Papers by Rui Hao

44 papers
Be Your Own Red Teamer: Safety Alignment via Self-Play and Reflective Experience Replay (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have remarkable capabilities but are vulnerable to adversarial “jailbreak” attacks designed to bypass safety guardrails.
Approach: They propose to empower a large language model to be its own red teamer . safety self-play allows the model to act as both the Attacker and Defender .
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms baselines trained on static adversarial datasets and establishes a new benchmark for proactive safety alignment.
Optimizing Code Retrieval: High-Quality and Scalable Dataset Annotation through Large Language Models (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods for code retrieval struggle to balance scalability and annotation quality.
Approach: They propose a method that integrates functions called within the repository and information on third-party APIs to enhance the annotation context.
Outcome: The proposed method improves the annotation context by incorporating functions called within the repository and information on third-party API functionalities.
Rethinking Diverse Human Preference Learning through Principal Component Analysis (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Decomposed Reward Models extract diverse human preferences from binary comparisons without fine-grained annotations.
Approach: They propose a decomposed reward model that extracts diverse human preferences from binary comparisons without fine-grained annotations.
Outcome: The proposed approach extracts diverse human preferences from binary comparisons without fine-grained annotations.
DynamicFocalPO: Adaptive Focusing Strategy for Preference Optimization (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Recent preference optimization algorithms such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) have become prevalent for aligning large language models with human preferences.
Approach: They propose a preference optimization algorithm that introduces a modulating factor that down-weighs misranked preference pairs and employs focusing strategy that adapts over the course of training.
Outcome: Experiments show that DynamicFocalPO surpasses both DPO and FocalPO on benchmarks including Alpaca Eval 2.0 and Arena-Hard using Mistral-Base-7B and Llama-3-Instruct-8B.
Enhancing Extractive Question Answering in Multiparty Dialogues with Logical Inference Memory Network (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing models for multiparty dialogue question answering (QA) do not consider logical inference relations in multiparty dialogs, leading to suboptimal performance.
Approach: They propose a memory network with logical inference for extractive QA in multiparty dialogues.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art on Molweni and FriendsQA benchmarks.
Toward Robust In-Context Learning: Leveraging Out-of-distribution Proxies for Target Inaccessible Demonstration Retrieval (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) perform well on Out-of-Distribution tasks, but performance degrades as distribution shift becomes more severe.
Approach: They propose a demonstration search framework that incorporates an OOD proxy to approximate the inaccessible target domain and guide the retrieval process.
Outcome: The proposed framework enhances robustness in out-of-distribution tasks by incorporating an OOD proxy to approximate the inaccessible target domain and guide the retrieval process.
ShieldLM: Empowering LLMs as Aligned, Customizable and Explainable Safety Detectors (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing tools for detecting safety issues in LLMs are expensive and inefficient.
Approach: They propose an LLM-based safety detector which annotates the safety of queries and provides explanations for its decisions.
Outcome: The proposed detector outperforms baselines on four sets of query-response pairs and is effective as a safety evaluator for advanced LLMs.
E-KAR: A Benchmark for Rationalizing Natural Language Analogical Reasoning (2022.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing benchmarks to test word analogy do not reveal the underneath process of analogical reasoning of neural models.
Approach: They propose an explanation benchmark for analogical reasoning using a Civil Service exam . they use a free-text explanation scheme to explain whether an analogy should be drawn .
Outcome: The proposed benchmark is very challenging for state-of-the-art models, it is found.
CLEAN–EVAL: Clean Evaluation on Contaminated Large Language Models (2024.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Existing methods to evaluate large language models are prone to data contamination.
Approach: They propose a method which parses contaminated data and back-translates it into a candidate set.
Outcome: The proposed method reduces data contamination and evaluates the LLMs more cleanly.
To Copy Rather Than Memorize: A Vertical Learning Paradigm for Knowledge Graph Completion (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for embedding knowledge graphs implicitly memorize relation rules to infer missing links, but they are difficult to memorize due to the inherent deficiencies of such implicit memorization strategy.
Approach: They propose a vertical learning paradigm that allows to explicitly copy target information from related factual triples for more accurate prediction.
Outcome: The proposed model improves generalization ability and makes distant link prediction significantly easier.
Loki: An Open-Source Tool for Fact Verification (2025.coling-demos)

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Challenge: Loki is an open-source fact-checking tool designed to address the growing problem of misinformation.
Approach: They propose a tool that breaks down the fact-checking task into five steps . they propose LOKI, which offers a semiautomated, human-in-the-loop approach .
Outcome: a new open-source tool is designed to address the growing problem of misinformation . the tool breaks down the fact-checking task into five steps to assist human judgment .
A Joint Learning Framework for Restaurant Survival Prediction and Explanation (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent advances in deep learning have various models that research reviews and interactions for different kinds of tasks, such as predicting restaurant survival.
Approach: They propose a joint learning framework for explainable restaurant survival prediction based on multi-modal data of user-restaurant interactions and users’ textual reviews.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves on two datasets showing that it can model restaurant interactions and users’ textual reviews.
Vision-Enhanced Semantic Entity Recognition in Document Images via Visually-Asymmetric Consistency Learning (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing models train a visual encoder with weak cross-modal supervision signals, resulting in a limited capacity to capture non-textual features and suboptimal performance.
Approach: They propose a Visually-Asymmetric coNsistenCy Learning approach that enhances the model’s ability to capture fine-grained visual and layout features through the incorporation of color priors.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms the strong LayoutLM series baseline on benchmark datasets and provides insights for optimizing model performance.
RePair: Automated Program Repair with Process-based Feedback (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Commercial-scale language models (LMs) have taken APR to unprecedented levels, but they are limited by parameters and humans interact with them through explicit prompts.
Approach: They propose a method that utilizes process supervision to improve program repair by allowing users to input feedback from compilers and test cases.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms large outcome-based generation methods and is inspired by strategies used in programming competitions.
Eliminating Out-of-Domain Recommendations in LLM-based Recommender Systems: A Unified View (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to reduce OOD recommendations fall into three grounding paradigms: retrieval, constrained generation and discrete item tokenizer generation.
Approach: They propose a framework that instantiates three grounding paradigms under a single architecture . embedding-based retrieval, constrained generation and discrete item-tokenizer methods are implemented .
Outcome: The proposed framework eradicates OOD recommendations across all variants and achieves state-of-the-art accuracy compared to strong ID-based and LLM-based baselines.
A Cognitive Writing Perspective for Constrained Long-Form Text Generation (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large Language Models struggle to generate high-quality long-form text in a single pass . a new framework that trains LLMs to write human-like writing capabilities is needed .
Approach: They propose a framework that equips large language models with human-like cognitive writing capabilities . they use a planning agent and multiple Generation Agents to generate long-form text in parallel .
Outcome: CogWriter surpasses GPT-4o by 22% in complex instruction completion accuracy . the framework can generate coherent text in a single pass with fluency that rivals human writers .
A Dual-Mind Framework for Strategic and Expressive Negotiation Agent (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to negotiation dialogue focus on only one aspect, ignoring the synergistic effect of their combined synergies.
Approach: They propose a dual-mind negotiation agent framework that integrates an intuitive and a deliberative module for slow, expression optimization.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art on negotiation datasets showing that it improves negotiation ability.
Enhancing Multimodal Large Language Models for Ancient Chinese Character Evolution Analysis via Glyph-Driven Fine-Tuning (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing studies have explored the evolutionary analysis of ancient scripts, with particular attention to the transformation of character forms from oracle bone inscriptions to regular script.
Approach: They propose a benchmark framework that leverages MLLMs to analyze the evolution of ancient Chinese scripts.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves performance on core tasks and character recognition and evolutionary reasoning tasks while limiting performance on other tasks.
Penalty Decoding: Well Suppress the Self-Reinforcement Effect in Open-Ended Text Generation (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of our approach in generating high-quality sentences resembling human output.
Approach: They propose a forgetting mechanism that disregards distant tokens, reducing the burden of penalty selection.
Outcome: The proposed approach generates high-quality sentences resembling human output.
BabelDOC: Better Layout-Preserving PDF Translation via Intermediate Representation (2026.acl-demo)

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Challenge: Existing document translation pipelines face a tension between linguistic processing and layout preservation.
Approach: They propose a framework for layout-preserving PDF translation that decouples visual layout metadata from semantic content.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves layout fidelity, visual aesthetics, and terminology consistency over representative baselines while maintaining competitive translation precision.
Reinforced Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Dual Sentiment Classification (2021.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to improve generalization ability by augmenting training data with synonymous examples or adding random noises to word embeddings cannot address spurious association problem.
Approach: They propose an end-to-end reinforcement learning framework which jointly performs counterfactual data generation and dual sentiment classification.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms strong data augmentation baselines on several benchmark sentiment classification datasets.
CCTVBench: Contrastive Consistency Traffic VideoQA Benchmark for Multimodal LLMs (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing Vision-language models are prone to hallucinating nonexistent entities or events and missing subtle but critical visual cues.
Approach: They propose a Traffic VideoQA Benchmark that enforces a single structured decision pattern over each video question quadruple and provides actionable diagnostics that decompose failures into positive omission, positive swap, negative hallucination, mutual-exclusivity violation.
Outcome: The proposed model detects true hazards when an accident occurs, and rejects plausible-but-false hypotheses under near-identical counterfactual scenes.
From Fake to Real: Mitigating Out-of-Distribution Bias in In-Context Learning via Feedback Supervision from Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: In-Context Learning (ICL) is one of the most common methods for complex Natural Language Understanding tasks.
Approach: They propose a method that uses model confidence and perturbation perplexity to enhance the quality of pseudo-labels.
Outcome: The proposed method reduces OOD biases by avoiding direct use of source data.
UniPELT: A Unified Framework for Parameter-Efficient Language Model Tuning (2022.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for parameter-efficient language model tuning (PELT) match the performance of fine-tuning with fewer trainable parameters.
Approach: They propose a framework which integrates different PELT methods as submodules and learns to activate the ones that best suit the current data or task setup via gating mechanism.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms fine-tuning methods on the GLUE benchmark and achieves 14% gains over the best individual PELT method.
Layer-Aware Representation Filtering: Purifying Finetuning Data to Preserve LLM Safety Alignment (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent studies show that fine-tuning with benign data can compromise safety of aligned LLMs.
Approach: They propose a Layer-Aware Representation Filtering method that detects safety-degrading layers within the LLM and leverages their representations to detect them.
Outcome: The proposed method can detect safety-degrading features in benign data and remove them from the model.
A Simple Contrastive Learning Framework for Interactive Argument Pair Identification via Argument-Context Extraction (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing work on argument mining uses context-based methods to identify whether two arguments are interactively related.
Approach: They propose a contrastive learning framework to extract valuable information from the context.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on the benchmark dataset and visually displays more compact representations.
Towards Human-Like Machine Comprehension: Few-Shot Relational Learning in Visually-Rich Documents (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Existing document AI approaches fail to consider key-value relations in visually-rich documents . a few-shot approach is proposed to extract key- value relation triplets in VRDs .
Approach: They propose a few-shot relational learning approach targeting the extraction of key-value relation triplets in Visually-Rich Documents.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing methods in visually-rich documents.
Neighbors Are Not Strangers: Improving Non-Autoregressive Translation under Low-Frequency Lexical Constraints (2022.naacl-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to lexically constrained neural machine translation suffer from high latency.
Approach: They propose a plug-in algorithm for non-autoregressive translation for this problem . they propose ACT to familiarize the model with the source-side context of constraints .
Outcome: The proposed model improves over the backbone constrained NAT model in constraint preservation and translation quality, especially for rare constraints.
Toward Consistent World Models with Multi-Token Prediction and Latent Semantic Enhancement (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods to learn internal world models rely on one-step supervision . however, standard MTP suffers from structural hallucinations .
Approach: They propose a method which anchors predictions to ground-truth hidden state trajectories.
Outcome: The proposed method bridges the gap between discrete tokens and continuous state representations, reducing structural hallucinations, and improving robustness to perturbations.
Effective Long-Context Scaling of Foundation Models (2024.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly deployed and continue to evolve through scaling.
Approach: They propose a method to train strong long-context LLMs that are capable of utilizing massive context windows of up to 32,000 tokens.
Outcome: The proposed model can surpass gpt-3.5-turbo-16k's overall performance on long-context benchmarks with a cost-effective instruction tuning procedure that is free of expensive annotations.
ROSE: Robust Selective Fine-tuning for Pre-trained Language Models (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent studies have highlighted the lack of adversarial robustness in pre-trained models.
Approach: They propose a fine-tuning approach that conducts selective updates when adapting pre-trained models to downstream tasks.
Outcome: The proposed approach improves adversarial robustness on downstream tasks . it eliminates spurious updates, leading to flatter and wider optima than the conventional method .
DocTrack: A Visually-Rich Document Dataset Really Aligned with Human Eye Movement for Machine Reading (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Document AI models that can read visually rich documents have a long way to go before they can read them as accurately, continuously, and flexibly as humans do.
Approach: They propose a visually-rich document dataset that aligns with human eye-movement information using eye-tracking technology.
Outcome: The proposed dataset can help in designing better document AI models and human reading robots in the future.
Hierarchical Reward Modeling for Fault Localization in Large Code Repositories (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have limited fault localization capabilities due to limited context length.
Approach: They propose a hierarchical localization reward model to evaluate and select the most accurate fault localization candidates from the outputs of LLMs.
Outcome: The proposed model improves the final line-level localization recall by 12% on the SWE-Bench-Lite dataset.
GLiM: Integrating Graph Transformer and LLM for Document-Level Biomedical Relation Extraction with Incomplete Labeling (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) solves problems of document quality . number of entities and entity-pair relations increases, causing incomplete annotations .
Approach: a framework that reduces the problem space using a graph-enhanced Transformer-based model is proposed . GLiM leverages large language models for reasoning to reduce the problem-space .
Outcome: GLiM boosts average recall and F1 scores on biomedical datasets . compared with existing models, GLim outperforms existing models on biomedicine benchmarks compared to existing models .
Can Watermarks Survive Translation? On the Cross-lingual Consistency of Text Watermark for Large Language Models (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing text watermarking technologies lack consistency when texts are translated into different languages.
Approach: They propose a cross-lingual watermark removal attack to bypass watermarking by first obtaining a response from an LLM in a pivot language and then translating it into the target language.
Outcome: The proposed method can remove watermarks without performance loss by obtaining a response from an LLM in a pivot language and then translating it into the target language.
An Effective and Efficient Entity Alignment Decoding Algorithm via Third-Order Tensor Isomorphism (2022.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods focus on graph representation learning, but decoding is a key part of the process.
Approach: They propose an EA Decoding Algorithm via Third-order Tensor Isomorphism (DATTI) they combine two sets of isomorphic equations to enhance the decoding process .
Outcome: The proposed algorithm can deliver significant performance improvements even on the most advanced methods while the extra required time is less than 3 seconds.
ACSE: An Ancient Character Semantic-Aware Embedding for Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing studies on pre-Qin documents are insufficient to understand ancient characters . ancient characters have a low level of digitization and training corpora are extremely scarce .
Approach: They propose a semantic-aware embedding for ancient Chinese characters that integrates glyphs and lexicality into modern Chinese semantic space.
Outcome: The proposed model integrates glyph and lexicality of ancient characters and maps them to the modern Chinese semantic space.
SolEval: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Repository-level Solidity Smart Contract Generation (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods focus on Python and Java, neglecting Solidity, the programming language for Ethereum smart contracts.
Approach: They construct a repository-level benchmark for Solidity to evaluate the performance of LLMs on Ethereum.
Outcome: The proposed benchmarks show that the best performing LLM achieves only 26.29% Pass@10, highlighting room for improvement in Solidity code generation.
R-CHAR: A Metacognition-Driven Framework for Role-Playing in Large Language Models (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing role-playing structures lack cognitive consistency in complex scenarios . Existing models excel in math and coding tasks but lack coherent reasoning .
Approach: They propose a metacognition-driven framework that enhances role-playing performance . experimental results show performance improvements across varying scenario complexities .
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms existing models in social intelligence tasks and shows strength in long-context comprehension and group-level social interactions.
Taming Actor-Observer Asymmetry in Agents via Dialectical Alignment (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled the development of powerful autonomous systems.
Approach: They propose a model trained through dialectical alignment to enforce perspective-invariant reasoning.
Outcome: The proposed model mitigates attribution inconsistency and significantly improves fault resolution rates in ambiguous scenarios.
Self-supervised Preference Optimization: Enhance Your Language Model with Preference Degree Awareness (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Recent studies have focused on replacing the reward model in Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) methods for Large Language Models (LLMs).
Approach: They propose a self-supervised preference optimization framework that replaces the reward model with a preference loss and alignment loss to improve LLMs' ability to understand human preferences.
Outcome: The proposed framework can be integrated with existing preference optimization methods and significantly boost their performance.
IDPG: An Instance-Dependent Prompt Generation Method (2022.naacl-main)

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Challenge: Existing prompt tuning methods use a fixed prompt in each input instance during the model training stage.
Approach: They propose a conditional prompt generation method to generate prompts for each input instance.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms other prompt tuning methods while tuning fewer parameters.
Rethinking Translation Memory Augmented Neural Machine Translation (2023.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to enhance neural machine translation (NMT) by using a TM have been reported to be effective.
Approach: They propose a translation memory augmented neural machine translation model that is good at fitting data but more sensitive to fluctuations in training data.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves consistent gains over conventional and existing models under two variance-preferable scenarios as well as the high resource scenario.
When More Thinking Hurts: Overthinking in LLM Test-Time Compute Scaling (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing research implicitly assumes that longer thinking leads to better results . a recent study suggests that test-time compute scaling is more effective than model scaling .
Approach: They challenge the assumption that longer thinking yields better results . they show that models exhibit overthinking and marginal returns diminish at higher budgets .
Outcome: The proposed framework reduces computation significantly while maintaining comparable accuracy.

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