Papers by Muli Yang
Revealing and Enhancing Core Visual Regions: Harnessing Internal Attention Dynamics for Hallucination Mitigation in LVLMs (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing training-free methods are vulnerable to the attention sink phenomenon . Existing methods include contrastive decoding and auxiliary expert models . |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free attention intervention that constructs a PAD map to identify semantically core visual regions and applies per-head Median Absolute Deviation Scaling to adaptively control the intervention strength. |
| Outcome: | The proposed intervention improves visual grounding and reduces hallucinations on multiple LVLMs and benchmarks. |
From Language to Driving: A Dual-Loop SLM-Enhanced Framework for Multi-Planner Scheduling via a Domain-Specific Language (2026.acl-long)
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Jiawei Liu, Xun Gong, Muli Yang, Xingrui Yu, Fen Fang, Xulei Yang, Ivor Tsang, Yunfeng hu, Hong Chen, Qing Guo
| Challenge: | Recent large language model-based AD research offers new avenues to address this challenge. |
| Approach: | They propose a small language model (SLM) for high-level semantic reasoning and schedule generation, while an inner loop performs low-level, high-frequency schedule execution and vehicle control. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves instruction completion rates while maintaining high safety and compliance relative to multiple baselines. |
LLM Knows Body Language, Too: Translating Speech Voices into Human Gestures (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | despite advances in the generation of realistic human gestures, the process often includes unintended, meaningless, or non-realistic gestures. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that leverages large language models to generate human gestures . the primary stage employs a transformer-based auto-encoder network to encode human gesture into discrete symbols . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on public TED and TED-Expressive datasets. |
Fisher-Driven Adaptive Locating for Knowledge Editing in Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for locating and editing static knowledge are costly and risk catastrophic forgetting or error. |
| Approach: | They propose a Fisher-driven adaptation-aware locating strategy that dynamically identifies which model components should be edited for a given knowledge update. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on standard benchmarks show that FiDAL improves editing effectiveness and knowledge preservation across multiple editing methods. |