Papers by Pengwei Liu

4 papers
History-Aware Hierarchical Transformer for Multi-session Open-domain Dialogue System (2022.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing open-domain dialogue systems conduct one-session conversations, but multi-session MSCs are under-investigated.
Approach: They propose a History-Aware Hierarchical Transformer for multi-session open-domain dialogue . they propose to encode history conversations into a history memory and leverage historical information to generate well-informed responses.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms baseline models on a large-scale MSC dataset.
Can Large Language Models Grasp Legal Theories? Enhance Legal Reasoning with Insights from Multi-Agent Collaboration (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing studies have found that when LLMs are given criminal facts and legal rules, then asked whether cases constitute a certain charge, they struggle to understand legal theories and perform basic legal reasoning tasks.
Approach: They propose a task to assess LLMs' understanding of legal theories and reasoning capabilities by using a novel framework: Multi-Agent framework for improving complex legal reasoning capability.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves LLMs' understanding of legal theories and reasoning abilities in real-world scenarios.
Reviving Cultural Heritage: A Novel Approach for Comprehensive Historical Document Restoration (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for historical document restoration focus on single modality or limited-size restoration, failing to meet practical needs.
Approach: They propose a full-page HDR dataset and an automated HDR solution to replace manual restoration methods.
Outcome: The proposed solution improves OCR accuracy from 46.83% to 84.05% when processing severely damaged documents, with enhancement to 94.25% through human-machine collaboration.
MathFlow: Enhancing the Perceptual Flow of MLLMs for Visual Mathematical Problems (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit significant limitations when extracting essential information and reasoned properties from diagrams and performing complex reasoning based on these visual inputs.
Approach: They propose a benchmark that provides a fine-grained evaluation of MLLMs’ perception and reasoning capabilities.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark shows that existing MLLMs exhibit limitations when extracting essential information and reasoned properties from diagrams and performing complex reasoning based on these visual inputs.

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