Papers by Linlin Shen
CLEME2.0: Towards Interpretable Evaluation by Disentangling Edits for Grammatical Error Correction (2025.acl-long)
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Jingheng Ye, Zishan Xu, Yinghui Li, Linlin Song, Qingyu Zhou, Hai-Tao Zheng, Ying Shen, Wenhao Jiang, Hong-Gee Kim, Ruitong Liu, Xin Su, Zifei Shan
| Challenge: | Existing studies have focused on the interpretability of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) evaluation metrics, but the interpretabilty of these metrics has been neglected. |
| Approach: | They propose a reference-based metric that describes four aspects of GEC systems: hit-correction, wrong-corrections, under-correcties, and over-corrects. |
| Outcome: | The proposed metric reveals critical qualities and locates drawbacks of GEC systems. |
Beyond the Leaderboard: Rethinking Medical Benchmarks for Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are proving significant potential in healthcare, prompting numerous benchmarks to evaluate their capabilities. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that deconstructs benchmark development into five stages from design to governance and provides a checklist of 46 medically-tailored criteria. |
| Outcome: | The framework deconstructs benchmark development into five stages from design to governance and provides a comprehensive checklist of 46 medically-tailored criteria. |
TencentPretrain: A Scalable and Flexible Toolkit for Pre-training Models of Different Modalities (2023.acl-demo)
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Zhe Zhao, Yudong Li, Cheng Hou, Jing Zhao, Rong Tian, Weijie Liu, Yiren Chen, Ningyuan Sun, Haoyan Liu, Weiquan Mao, Han Guo, Weigang Gou, Taiqiang Wu, Tao Zhu, Wenhang Shi, Chen Chen, Shan Huang, Sihong Chen, Liqun Liu, Feifei Li, Xiaoshuai Chen, Xingwu Sun, Zhanhui Kang, Xiaoyong Du, Linlin Shen, Kimmo Yan
| Challenge: | Several pre-training models of different modalities are showing a rising trend of homogeneity in their model structures. |
| Approach: | They propose a toolkit that supports pre-training models of different modalities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed toolkit can match the performance of the original implementations on text, vision, and audio benchmarks. |
KoCo: Conditioning Language Model Pre-training on Knowledge Coordinates (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Standard Large Language Model (LLM) pretraining treats corpora as flattened token sequences . a new method that maps every document into a three-dimensional semantic coordinate can bridge this gap . |
| Approach: | They propose a method that maps every document into a three-dimensional semantic coordinate . they say it equips the model with explicit contextual awareness to learn the documents . |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that knowledge coordinates help model distinguish stable facts from noise . authors say that the method significantly improves performance across 10 downstream tasks . |
LoRAPrune: Structured Pruning Meets Low-Rank Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Low-rank adaption (LoRA) is a low-level pruning method that can be expensive and slow to deploy. |
| Approach: | They propose a low-rank adaption pruning framework that provides an accurate structured pruned model in a memory-efficient manner. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pruning framework reduces perplexity and memory usage by 52.6% on LLaMA and T5 models while reducing memory usage. |
CSL: A Large-scale Chinese Scientific Literature Dataset (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing datasets centered around the English language restrict development of Chinese scientific NLP. |
| Approach: | They present a large-scale Chinese scientific literature dataset based on Chinese papers . they use semi-structured data as a natural annotation for many supervised NLP tasks . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset can serve as a Chinese corpus and perform many supervised tasks. |
Benchmarking Egocentric Clinical Intent Understanding Capability for Medical Multimodal Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks fail to evaluate egocentric clinical intent understanding of medical multimodal large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark leveraging clinician gaze as a Cognitive Cursor to assess intent understanding across surgery, emergency simulation and diagnostic interpretation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark addresses challenges of visual homogeneity of anatomical structures, strict temporal-causal dependencies in clinical workflows, and implicit adherence to safety protocols. |
Asclepius: A Spectrum Evaluation Benchmark for Medical Multi-Modal Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)
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Jie Liu, Wenxuan Wang, Su Yihang, Jingyuan Huang, Yudi Zhang, Cheng-Yi Li, Wenting Chen, Xiaohan Xing, Kao-Jung Chang, Linlin Shen, Michael R. Lyu
| Challenge: | Medical Multi-Modal Large Language Models (Med-MLLMs) are a promising new form of artificial general intelligence due to their ability to tackle complex tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a new benchmark that comprehensively assesses medical multi-modal large language models in terms of distinct medical specialties and different diagnostic capacities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model covers 15 medical specialties and different diagnostic capacities, and excludes overlap with existing VQA dataset. |
EAGLE: Expert-Guided Self-Enhancement for Preference Alignment in Pathology Large Vision-Language Model (2025.acl-long)
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Meidan Ding, Jipeng Zhang, Wenxuan Wang, Haiqin Zhong, Xiaoqin Wang, Xinheng Lyu, Wenting Chen, Linlin Shen
| Challenge: | Recent advances in Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) show promise for pathological diagnosis, yet their application in clinical settings faces critical challenges of multimodal hallucination and biased responses. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates medical expertise into preference alignment. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing pathological LVLMs while maintaining pathological accuracy. |
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. |