Papers by Xuanyu Li

12 papers
Hierarchical Acoustic-Semantic Modeling: Modality Separation and Semantic Coherence for Full-Duplex SLMs (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: despite significant progress, full-duplex SLMs are constrained by severe modality interference, authors say . modality interferes with acoustic and semantic modeling, making them unintelligent and unnatural . authors propose a hierarchical parameter separation strategy that decouples conflicting modalities in deep layers .
Approach: They propose a hierarchical parameter separation strategy that decouples conflicting modalities in deep layers while preserving cross-modality coherence via a dedicated semantic alignment channel.
Outcome: The proposed method significantly advances the state of the art on full-duplex benchmarks . it decouples conflicting modalities in deep layers while preserving cross-modality coherence .
Writing-RL: Advancing Long-form Writing via Adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled strong performance in long-form writing, but current training paradigms remain limited.
Approach: They propose an Adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning framework to advance long-form writing capabilities beyond SFT.
Outcome: Experiments on 7B-scale writer models show that Writing-RL improves long-form writing performance over strong SFT baselines.
A Context-Aware Contrastive Learning Framework for Hateful Meme Detection and Segmentation (2025.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Empirical experiments show HateSieve surpasses existing LMMs in performance with fewer trainable parameters .
Approach: They propose a framework to enhance detection and segmentation of hateful elements in memes by creating a triplet dataset and an Image-Text Alignment module.
Outcome: HateSieve features a new framework that creates semantically correlated memes and generates contextual embeddings for accurate meme segmentation.
Instance-Guided Prompt Learning for Few-Shot Text Matching (2022.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Few-shot text matching is a more practical technique to determine whether two texts are semantically identical.
Approach: They propose a pluggable prompt learning method for few-shot text matching . they use the semantics of instances to regulate the effects of the gate on the prompt tokens .
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms baselines on MRPC and QQP.
Scaffolding Coordinates to Promote Vision-Language Coordination in Large Multi-Modal Models (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing prompting techniques for Large Multi-Modal Models (LMMs) focus on improving textual reasoning or leveraging tools for image preprocessing, lacking a simple and general visual prompting scheme to promote vision-language coordination.
Approach: They propose a prompting scheme that scaffolds coordinates to promote vision-language coordination in Large Multi-Modal Models (LMMs) they overlay a dot matrix within the image as visual information anchors and leverage multi-dimensional coordinates as textual positional references.
Outcome: Experiments on a wide range of vision-language tasks show the superiority of SCAFFOLD prompting over the textual Chain-of-Thought prompting.
UniMoE-Audio: Unified Speech and Music Generation with Dynamic-Capacity Mixture-of-Experts (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent advances in unified multimodal models indicate a clear trend towards comprehensive content generation.
Approach: They propose a unified speech and music generation model built upon a novel framework . they propose specialized MoE architectures and curated training strategies to tackle data imbalances .
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on major speech and music generation benchmarks.
CTFN: Hierarchical Learning for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Using Coupled-Translation Fusion Network (2021.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for multimodal sentiment analysis require all modalities as input, thus are sensitive to missing modality at predicting time.
Approach: They propose to model bi-direction interplay via couple learning and exploit multiple bi-directional translations to exploit multimodal fusion embeddings.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art or often competitive performance on two multimodal benchmarks with extensive ablation studies.
Improving Factual Consistency in Abstractive Summarization with Sentence Structure Pruning (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Abstractive summarization models suffer from factual inconsistency problem . post-editing methods focus on replacing suspicious entities, failing to modify incorrect content hidden in sentence structures.
Approach: They propose to use sentence pruning operation to correct possible errors . they propose to apply sentence pruning operations to the syntactic dependency tree .
Outcome: The proposed method improves factual consistency on the FRANK dataset compared with baselines . it is model-independent and can serve as the final step in ensuring factual consistentness.
AutoVecCoder: Teaching LLMs to Generate Explicitly Vectorized Code (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Current development practices face a dichotomy between automation and performance.
Approach: They propose a framework to empower LLMs with the capability of automated explicit vectorization.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on the SSE and AVX subsets of SimdBench.
Efficient Dynamic Clustering-Based Document Compression for Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: RAG implementations face challenges in addressing retrieved noise and redundant content . current RAG methods lack the ability to exploit fine-grained inter-document relationships .
Approach: They propose a retrieval-augmented generation framework that exploits latent inter-document relationships while removing irrelevant information and redundant content.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves consistent performance improvements on knowledge-QA and hallucination-Detection datasets.
A Robust Dual-debiasing VQA Model based on Counterfactual Causal Effect (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing VQA models suffer from language bias that indicates a spurious correlation between textual questions and answers.
Approach: They propose a model agnostic dual-debiasing framework that models two types of language bias by separate branches under counterfactual inference framework.
Outcome: The proposed framework significantly reduces language bias and achieves state-of-the-art performance on the benchmark datasets.
A Cause-Effect Look at Alleviating Hallucination of Knowledge-grounded Dialogue Generation (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Existing dialogue systems have demonstrated impressive performance conducting fluent and natural-sounding conversations, but they are plagued by the Knowledge Hallucination problem.
Approach: They propose a method that exploits the dialogue-knowledge interaction to reduce hallucination by using external knowledge resources to generate more informative responses.
Outcome: The proposed method reduces hallucination without disrupting other dialogue performance while keeping adaptive to different generation models.

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