Papers by Xin Ge
Reinforced Efficient Reasoning via Semantically Diverse Exploration (2026.acl-long)
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Ziqi Zhao, Zhaochun Ren, Jiahong Zou, Liu Yang, Zhiwei Xu, Xuri Ge, Zhumin Chen, Xinyu Ma, Daiting Shi, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Xin Xin
| Challenge: | Existing methods for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards suffer from limited exploration diversity and inefficient reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that rewards concise and correct reasoning while penalizing unnecessarily long reasoning chains. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments on Qwen and Llama models validate the effectiveness and efficiency of ROSE. |
AnyGPT: Unified Multimodal LLM with Discrete Sequence Modeling (2024.acl-long)
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Jun Zhan, Junqi Dai, Jiasheng Ye, Yunhua Zhou, Dong Zhang, Zhigeng Liu, Xin Zhang, Ruibin Yuan, Ge Zhang, Linyang Li, Hang Yan, Jie Fu, Tao Gui, Tianxiang Sun, Yu-Gang Jiang, Xipeng Qiu
| 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. |
PaCoRe: Learning to Scale Test-Time Compute with Parallel Coordinated Reasoning (2026.acl-long)
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Jingcheng Hu, Yinmin Zhang, Shijie Shang, Xiaobo Yang, Yue Peng, Zhewei Huang, Hebin Zhou, Xin Wu, Jie Cheng, Fanqi Wan, Xiangwen Kong, Chengyuan Yao, Kaiwen Yan, Ailin Huang, Hongyu Zhou, Qi Han, Zheng Ge, Xiangyu Zhang, Heung-Yeung Shum
| Challenge: | Parallel Coordinated Reasoning (PaCoRe) overcomes a central limitation of contemporary language models: their inability to scale test-time compute (TTC) far beyond sequential reasoning under a fixed context window. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-and-inference framework to overcome a central limitation of language models: their inability to scale test-time compute (TTC) under a fixed context window. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model scales to multi-million-token effective TTC without exceeding context limits. |
Revealing the Attention Floating Mechanism in Masked Diffusion Models (2026.findings-acl)
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Xin Dai, Pengcheng Huang, Zhenghao Liu, Shuo Wang, Yukun Yan, Chaojun Xiao, Yu Gu, Ge Yu, Maosong Sun
| Challenge: | Masked diffusion models (MDMs) leverage bidirectional attention and a denoising process. |
| Approach: | They investigate the attention behaviors of Masked diffusion models by revealing the phenomenon of Attention Floating. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model doubles the performance of autoregressive models in knowledge-intensive tasks. |
Instantaneous Grammatical Error Correction with Shallow Aggressive Decoding (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to improve online inference efficiency of the Transformer for instantaneous Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) are sequenceto-sequence (seq2sequ) and sequenceto sequence (saq2eq) |
| Approach: | They propose a novel approach to improve the online inference efficiency of the Transformer model for instantaneous Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) it aggressively decodes as many tokens as possible in parallel instead of always decoding only one token in each step to improve computational parallelism. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach can achieve state-of-the-art results in English and Chinese benchmarks with 10x speedup over the Transformer-big model. |
MetaMem: Evolving Meta-Memory for Knowledge Utilization through Self-Reflective Symbolic Optimization (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing memory systems can support long-horizon human-LLM interactions by persisting historical interactions beyond limited context windows. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that augments memory systems with a self-evolving meta-memory . meta-meso is iteratively distilling transferable knowledge utilization experiences . results show MetaMem outperforms strong baselines by over 3.6% . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baselines by over 3.6% in the long-horizon human-LLM interaction. |
SCALE: Synergized Collaboration of Asymmetric Language Translation Engines (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | In this paper, we introduce SCALE, a collaborative framework that connects a compact Specialized Translation Model (STM) and a general-purpose Large Language Model (LLM) as one unified translation engine. |
| Approach: | They propose a collaborative framework that connects a Specialized Translation Model (STM) and a general-purpose Large Language Model (LLM) as one unified translation engine. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms both LLMs and supervised models in high-resource or challenging low-resourced settings. |
OAgents: An Empirical Study of Building Effective Agents (2025.findings-emnlp)
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He Zhu, Tianrui Qin, King Zhu, Heyuan Huang, Yeyi Guan, Jinxiang Xia, Hanhao Li, Yi Yao, Ningning Wang, Pai Liu, Tianhao Peng, Xin Gui, Li Xiaowan, Yuhui Liu, Xiangru Tang, Jian Yang, Ge Zhang, Xitong Gao, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Changwang Zhang, Jun Wang, Jiaheng Liu, Wangchunshu Zhou
| Challenge: | a recent study shows that agent research practices are far from standard, rigorous . lack of a standard evaluation protocol makes previous works not reproducible, authors say . |
| Approach: | They conduct an empirical study on the GAIA benchmark to investigate agent design choices . they find that lack of a standard evaluation protocol makes previous works not reproducible . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source projects. |
Easy Guided Decoding in Providing Suggestions for Interactive Machine Translation (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | In order to improve translation efficiency, human translators perform post-editing on machine translations to correct errors. |
| Approach: | They propose to use the parameterized objective function of neural machine translation to deal with the TS problem without additional training. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves translation quality by 10.6 BLEU and reduces time overhead by 63.4% on benchmark datasets. |