Papers by Qidong Liu

6 papers
Bridging Relevance and Reasoning: Rationale Distillation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to rerank and align documents based on reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) . prior work shows that LLMs have exceptional reasoning and text generation capabilities .
Approach: They propose a rationale extraction method that leverages reasoning capabilities of large language models to extract the rationales necessary for answering a query.
Outcome: The proposed method is compared with baseline methods on two tasks across three datasets.
MMRC: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Understanding Multimodal Large Language Model in Real-World Conversation (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing multimodal large language models lack the ability to memorize, recall, and reason in sustained interactions.
Approach: They propose a multimodal real-world conversation benchmark for evaluating open-ended abilities of multimodal large language models.
Outcome: The proposed benchmarks show that the models perform better in open-ended conversations.
Mitigating Hallucinations of Large Language Models in Medical Information Extraction via Contrastive Decoding (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Medical Information Extraction (MIE) tasks are a fundamental component of medical NLP.
Approach: They propose an alternative adaptive constraint strategy to adjust the scale and scope of contrastive tokens.
Outcome: The proposed approach selectively enhances the identification and classification capabilities while minimizing the influence of other inherent abilities in LLMs.
CODIS: Benchmarking Context-dependent Visual Comprehension for Multimodal Large Language Models (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Multimodal large language models have demonstrated promising results in a variety of tasks that combine vision and language.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to assess the ability of models to use contextual information in free-form text to enhance visual comprehension.
Outcome: The proposed model fails to extract and utilize contextual information to improve understanding of images.
A Multi-Expert Structural-Semantic Hybrid Framework for Unveiling Historical Patterns in Temporal Knowledge Graphs (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods focus on graph structure learning or semantic reasoning, lacking the capability to capture the inherent differences between historical and non-historical events.
Approach: They propose a temporal knowledge graph reasoning framework that integrates both structural and semantic information to guide the reasoning process for different events.
Outcome: The proposed framework integrates structural and semantic information to predict future events . it can provide evidence for many downstream tasks, including situation analysis and political decision making .
Stepwise Reasoning Disruption Attack of LLMs (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing attacks on LLM reasoning are constrained by specific settings or lack of imperceptibility, limiting their feasibility and generalizability.
Approach: They propose a stepwise rEasoning error disruption attack that subtly injects errors into prior reasoning steps to mislead the model into producing incorrect subsequent reasoning and final answers.
Outcome: The proposed attack is compatible with zero-shot and few-shot settings, maintains the natural reasoning flow, and ensures covert execution without modification of the instruction.

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