Papers by Xiyuan Zhou

3 papers
Proactive Human-Machine Conversation with Explicit Conversation Goal (P19-1)

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Challenge: Typical human-machine conversation systems only use utterances and responses as training data, which results in uninformative and inappropriate responses.
Approach: They propose a dataset where one acts as a conversation leader and the other as 'follower' they establish baseline results on a 270K utterances and 30k dialogues dataset using state-of-the-art models.
Outcome: The proposed model can generate diverse multi-turn conversations using knowledge from a new dataset .
D-NET: A Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning Framework for Improving the Generalization of Machine Reading Comprehension (D19-58)

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Challenge: MRC requires machines to understand text and answer questions about the text.
Approach: They propose a simple system Baidu submitted for MRQA 2019 Shared Task that focused on generalization of machine reading comprehension (MRC) models.
Outcome: The proposed system is ranked at top 1 of all participants in terms of averaged F1 score.
EngiBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Engineering Problem Solving (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing benchmarks focus on well-defined or abstract reasoning and fail to capture real-world engineering problems.
Approach: They propose a hierarchical benchmark to evaluate large language models on engineering problems.
Outcome: The proposed model performs well under well-defined conditions and is based on three levels of difficulty and covers diverse engineering subfields.

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