Papers by Jingyang Yuan
A Survey on Efficient Large Language Model Training: From Data-centric Perspectives (2025.acl-long)
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Junyu Luo, Bohan Wu, Xiao Luo, Zhiping Xiao, Yiqiao Jin, Rong-Cheng Tu, Nan Yin, Yifan Wang, Jingyang Yuan, Wei Ju, Ming Zhang
| Challenge: | achieving data-efficient post-training of Large Language Models is a key research question. |
| Approach: | They propose a taxonomy of data-efficient LLM post-training methods from a data-centric perspective. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods cover data selection, data quality enhancement, synthetic data generation, data distillation and compression, and self-evolving data ecosystems. |
Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention (2025.acl-long)
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Jingyang Yuan, Huazuo Gao, Damai Dai, Junyu Luo, Liang Zhao, Zhengyan Zhang, Zhenda Xie, Yuxing Wei, Lean Wang, Zhiping Xiao, Yuqing Wang, Chong Ruan, Ming Zhang, Wenfeng Liang, Wangding Zeng
| Challenge: | Long-context modeling is crucial for next-generation language models, but high computational cost of standard attention mechanisms poses significant computational challenges. |
| Approach: | They propose a natively trained Sparse Attention mechanism that integrates algorithms with hardware-aligned optimizations to achieve efficient long-context modeling. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model maintains or exceeds Full Attention models across general benchmarks, long-context tasks, and instruction-based reasoning. |
CodeEvo: Interaction-Driven Synthesis of Code-centric Data through Hybrid and Iterative Feedback (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for generating instruction-code pairs rely on rigid heuristics and are labor-intensive. |
| Approach: | They propose a dual-agent architecture that integrates a Coder and a Reviewer to orchestrate the generation trajectory. |
| Outcome: | The proposed architecture outperforms baselines on a large-scale dataset of instruction-code pairs with stepped difficulty levels. |
MMEvalPro: Calibrating Multimodal Benchmarks Towards Trustworthy and Efficient Evaluation (2025.naacl-long)
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Jinsheng Huang, Liang Chen, Taian Guo, Fu Zeng, Yusheng Zhao, Bohan Wu, Ye Yuan, Haozhe Zhao, Zhihui Guo, Yichi Zhang, Jingyang Yuan, Wei Ju, Luchen Liu, Tianyu Liu, Baobao Chang, Ming Zhang
| Challenge: | Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) exhibit impressive cross-modal understanding and reasoning abilities, but many benchmarks suffer from systematic biases. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to avoid Type-I errors by creating one perception question and one knowledge anchor question through a meticulous annotation process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark avoids Type-I errors while maintaining reliability of MCQ evaluations. |
Fine-Grained Image-Text Alignment in Medical Imaging Enables Explainable Cyclic Image-Report Generation (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Fine-grained vision-language models (VLMs) have been widely used for inter-modality local alignment between fixed patches and textual words, but they provide incomplete representations of lesions. |
| Approach: | They propose an Adaptive patch-word Matching model to correlate chest X-ray (CXR) image regions with words in medical reports and apply it to CXR-report generation to provide explicit explanations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model correlates chest X-ray image regions with words in medical reports and provides explanations for the generation process. |