Papers by Qi You

7 papers
TinyScientist: An Interactive, Extensible, and Controllable Framework for Building Research Agents (2025.emnlp-demos)

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Challenge: Existing research systems often design and use agentic workflows to perform research tasks such as ideation, scientific coding, review writing, and tree-based search.
Approach: They propose an open-source codebase, an interactive web demonstration, and a PyPI Python package to make state-of-the-art auto-research pipelines broadly accessible to every researcher and developer.
Outcome: The proposed framework adapts easily to new tools and supports iterative growth.
LitVISTA: A Benchmark for Narrative Orchestration in Literary Text (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing large language models focus on causal coherence, neglecting the complex story arcs and orchestration inherent in human narratives.
Approach: They propose a high-dimensional framework for narrative orchestration that unifies human and model perspectives while jointly characterizing narrative function and structure in a common space.
Outcome: The proposed framework unifies human and model perspectives while jointly characterizing narrative function and structure in a common space.
TaeBench: Improving Quality of Toxic Adversarial Examples (2025.naacl-industry)

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Challenge: Existing adversarial examples generate invalid or ambiguous examples that fool the systems into wrong detection.
Approach: They propose an annotation pipeline for quality control of generated toxic adversarial examples (TAE) they use model-based automated annotation and human-based quality verification to assess quality requirements of a TAE dataset.
Outcome: The proposed pipeline can transfer-attack SOTA toxicity content moderation models and services with adversarial training.
GEMv2: Multilingual NLG Benchmarking in a Single Line of Code (2022.emnlp-demos)

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Challenge: Evaluations in machine learning rarely use the latest metrics, datasets, or human evaluation in favor of remaining compatible with prior work.
Approach: They propose to use the Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics Benchmark to integrate new evaluation methods into existing evaluations.
Outcome: The proposed evaluation infrastructure bridges the gap between the advantages of leaderboards and in-depth and evolving evaluations by allowing model developers to benefit from each other's work.
UniHGKR: Unified Instruction-aware Heterogeneous Knowledge Retrievers (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Existing information retrieval models assume a homogeneous structure for knowledge sources and user queries, limiting their applicability in real-world settings.
Approach: They propose a unified instruction-aware heterogeneous knowledge retriever that builds a heterogenous retrieval space for heterogenized knowledge and follows diverse user instructions to retrieve knowledge in specified types.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on CompMix-IR . it achieves 6.36% relative improvements and 54.23% relative improvements .
LCAN: A Label-Aware Contrastive Attention Network for Multi-Intent Recognition and Slot Filling in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Multi-intent utterances processing remains a persistent challenge due to intricate intent-slot dependencies and semantic ambiguities.
Approach: They propose a label-aware contrastive attention network (LCAN) that integrates label-based attention and contrastive learning strategies to improve semantic understanding and generalization in multi-intent scenarios.
Outcome: The proposed model improves intent recognition and slot filling performance in multi-intent dialogue systems.
SafeScientist: Enhancing AI Scientist Safety for Risk-Aware Scientific Discovery (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent advances in large language model (LLM) agents have significantly accelerated scientific discovery automation, yet raised critical ethical and safety concerns.
Approach: They propose a framework to enhance safety and ethical responsibility in AI-driven scientific exploration.
Outcome: The proposed framework significantly improves safety performance by 35% compared to traditional frameworks.

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