Papers by Ming He

45 papers
SumSurvey: An Abstractive Dataset of Scientific Survey Papers for Long Document Summarization (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: a growing need for long document summarization datasets with 16k input is causing problems.
Approach: They propose to use a dataset to analyze salient information in long document summarizations.
Outcome: The proposed dataset outperforms existing models and LLMs in the distribution form of salient information and the distribution of salinal information is an indicator of quality.
Semantics of the Unwritten: The Effect of End of Paragraph and Sequence Tokens on Text Generation with GPT2 (2021.acl-srw)

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Challenge: Experimental results show that pre-trained language model GPT2 can generate better continuations by learning to generate the in the fine-tuning stage.
Approach: They conduct experiments on an English essay dataset using Chinese-GPT2 . they find that the model can generate better continuations by learning to generate the in the fine-tuning stage.
Outcome: The pre-trained language model GPT2 can generate better continuations by learning to generate the in the fine-tuning stage.
Multi-hop Reading Comprehension across Multiple Documents by Reasoning over Heterogeneous Graphs (P19-1)

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Challenge: Existing models to tackle multi-hop reading comprehension (RC) are focusing on a single document or paragraph, but they lack the ability to do reasoning across multiple documents.
Approach: They propose a heterogeneous document-entity graph with different types of nodes and edges to solve multi-hop RC problem.
Outcome: The proposed model can do reasoning over the proposed graph with nodes representation initialized with co-attention and self-attention based context encoders.
CipherBank: Exploring the Boundary of LLM Reasoning Capabilities through Cryptography Challenge (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, but their capabilities in cryptographic decryption tasks remain underexplored.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to evaluate the reasoning capabilities of large language models in cryptographic decryption tasks.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark examines the reasoning capabilities of large language models in cryptographic decryption tasks.
LEMMA: Learning from Errors for MatheMatical Advancement in LLMs (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing approaches focus on improving the quality of correct training data, neglecting the value contained in error data, thereby hindering the model’s reflective ability.
Approach: They propose to improve LLM's reasoning ability by learning from error data and a grounded mistake augmentation method to collect representative errors.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves significant performance improvements over other strong models with less than 90k data.
MAPS: Motivation-Aware Personalized Search via LLM-Driven Consultation Alignment (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing personalized product search methods assume that users’ query fully captures their real motivation, but in practice, user's queries do not always articulate the requirements.
Approach: They propose a Motivation-Aware Personalized Search method that embeds queries and consultations into a unified semantic space via LLMs and utilizes a Mixture of Attention Experts (MoAE) to prioritize critical semantics.
Outcome: Extensive experiments on real and synthetic data show that the proposed method outperforms existing methods in retrieval and ranking tasks.
MMRC: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Understanding Multimodal Large Language Model in Real-World Conversation (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing multimodal large language models lack the ability to memorize, recall, and reason in sustained interactions.
Approach: They propose a multimodal real-world conversation benchmark for evaluating open-ended abilities of multimodal large language models.
Outcome: The proposed benchmarks show that the models perform better in open-ended conversations.
Neural Attention-Aware Hierarchical Topic Model (2021.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Neural topic models (NTMs) use deep neural networks to learn topic information.
Approach: They propose a variational autoencoder model that reconstructs sentence and document word counts using bag-of-words embeddings and pre-trained semantic embedders.
Outcome: The proposed model lowers reconstruction errors at sentence and document levels and finds more coherent topics from real-world datasets.
Graph Reasoning Paradigm: Structured and Symbolic Reasoning with Topology-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for long chain-of-thought (LCoT) are coarse-grained, reward hacking, and poor generalization.
Approach: They propose a Long Chain-of-Thought (LCoT) model that integrates reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards with a process-aware verification approach.
Outcome: The proposed model improves reasoning and code generation tasks while reducing the cost of training and performance bottlenecks.
ResoFilter: Fine-grained Synthetic Data Filtering for Large Language Models through Data-Parameter Resonance Analysis (2025.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for enhancing large language models lack clear metrics for evaluating data characteristics.
Approach: They propose a method that integrates models, data, and tasks to refine datasets.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves comparable results to full-scale fine-tuning using only half the data in mathematical tasks and exhibits strong generalization across different models and domains.
Efficient OpAmp Adaptation for Zoom Attention to Golden Contexts (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models have shown significant promise in question-answering tasks . noisy reference documents hinder performance of LLMs, causing disproportionate attention to irrelevant content .
Approach: They propose an adaptive large language model that allocates disproportionate attention to irrelevant documents . they use transformers to train the model and integrate it into pre-trained Transformer blocks .
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models on noisy-context benchmarks.
Planning Like Human: A Dual-process Framework for Dialogue Planning (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) operate in a reactive mode, often resulting in efficiency issues or suboptimal performance.
Approach: They propose a dual-process dialogue planning framework that leverages the dual-process theory of human cognition and a deliberative Monte Carlo Tree Search mechanism to emulate human-like conversational dynamics.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms existing methods in achieving high-quality dialogues and operational efficiency.
SEEKR: Selective Attention-Guided Knowledge Retention for Continual Learning of Large Language Models (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods fail to fully exploit the knowledge embedded in models from previous tasks . Existing techniques fail to exploit the information embedded in previous tasks, resulting in a large number of replay samples to achieve good results.
Approach: They propose a method that uses attention weights to extract knowledge from previous tasks . they use a data replay strategy to extract the knowledge from the previous tasks.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves comparable or even better performance with only 1/10 of replayed data used by other methods.
UReader: Universal OCR-free Visually-situated Language Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Model (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing studies for visually-situated language understanding have shown shallow zero-shot visual text recognition ability when fed a low-resolution image with salient text information.
Approach: They propose a model for universal OCR-free visually-situated language understanding based on the Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) their model is jointly finetuned on a wide range of visually situated language understanding tasks via a unified instruction format.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art ocr-free performance in 8 out of 10 visually-situated language understanding tasks across 5 domains: documents, tables, charts, natural images, and webpage screenshots.
Weighted self Distillation for Chinese word segmentation (2022.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Recent researches show that multi-criteria resources and n-gram features are beneficial to Chinese word segmentation (CWS).
Approach: They propose a framework that uses weighted self distillation to learn Chinese word segmentation using unigram features.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art or competitive performance on SIGHAN Bakeoff datasets.
DSCD: Large Language Model Detoxification with Self-Constrained Decoding (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods for decoding large language models (LLMs) are based on external constraints and require additional resource overhead and loss of generation fluency.
Approach: They propose a method for LLMs detoxification without parameter fine-tuning that strengthens the inner token distribution while weakening that of hallucination and toxic layer during output generation.
Outcome: Extensive experiments on open-source LLMs and public datasets demonstrate DSCD's state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in detoxification and generation fluency, with superior efficiency compared to existing methods.
Selective Reflection-Tuning: Student-Selected Data Recycling for LLM Instruction-Tuning (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Instruction tuning is critical to large language models but its success heavily relies on the training data quality.
Approach: They propose a paradigm that synergizes a teacher LLM’s reflection and introspection with the data selection capability of the student LLM to automatically refine existing instruction-tuning data.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves much stronger and top-tier 7B and 13B LLMs without collecting brand-new data.
MCGA: A Multi-task Classical Chinese Literary Genre Audio Corpus (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have advanced Chinese Classical Studies (CCS) but the audio dimension of CCS remains underexplored due to a lack of high-quality, domain-specific audio corpora.
Approach: They propose a 119-hour audio corpus comprising 22,000 audio samples to bridge this gap . it encompasses a diverse range of literary genres across six tasks .
Outcome: The proposed corpus encompasses a diverse range of literary genres across six tasks: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Speech-to-Text Translation (S2TT), Speech Emotion Captioning (SEC), Spoken Question Answering ( SQA), Speech Understanding (SU), and Speech Reasoning (SR).
QueryLink: Leveraging Query-Memory Alignment for Long-Term Reasoning in LLM Agents (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to integrating external memory prioritize memory organization while overlooking a critical semantic gap between implicit, intent-driven queries and explicit, narrative-based memories.
Approach: They propose a framework that leverages Query-Memory Alignment to project both queries and memories into a shared semantic space.
Outcome: The proposed framework significantly outperforms SOTA methods on the LoCoMo and LongMemEval benchmarks and can be integrated as a plug-and-play component to boost existing vector-based systems like A-MEM.
ModelScope-Agent: Building Your Customizable Agent System with Open-source Large Language Models (2023.emnlp-demo)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities to comprehend human intentions, engage in reasoning, and design planning-like behavior.
Approach: They propose a framework that equips large language models with tool-use capabilities . they propose LLaMA and Chat-GLM as controllers, and a model-based agent framework .
Outcome: The proposed framework equips open-source LLMs with tool-use capabilities . it provides a user-friendly system library with a customizable engine design .
Can We Trust the Performance Evaluation of Uncertainty Estimation Methods in Text Summarization? (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Text summarization is a key natural language generation task, but the high cost of inaccurate summaries raises concerns about the reliability of uncertainty estimation on text summarisation (UE-TS) evaluation methods.
Approach: They propose a UE-TS benchmark that evaluates the uncertainty estimation capabilities of two large language models and one pre-trained language model on three datasets.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark evaluates the uncertainty estimation capabilities of two large language models and one pre-trained language model on three datasets, with human-annotation analysis incorporated where applicable.
How Far are We from Robust Long Abstractive Summarization? (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Abstractive summarization has made tremendous progress in recent years . however, even under a short document setting, abstractive models often generate summaries that are repetitive, ungrammatical, and factually inconsistent with the source.
Approach: They perform fine-grained human annotations to evaluate long document abstractive summarization systems and develop factual consistency metrics.
Outcome: The proposed model can generate more relevant summaries but not factual ones.
Breaking the Reasoning Barrier A Survey on LLM Complex Reasoning through the Lens of Self-Evolution (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: OpenAI's O1 and subsequent projects like DeepSeek R1 have significantly advanced research on complex reasoning in LLMs.
Approach: They analyze existing reasoning studies from the perspective of self-evolution and summarize O1-like works from open-source projects like DeepSeek R1 and Kimi-k1.5.
Outcome: The proposed models are based on open-source models and pioneer advanced methodologies like Scaling Reinforcement Learning (RL).
How do Language Models Reshape Entity Alignment? A Survey of LM-Driven EA Methods: Advances, Benchmarks, and Future (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Entity alignment (EA) is critical for knowledge graph (KG) integration.
Approach: They propose a taxonomy that categorizes methods in three stages: data preparation, feature embedding, and alignment.
Outcome: The proposed taxonomy categorizes methods in three key stages: data preparation, feature embedding, and alignment.
Instruct-of-Reflection: Enhancing Large Language Models Iterative Reflection Capabilities via Dynamic-Meta Instruction (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches involve models iterating and improving their previous responses based on internal reflection ability or external feedback.
Approach: They propose a reflection framework that leverages meta-thoughts and self-consistency to enhance the iterative reflection capability of Large LanguageModels.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves an average improvement of 10.1% over established baselines in mathematical and commonsense reasoning tasks, highlighting its efficacy and applicability.
InternalInspector I2: Robust Confidence Estimation in LLMs through Internal States (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with generating reliable outputs, often producing high-confidence inaccuracies known as hallucinations.
Approach: They propose a framework that leverages contrastive learning on internal states including attention states, feed-forward states, and activation states of all layers to enhance confidence estimation in LLMs.
Outcome: The framework outperforms existing methods in the hallucination detection benchmark HaluEval and the previous methods at the same time.
STReasoner: Empowering LLMs for Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Time Series via Spatial-Aware Reinforcement Learning (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing models focus on predictive accuracy over reasoning, a gap exists . time series data are ubiquitous in real-world systems and exhibit complex spatio-temporal structures.
Approach: They propose a time series reasoning model that integrates time series, graph structure, and text for explicit reasoning.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves average accuracy gains between 17% and 135% at 0.004x the cost of proprietary models and generalizes robustly to real-world data.
Superfiltering: Weak-to-Strong Data Filtering for Fast Instruction-Tuning (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Earlier studies of instruction tuning on Large Language Models focus on creating large, varied, and high-quality datasets with responses curated by human experts.
Approach: They propose to use a smaller and weaker model to fine tune a larger and stronger model . they find it can largely speed up the data filtering and improve performance .
Outcome: The proposed model can filter instruction data faster and better on benchmarks.
MathFusion: Enhancing Mathematical Problem-solving of LLM through Instruction Fusion (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive progress in mathematical problem-solving . current approaches to enhance mathematical reasoning focus on instance-level modifications .
Approach: They propose a framework that enhances mathematical reasoning through cross-problem instruction synthesis.
Outcome: The proposed framework boosts mathematical reasoning by 18.0 points while maintaining high data efficiency.
Beat LLMs at Their Own Game: Zero-Shot LLM-Generated Text Detection via Querying ChatGPT (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) are capable of performing tasks but are likely to be misused.
Approach: They propose a zero-shot black-box method to detect LLM-generated texts . they revise the text to be detected using the ChatGPT model .
Outcome: The proposed method can detect LLM-generated texts with a zero-shot black-box model . it is based on intuition that the model will make fewer revisions to LLMs than to human-written texts .
A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models under Data Scarcity: Challenges and Solutions (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing research on reinforcement learning for LLMs under data scarcity has not been unified.
Approach: They propose a top-up hierarchical framework built around three complementary perspectives: data-centric, training-centric and framework-centric.
Outcome: The proposed framework provides a clear conceptual foundation for understanding the design space of data-efficient RL for large language models and to guide researchers working in this emerging area.
Text-like Encoding of Collaborative Information in Large Language Models for Recommendation (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods to adapt Large Language Models for Recommendation (LLMRec) do not represent collaborative information in a text-like format, which may not align optimally with LLMs.
Approach: They propose a novel LLMRec method that integrates collaborative information through text-like encoding.
Outcome: Extensive experiments show that BinLLM integrates collaborative information better with LLMs.
Customizing In-context Learning for Dynamic Interest Adaption in LLM-based Recommendation (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing Large Language Model (LLM)-based recommender systems face challenges to adapt to dynamic user interests without any model-level updates.
Approach: They propose a framework that establishes recommendation-oriented in-context learning by structuring recent user interactions and current inputs into ICL formats.
Outcome: The proposed model adapts to dynamic user interests without model updates without any model updates and is available online at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/RecICL-8003.
Navigate through Enigmatic Labyrinth A Survey of Chain of Thought Reasoning: Advances, Frontiers and Future (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent studies have revealed that chain-of-thought prompting significantly enhances LLM’s reasoning capabilities, which attracts widespread attention from both academics and industry.
Approach: They propose to summarize advanced methods through a taxonomy that offers novel perspectives.
Outcome: The proposed method delineates the challenges and future directions, thereby shedding light on future research.
mPLUG: Effective and Efficient Vision-Language Learning by Cross-modal Skip-connections (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing pre-trained vision-language models suffer from inefficiency and linguistic signal overwhelmed by long visual sequences in cross-modal alignment.
Approach: They propose a vision-language foundation model with cross-modal skip-connections that can be pre-trained end-to-end on large-scale image-text pairs with both discriminative and generative objectives.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art results on a wide range of vision-language downstream tasks, including image captioning, image-text retrieval, visual grounding and visual question answering.
Cracking the Code of Hallucination in LVLMs with Vision-aware Head Divergence (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods focus on alignment training or decoding refinements but address symptoms at the generation stage without probing the underlying causes.
Approach: They propose a training-free approach to mitigate hallucination by enhancing the role of vision-aware attention heads.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art approaches in mitigating hallucinations while maintaining high efficiency with negligible additional time overhead.
Rich Semantic Knowledge Enhanced Large Language Models for Few-shot Chinese Spell Checking (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Chinese Spell Checking (CSC) is a widely used technology for speech to text and optical character recognition.
Approach: They propose to use Chinese rich semantic information to introduce large language models as the foundation model.
Outcome: The proposed framework performs better on few-shot CSC task than existing methods.
PICD-Instruct: A Generative Instruction Learning Framework for Few-Shot Multi-Intent Spoken Language Understanding (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have utilized instruction learning frameworks to model intent-slot interdependencies, typically requiring abundant data for effective training.
Approach: They propose a generative framework based on Basic Instructions (BI), Pairwise Interaction Instructions and Contrastive Distinct Instructions to solve these challenges.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on public datasets.
ORMind: A Cognitive-Inspired End-to-End Reasoning Framework for Operations Research (2025.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising results in various domains, but their practical application in industry-relevant operations research presents significant challenges and opportunities.
Approach: They propose a cognitive-inspired framework that enhances optimization through counterfactual reasoning . they use a workflow that transforms requirements into mathematical models and executable solver code .
Outcome: Experiments show that ORMind outperforms existing methods in the NL4Opt dataset and ComplexOR dataset.
When Personalization Misleads: Understanding and Mitigating Hallucinations in Personalized LLMs (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Personalization can inadvertently distort factual reasoning when faced with factual queries.
Approach: They propose a lightweight inference-time approach that mitigates personalization-induced factual distortions while preserving personalized behavior.
Outcome: Experiments across multiple LLM backbones and personalization methods show that FPPS significantly improves factual accuracy while maintaining personalized performance.
Similarity = Value? Consultation Value-Assessment and Alignment for Personalized Search (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods rely on semantic similarity to align historical consultations with current queries due to the absence of ‘value’ labels, but this lacks exploration of needs in user consultations.
Approach: They propose a consultation value assessment framework that evaluates historical consultations from three novel perspectives: (1) Scenario Scope Value, (2) Posterior Action Value, and (3) Time Decay Value.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms baselines on public and commercial datasets on both retrieval and ranking tasks.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Model based Few-shot Chinese Spell Checking (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing LLM-based Chinese spelling check methods rely on fixed prompt samples . existing methods are limited by technical bottlenecks, complex recognition environments, and individual differences .
Approach: They propose a framework called RagID to provide well-chosen prompt samples . they propose to use semantic-based similarity search and iterative discriminator mechanism .
Outcome: The proposed framework can provide well-chosen prompt samples and reduce overcorrection issues in Chinese spelling check tasks.
CRUXEVAL-X: A Benchmark for Multilingual Code Reasoning, Understanding and Execution (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing code benchmarks focus on code generation, while those for code reasoning are insufficient.
Approach: They propose a multi-lingual code reasoning benchmark that contains 19 programming languages and at least 600 subjects for each language.
Outcome: The proposed model trains on Python and achieves 34.4% Pass@1 in other languages, revealing the cross-language generalization of LLMs.
DRLK: Dynamic Hierarchical Reasoning with Language Model and Knowledge Graph for Question Answering (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing work only uses the same QA context representation to interact with multiple layers of KG, which results in a restricted interaction.
Approach: They propose a model that utilizes dynamic hierarchical interactions between QA context and KG for reasoning.
Outcome: The proposed model performs state-of-the-art on two benchmark datasets and competitively on the others.
MORE-3S:Multimodal-based Offline Reinforcement Learning with Shared Semantic Spaces (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to offline reinforcement learning (RL) focus on learning value functions or policy gradients, but they view it as a sequence modeling task.
Approach: They propose a method that integrates multimodal and pre-trained language models to transform offline reinforcement learning into a supervised learning task by integrating state information derived from images and action-related data obtained from text.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms baselines on Atari and OpenAI Gym environments while promoting long-term strategic thinking.

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