Papers by Miao Fan

11 papers
FB-Bench: A Fine-Grained Multi-Task Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs’ Responsiveness to Human Feedback (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing research focuses on benchmarking LLMs in single-turn dialogues, neglecting the nuanced nature of human feedback within real-world usage scenarios.
Approach: They propose a fine-grained, multi-task benchmark designed to evaluate LLMs’ responsiveness to human feedback under real-world usage scenarios in Chinese.
Outcome: The proposed benchmarks show that human feedback can significantly impact LLMs’ responsiveness in real-world usage scenarios.
Reinforced Product Metadata Selection for Helpfulness Assessment of Customer Reviews (D19-1)

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Challenge: a helpful review is largely concerned with the metadata of its target product . a selector learns from both the key-value product metadata and one of its reviews to take an action .
Approach: They propose a framework that uses product metadata to assess helpfulness of free-text reviews . they use two real-world datasets from amazon.com and Yelp.com to test the framework .
Outcome: The proposed framework can achieve state-of-the-art performance with substantial improvements . it uses two real-world datasets from Amazon.com and Yelp.com .
X-LeBench: A Benchmark for Extremely Long Egocentric Video Understanding (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing benchmark datasets focus on short to moderately long videos, leaving a substantial gap in evaluating extensive, ultra-long egocentric video recordings.
Approach: X-LeBench is a benchmark dataset designed to evaluate long egocentric video recordings . it uses a life-logging pipeline to produce realistic, coherent daily plans .
Outcome: X-LeBench is a new benchmark dataset designed to evaluate long-form egocentric video understanding . the approach produces realistic, coherent daily plans aligned with real-world video data .
NeuSym-RAG: Hybrid Neural Symbolic Retrieval with Multiview Structuring for PDF Question Answering (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to retrieval augmented generation neglect PDF structure and layout . individual PDFs often exceed prompt limits and user queries may span multiple documents.
Approach: They propose a hybrid neural symbolic retrieval framework which combines both paradigms in an interactive process.
Outcome: The proposed framework organizes semi-structured PDF content into relational database and vectorstore . it defeats both RAG and structured baselines on three PDF-based QA datasets .
On the Step Length Confounding in LLM Reasoning Data Selection (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing pipelines generate long reasoning data from more capable Large Language Models (LLMs) and apply manually heuristic or naturalness-based selection methods to filter high-quality samples.
Approach: They propose to use supervised fine-tuning to generate long reasoning data from more capable Large Language Models and apply manually heuristic or naturalness-based selection methods to filter high-quality samples.
Outcome: Experiments on four LLMs and five evaluation benchmarks show that the proposed approach is effective in mitigating step length confounding problem.
Few-Shot Semantic Dependency Parsing via Graph Contrastive Learning (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Existing graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promising performance on semantic dependency parsing (SDP) training a high-performing model requires a large amount of labeled data and it is prone to over-fitting in the absence of sufficient labele .
Approach: They propose a syntax-guided graph contrastive learning framework to train GNNs with unlabeled data and fine-tune pre-trained GNN models with few-shot labeled SDP data.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves promising results when few-shot training samples are available.
RASPberry: Retrieval-Augmented Monte Carlo Tree Self-Play with Reasoning Consistency for Multi-Hop Question Answering (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for generating and analyzing multiple document knowledge are not effective for multi-hop question answering.
Approach: They propose a Monte Carlo tree-based approach to inference-time scaling using RASPberry.
Outcome: Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better inference-time scaling on smaller LLMs.
DynGL-SDP: Dynamic Graph Learning for Semantic Dependency Parsing (2022.coling-1)

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Challenge: Existing parsers that learn graph representations based on static graphs are error-prone and disjointed . Graph-based parser can parse sentences efficiently but suffer from error propagation .
Approach: They propose a dynamic graph learning framework to learn graph representations based on a static graph constructed by an existing parser.
Outcome: The proposed parser outperforms the previous parsers on the SemEval-2015 task 18 dataset in three languages.
SADA: Bridging In-Context Learning and Fine-Tuning via State-Aligned Distillation Adapters (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Prompt-based in-context learning and parameter fine-tuning are dominant paradigms for incorporating external information into large language models, but they incur high inference costs or require expensive retraining.
Approach: They propose to convert prompts into temporary adapter weights to bridge this gap by converting prompts to temporary adapters.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms baselines on long-context language modeling and downstream NLU and summarization benchmarks while significantly reducing memory footprint and latency.
Learning Neural Templates for Recommender Dialogue System (2021.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent advances in neural models have shown promising progress on this task, but key challenges remain .
Approach: They propose a framework that can decouple dialogue generation from item recommendation . they use a response template generator and item selector to generate a responses template .
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on the benchmark ReDial.

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