Papers by Xingwei Qu

9 papers
CIF-Bench: A Chinese Instruction-Following Benchmark for Evaluating the Generalizability of Large Language Models (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: a recent study shows that large language models have limited generalization in low-resource languages like Chinese.
Approach: They propose to evaluate the zero-shot generalizability of large language models to the Chinese language . they release only half of the dataset publicly, with the remainder kept private .
Outcome: The Chinese Instruction-Following Benchmark evaluates the generalizability of LLMs to the Chinese language.
Can MLLMs Understand the Deep Implication Behind Chinese Images? (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: MLLMs perform poorly on traditional culture images, indicating limitations in understanding high-level semantics and lacking a deep knowledge base of Chinese traditional culture.
Approach: They propose to use Chinese images to assess MLLMs' higher-order perception and understanding of Chinese visual content.
Outcome: The proposed model incorporates images that represent Chinese traditional culture, such as famous Chinese traditional paintings, to ensure the authenticity of the Chinese context.
CMDAG: A Chinese Metaphor Dataset with Annotated Grounds as CoT for Boosting Metaphor Generation (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Metaphors are a prominent linguistic device in human language and literature, as they add color, imagery, and emphasis to enhance effective communication.
Approach: They propose a large-scale high quality annotated Chinese Metaphor Corpus . they use a set of guidelines to ensure the accuracy and consistency of their annotations .
Outcome: The proposed corpus generates metaphors that resonate more with real-world intuition.
COIG-P: A High-Quality and Large-Scale Chinese Preference Dataset for Alignment with Human Values (2026.findings-eacl)

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Challenge: Existing Chinese preference datasets suffer from limited scale, restricted domain coverage, and insufficiently rigorous data validation.
Approach: They propose an LLM-based data annotation pipeline with no human intervention to annotate Chinese preference datasets.
Outcome: The proposed pipeline outperforms existing Chinese preference datasets on AlignBench and Chinese Reward Benchmark.
DREAM: Disentangling Risks to Enhance Safety Alignment in Multimodal Large Language Models (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) pose unique safety challenges due to their integration of visual and textual data.
Approach: They propose a method to disentangle risks through step-by-step reasoning within multimodal inputs.
Outcome: The proposed approach improves safety alignment in MLLMs by fine-tuning and iterative Reinforcement Learning from AI feedback.
MMRA: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multi-Granularity and Multi-Image Relational Association Capabilities in Large Visual Language Models (2026.findings-eacl)

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Challenge: Current multimodal benchmarks focus on facts within individual images, but neglect associative relations among multiple images.
Approach: They propose a multi-image relational association task and a MMRA benchmark to evaluate LVLMs.
Outcome: The proposed benchmarks show that entity-level multi-image perception tasks pose greater challenges than image-level tasks.
GraphReader: Building Graph-based Agent to Enhance Long-Context Abilities of Large Language Models (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing models for long contexts struggle to handle long inputs due to limited context window and memory usage.
Approach: They propose a graph-based agent system that analyzes long texts into a graphical graph . GraphReader consistently outperforms GPT-4-128k across context lengths from 16k to 256k .
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing models on four challenging benchmarks.
LIME: Less Is More for MLLM Evaluation (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing MLLM benchmarks and unified evaluation frameworks cannot accurately and efficiently reflect the ability of MLMLs.
Approach: They propose a semi-automated benchmark curated using a pipeline that filters out uninformative samples and eliminates answer leakage by focusing on tasks that require image-based understanding.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark reduces the number of samples by 76% and evaluation time by 77% while it can more effectively distinguish different models’ abilities.
MORE-3S:Multimodal-based Offline Reinforcement Learning with Shared Semantic Spaces (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to offline reinforcement learning (RL) focus on learning value functions or policy gradients, but they view it as a sequence modeling task.
Approach: They propose a method that integrates multimodal and pre-trained language models to transform offline reinforcement learning into a supervised learning task by integrating state information derived from images and action-related data obtained from text.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms baselines on Atari and OpenAI Gym environments while promoting long-term strategic thinking.

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