Papers by Lei Zang

6 papers
Decomposition for Enhancing Attention: Improving LLM-based Text-to-SQL through Workflow Paradigm (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: In-context learning of large-language models has achieved remarkable success in the field of natural language processing . however, the single-step chain-of-thought prompting approach faces challenges such as attention diffusion and inadequate performance in complex tasks like text-to-SQL.
Approach: They propose a workflow paradigm method to enhance the attention and problem-solving scope of large-language models through decomposition.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing methods on three datasets and improves the upper limit of LLM-based approaches.
CharPoet: A Chinese Classical Poetry Generation System Based on Token-free LLM (2024.acl-demos)

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Challenge: Traditional systems in this field usually accept keywords as user inputs, resulting in limited control over content.
Approach: They propose a Chinese classical poetry generation system based on token-free LLMs that allow unrestricted user instructions to be used.
Outcome: The proposed system outperforms traditional systems including Jiuge and GPT-4 in format accuracy and content quality.
Intent-Driven Semantic ID Generation for Grounded Conversational News Recommendation (2026.acl-industry)

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Challenge: a new approach to news recommendation grounds each suggestion in a rapidly evolving article corpus while addressing implicit user intents that lack explicit retrievable keywords.
Approach: They propose an intent-driven Semantic ID generation paradigm to address these challenges . they map diverse intents to hierarchical SID prefixes and then fuzzy-match them to current news pool .
Outcome: The proposed model achieves 0% hallucination and 12.4% L1 match on a mainstream Chinese news platform.
Uncertainty-Aware Iterative Preference Optimization for Enhanced LLM Reasoning (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for enhancing the performance of large language models require expensive manual annotations.
Approach: They propose an offline direct preference optimization method that collects preference pairs through iterative sampling and execution feedback to improve model confidence.
Outcome: The proposed method improves performance on three reasoning tasks and shows a 3.6% improvement over the standard method.
SOAR: Supervision from Observation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Prior work assigns supervision based on outcome rewards or external reward models, but ignores environment observations, a critical source of learning.
Approach: They propose a supervision-based agentic reinforcement learning system that integrates environment observations as an explicit supervision signal.
Outcome: The proposed model improves performance on reasoning and deep research tasks while reducing erroneous and inefficient tool usage.

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