Papers by Wenjing Han
EcoLoRA: Communication-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models (2025.emnlp-main)
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Han Liu, Ruoyao Wen, Srijith Nair, Jia Liu, Wenjing Lou, Chongjie Zhang, William Yeoh, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Ning Zhang
| Challenge: | Recurrent exchange of model updates in FL can result in prohibitively high communication costs, hindering the distributed learning process. |
| Approach: | They propose a federated fine-tuning framework that uses a round-robin segment sharing scheme to reduce network bandwidth and adaptive sparsification methods tailored to LoRA’s training dynamics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces communication overhead without compromising performance on question-answering and value-alignment tasks. |
Fact-Aware Multimodal Retrieval Augmentation for Accurate Medical Radiology Report Generation (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing multimodal foundation models suffer from serious factual inaccuracy in radiology report generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a fact-aware multimodal retrieval-augmented pipeline for generating accurate radiology reports using RadGraph. |
| Outcome: | The proposed multimodal retrieval-augmented pipeline outperforms state-of-the-art retrievers on language generation and radiology-specific metrics. |
When Slower Isn’t Truer: Inverse Scaling Law of Truthfulness in Multimodal Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)
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Sitong Fang, Wenjing Cao, Jiahao Li, Xuyao Wang, Chi-Min Chan, Sirui Han, Juntao Dai, Yike Guo, Yaodong Yang, Jiaming Ji
| Challenge: | a study of slow reasoning models for multimodal reasoning finds that they are more prone to fabricating plausible yet false details when confronted with incomplete or misleading visual inputs. |
| Approach: | They conduct the first systematic study of the inverse scaling law in slow-thinking paradigms for multimodal reasoning. |
| Outcome: | The findings suggest that slower reasoning models are more prone to fabricating false details . the study analyzed 5,000-sample hierarchical prompt dataset by 50 participants . |