Papers by Liqun Liu

18 papers
Knowledge Distillation based Contextual Relevance Matching for E-commerce Product Search (2022.emnlp-industry)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to e-commerce relevance matching ignore bipartite graphs in logs . experimental results show that proposed method improves human relevance judgment .
Approach: They propose an efficient knowledge distillation framework for e-commerce relevance matching to exploit the advantages of Transformer-style and classical relevance matching models.
Outcome: The proposed method significantly improves human relevance judgment on large-scale real-world data.
ℛ3: Advertisement Compliance ℛectification via Group-ℛelative Experience Extractor and Curriculum ℛeinforcement (2026.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Existing methods of content moderation are infeasible due to over-editing and compromise the advertiser’s original semantic intent.
Approach: They propose a framework to harmonize compliance with original intent preservation that integrates a data-driven framework and a curriculum to enforce compliance while maximizing semantic consistency.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on industrial datasets and on online A/B testing on industrial video.
Beyond Single-View Detection: A Dual-Space Reasoning Framework for Interpretable Harmful Meme Understanding (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for identifying harmful memes rely on modal alignment or black-box classifiers . BPDMoE-Hate provides visual explanations for viewpoint selection and hierarchical structuring .
Approach: They propose a framework that conceptualizes harmful meme detection as a process of "viewpoint decoupling and hierarchical fusion" they propose BPDMoE-Hate, which generates adversarial binary perspectives via VLMs and incorporates an adaptive viewpoint gating to facilitate viewpoint selection.
Outcome: The proposed framework surpasses existing methods in performance and provides visual explanations for viewpoint selection and hierarchical structuring.
TencentPretrain: A Scalable and Flexible Toolkit for Pre-training Models of Different Modalities (2023.acl-demo)

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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.
RAVEN++: Pinpointing Fine-Grained Violations in Advertisement Videos with Active Reinforcement Reasoning (2025.emnlp-industry)

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Challenge: Recent advances in large language models have improved the detection of non-compliant content, but critical gaps persist in fine-grained understanding, explainability, and generalization.
Approach: They propose a framework that combines active reinforcement learning, fine-grained violation understanding and progressive multi-stage training.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms general-purpose LLMs and specialized models in fine-grained violation understanding, explainability, and generalization.
MdEval: Massively Multilingual Code Debugging (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing benchmarks primarily focus on Python and are limited in terms of language diversity.
Approach: They propose a multilingual debugging benchmark that includes 3.9K test samples of 20 programming languages and introduces the debug instruction corpora MdEval-Instruct by injecting bugs into the correct multilingual queries and solutions.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark includes 3.9K test samples of 20 programming languages and covers the automated program repair task, bug localization task, and bug identification task.
Enhancing Reinforcement Learning with Label-Sensitive Reward for Natural Language Understanding (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have yielded remarkable performance, but objective mismatch issues hinder RLHF learning.
Approach: They propose a Reinforcement Learning framework enhanced with Label-sensitive reward to enhance LLMs' alignment and generation capabilities.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves performance on five diverse models across eight tasks.
NeuralClassifier: An Open-source Neural Hierarchical Multi-label Text Classification Toolkit (P19-3)

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Challenge: NeuralClassifier is a toolkit for hierarchical multi-label text classification.
Approach: They propose a toolkit for neural hierarchical multi-label text classification . they use a variety of text encoders to implement the model .
Outcome: The proposed model achieves comparable performance with reported results in the literature.
Towards Faithful Industrial RAG: A Reinforced Co-adaptation Framework for Advertising QA (2026.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Existing methods for QA in industrial environments are inherently relational and often updated.
Approach: They propose a framework that optimizes retrieval and generation through two components: Graph-aware Retrieval and evidence-constrained reinforcement learning.
Outcome: Experiments on an internal advertising QA dataset show consistent gains across expert-judged dimensions including accuracy, completeness, safety, and URL validity.
m3P: Towards Multimodal Multilingual Translation with Multimodal Prompt (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Existing multimodal neural machine translation models focus on bilingual translation, but experimental results show that they outperform the text-only baselines and multilingual multimodal methods by a large margin.
Approach: They propose a framework to leverage the multimodal prompt to guide the Multimodal Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (m3P) this framework aligns the representations of different languages with the same meaning and generates the conditional vision-language memory for translation.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms previous text-only baselines and multilingual multimodal methods by a large margin.
UniCoder: Scaling Code Large Language Model via Universal Code (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Experimental results show that UniCoder with the universal code significantly outperforms the previous prompting methods by a large margin.
Approach: They introduce the universal code (UniCode) as the intermediate representation of algorithm steps using conventions of programming languages.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms previous prompting methods by a large margin . the proposed model is based on a dataset of natural-language questions and code solutions .
Qwen2.5-xCoder: Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multilingual Code Instruction Tuning (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods to train code LLMs view each programming language in isolation . experimental results show that Qwen2.5-xCoder can bridge the gap between different programming languages .
Approach: They propose a framework that allows agents to collaborate to enhance multilingual instruction tuning for code LLMs.
Outcome: Experimental results show that Qwen2.5-xCoder can transfer knowledge efficiently and effectively between languages.
Strengthened Symbol Binding Makes Large Language Models Reliable Multiple-Choice Selectors (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs) are a critical area of research in the study of Large Language models (LLMs).
Approach: They propose an efficient SFT algorithm for MCQs, termed Point-wise Intelligent Feedback, which constructs negative instances by randomly combing the incorrect option contents with all candidate symbols.
Outcome: The proposed algorithm significantly reduces the model’s selection bias by improving its MCSB capability.
Search-P1: Path-Centric Reward Shaping for Stable and Efficient Agentic RAG Training (2026.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models by incorporating external knowledge, yet traditional singleround retrieval struggles with complex multistep reasoning.
Approach: They propose a framework that introduces path-centric reward shaping for agentic RAG training.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves on existing methods with an average accuracy gain of 7.7 points.
The GaoYao Benchmark: A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating Multilingual and Multicultural Abilities of Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing multilingual evaluation benchmarks neglect cultural nuances and lack language coverage in subjective tasks.
Approach: They propose a framework that categorizes evaluation tasks into three cultural layers and nine cognitive sub-layers.
Outcome: The proposed framework surpasses prior coverage by up to 111% on 20+ LLMs.
SSR-A: Spatial- and Semantic-Aware Instructions and Curriculum Reinforcement for Advertisement Compliant Rectification (2026.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Existing methods to fix non-compliant images suffer from over-editing, destroying original intent and perceptual similarity.
Approach: They propose a framework for the minimalist rectification of non-compliant image ads.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both compliance and preservation of visual and commercial consistency.
ARGUS: Policy-Adaptive Ad Governance via Evolving Reinforcement with Adversarial Umpiring (2026.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Existing regulatory policies create label inconsistencies and reasoning ambiguities in historical datasets.
Approach: They propose a policy-adaptive governance system that enables evolving reinforcement through multi-agent adversarial umpiring.
Outcome: The proposed system outperforms fine-tuning baselines on industrial and public datasets . it enables evolving reinforcement through multi-agent adversarial umpiring .

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