Papers by Peilin Liu
Self-Awareness before Action: Mitigating Logical Inertia via Proactive Cognitive Awareness (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing work on abductive and long-context reasoning reports that current models still lack self-awareness of missing premises. |
| Approach: | They propose a reasoning framework that introduces self-awareness of missing premises before making the final decision. |
| Outcome: | SABA achieves best performance on all three difficulty splits of detective puzzle benchmark . a small early mistake can remain uncorrected and can guide later reasoning . |
DIAG-NRE: A Neural Pattern Diagnosis Framework for Distantly Supervised Neural Relation Extraction (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for labeling relational facts require significant expert labor to write relation-specific patterns, which makes them too sophisticated to generalize quickly. |
| Approach: | They propose a neural pattern diagnosis framework that can summarize and refine relation-specific patterns with human experts in the loop. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can summarize and refine high-quality relational patterns from noise data with human experts in the loop. |
Gardener: An Agentic AI System for Single-Cell RNA Sequence Analysis (2026.acl-demo)
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| Challenge: | Existing large language models encode workflow progress as conversational state and rely on cloud-centric execution, which hinders traceability and auditability. |
| Approach: | Gardener is an open-source desktop application for macOS and windows under the Apache License 2.0. |
| Outcome: | Gardener is released as an open-source desktop application for macOS and Windows under the Apache License 2.0. |
TIGER: Text-Informed Generalized Enzyme-Reaction Retrieval (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to enzyme–reaction retrieval suffer from poor generalization across tasks and distributions . TIGER is a text-informed generalized enzyme-reaction retrieval framework that bridges enzymes and biochemical reactions. |
| Approach: | They propose a text-informed generalized enzyme-reaction retrieval framework that leverages protein-to-text generation models to distill textual knowledge from enzyme sequences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods in enzyme–reaction retrieval tasks and distributions. |
AEGIS: A Holistic Benchmark for Evaluating Forensic Analysis of AI-Generated Academic Images (2026.acl-long)
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Bo Zhang, Tzu-Yen Ma, Zichen Tang, Junpeng Ding, Zirui Wang, Yizhuo Zhao, Peilin Gao, Zijie Xi, Zixin Ding, Haiyang Sun, Haocheng Gao, Yuan Liu, Liangjia Wang, Yiling Huang, Yujie Wang, Yuyue Zhang, Ronghui Xi, Yuanze Li, Jiacheng Liu, Zhongjun Yang, Haihong E
| Challenge: | AEGIS examines whether current models can effectively audit AI-generated images in academic papers. |
| Approach: | They propose a holistic benchmark for forensic analysis of AI-Generated academic ImageS that reveals limitations in academic image forensics. |
| Outcome: | AEGIS compared with existing benchmarks on seven academic categories and features key advances in forensic analysis. |
WebDP: Understanding Discourse Structures in Semi-Structured Web Documents (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Web documents are one of the most primary and biggest data resources in current era, and understanding their discourse structure will benefit various downstream document processing applications. |
| Approach: | They propose a web document discourse structure representation schema by extending classical discourse theories and adding special features to well represent discourse characteristics of web documents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed task is feasible but challenging for current models. |