Papers by Jingyu Sun
Erasing Without Remembering: Implicit Knowledge Forgetting in Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a new method for unlearning large language models is proposed to improve the performance of large language model models. |
| Approach: | They propose a probability perturbation-based unlearning paradigm that allows models to forget implicit knowledge in large language models with a focus on generalisation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves unlearning vanilla target data while forgetting implicit knowledge. |
PunMemeCN: A Benchmark to Explore Vision-Language Models’ Understanding of Chinese Pun Memes (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Pun memes combine wordplay with visual elements to create humor, irony, or other rhetorical effects. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to assess Chinese pun memes' processing capabilities across three progressive tasks: pun meme detection, sentiment analysis, and chat-driven meme response. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can detect pun memes, analyze sentiments, and respond to chats, while ignoring homophone wordplay. |
Rethinking Smoothness for Fast and Adaptable Entity Alignment Decoding (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for integrating knowledge graphs rely on entity and relation embeddings . Fig. 1 shows how to decode knowledge graph in under 6 seconds . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that only utilizes entity embeddings to decode knowledge graphs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reconstructs KG representation by maximizing smoothness of entity embeddings. |
VALU: A Benchmark for Video Anomaly Temporal Localization and Understanding at Multiple Semantic Levels (2026.acl-long)
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Yixiao He, Menghao Zhang, Haifeng Sun, Jing Wang, Kangheng Lin, Jinghan Wang, Chenye Xu, Pengfei Ren, Qi Qi, Jingyu Wang
| Challenge: | Recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) enhance the ability of VAU models to describe and interpret anomalies. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark that explicitly defines anomalies across five semantic levels and provides detailed temporal boundaries and detailed textual descriptions for each. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark defines anomalies across five semantic levels and provides detailed descriptions for each. |
MDR: Model-Specific Demonstration Retrieval at Inference Time for In-Context Learning (2024.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for retrieval-based in-context learning ignore model biases and fail to retrieve the most appropriate demonstrations for different LLMs. |
| Approach: | They propose a model-specific demonstration retrieval method that considers the biases of different LLMs at inference time. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves performance on seen and unseen tasks with multi-scale inference LLMs by up to 41.2%. |
ClusterAttn: KV Cache Compression under Intrinsic Attention Clustering (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for sparse attention apply the same pattern across different attention heads and inputs, but fail to capture the intrinsic attention clustering in large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free sparse attention method that provides an efficient prompt cache compression scheme under intrinsic attention clustering for efficient LLM inference. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces memory usage by 10%–65% and increases throughput by 2.6–4.8 times with no accuracy loss. |
Modeling Aspect Correlation for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis via Recurrent Inverse Learning Guidance (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to learn complex sentence with multiple aspects do not consider correlation between aspects to distinguish overlapped feature. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses aspect correlation to improve aspect correlation modeling . they use Recurrent Mechanism to improve the joint representation of aspects . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is state-of-the-art in multiaspect scenarios. |
Unveiling Internal Reasoning Modes in LLMs: A Deep Dive into Latent Reasoning vs. Factual Shortcuts with Attribute Rate Ratio (2025.emnlp-main)
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Yiran Yang, Haifeng Sun, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Zirui Zhuang, Huazheng Wang, Pengfei Ren, Jing Wang, Jianxin Liao
| Challenge: | Existing research in multi-hop questions has identified two reasoning modes, but has not investigated how these modes differ during inference. |
| Approach: | They propose a classification metric that compares latent reasoning and factual shortcuts in multi-hop questions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed metric achieves 90% accuracy on the proposed datasets and demonstrates effectiveness in RAG conflict scenarios. |
SSS: Editing Factual Knowledge in Language Models towards Semantic Sparse Space (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to modify LMs suffer from sub-optimal locality, where irrelevant neighborhood examples can be adversely influenced. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a model editing method to modify specific examples in LMs to improve locality and reasoning capability by directing the hidden state of edit example towards spaces where semantics are sparse. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves locality and reasoning capability on two datasets. |
Investigating Capsule Network and Semantic Feature on Hyperplanes for Text Classification (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Various neural networks are designed for text classification on the basis of word embedding, but polysemy is a fundamental feature of the natural language, which brings challenges to text classification. |
| Approach: | They propose to use capsule networks to construct the vectorized representation of semantics and utilize hyperplanes to decompose each capsule to acquire the specific senses. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model extracts more discriminative semantic features and yields significant performance gain compared to baseline methods. |
RecStream: Graph-aware Stream Management for Concurrent Recommendation Model Online Serving (2025.coling-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems that use recommendation models perform poorly under highly concurrent scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a system that optimizes stream configurations based on model characteristics and concurrency levels. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms existing methods under high concurrency scenarios. |
The Threat of PROMPTS in Large Language Models: A System and User Prompt Perspective (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Prompts are essential for guiding model output and influencing content generation. |
| Approach: | They propose to attack models with prompt leakage and prompt jailbreak attacks . they summarize the experimental setups of these methods and explore the relationship between prompt threats and prompt injection attacks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods summarize the experimental setups and examine the relationship between prompt threats and prompt injection attacks. |
Distantly Supervised Contrastive Learning for Low-Resource Scripting Language Summarization (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for code summarization are limited in resources and require atomic commands and category constraints to enhance code representations. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that leverages limited atomic commands and category constraints to enhance code representations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods in a number of domains and demonstrates superiority over competing frameworks. |
Adversarial and Domain-Aware BERT for Cross-Domain Sentiment Analysis (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Cross-domain sentiment classification requires large amounts of labeled data. |
| Approach: | They propose to apply a pre-training language model BERT on unsupervised domain adaptation . they propose to distill domain-specific features in a self-supervised way . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on Amazon dataset . it can be applied to the unsupervised domain adaptation task without domain awareness . |
Evaluating and Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models: Can They Still See Removed Objects? (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | LVLMs often mistakenly determine objects as present in images where they do not exist . authors propose a new benchmark to evaluate object hallucinations by removing objects from images and asking the model whether it can still see the removed objects. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate object hallucinations by removing objects from images . they propose oDPO, a direct preference optimization objective based on visual objects . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark reduces the likelihood of object hallucinations by removing objects from images and asking the model whether it can still see the removed objects. |
Example Quality Matters: Multi-Aspects Example Augmentation for Private Library Programming (2026.acl-long)
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Yuhao Li, Haifeng Sun, Xuesong Zhang, Shu Yao, Haoyu Zheng, Yvchuan Wang, Huazheng Wang, Zirui Zhuang, Qi Qi, Jianxin Liao, Jingyu Wang
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to code generation fail to consider the quality of retrieved examples. |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-augmented generation method that combines existing API examples to improve complexity and readability. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves up to 22% accuracy improvement over baseline methods. |
Capsule Network with Interactive Attention for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for aspect-level sentiment classification are limited for dealing with overlapped features. |
| Approach: | They propose to use capsule network to construct vector-based feature representation and cluster features by an EM routing algorithm to model semantic relationship between aspect terms and context. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art on three datasets. |
ModularMoE: Fast LLM Customization with Parameter-Sharing Mixture-of-Experts for Low-Resource Settings (2026.findings-acl)
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Jiaxing Liu, Qi Qi, Haifeng Sun, Dunjun Li, Zirui Zhuang, Bo He, Xiang Yang, Cong Liu, Jianxin Liao, Jingyu Wang
| Challenge: | Large Language Models impose significant computational and storage burdens on personal devices . existing customization approaches incur excessive computational costs or lead to suboptimal performance . |
| Approach: | They propose a training framework that converts pre-trained LLMs into parameter-sharing MoE models for lightweight deployment. |
| Outcome: | The proposed training framework outperforms state-of-the-art training frameworks at the same sparsity level while delivering up to 2.71 inference speedup. |