Papers by Lu Su

43 papers
LLMs Assist NLP Researchers: Critique Paper (Meta-)Reviewing (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: a comparative analysis of paper (meta-)reviews by large language models (LLMs) aims to identify and distinguish LLMs from human activities .
Approach: They present a comparative analysis to identify and distinguish LLM activities from human activities.
Outcome: The proposed analysis aims to improve recognition of instances when someone implicitly uses LLMs for reviewing activities.
Maximizing the Effectiveness of Larger BERT Models for Compression (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for capturing large BERT models as teachers do not fully exploit the potential advantages of larger teachers.
Approach: They propose a method that leverages a pretrained teacher model to guide the training of a lightweight student model to enhance knowledge transfer.
Outcome: The proposed method enhances knowledge transfer by leveraging a pretrained teacher model to guide the training of a lightweight student model.
Unsupervised Dual Paraphrasing for Two-stage Semantic Parsing (2020.acl-main)

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Challenge: Existing semantic parsing frameworks rely on nontrivial human labor to generate canonical utterances.
Approach: They propose a framework that uses an unsupervised paraphrase model to parse canonical utterances.
Outcome: The proposed framework is effective and compatible with supervised training.
In Plain Sight: Media Bias Through the Lens of Factual Reporting (D19-1)

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Challenge: lexical bias stems from content realization, or how things are said, but other forms of bias stem from content selection and organization.
Approach: They use a dataset to analyze news articles annotated with 1,727 bias spans to investigate informational bias.
Outcome: The proposed model shows that informational bias appears more frequently than lexical bias.
Exploring Schema Generalizability of Text-to-SQL (2023.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing text-to-SQL models are limited in their generalizability, despite their performance being over-estimated.
Approach: They propose a framework to generate novel text-to-SQL data via automatic and synchronous (DS, SQL) pair altering.
Outcome: The proposed framework generates text-to-SQL data via automatic and synchronous (DS, SQL) pair altering.
Progressive Self-Supervised Attention Learning for Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis (P19-1)

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Challenge: Experimental results show that our proposed approach yields better attention mechanisms . dominant ASC models are mostly discriminative classifiers based on manual feature engineering .
Approach: They propose a self-supervised approach to aspect-level sentiment classification that mines useful attention supervision information from a training corpus to refine attention mechanisms.
Outcome: The proposed approach yields better attention mechanisms on multiple datasets.
LGESQL: Line Graph Enhanced Text-to-SQL Model with Mixed Local and Non-Local Relations (2021.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods to encode text-to-SQL data are node-centric and ignore semantics embedded in the topological structure of edges.
Approach: They propose a Line Graph Enhanced Text-to-SQL model to mine relational features without constructing meta-paths.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art on the cross-domain text-to-SQL benchmark Spider at the time of writing.
Explorer: Scaling Exploration-driven Web Trajectory Synthesis for Multimodal Web Agents (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Recent success in large multimodal models (LMMs) has sparked promising applications of agents capable of autonomously completing complex web tasks.
Approach: They propose a scalable recipe to synthesize the largest and most diverse trajectory-level dataset to date.
Outcome: The proposed model synthesizes the largest and most diverse trajectory-level dataset to date, with 94K successful multimodal web trajectories, 720K screenshots, and 33M web elements.
TransBench: Breaking Barriers for Transferable Graphical User Interface Agents in Dynamic Digital Environments (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing GUI agents struggle to adapt to dynamic and interconnected nature of real-world digital environments, authors show .
Approach: They propose a benchmark to evaluate the transferability of GUI agents across three key dimensions . transBench includes 15 app categories with diverse functionalities .
Outcome: The proposed benchmark shows that existing GUI agents struggle to adapt to dynamic, interconnected environments.
Iterative Dual Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation (D19-1)

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Challenge: Empirical results on Chinese-English and English-German translation tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed framework.
Approach: They propose an iterative dual domain adaptation framework for neural machine translation that uses multiple corpora to perform bidirectional translation knowledge transfer.
Outcome: Empirical results on Chinese-English and English-German translation tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
Sparsity-Accelerated Training for Large Language Models (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated proficiency across various NLP tasks but often require additional training, such as continual pre-training and supervised fine-tuning.
Approach: They propose to leverage sparsity in pre-trained LLMs to accelerate training by disregarding computations for unimportant neurons.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves comparable or superior performance to standard training while significantly accelerating the process.
ShadowGNN: Graph Projection Neural Network for Text-to-SQL Parser (2021.naacl-main)

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Challenge: Existing semantic parsing models struggle to adapt to unseen database schemas . a new architecture, ShadowGNN, processes schemas at abstract and semantic levels .
Approach: They propose a new architecture which processes schemas at abstract and semantic levels.
Outcome: The proposed architecture outperforms state-of-the-art models on a text-to-sql benchmark . it uses domain-independent representations to extract logical linking between question and schema .
AgentCPM-GUI: Building Mobile-Use Agents with Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (2025.emnlp-demos)

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Challenge: Large language model agents have enabled GUI-based automation, but their deployment is limited by noisy data, poor generalization, and lack of support for non-English GUIs.
Approach: They propose an 8B-parameter GUI agent built for robust and efficient on-device GUI interaction.
Outcome: The proposed GUI agent achieves promising performance on five public benchmarks and proposed Chinese benchmark CAGUI.
Retaining Key Information under High Compression Ratios: Query-Guided Compressor for LLMs (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods to compress long contexts have degraded dramatically as compression ratios increase, sometimes even falling to the closed-book level.
Approach: They propose a query-guided compression method that preserves key information within the compressed context.
Outcome: The proposed method can consistently perform well even at high compression ratios, and offers significant benefits in terms of inference cost and throughput.
RMTBench: Benchmarking LLMs Through Multi-Turn User-Centric Role-Playing (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing benchmarks focus on character-centric approach and fail to reflect real-world applications.
Approach: RMTBench is a user-centric bilingual role-playing benchmark featuring 80 diverse characters and over 8,000 dialogue rounds.
Outcome: RMTBench features 80 diverse characters and over 8,000 dialogue rounds.
Multi-Level Cross-Modal Alignment for Speech Relation Extraction (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing studies use synthetic speech to train and evaluate SpeechRE models, hindering their development . modality gap issue limits performance of existing models, limiting future researches .
Approach: They propose to use speech data to train and evaluate SpeechRE models by using real speech . they propose to train a cross-modal alignment model to bridge the modality gap .
Outcome: The proposed model can train to bridge the modality gap between speech encoder and text decoder . the proposed model is based on two real SpeechRE datasets .
Read As Human: Compressing Context via Parallelizable Close Reading and Skimming (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing task-aware methods require loading the entire input sequence at once for compression, which suffer from computational inefficiency.
Approach: They propose a framework that adopts an adaptive hybrid reading strategy to reduce computational inefficiency and redundant information in long-context scenarios.
Outcome: Experiments show that RAM outperforms baselines on multiple question answering and summarization benchmarks while delivering up to a 12x speedup on long inputs.
Line Graph Enhanced AMR-to-Text Generation with Mix-Order Graph Attention Networks (2020.acl-main)

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Challenge: Existing graph-to-sequence approaches use graph neural networks as encoders, but they lack the structure information needed to translate AMR into the graph-based data.
Approach: They propose a graph-to-sequence task which aims to recover natural language from Abstract Meaning Representations (AMR) they adopt graph attention networks with higher-order neighborhood information to explore the edge relations in AMR graphs.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on English AMR benchmark datasets and is able to translate the AMR semantics into the natural language.
News2vec: News Network Embedding with Subnode Information (D19-1)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to embed news as vectors do not integrate features and inter-textual knowledge of news.
Approach: They propose a model that integrates news features and inter-textual knowledge into a dense vector representation.
Outcome: The proposed model can be used to represent news as a dense vector . it is compared with existing models on stock movement prediction and news recommendation tasks .
Efficient Context and Schema Fusion Networks for Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking (2020.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing methods to track dialogue state are limited due to data sparsity and long dialogues.
Approach: They propose to use the previous dialogue state and current dialogue utterance as input for DST.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms existing methods and improves existing ones.
OPAL: Ontology-Aware Pretrained Language Model for End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialogue (2023.tacl-1)

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Challenge: Existing task-oriented dialogue systems lack ontology-aware pretraining methods for task-orientated dialogue.
Approach: They propose an ontology-aware pretrained language model (OPAL) for end-to-end task-oriented dialogue (TOD) . they propose to pretrain on large-scale contextual text data to bridge the gap between the pretraining method and downstream tasks.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves an exciting boost and obtains competitive performance even without any TOD data on CamRest676 and MultiWOZ benchmarks.
Towards Universal Debiasing for Language Models-based Tabular Data Generation (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing large language models have exacerbated fairness issues in tabular data generation . inherent historical biases in tabulated data cause LLMs to exacerbate fairness problems .
Approach: They propose a universal debiasing framework that minimizes group-level dependencies . it leverages the autoregressive structure and analytic sampling distributions of LLM-based tabular data generators .
Outcome: The proposed framework minimizes group-level dependencies while reducing mutual information between advantaged and protected attributes.
MultiConIR: Towards Multi-Condition Information Retrieval (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: MultiConIR is a benchmark designed to evaluate retrieval and reranking models under nuanced multi-condition query scenarios.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to evaluate retrieval and reranking models under nuanced multi-condition query scenarios.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark evaluates retrieval and reranking models under nuanced multi-condition query scenarios across five domains.
Entity-Aware Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization (2021.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing models for multidocument summarization do not focus on explicitly modeling the underlying semantic information across documents.
Approach: They propose an entityaware model for abstractive multi-document summarization that augments the classical Transformer-based encoder-decoder framework with a heterogeneous graph consisting of text units and entities as nodes.
Outcome: The proposed model can deal with saliency and redundancy issues explicitly and can be used with pre-trained language models, arriving at improved performance.
Neural Graph Matching Networks for Chinese Short Text Matching (2020.acl-main)

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Challenge: Chinese word segmentation can be erroneous, ambiguous or inconsistent, causing performance problems.
Approach: They propose a sentence matching framework that uses paired word lattices as input instead of a character sequence.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art short text matching models on two Chinese datasets.
OPeRA: A Dataset of Observation, Persona, Rationale, and Action for Evaluating LLMs on Human Online Shopping Behavior Simulation (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: evaluating LLMs' ability to mimic real user behavior remains an open challenge due to the lack of high-quality, publicly available datasets that capture both the observable actions and the internal reasoning of an actual user.
Approach: They propose a dataset of Observation, Persona, Rationale, and Action collected from real human participants during online shopping sessions.
Outcome: The proposed dataset is the first to evaluate how well current LLMs can accurately simulate the next web action of a specific user.
Advancing SMoE for Continuous Domain Adaptation of MLLMs: Adaptive Router and Domain-Specific Loss (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent studies have explored Continual Instruction Tuning (CIT) in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), with a primary focus on Task-incremental CIT, where MLLM are required to continuously acquire new tasks.
Approach: They propose a Sparse Mixture of Expert (SMoE) based method for domain-incremental CIT in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) . they equip the SMoA module with a domain-specific autoregressive loss (DSAL) they establish a new benchmark to evaluate the efficacy of their method .
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms all baselines and is based on a Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) module .
DaMo: Data Mixing Optimizer in Fine-tuning Multimodal LLMs for Mobile Phone Agents (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Mobile Phone Agents (MPAs) have attracted huge attention due to their practicability in a multitude of scenarios.
Approach: They propose a data mixture optimization solution that extrapolates optimal data mixtures from a trainable network.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing methods on open-source benchmarks and on open source benchmarks.
User Feedback Alignment for LLM-powered Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems (2025.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used to broaden user experiences beyond established preferences and reinforce feedback loops.
Approach: They propose a hierarchical approach that combines hierarchic planning with LLM inference-time scaling to improve recommendation relevancy without compromising novelty.
Outcome: The proposed approach shows significant gains in both user satisfaction and exploration diversity.
AscendKernelGen: LLM-Driven Kernel Generation for NPUs (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Neural Processing Units (NPUs) are critical for AI infrastructure, but their development remains a bottleneck due to vendor-specific Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs).
Approach: They propose a framework for NPU kernel development that bridges the gap in hardware-specific coding . compiler success on complex Level-2 kernels improves from 0% to 95.5%, they say .
Outcome: The proposed framework bridges the gap in hardware-specific coding, showing a near-zero success rate on complex kernels.
BACO: A Background Knowledge- and Content-Based Framework for Citing Sentence Generation (2021.acl-long)

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Challenge: citing sentences capture salient information in cited papers and the connection between citing and citing papers.
Approach: They propose a BAckground knowledge- and COntent-based framework for citing sentence generation that integrates two types of information: background knowledge and content.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms baselines in the citation sentence generation task.
Do Vision-Language Models Have Internal World Models? Towards an Atomic Evaluation (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Recent studies have evaluated and shown limitations in specific capabilities such as visual understanding, but a systematic evaluation of VLMs’ fundamental WM abilities remains absent.
Approach: They propose a framework that assesses perception and prediction to provide an atomic evaluation of VLMs as WMs.
Outcome: The proposed framework assesses perception and prediction abilities on 15 latest VLMs and compares them to human-level models.
API Is Enough: Conformal Prediction for Large Language Models Without Logit-Access (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing methods for quantifying uncertainty in large language models with black-box API access are limited due to the complex data distributions and inner model mechanism.
Approach: They propose a conformal prediction method that minimizes the size of prediction sets and ensures a statistical guarantee of the user-defined coverage.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing methods on close-ended and open-ended questions.
CoPA: Benchmarking Personalized Question Answering with Data-Informed Cognitive Factors (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing LLMs rely on surface-level similarity or manual heuristics to evaluate personalization . Existing evaluation protocols for personalization are lacking sufficient data-driven validation.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to assess personalization by mining CIPDs to quantify individual preferences.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark provides a more comprehensive and discriminative standard than generic metrics.
Personalized Question Answering with User Profile Generation and Compression (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Large language models are prone to providing “midguy” answers regardless of users’ knowledge background, thereby failing to meet each user’s personalized needs.
Approach: They propose to generate personalized answers with LLMs based on users’ past question-answering records.
Outcome: The proposed method generates personalized answers based on user's past question-answering records.
A Self-Denoising Model for Robust Few-Shot Relation Extraction (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing studies assume that the support set contains only accurately labeled instances, but this assumption is often unrealistic.
Approach: They propose a self-denoising model for FSRE which can automatically correct noisy labels of support instances.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms all baselines on two public datasets showing that it can correct mislabeled support instances.
Sina Mandarin Alphabetical Words:A Web-driven Code-mixing Lexical Resource (2020.aacl-main)

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Challenge: Mandarin Alphabetical Words (MAWs) are a key component of Modern Chinese . they are characterized by unique code-mixing idiosyncrasies influenced by language exchanges .
Approach: They propose to construct a large collection of Mandarin Alphabetic Words from Sina Weibo . they propose to use a web-based technique to identify and validate MAWs .
Outcome: The proposed method identifies 16,207 Mandarin Alphabetic Words (MAWs) using a web-based technique . the results show that the proposed method is useful for linguistic research and inquiries .
OneRec-Think: In-Text Reasoning for Generative Recommendation (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing generative models lack the capacity for explicit and controllable reasoning, a key advantage of LLMs.
Approach: They propose a framework that integrates dialogue, reasoning, and personalized recommendation.
Outcome: Experiments across public benchmarks show state-of-the-art performance.
Dialectic-Med: Mitigating Diagnostic Hallucinations via Counterfactual Adversarial Multi-Agent Debate (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing Chain-of-Thought (CoT) approaches lack intrinsic correction mechanisms, rendering them vulnerable to error propagation.
Approach: They propose a multi-agent framework that enforces diagnostic rigor through adversarial dialectics.
Outcome: Empirical evaluations show that the proposed framework improves explanation faithfulness and mitigates hallucinations.
Towards Robust k-Nearest-Neighbor Machine Translation (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: k-Nearest-Neighbor Machine Translation (kNN-MT) is a popular research paradigm in machine translation.
Approach: They propose a confidence-enhanced kNN-MT model with robust training to reduce noise . they introduce NMT confidence to refine the modeling of important components of kN-MT .
Outcome: The proposed model improves on four benchmark datasets and is robust to training.
TrendFact: A Benchmark Towards Hotspot Perception in Automatic Fact-Checking (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing benchmarks lack social metadata and evaluation framework to meet this urgent evaluation needs.
Approach: They propose a benchmark capable of evaluating HPA and three fact-checking tasks.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves HPA and computational efficiency for RLM-driven systems.
Closing the Loop: Learning to Generate Writing Feedback via Language Model Simulated Student Revisions (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent advances in language models (LMs) have made it possible to automatically generate feedback that is actionable and well-aligned with human-specified attributes.
Approach: They propose a tool that PROduces Feedback via learning from LM simulated student revisions and propose to iteratively optimize the feedback generator by directly maximizing the effectiveness of students’ overall revising performance.
Outcome: The proposed approach surpasses baseline methods in effectiveness of improving students’ writing and demonstrates enhanced pedagogical values, even though it was not explicitly trained for this aspect.
Profanity-Avoiding Training Framework for Seq2seq Models with Certified Robustness (2021.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: a recent study shows that inappropriate language can cause models to output profanity . authors propose a training framework to prevent such outputs from hurting the usability of models .
Approach: proposed training framework eliminates the causes that trigger the generation of profanity . authors propose a framework that leverages a short list of profans to prevent this .
Outcome: a proposed training framework can prevent models from generating profanity . the proposed framework leverages a short list of profanities examples .

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