Papers by Ruiyao Xu
DS2-Instruct: Domain-Specific Data Synthesis for Large Language Models Instruction Tuning (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing data synthesis methods focus on general-purpose tasks and fail to capture domain-specific terminology and reasoning patterns. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that generates domain-specific instruction datasets without human supervision by pairing task-informed keywords with different cognitive levels from Bloom’s Taxonomy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework generates domain-specific instruction datasets without human supervision and achieves significant improvements over existing methods. |
Large Language Models for Anomaly and Out-of-Distribution Detection: A Survey (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their effectiveness in natural language processing but also in broader applications due to their advanced comprehension and generative capabilities. |
| Approach: | They propose a taxonomy to categorize existing approaches into two classes based on the role played by LLMs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed taxonomy categorizes existing approaches into two classes based on the role played by LLMs. |
AD-LLM: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Anomaly Detection (2025.findings-acl)
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Tiankai Yang, Yi Nian, Li Li, Ruiyao Xu, Yuangang Li, Jiaqi Li, Zhuo Xiao, Xiyang Hu, Ryan A. Rossi, Kaize Ding, Xia Hu, Yue Zhao
| Challenge: | Anomaly detection (AD) is an important machine learning task with many real-world uses, including fraud detection, medical diagnosis, and industrial monitoring. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark that evaluates how large language models (LLMs) can help with NLP anomaly detection. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can perform zero-shot detection without tasks-specific training, data augmentation and model selection, and it can suggest unsupervised AD models. |
CoAct: Co-Active LLM Preference Learning with Human-AI Synergy (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to learn from preference-based feedback are expensive and scarce. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that synergistically combines self-rewarding and active learning through human-AI collaboration. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods on three reasoning benchmarks and achieves average improvements of +13.25% on GSM8K, +8.19% on MATH, and +13.16% on WebInstruct. |