome: The proposed model can generalize to different domains and tasks by integrating the in-context learning strategy during fine-tuning on generation tasks.
SOLAR: Serendipity Optimized Language Model Aligned for Recommendation (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Large Language Models have shown strong potential in recommendation tasks . however, their application to serendipity-oriented recommendations remains challenging .
Approach: They propose a domain-adaptive instruction tuning method that aligns Large Language Models with recommendation tasks.
Outcome: The proposed framework bridges the domain gap between LLMs and recommendation tasks.
Training-Free Adaptive Speculative Decoding via Linguistic Priors (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Speculative decoding (SPD) is a promising technique to accelerate Large Language Models (LLMs). current approaches neglect the inherent heterogeneity of natural language and fail to distinguish between semantically-rich content and structurally-predictable syntax.
Approach: They propose a training-free framework that leverages linguistic priors to enable adaptive drafting and verification.
Outcome: The proposed framework significantly accelerates inference without additional training.
Structured Preference Optimization for Vision-Language Long-Horizon Task Planning (2025.emnlp-main)

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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.
AD-LLM: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Anomaly Detection (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Anomaly detection (AD) is an important machine learning task with many real-world uses, including fraud detection, medical diagnosis, and industrial monitoring.
Approach: They propose a benchmark that evaluates how large language models (LLMs) can help with NLP anomaly detection.
Outcome: The proposed model can perform zero-shot detection without tasks-specific training, data augmentation and model selection, and it can suggest unsupervised AD models.
MapGPT: Map-Guided Prompting with Adaptive Path Planning for Vision-and-Language Navigation (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Embodied agents equipped with GPT as their brains have extraordinary decision-making and generalization abilities across various tasks.
Approach: They propose a map-based agent that introduces an online linguistic-formed map to encourage global exploration.
Outcome: The proposed agent achieves state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on R2R and REVERIE simultaneously.
FaStFact: Faster, Stronger Long-Form Factuality Evaluations in LLMs (2025.findings-emnlp)

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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.
HMoE: Heterogeneous Mixture of Experts for Language Modeling (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Mixture of Experts (MoE) models use homogeneous experts with diverse capacities, resulting in a lack of expert specialization and parameter utilization.
Approach: They propose a framework where experts differ in size and possess diverse capacities . they propose HMoE to encourage frequent activation of smaller experts .
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms homogeneous homogenous MoE models on evaluation benchmarks and achieves lower loss rate with fewer activated parameters.
LPO: Towards Accurate GUI Agent Interaction via Location Preference Optimization (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing strategies for spatial localization are limited due to their limited capacity to perceive positional data.
Approach: They propose a location-based approach that leverages locational data to optimize interaction preferences.
Outcome: The proposed approach achieves SOTA results across offline benchmarks and real-world evaluations.
BitDistiller: Unleashing the Potential of Sub-4-Bit LLMs via Self-Distillation (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Weight quantization has emerged as a popular solution to reduce memory and computational demands.
Approach: They propose a framework that synergizes Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) with Knowledge Distillation (KD) to boost the performance of LLMs at sub-4-bit.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms existing QAT methods on language understanding and complex reasoning benchmarks on sub-4-bit models.
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.
StyleDGPT: Stylized Response Generation with Pre-trained Language Models (2020.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing methods for generating responses following a desired style are lacking of parallel data for training.
Approach: They propose a KL loss and a style classifier to fine-tune response generation . they show that their model can significantly outperform state-of-the-art methods .
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models in style consistency and contextual coherence with two public datasets.

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