Papers by Jin Ma
Light-weight Fine-tuning Method for Defending Adversarial Noise in Pre-trained Medical Vision-Language Models (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing fine-tuning algorithms for vision-language models are restricted by patient privacy concerns and can contain imperceptible noise. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to mitigate adversarial noise and mitigate upstream noise during fine-tuning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves model robustness and transferability while decreasing noise levels negatively impact downstream performance. |
Multi-Channel Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Sign Language Production (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Sign language production models ignore structural correlations between channels and use multi-channel spatial attention to capture correlations across channels. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel approach to transform sign language into a unified feature representation using multi-channel spatial attention and temporal attention to learn sequential dependencies for each channel over time. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models on two sign language datasets from diverse cultures. |
POLYCHARTQA: Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models with Multilingual Chart Question Answering (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing chart understanding benchmarks are overwhelmingly English-centric, limiting their accessibility and relevance to global audiences. |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual chart question answering benchmark that enables efficient multilingual generation via data translation and code reuse. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark systematically evaluates multilingual chart understanding on state-of-the-art LVLMs and shows a significant performance gap between English and other languages. |
Title2Event: Benchmarking Open Event Extraction with a Large-scale Chinese Title Dataset (2022.emnlp-main)
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Haolin Deng, Yanan Zhang, Yangfan Zhang, Wangyang Ying, Changlong Yu, Jun Gao, Wei Wang, Xiaoling Bai, Nan Yang, Jin Ma, Xiang Chen, Tianhua Zhou
| Challenge: | Existing EE datasets define fixed event types and design specific schemas for each of them, failing to cover diverse events emerging from the online text. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a sentence-level dataset to benchmark Open Event Extraction without restricting event types. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contains more than 42,000 news titles in 34 topics collected from Chinese web pages. |
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. |
Pause or Fabricate? Training Language Models for Grounded Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)
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Yiwen Qiu, Linjuan Wu, Yizhou Liu, Yuchen Yan, Jin Ma, Xu Tan, Yao Hu, Daoxin Zhang, Wenqi Zhang, Weiming Lu, Jun Xiao, Yongliang Shen
| Challenge: | Large language models implicitly fabricate information when inputs are incomplete, causing confidence but unreliable conclusions. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for grounded reasoning under incomplete information that decomposes reasoning into two stages . they propose stage-specific rewards to penalize hallucinations, enabling models to detect gaps, stop proactively, and resume reasoning after clarification. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves premise detection and task success by 30% . it also reduces average response length by over 20% . |
Towards Fine-Grained and Multi-Granular Contrastive Language-Speech Pre-training (2026.acl-long)
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Yifan Yang, Bing Han, Hui Wang, Wei Wang, Ziyang Ma, Long Zhou, Zengrui Jin, Guanrou Yang, Tianrui Wang, Xu Tan, Xie Chen
| Challenge: | Existing models for fine-grained speaking styles are limited in terms of accuracy, coverage, and naturalness. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that pre-trains with coarse captions and annotates with a pipeline that grounds captions in audio. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models with fine-grained style annotations . it integrates global and fine-granular supervision, enabling unified representations based on the proposed model . |
A Confidence-based Partial Label Learning Model for Crowd-Annotated Named Entity Recognition (2023.findings-acl)
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Limao Xiong, Jie Zhou, Qunxi Zhu, Xiao Wang, Yuanbin Wu, Qi Zhang, Tao Gui, Xuanjing Huang, Jin Ma, Ying Shan
| Challenge: | Existing models for named entity recognition (NER) are based on large-scale labeled datasets, which always obtain using crowdsourcing. |
| Approach: | They propose a CONfidence-based partial Label Learning method to integrate prior and posterior confidences for crowd-annotated named entity recognition models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on real-world and synthetic datasets compared with baselines. |
Your Reasoning Benchmark May Not Test Reasoning: Revealing Perception Bottleneck in Abstract Reasoning Benchmarks (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus and ARC-AGI are widely used to assess progress in artificial intelligence. |
| Approach: | They propose a two-stage pipeline that separates perception and reasoning . they propose to test this pipeline against standard end-to-end one-stage evaluation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline separates perception and reasoning, and isolates reasoning from bottlenecks. |
QSpell 250K: A Large-Scale, Practical Dataset for Chinese Search Query Spell Correction (2025.naacl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Chinese Search Query Spell Correction is a task designed to identify and correct typographical errors within queries. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale benchmark specifically developed for Chinese Query Spell Correction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark covers a broad range of topics, including formal entities, everyday colloquialisms and idiomatic expressions. |
End-to-End Conversational Search for Online Shopping with Utterance Transfer (2021.emnlp-main)
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Liqiang Xiao, Jun Ma, Xin Luna Dong, Pascual Martínez-Gómez, Nasser Zalmout, Chenwei Zhang, Tong Zhao, Hao He, Yaohui Jin
| Challenge: | a new study proposes a conversational search system that integrates product attributes and dialog with search . but it faces two real world challenges: imperfect product schema/knowledge and lack of training dialog data . |
| Approach: | They propose an end-to-end conversational search system that integrates search with text . they propose an utterance transfer approach that generates dialogue utterations from other domains . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms the best tested baseline in a conversational search dataset for online shopping. |
Text-Guided Multi-Scale Frequency Representation Adaptation (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for fine-tuning visual signals are limited by their size and complexity. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-scale frequency-based fine-tuning method that integrates textual information and performs multi-level fine- tuning of visual signals in the frequency domain. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments on multimodal models, including CLIP and LLaVA, demonstrate that the proposed method significantly improves performance and efficiency with minimal cost and fast convergence within one epoch. |
MoDULA: Mixture of Domain-Specific and Universal LoRA for Multi-Task Learning (2024.emnlp-main)
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Yufei Ma, Zihan Liang, Huangyu Dai, Ben Chen, Dehong Gao, Zhuoran Ran, Wang Zihan, Linbo Jin, Wen Jiang, Guannan Zhang, Xiaoyan Cai, Libin Yang
| Challenge: | Recent advances in open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved notable successes in natural language processing. |
| Approach: | They propose a Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning paradigm for improved fine-tuning and parameter efficiency in multi-task learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing methods on multi-task learning while reducing training costs by over 80% without losing general capability. |
PivotFEC: Enhancing Few-shot Factual Error Correction with a Pivot Task Approach using Large Language Models (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for Factual Error Correction (FEC) use mask-then-correct paradigms . however, the lack of datasets containing false claims has impeded progress . |
| Approach: | They propose a method that enhances few-shot FEC with a pivot task approach using large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms its few-shot counterpart by 7.9 points in SARI . it improves widely-adopted SARI metrics by 11.3 compared to the best-performing methods . |
Data-centric NLP Backdoor Defense from the Lens of Memorization (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Backdoor attacks pose a severe threat to the trustworthiness of DNN-based language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a data-centric defense that extends memorization definitions to fine-grained sentences . they find that duplicated sentence elements are necessary for successful backdoor attacks . |
| Outcome: | The proposed defense outperforms state-of-the-art defenses against backdoor attacks. |
AgentGC: Evolutionary Learning-based Lossless Compression for Genomics Data with LLM-driven Multiple Agent (2026.findings-acl)
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Sun Hui, Ding Yanfeng, Huidong Ma, Chang Xu, Keyan Jin, Lizheng Zu, Cheng Zhong, Xiaoguang Liu, Gang Wang, Wentong Cai
| Challenge: | Lossless compression has made significant advancements in Genomics Data storage, sharing and management. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel agent-based GD Compressor with 3 layers with a multi-agent named Leader and Worker. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on existing methods with low-level modeling and limited adaptability and user-unfriendly interface. |
Characterizing the Impacts of Instances on Robustness (2023.findings-acl)
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Rui Zheng, Zhiheng Xi, Qin Liu, Wenbin Lai, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Jin Ma, Ying Shan, Weifeng Ge
| Challenge: | Existing defense approaches focus on developing new model structures or training algorithms, but they do little to tap the potential of training instances. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that can distinguish between robust and non-robust instances according to the model’s sensitivity to perturbations on individual instances during training. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can distinguish between robust and non-robust instances according to the model’s sensitivity to perturbations on individual instances during training. |
TriPlay-RL: Tri-Role Self-Play Reinforcement Learning for LLM Safety Alignment (2026.acl-long)
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Zhewen Tan, Wenhan Yu, Jianfeng Si, Tongxin Liu, Kaiqi Guan, Huiyan Jin, Jiawen Tao, Xiaokun Yuan, Xiangzheng Zhang, Duohe Ma, Tong Yang, Lin Sun
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to safety alignment of large language models rely on costly manual annotations or human review. |
| Approach: | They propose a closed-loop reinforcement learning framework called TriPlay-RL that enables iterative collaboration among three roles with near-zero manual annotation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves 20%–50% improvement in adversarial effectiveness while preserving high output diversity while achieving 10%–30% gains in safety performance without degrading general reasoning capability. |
Best Practices for Distilling Large Language Models into BERT for Web Search Ranking (2025.coling-industry)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have highlighted the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) as zero-shot relevance rankers. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a ranking loss to transfer ranking knowledge from LLMs to smaller models like BERT. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model has been successfully integrated into a commercial web search engine as of February 2024. |
UI-Copilot: Advancing Long-Horizon GUI Automation via Tool-Integrated Policy Optimization (2026.acl-long)
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Zhengxi Lu, Fei Tang, Guangyi Liu, Jin Ma, Kaitao Song, Xu Tan, Wenqi Zhang, Weiming Lu, Jun Xiao, Yueting Zhuang, Yongliang Shen
| Challenge: | Experimental results show that UI-Copilot-7B achieves state-of-the-art performance on challenging MemGUI-Bench, outperforming strong 7B-scale GUI agents such as GUI-Owl-7B and UITARS-1.5-7B. |
| Approach: | They propose a collaborative framework where the GUI agent focuses on task execution while a lightweight copilot provides on-demand assistance for memory retrieval and numerical computation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms GUI-Owl-7B and UI-TARS-1.5-7B on MemGUI-Bench and delivers 17.1% improvement on AndroidWorld over the base Qwen model. |
Saber: Efficient Sampling with Adaptive Acceleration and Backtracking Enhanced Remasking for Diffusion Language Model in Code Generation (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Diffusion language models (DLMs) offer advantages in parallel generation and bidirectional context modeling, but they face a critical trade-off between inference speed and output quality for tasks with strict structural constraints such as code generation. |
| Approach: | They propose an efficient sampling algorithm that reduces the number of tokens unmasked per step based on the model’s evolving confidence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves Pass@1 accuracy by 1.9% while achieving 251.4% inference speedup. |
MASSW: A New Dataset and Benchmark Tasks for AI-Assisted Scientific Workflows (2025.findings-naacl)
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Xingjian Zhang, Yutong Xie, Jin Huang, Jinge Ma, Zhaoying Pan, Qijia Liu, Ziyang Xiong, Tolga Ergen, Dongsub Shim, Honglak Lee, Qiaozhu Mei
| Challenge: | Scientific innovation is driven by detailed workflows, which include critical steps such as contextualizing literature, generating ideas, validating ideas, and planning new research. |
| Approach: | They propose to use large language models to extract five key aspects from scientific publications to optimize scientific workflows. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset includes more than 152,000 peer-reviewed publications from 17 leading computer science conferences spanning the past 50 years. |
CycleOIE: A Low-Resource Training Framework For Open Information Extraction (2025.coling-main)
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Zhihong Jin, Chunhong Zhang, Zheng Hu, Jibin Yu, Ruiqi Ma, Qingyun Chen, Xiaohao Liao, Yanxing Zhang
| Challenge: | Open Information Extraction (OpenIE) models rely heavily on large amounts of annotated data. |
| Approach: | They propose a training framework that maximizes data efficiency through a cycle-consistency mechanism. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves the quality of training data by curating low-quality datasets annotated by a large language model. |
A Survey of Deep Learning for Geometry Problem Solving (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent surge in deep learning technologies has significantly accelerated research in this area. |
| Approach: | They propose a comprehensive summary of the relevant tasks in geometry problem solving and a review of related deep learning methods. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is based on a systematic review of related methods and evaluation metrics and methods. |
Traces in the Brain: Neural Evidence for Syntactic Movement in English and Chinese (2026.findings-acl)
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Yuhan Huang, Zhengwu Ma, Yuqi Jin, Beth Chan, Zheng Shen, Jackie Yan-Ki Lai, John T. Hale, Jixing Li
| Challenge: | Syntactic movement is a core concept in generative linguistics to account for word-order variation and long-distance dependencies. |
| Approach: | They annotated every sentence in the audiobook The Little Prince using X-bar style tree annotations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model shows that deep structure significantly predicts neural responses in English but not in Chinese. |
WebQuality: A Large-scale Multi-modal Web Page Quality Assessment Dataset with Multiple Scoring Dimensions (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on web page quality assessment neglect the aspect of web page content. |
| Approach: | They propose a Chinese dataset for web page quality assessment . the dataset includes over 65,000 detailed an-notations spanning four sub-dimensions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset includes over 65,000 detailed an-notations spanning four sub-dimensions and incorporates elements such as HTML+CSS, text, and visual screenshot. |
KCVR: Knowledge-Centric Video Reconstruction for Structured Pedagogical Summarization via Dynamic Graph Planning (2026.acl-long)
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Jingjiang Liu, Jia Zhu, Hanghui Guo, Weijie Shi, Yue Cui, Xiaokang Jin, Yilin Wang, Qingyu Niu, Jiawei Shen, Guoqing Ma, Yidan Liang, Shimin Di, Jiajie Xu
| Challenge: | Existing summarization methods compress content for gist browsing, but they break prerequisite logic in instructional videos. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that decouples epistemic planning from content generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms strong end-to-end baselines on Knowledge Progression Consistency and Learning Objective Coverage. |
Knowledge Distillation with Reptile Meta-Learning for Pretrained Language Model Compression (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Knowledge distillation (KD) can transfer knowledge from the original model into a compact model to achieve model compression. |
| Approach: | They propose a knowledge distillation method with reptile meta-learning to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from the teacher to the student. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments on the GLUE benchmark show the proposed method performs better than previous methods. |
Do Vision-Language Models Have Internal World Models? Towards an Atomic Evaluation (2025.findings-acl)
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Qiyue Gao, Xinyu Pi, Kevin Liu, Junrong Chen, Ruolan Yang, Xinqi Huang, Xinyu Fang, Lu Sun, Gautham Kishore, Bo Ai, Stone Tao, Mengyang Liu, Jiaxi Yang, Chao-Jung Lai, Chuanyang Jin, Jiannan Xiang, Benhao Huang, Zeming Chen, David Danks, Hao Su, Tianmin Shu, Ziqiao Ma, Lianhui Qin, Zhiting Hu
| Challenge: | Recent studies have evaluated and shown limitations in specific capabilities such as visual understanding, but a systematic evaluation of VLMs’ fundamental WM abilities remains absent. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that assesses perception and prediction to provide an atomic evaluation of VLMs as WMs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework assesses perception and prediction abilities on 15 latest VLMs and compares them to human-level models. |
On the Universal Adversarial Perturbations for Efficient Data-free Adversarial Detection (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing adversarial detection methods require access to training data, which brings noteworthy concerns regarding privacy leakage and generalizability. |
| Approach: | They propose a data-agnostic adversarial detection framework which induces different responses between normal and adversarials to UAPs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves competitive detection performance on various text classification tasks, and maintains equivalent time consumption to normal inference. |
FedID: Federated Interactive Distillation for Large-Scale Pretraining Language Models (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | federated learning (FL) is widely studied in user-related natural language processing (NLP) but its performance is faded by confirmation bias. |
| Approach: | They propose a decentralized learning paradigm that uses labeled data to rectify local models . they propose federated interactive distillation (FedID) to alleviate communication overhead . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves the best results in homogeneous and heterogeneously federated scenarios. |
Entropy-Based Vocabulary Substitution for Incremental Learning in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to update a multilingual model with new language pairs are expensive and time-consuming. |
| Approach: | They propose an entropy-based vocabulary substitution method that walks through new language pairs for incremental learning while remaining the size of the original vocabulary. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves better performance and saves excess overhead in a multilingual machine translation task. |
Conflict-Aware Memory for Embodied Agents: Enhancing Vector Data Quality via Detection Rules (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Embodied agents have successfully leveraged large language models (LLMs) to better transform human instructions and images into executable task plans. |
| Approach: | They propose Conflict Detection Rules to identify and manage data quality issues in vector knowledge bases and correct the index structure. |
| Outcome: | Experimental results show that planners with Conflict Detection Rules exceed the basic LLM planner by 15.25% and 14.25% in grammatical accuracy (GA) and interpretation accuracy (IA) on average. |
Challenges in Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | despite well-reasoned intuitions, most context-aware neural machine translation models show only modest improvements over sentence-level systems. |
| Approach: | They propose a more realistic setting for document-level translation called paragraph-to-paragraph (PARA2PARA) they collect a dataset of Chinese-English novels to promote future research . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves translation quality across document-level metrics and discourse phenomena. |
COIG-CQIA: Quality is All You Need for Chinese Instruction Fine-tuning (2025.findings-naacl)
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Yuelin Bai, Xeron Du, Yiming Liang, Leo Jin, Junting Zhou, Ziqiang Liu, Feiteng Fang, Mingshan Chang, Tianyu Zheng, Xincheng Zhang, Nuo Ma, Zekun Moore Wang, Ruibin Yuan, Haihong Wu, Hongquan Lin, Wenhao Huang, Jiajun Zhang, Chenghua Lin, Jie Fu, Min Yang, Shiwen Ni, Ge Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing datasets for Chinese instruction tuning are not well-aligned with Chinese users’ interaction patterns. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Chinese instruction tuning datasets to improve instruction fine-tuning for Chinese users. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that Chinese models achieve competitive performance in diverse benchmarks. |
A Survey of Large Models in Sports (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Increasing interest in sports has led to the rapid advancement of large models, particularly multimodal large language models (MLLMs) . linguistic intelligence is a key component of large-model-driven sports intelligence . |
| Approach: | They propose to establish a foundation for advancing research and practical development of large-model-driven sports intelligence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model-driven sports intelligence will be able to process and generate sports-related language effectively and process multiple data modalities. |
Knowledge Transfer in Incremental Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on overcoming catastrophic forgetting on original language pairs while lacking encouragement to learn new knowledge from incremental learning. |
| Approach: | They propose a knowledge transfer method that can adapt original MNMT models to diverse incremental language pairs by flexibly introducing knowledge from external models into original models, which encourages the models to learn new language pairs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baselines on multiple languages while maintaining performance on original language pairs. |
DSRM: Boost Textual Adversarial Training with Distribution Shift Risk Minimization (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing adversarial training methods require multi-step gradient ascents or word substitutions to obtain adversarials, which impairs the effectiveness of adversariarial training. |
| Approach: | They propose a procedure for instead adversarial training with only clean data that estimates the adversarials loss by perturbing the input data’s probability distribution rather than their embeddings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed procedure reduces time consumption by up to 70% compared to current best-performing adversarial training methods. |
Context-Driven Index Trimming: A Data Quality Perspective to Enhancing Precision of RALMs (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing research often overlooks the data quality issues within retrieval results, often caused by inaccurate existing vector-distance-based retrieval methods. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Context-Driven Index Trimming framework to capture and regulate consistency between retrieved contexts and modify indexes in the database. |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that the proposed framework can improve answer quality by 3.75% on open-domain question-answering tasks. |
Event-Centric Query Expansion in Web Search (2023.acl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies rely on long-term search log mining to improve search experience . EQE system is a novel event retrieval framework that can select the best expansion from a significant amount of potential events quickly and accurately. |
| Approach: | They propose a QE system that uses a four-stage event retrieval framework . they collect news headlines and then refine a dual-tower semantic model to serve as an encoder . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can select the best expansion from a significant amount of potential events quickly and accurately. |