Papers by Rui Hao
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 . |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 . |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 . |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 . |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |