Papers by Xin Dong

46 papers
LongCite: Enabling LLMs to Generate Fine-grained Citations in Long-Context QA (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Current long-context large language models lack citations to support their responses, making verification difficult due to potential hallucinations.
Approach: They propose to use off-the-shelf LLMs to automatically construct long-context QA instances with precise sentence-level citations and leverage this pipeline to construct a large-scale SFT dataset for LQAC.
Outcome: The proposed pipeline can generate responses with fine-grained citations on the fly, surpassing existing models including GPT-4o.
How Pre-trained Language Models Capture Factual Knowledge? A Causal-Inspired Analysis (2022.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Recent studies show that pre-trained language models can fill in the missing factual words in cloze-style prompts such as ”Dante was born in [MASK]” .
Approach: They propose to quantitatively measure and evaluate the word-level patterns that PLMs depend on to generate the missing factual words.
Outcome: The proposed model fills in the missing factual words in cloze-style prompts by relying on effective clues or shortcut patterns.
ZipVoice-Dialog: Non-Autoregressive Spoken Dialogue Generation with Flow Matching (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing autoregressive models for dialogue generation suffer from high latency and stability issues.
Approach: They propose a non-autoregressive (NAR) zero-shot spoken dialogue generation model based on flow-matching.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing models in speech generation due to poor speech intelligibility and turn-taking precision.
MINER: Multi-Interest Matching Network for News Recommendation (2022.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods learn a single user embedding from user’s historical behaviors to represent the reading interest.
Approach: They propose a poly attention scheme to learn multiple interest vectors for each user, which encodes the different aspects of user interest.
Outcome: The proposed approach significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods on the MIND news recommendation benchmark.
A Robust Self-Learning Framework for Cross-Lingual Text Classification (D19-1)

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Challenge: Recent advances in pretrained contextual representation models have made significant progress on a number of different English NLP tasks.
Approach: They propose a robust framework to include unlabeled non-English samples in the fine-tuning process of pretrained multilingual representation models.
Outcome: The proposed framework includes unlabeled non-English samples in the fine-tuning process of pretrained multilingual representation models.
AnyGPT: Unified Multimodal LLM with Discrete Sequence Modeling (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing language models that use discrete representations for unified processing of various modalities are limited to text generation and do not include multimodal output.
Approach: They propose a multimodal language model that utilizes discrete representations for unified processing of various modalities.
Outcome: The proposed model can be trained stably without any alterations to existing models or training paradigms.
StructGPT: A General Framework for Large Language Model to Reason over Structured Data (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Experiments conducted on three types of structured data show that StructGPT greatly improves the performance of LLMs.
Approach: They propose an iterative Reading-then-Reasoning framework to solve question answering tasks based on structured data.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves the reasoning ability of large language models over structured data under the few-shot and zero-shot settings.
Interpretable and Low-Resource Entity Matching via Decoupling Feature Learning from Decision Making (2021.acl-long)

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Challenge: Entity Matching (EM) aims at recognizing entity records that denote the same real-world object.
Approach: They propose a novel EM framework that consists of Heterogeneous Information Fusion and Key Attribute Tree Induction to decouple feature representation from matching decision.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms SOTA EM models on 6 public datasets and 3 industrial datasets.
Large Language Models as Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracker through Function Calling (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly prevalent in conversational systems due to their advanced understanding and generative capabilities in general contexts.
Approach: They propose a method for solving dialogue state tracking (DST) with large language models through function calling.
Outcome: The proposed approach improves zero-shot DST, allowing adaptation to diverse domains without extensive data collection or model tuning.
LongReward: Improving Long-context Large Language Models with AI Feedback (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: In recent years, significant advancements have been achieved in the development of long-context large language models (LLMs).
Approach: They propose a method that utilizes an off-the-shelf LLM to provide rewards for long-context model responses from four human-valued dimensions: helpfulness, logicality, faithfulness, and completeness.
Outcome: The proposed method improves models’ long-context performance and enhances their ability to follow short instructions.
On the Human-level Performance of Visual Question Answering (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Visual7W has been widely used in assessing multiple-choice visual question-answering systems.
Approach: They replicated a human experiment on Visual7W to examine the human-level performance of VQA.
Outcome: The results show that the better a model performs on Visual7W, the better it aligns with human-level intelligence.
Reasoning-Enhanced Domain-Adaptive Pretraining of Multimodal Large Language Models for Short Video Content Governance (2025.emnlp-industry)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to identifying inappropriate content require extensive human-labeled data and lack cross-issue generalization.
Approach: They propose a reasoning-enhanced multimodal large language model (MLLM) pretraining paradigm for unified inappropriate content detection.
Outcome: The proposed model improves the MLLM's performance in both zero-shot and supervised fine-tuning settings and shows strong generalization capabilities to emergent, previously unseen issues.
A Survey of Post-Training Scaling in Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated proficiency in understanding and generating human natural languages.
Approach: They propose a framework for scaling large language models using supervised fine-tuning, RLxF and test-time compute methodologies.
Outcome: The proposed model can be used to understand and generate human natural languages.
LongBench v2: Towards Deeper Understanding and Reasoning on Realistic Long-context Multitasks (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing benchmarks on longcontext large language models fail to reflect their deep understanding capabilities across diverse tasks.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to assess the ability of long-context large language models to handle long-text problems.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves 50.1% accuracy when directly answering the questions . human experts achieve only 53.7% accuracy under a 15-minute time constraint .
SnapNTell: Enhancing Entity-Centric Visual Question Answering with Retrieval Augmented Multimodal LLM (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Vision-extended LLMs have made significant strides in VQA, but they still encounter significant difficulties in handling queries involving long-tail entities.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to test models' ability to identify entities and provide detailed, entity-specific knowledge by combining 10 images and 10 knowledge-intensive QA pairs.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing methods on the SnapNTell dataset, achieving a 66.5% improvement in the BELURT score.
exBERT: Extending Pre-trained Models with Domain-specific Vocabulary Under Constrained Training Resources (2020.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing methods to train pre-trained models with limited corpus and computational resources are limited by the complexity of the training resources.
Approach: They propose a method to extend BERT pre-trained models from a general domain to a new pre-train model for a specific domain with a different additive vocabulary.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing methods on biomedical benchmark tasks using the MTL-Bioinformatics-2016 dataset.
XY-Tokenizer: Mitigating the Semantic-Acoustic Conflict in Low-Bitrate Speech Codecs (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing speech codecs struggle to balance these objectives at low bitrates . XY-Tokenizer achieves stronger semantic alignment than representative semantic-distillation codec .
Approach: They propose a low-bitrate speech codec that aligns discrete speech representations with text while preserving fine-grained acoustic details for reconstruction.
Outcome: The proposed codec outperforms existing low-bitrate speech codecs in speech understanding and generation tasks.
MatPlotAgent: Method and Evaluation for LLM-Based Agentic Scientific Data Visualization (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Scientific data visualization is an essential process in research, but its use of large language models remains unexplored.
Approach: They propose a model-agnostic LLM agent framework to automate scientific data visualization tasks.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves performance of commercial and open-source models.
LongReD: Mitigating Short-Text Degradation of Long-Context Large Language Models via Restoration Distillation (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) have extended context windows through scaling positional encodings and lightweight continual pre-training, but performance degradation is still not fully explored.
Approach: They propose a novel approach to reduce short-text performance degradation by minimizing distribution drift in hidden states and attention scores.
Outcome: The proposed approach minimizes the distribution discrepancy between the extended and original models while maintaining or even enhancing the model's long-context abilities.
Assessing Combinational Generalization of Language Models in Biased Scenarios (2022.aacl-short)

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Challenge: Existing work focuses on assessing in-domain knowledge, but shedding light on what pre-trained Language Models learn is important.
Approach: They propose a method to assess a PLM's generalization capacity in biased scenarios by combining component combinations where it could be easy for the PLMs to learn shortcuts from the training corpus.
Outcome: The proposed model can overcome distribution shifts in the training corpus and with sufficient data.
Domain-Specific Sentiment Lexicons Induced from Labeled Documents (2020.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing sentiment lexicons reflect abstract notion of polarity and do not do justice to substantial differences of word polarities between domains.
Approach: They propose to use domain-specific sentiment lexicons to induce initial word intensity scores and train new deep models based on word vector representations to overcome the scarcity of the seed data.
Outcome: The proposed models show that they perform well on review classification and cross-lingual word sentiment prediction.
YuLan-Mini: Pushing the Limits of Open Data-efficient Language Model (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: prevailing pre-training approaches for large language models involve several complexities.
Approach: They propose a low-cost training recipe and a robust optimization approach to mitigate training instability . they also propose synthesis, curriculum, and data selection pipelines to integrate data .
Outcome: The proposed model achieves top-tier performance among models with similar parameter scale . it is comparable to industry-leading models that require significantly more data .
Sticker-TTS: Learn to Utilize Historical Experience with a Sticker-driven Test-Time Scaling Framework (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Large reasoning models have exhibited strong performance on complex reasoning tasks, but current test-time scaling methods rely on redundant sampling and ignore historical experience utilization.
Approach: They propose a test-time scaling framework that coordinates three collaborative LRMs to iteratively explore and refine solutions guided by historical attempts.
Outcome: The proposed framework surpasses strong baselines on three mathematical reasoning benchmarks, including AIME-24, AIME-25, and OlymMATH.
IPS: In-Prompt Process Supervision for Short Video Content Moderation (2026.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) capture semantics of short video content but fail to account for policy-specific details.
Approach: They propose a framework that integrates In-prompt Process Supervision into MLLMs . they propose sequential reasoning over ancillary questions during fine-tuning .
Outcome: IPS outperforms baseline MLLMs on public and proprietary benchmarks . replacing human-annotated ancillary labels with MLML-generated ones results in performance degradation.
Multimodal Language Models See Better When They Look Shallower (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing studies show that multimodal large language models extract visual features from the final layers of a pretrained Vision Transformer.
Approach: They propose a feature fusion method that strategically incorporates shallower layers . they propose MLLMs that extract visual features from the final layers of a pretrained Vision Transformer .
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms deep layers on fine-grained visual tasks . it is the first comprehensive study of visual layer selection for MLLMs .
SpeechGPT: Empowering Large Language Models with Intrinsic Cross-Modal Conversational Abilities (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing multi-modal large language models typically adopt the cascade paradigm, preventing inter-modal knowledge transfer.
Approach: They propose a large language model with intrinsic cross-modal conversational abilities . they construct a cross-text speech instruction dataset and employ a three-stage training strategy .
Outcome: The proposed model can follow cross-modal human instructions and handle multiple modalities with one model.
EffiQA: Efficient Question-Answering with Strategic Multi-Model Collaboration on Knowledge Graphs (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches that integrate LLMs and KGs either underutilize the reasoning abilities of LLM or suffer from prohibitive computational costs due to tight coupling.
Approach: They propose a framework that can strike a balance between performance and efficiency via an iterative paradigm.
Outcome: The proposed framework can strike a balance between performance and efficiency via an iterative paradigm.
MANBench: Is Your Multimodal Model Smarter than Human? (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have been gaining popularity in multimodal tasks . a bilingual benchmark is available for MLLM users to evaluate their multimodal capabilities .
Approach: They propose a bilingual multimodal ability norms benchmark that measures multimodality across nine tasks.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark compared human performance against state-of-the-art MLLMs.
Vision-Language Introspection: Mitigating Overconfident Hallucinations in MLLMs via Interpretable Bi-Causal Steering (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to overcome object hallucination are limited . Existing mitigations include costly retraining and a training-free inference framework .
Approach: They propose a training-free inference framework that simulates a metacognitive self-correction process.
Outcome: The proposed framework reduces object hallucination rates by 12.67% on MMHal-Bench and improves accuracy by 5.8% on POPE.
XL-NBT: A Cross-lingual Neural Belief Tracking Framework (D18-1)

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Challenge: a multi-lingual approach to training dialog systems is expensive and tedious, but it can be useful for cross-lingual support.
Approach: They propose to annotate data for multiple languages and train a multi-lingual dialog system for each language.
Outcome: The proposed framework bypasses the expensive human annotation and achieves promising results.
MMLU-ProX: A Multilingual Benchmark for Advanced Large Language Model Evaluation (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing large language model evaluation benchmarks focus on English, while current multilingual tasks lack parallel questions that specifically assess cross-lingual reasoning abilities.
Approach: They propose a comprehensive benchmark covering 29 languages, built on an English benchmark.
Outcome: The MMLU-ProX is a comprehensive benchmark covering 29 languages, built on an English benchmark.
Data Augmentation with Adversarial Training for Cross-Lingual NLI (2021.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to train cross-lingual models with labeled data are subpar, resulting in subpar results.
Approach: They propose a data augmentation strategy that enriches data to reflect more diversity in a semantically faithful way and leverages adversarial training regimens to achieve greater robustness.
Outcome: The proposed approach improves cross-lingual inference by leveraging the data to reflect more diversity in a semantically faithful way.
AHA: Aligning Large Audio-Language Models for Reasoning Hallucinations via Counterfactual Hard Negatives (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large Audio-Language Models suffer from hallucinations, e.g., generating text not grounded in the audio input.
Approach: They propose a framework to address hallucination problems in large audio-language models . they use a preference dataset to test the model's accuracy .
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms the latest SOTA methods in terms of performance and generalization.
A Helping Hand: Transfer Learning for Deep Sentiment Analysis (P18-1)

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Challenge: Existing deep neural models for sentiment polarity classification require large amounts of training data.
Approach: They propose to feed generic cues into the training process of deep convolutional neural networks for sentiment analysis.
Outcome: The proposed approach improves sentiment polarity classification on a range of datasets in seven languages.
CAFE: Retrieval Head-based Coarse-to-Fine Information Seeking to Enhance Multi-Document QA Capability (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods to extend context length of Large Language Models (LLMs) still struggle with retrieval and reasoning in long context inputs.
Approach: They propose a coarse-to-fine method to enhance multi-document question-answering capacities by removing background and distracting documents.
Outcome: Experiments show that CAFE outperforms baseline methods on multiple documents.
Better Zero-Shot Reasoning with Role-Play Prompting (2024.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift in natural language processing, driven by large language models such as GPT-3, PaLM, and Llama.
Approach: They propose a strategy for role-play prompting and assess its performance under the zero-shot setting.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms the standard zero-shot prompting approach across 12 reasoning benchmarks.
Unraveling the Mechanics of Learning-Based Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent learning-based demonstration selection methods have proven beneficial to in-context learning (ICL) by choosing more useful exemplars.
Approach: They propose two methods to capture task-agnostic similarities between input and output of LLMs.
Outcome: The proposed methods integrate task-agnostic similarities of different levels between input and output of exemplars and test cases to eliminate costly data collection.
LongBench: A Bilingual, Multitask Benchmark for Long Context Understanding (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) can only handle texts a few thousand tokens long, limiting their applications on longer sequence inputs, such as books, reports, and codebases.
Approach: They propose a bilingual, multi-task benchmark for long context understanding that extends context windows and more sophisticated memory mechanisms to improve models' long context capabilities.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms open-source models but struggles on longer contexts.
LongAlign: A Recipe for Long Context Alignment of Large Language Models (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing studies to build long context language models focus on context extension and continual training on long text.
Approach: They propose a recipe for instruction fine-tuning on input sequences of similar length . they adopt packing and sorted batching strategies to speed up supervised fine-uning .
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing recipes for LLMs in long context tasks by 30% while maintaining proficiency in handling short, generic tasks.
Optimizing NLU Reranking Using Entity Resolution Signals in Multi-domain Dialog Systems (2021.naacl-industry)

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Challenge: In dialog systems, the Natural Language Understanding component makes the interpretation decision before the mentioned entities are resolved.
Approach: They propose to leverage Entity Resolution (ER) features in NLU reranking to learn model weights . they propose a score distribution matching method to ensure the models are calibrated .
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms the baseline model on multiple domain evaluations.
LLMBox: A Comprehensive Library for Large Language Models (2024.acl-demos)

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Challenge: a library to facilitate the development, use, and evaluation of large language models (LLMs) is presented.
Approach: They propose a unified library to facilitate the development, use and evaluation of large language models (LLMs).
Outcome: The proposed library is based on extensive experiments in a variety of evaluation settings.
RADAR: Risk-Aware Distilled Adaptive Routing for Efficient Short-Form Video Platform Ecosystem Governance (2026.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Existing solutions to address inefficiency in large-scale integrity enforcement on short-form video platforms require multiple specialized vertical modules .
Approach: They propose a lightweight risk-aware routing framework that selectively releases low-risk content while dispatching high-risk instances to appropriate vertical modules.
Outcome: The proposed framework selectively releases low-risk content while dispatching high-risk instances to appropriate vertical modules.
ShieldHead: Decoding-time Safeguard for Large Language Models (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Recent advances in LLM-based moderation methods have demonstrated remarkable promise in identifying safety risks associated with both inputs and outputs in human-AI interactions.
Approach: They propose to learn a classification head on the last-layer hidden states of a dialogue model and use it to detect harmful content.
Outcome: The proposed framework is 300 faster (**1ms**) than previous LLM-based moderation models with 99% less parameters than LlamaGuard.
Anchoring the Cache: Mitigating Contextual Hallucination in KV-Compressed Long-Context Summarization (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent studies show that KV cache compression can increase hallucination scores in LLMs . modern LLM models support extremely long sequences, but their impact on model hallucinosity remains underexplored.
Approach: They propose a decoding-phase strategy that selectively removes generated KV pairs from retrieval heads responsible for retrieving critical information from source context.
Outcome: The proposed method reduces hallucination across multiple models and datasets while preserving computational efficiency.
Unleashing Low-Bit Inference on Ascend NPUs: A Comprehensive Evaluation of HiFloat Formats (2026.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Low-bit floating-point formats like MXFP and NVFP4 offer new opportunities for precision and efficiency.
Approach: They evaluate HiFloat (HiF8 and HiF4), a family of floating-point formats tailored for Ascend NPUs.
Outcome: The proposed formats excel with high-variance data and are compatible with state-of-the-art quantization frameworks.
Speak No Evil, Just Prompt: Low-resource Multilingual Toxic Speech Detection with Audio Language Model (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for toxic speech detection rely on high-resource languages and lack acoustic cues.
Approach: They propose a prompt-based adaptation framework that performs end-to-end toxicity detection without ASR.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves a micro-averaged ROC-AUC of 98.07% on polySpeechTox . it is based on a frozen audio language model and can perform end-to-end toxicity detection without ASR .

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