Papers by Run Lin
OmniCharacter: Towards Immersive Role-Playing Agents with Seamless Speech-Language Personality Interaction (2025.acl-long)
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Haonan Zhang, Run Luo, Xiong Liu, Yuchuan Wu, Ting-En Lin, Pengpeng Zeng, Qiang Qu, Feiteng Fang, Min Yang, Lianli Gao, Jingkuan Song, Fei Huang, Yongbin Li
| Challenge: | Existing methods focus on replicating dialogues in textual form, neglecting the role’s voice traits as a crucial effect in interaction, which tends to be more immersive experiences in realistic scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a first seamless speech-language personality interaction model to achieve immersive RPAs with low latency. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model exhibits role-specific personality traits and vocal traits throughout the interaction, enabling a mixture of speech and language responses. |
GEMS: Generation-Based Event Argument Extraction via Multi-perspective Prompts and Ontology Steering (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for event argument extraction rely on a single prompt . existing methods ignore complex structural and dynamic interdependencies between event arguments . |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-prompt learning framework that generates event arguments via multi-perspective prompts and ontology steering. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework captures interrelationships between arguments and ontology steering . it uses multiple unfilled prompts for each sentence to generate event arguments . |
MMEvol: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models with Evol-Instruct (2025.findings-acl)
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Run Luo, Haonan Zhang, Longze Chen, Ting-En Lin, Xiong Liu, Yuchuan Wu, Min Yang, Yongbin Li, Minzheng Wang, Pengpeng Zeng, Lianli Gao, Heng Tao Shen, Yunshui Li, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Xiaobo Xia, Jingkuan Song, Fei Huang
| Challenge: | a new framework for image-text instruction data evolution improves MLLM performance . lack of high-quality instruction data remains a major bottleneck in ML modeling . |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal instruction data evolution framework that iteratively enhances data quality through fine-grained perception, cognitive reasoning, and interaction evolution. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves MLLM performance in nine vision-language tasks while using significantly less data. |
Towards IP Intelligence: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Intellectual Property Knowledge and Practice (2026.findings-acl)
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Qiyao Wang, Guhong Chen, Hongbo Wang, Huaren Liu, Minghui Zhu, Zhifei Qin, Li Linwei, Yilin Yue, Shiqiang Wang, Jiayan Li, Wu Yihang, Ziqiang Liu, Longze Chen, Run Luo, Liyang Fan, Jiaming Li, Lei Zhang, Kan Xu, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Chengming Li, Shiwen Ni, Yuan Lin, Min Yang
| Challenge: | Existing datasets and benchmarks focus only on patents or cover limited aspects of the IP field, lacking alignment with real-world scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a bilingual IP task taxonomy and a large-scale bilingual benchmark to evaluate LLMs in real-world IP practice. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves only 75.8% accuracy, indicating room for improvement . open-source IP and law-oriented models lag behind closed-source general-purpose models . |
Akan Cinematic Emotions (ACE): A Multimodal Multi-party Dataset for Emotion Recognition in Movie Dialogues (2025.findings-acl)
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David Sasu, Zehui Wu, Ziwei Gong, Run Chen, Pengyuan Shi, Lin Ai, Julia Hirschberg, Natalie Schluter
| Challenge: | Akan Cinematic Emotions (AkaCE) is the first multimodal emotion dialogue dataset for an African language . it contains 385 emotion-labeled dialogues and 6162 utterances across audio, visual, and textual modalities, along with word-level prosodic prominence annotations. |
| Approach: | They propose to use AkaCE to analyze African cinematic emotions using word-level prosodic prominence annotations. |
| Outcome: | The Akan Cinematic Emotions (AkaCE) dataset addresses the significant lack of resources for low-resource languages in emotion recognition research. |
Negative-Aware Diffusion Process for Temporal Knowledge Graph Extrapolation (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) are dynamic structures representing entities and their evolving relationships through time. |
| Approach: | They propose a non-parametric model that encodes subject-centric histories into sequential embeddings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model encodes subject-centric histories of entities, relations and temporal intervals into sequential embeddings. |
DiFiNet: Boundary-Aware Semantic Differentiation and Filtration Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to Named Entity Recognition focus on identifying non-nested entities, but there is no explicit guidance for boundary detection. |
| Approach: | They propose a Boundary-aware Semantic Differentiation and Filtration Network for nested NER that leverages a biaffine attention mechanism to generate a span representation matrix. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets demonstrate the proposed model yields a new state-of-the-art performance. |
Predicting the Unpredictable: Uncertainty-Aware Reasoning over Temporal Knowledge Graphs via Diffusion Process (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for Temporal Knowledge Graph reasoning capture indeterminacy in future events, but they are limited in capturing it. |
| Approach: | They propose a Temporal Knowledge Graph reasoning process that denoises historical events and introduces Gaussian noise to corrupt target facts. |
| Outcome: | Empirical results show that DiffuTKG outperforms state-of-the-art methods on four real-world datasets. |
A Review of Incorporating Psychological Theories in LLMs (2026.eacl-long)
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Zizhou Liu, Ziwei Gong, Lin Ai, Zheng Hui, Run Chen, Colin Wayne Leach, Michelle R. Greene, Julia Hirschberg
| Challenge: | a holistic review systematically integrating psychology across the LLM lifecycle remains missing. |
| Approach: | They examine how psychological theories can inform stages of LLM development . they highlight current trends and gaps in how psychological theory is applied . |
| Outcome: | The authors highlight current trends and gaps in how psychological theories are applied . they argue that psychological insights have shaped pivotal NLP breakthroughs . |
Synergetic Interaction Network with Cross-task Attention for Joint Relational Triple Extraction (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to joint entity-relation extraction are limited in their ability to capture the interdependence between the two sub-tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a synergistic approach to capture interdependence between named entity recognition and relation extraction sub-tasks in a Synergetic Interaction Network. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves significantly better performance on three benchmark datasets. |