Papers by Weifeng Zhao

6 papers
Scaling Laws for Code: Every Programming Language Matters (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing studies focus on language-agnostic settings, neglecting the inherently multilingual nature of modern software development.
Approach: They propose a proportion-dependent scaling law that prioritizes high-utility languages . they propose PLs to have varying effects during pre-training that affect model performance .
Outcome: The proposed scaling law is based on 1000+ experiments across multiple languages and models.
Unsupervised Multi-scale Expressive Speaking Style Modeling with Hierarchical Context Information for Audiobook Speech Synthesis (2022.coling-1)

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Challenge: a recent study has shown that expressiveness of audiobooks is limited by the averaged global-scale speaking style representation.
Approach: They propose an unsupervised multi-scale context-sensitive text-to-speech model for audiobooks . they use hierarchical context encoder to predict global-scale contextual style embeddings .
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing models on a real-world Mandarin audio dataset.
HyperCore: Hyperbolic and Co-graph Representation for Automatic ICD Coding (2020.acl-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods for ICD coding ignore Code Hierarchy and Code Co-occurrence . cost of manual coding estimated to be $25 billion per year in the US .
Approach: They propose a hyperbolic representation method to leverage the code hierarchy and a graph convolutional network to utilize the code co-occurrence.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two widely used datasets.
A3: Android Agent Arena for Mobile GUI Agents with Essential-State Procedural Evaluation (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing evaluation methods for mobile GUI agents rely on static frame assessments or offline static apps.
Approach: They propose an evaluation system that leverages large language models as reward models to verify task completion and process achievement.
Outcome: The proposed system addresses the limitations of traditional function based evaluation methods on online dynamic apps.
Clinical-Coder: Assigning Interpretable ICD-10 Codes to Chinese Clinical Notes (2020.acl-demos)

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Challenge: Existing methods of automatic coding prediction have been successful, but the interpretability of predicted codes is a challenge.
Approach: They propose an online system that can predict ICD codes for Chinese clinical notes by using a Dilated Convolutional Attention network with N-gram Matching mechanism.
Outcome: The proposed system is able to provide supporting information in clinical decision making.
Automatic ICD Coding via Interactive Shared Representation Networks with Self-distillation Mechanism (2021.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for ICD coding ignore the long-tail of code frequency or noisy clinical notes.
Approach: They propose to use an interactive shared representation network to model code co-occurrences while focusing on the clinical note's noteworthy part and extract valuable information through a self-distillation learning mechanism to solve the long-tail problem.
Outcome: The proposed model reduces the long-tail of code frequency and noise in clinical notes and extracts valuable information through a self-distillation learning mechanism.

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