Papers by Songyan Zhao
VDebugger: Harnessing Execution Feedback for Debugging Visual Programs (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Visual programs are executable code generated by large language models to address visual reasoning problems. |
| Approach: | They propose a critic-refiner framework that localizes and debugs visual programs by tracking execution step by step. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework detects and corrects program errors leveraging detailed execution feedback, improving interpretability and accuracy. |
REFFLY: Melody-Constrained Lyrics Editing Model (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Automatic melody-to-lyric (M2L) generation aims to create lyrics that align with a given melody. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for automatic melody-to-lyric generation that allows for a more flexible approach to creating lyrics from plain text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baselines Lyra and GPT-4 in musicality and text quality. |
LoRE: Enhancing Search Relevance with Progressive Chain-of-Thought and Preference Alignment (2026.findings-acl)
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Chenji Lu, Zhuo Chen, Hui Zhao, Zhiyuan Zeng, Gang Zhao, Junjie Ren, null Lihaoran, Songyan Liu, Pengjie Wang, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng
| Challenge: | E-commerce search relevance is a critical component of retrieval systems. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-generative model for search relevance that trains reasoning knowledge, multi-modal understanding and rule awareness into three core competencies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms GPT-5 in Macro-F1 and achieves 27% online gain. |