Papers by Minghao Yang
Understanding and Leveraging the Expert Specialization of Context Faithfulness in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Context faithfulness is essential for reliable reasoning in context-dependent scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that identifies and fine-tunes context-faithful experts . they propose 'context-faither fine- tuning' which selectively fine- tunes them . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method identifies experts with specialization in context utilization and improves context grounding. |
Biology-Instructions: A Dataset and Benchmark for Multi-Omics Sequence Understanding Capability of Large Language Models (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Haonan He, Yuchen Ren, Yining Tang, Ziyang Xu, Junxian Li, Minghao Yang, Di Zhang, Yuan Dong, Tao Chen, Shufei Zhang, Yuqiang Li, Nanqing Dong, Wanli Ouyang, Dongzhan Zhou, Peng Ye
| Challenge: | Biology-Instructions is the first large-scale instruction-tuning dataset for multi-omics biological sequences. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale instruction-tuning dataset for multi-omics biological sequences . they propose 'chatMultiOmics' to overcome limitations of current LLMs on multi-ome tasks . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset bridges LLMs and complex biological sequence-related tasks while maintaining conversational fluency. |
Attention-Guided Answer Distillation for Machine Reading Comprehension (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to reading comprehension systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. |
| Approach: | They propose to use knowledge distillation to transfer knowledge from an ensemble to a single model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods outperform the teacher on adversarial datasets and NarrativeQA benchmarks. |
A Boundary Offset Prediction Network for Named Entity Recognition (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing . span-based methods assign entity types to text spans, resulting in imbalanced sample space . |
| Approach: | They propose a method that predicts boundary offsets between candidate and nearest spans . the method integrates entity type and span representations to generate type-aware boundary offset . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods on eight widely-used NER datasets. |
MultiMET: A Multimodal Dataset for Metaphor Understanding (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Metaphor is a linguistic phenomenon and a cognitive phenomenon structuring human thought, authors say . previous studies focused on texts, partly due to the unavailability of ground truth labels of multimodal metaphor . |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal metaphor dataset that integrates multimodal text and image . it contains 10,437 text-image pairs with multimodal annotations of occurrences . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset examines multimodal cues and their interplay. |
KC-ISA: An Implicit Sentiment Analysis Model Combining Knowledge Enhancement and Context Features (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing research results on explicit sentiment analysis are limited . implicit sentiment analysis is a process of analyzing text based on whether it contains explicit sentiment words. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that integrates external knowledge and contextual features . they use a knowledge graph to supplement implicit sentiment expression . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can achieve better results on the SMP2019 implicit sentiment analysis dataset. |
Extract-Select: A Span Selection Framework for Nested Named Entity Recognition with Generative Adversarial Training (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies treat named entity recognition as a sequential labeling problem. |
| Approach: | They propose a span selection framework for nested named entity recognition . they propose nesting entities with different input categories would be separately extracted . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms competing models on four benchmark datasets. |
COIG-P: A High-Quality and Large-Scale Chinese Preference Dataset for Alignment with Human Values (2026.findings-eacl)
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Siwei Wu, JinCheng Ren, Xeron Du, Shuyue Guo, Xingwei Qu, Yiming Liang, Jie Liu, Yunwen Li, Tyler Loakman, Tianyu Zheng, Boyu Feng, Huaqing Yuan, Zili Wang, Jiaheng Liu, Wenhao Huang, Chenglin Cai, Haoran Que, Jian Yang, Yuelin Bai, Zekun Moore Wang, Zhouliang Yu, Qunshu Lin, Ding Pan, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Tiannan Wang, Wangchunshu Zhou, Shenzhi Wang, Xingyuan Bu, Minghao Liu, Guoyin Wang, Ge Zhang, Chenghua Lin
| Challenge: | Existing Chinese preference datasets suffer from limited scale, restricted domain coverage, and insufficiently rigorous data validation. |
| Approach: | They propose an LLM-based data annotation pipeline with no human intervention to annotate Chinese preference datasets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline outperforms existing Chinese preference datasets on AlignBench and Chinese Reward Benchmark. |
SafeConf: A Confidence-Calibrated Safety Self-Evaluation Method for Large Language Models (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Bo Zhang, Cong Gao, Linkang Yang, Bingxu Han, Minghao Hu, Zhunchen Luo, Guotong Geng, Xiaoying Bai, Jun Zhang, Wen Yao, Zhong Wang
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have many advantages but they also pose significant safety risks. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to enhance the safety self-evaluation capability of LLMs . they perform semantic mutations on the original safety evaluation questions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves safety self-evaluation accuracy by 5.86% and 7.79% over baseline methods on Chinese and English datasets. |
MiniConGTS: A Near Ultimate Minimalist Contrastive Grid Tagging Scheme for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches within the pretraining-finetuning paradigm tend to meticulously craft complex tagging schemes and classification heads, or incorporate external semantic enhancements to enhance performance. |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate a minimalist tagging scheme and a novel token-level contrastive learning strategy to improve pretrained representations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves comparable or superior performance compared to state-of-the-art techniques while featuring a more compact design and reduced computational overhead. |
Learning to Correct Noisy Labels for Fine-Grained Entity Typing via Co-Prediction Prompt Tuning (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Experimental results show that noise correction in fine-grained entity typing improves quality of training samples. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that leverages multiple prediction results to correct noisy labels . they integrate prediction results and utilize a differentiated margin to identify inaccurate labels a . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves quality of training samples annotated using distant supervision, ChatGPT, and crowdsourcing. |
KC-GenRe: A Knowledge-constrained Generative Re-ranking Method Based on Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph Completion (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Knowledge graph completion (KGC) is a critical task to predict missing facts among entities. |
| Approach: | They propose a knowledge-constrained generative re-ranking method based on generative large language models for KGC that can predict missing facts among entities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on four datasets and 9.0% and 11.1% compared to the previous methods. |
Dynamic Evil Score-Guided Decoding: An Efficient Decoding Framework For Red-Team Model (2025.findings-acl)
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Cong Gao, Bo Zhang, Linkang Yang, Minghao Hu, Zhunchen Luo, Xiaoying Bai, Guotong Geng, Jun Zhang, Yunhua Xue
| Challenge: | Existing red-teaming methods require expensive fine-tuning, especially for large LLMs. |
| Approach: | They propose a red-teaming method that uses an ‘evil score’ to evaluate the potential of tokens to contribute to harmful outputs during decoding. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves an ASR of 92.83% on the Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct model, compared to 83.48% with adversarial fine-tuning while using less computational resources. |
Partial Order-centered Hyperbolic Representation Learning for Few-shot Relation Extraction (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for few-shot relation extraction are limited to labeled instances and rely on data labeling. |
| Approach: | They propose a partial order-centered hyperbolic representation learning framework which imposes constraints on relations on instances by modeling partial order in hyperbolical space. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods on three benchmark datasets on 1-shot settings lacking relation descriptions. |