Papers by Lei Geng
Improving Personalized Explanation Generation through Visualization (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing explainable recommendation models generate repetitive sentences for different items or empty sentences with insufficient details. |
| Approach: | They propose a visual-enhanced approach to generate rating scores and text explanations using visualization generation and text–image matching discrimination. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves both the text quality and the diversity and explainability of the generated explanations. |
KBioXLM: A Knowledge-anchored Biomedical Multilingual Pretrained Language Model (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing models for multilingual biomedical training are monolingual, resulting in limited cross-lingual capability. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that transforms a multilingual biomedical corpus into a biomedically domain using a knowledge-anchored approach. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms monolingual and multilingual models in cross-lingual scenarios. |
ReSo: A Reward-driven Self-organizing LLM-based Multi-Agent System for Reasoning Tasks (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Multi-agent systems (MAS) are limited by poor flexibility and scalability, with underdeveloped optimization strategies. |
| Approach: | They propose a task graph generation and a reward-driven two-stage agent selection process to integrate multi-agent systems to improve their reasoning capabilities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing methods on Math-MAS and SciBench-MAS SciBech, while other methods completely fail. |
Retrieval-Augmented Retrieval: Large Language Models are Strong Zero-Shot Retriever (2024.findings-acl)
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Tao Shen, Guodong Long, Xiubo Geng, Chongyang Tao, Yibin Lei, Tianyi Zhou, Michael Blumenstein, Daxin Jiang
| Challenge: | Large-scale retrieval is indispensable in information-seeking tasks such as open-domain question answering and knowledgegrounded dialogue. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a large language model (LLM) to augment a query with its potential answers by prompting LLMs with a composition of the query and the query’s in-domain candidates. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method breaks brute-force combinations of retrievers with LLMs and lifts the performance of zero-shot retrieval to be very competitive on benchmark datasets. |
Scaling Behaviors of LLM Reinforcement Learning Post-Training: An Empirical Study in Mathematical Reasoning (2026.acl-long)
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Zelin Tan, Hejia Geng, Xiaohang Yu, Mulei Zhang, Guancheng Wan, Yifan Zhou, Qiang He, Xiangyuan Xue, Heng Zhou, Yutao Fan, Zhong-Zhi Li, Zaibin Zhang, Guibin Zhang, Chen Zhang, Zhenfei Yin, Philip Torr, Lei Bai
| Challenge: | elucidating scaling laws for large language models (LLMs) during pre-training remains unexplored. |
| Approach: | They characterize how model scale, data, and compute interact during pre-training . they find that large models consistently demonstrate superior compute and data efficiency . |
| Outcome: | The proposed scaling laws offer practical guidance for scaling reasoning capabilities through reinforcement learning post-training. |