Papers by Yanchao Li

6 papers
DentalGPT: Incentivizing Multimodal Reasoning in Dentistry (2026.findings-acl)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) show limited understanding of dental images.
Approach: They propose a dental-specialized multimodal large language model trained via staged multimodal alignment and reinforcement learning.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models on disease classification and dental VQA tasks.
Analyzing Chain-of-thought Prompting in Black-Box Large Language Models via Estimated V-information (2024.lrec-main)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting and large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in improving performance on challenging reasoning tasks.
Approach: They propose a new metric which extends the concept of pointwise V-information to black-box models and quantifies label-relevant new information introduced by CoT prompting.
Outcome: The proposed metric extends the concept of pointwise V-information to black-box models, quantifying label-relevant new information introduced by CoT prompting beyond pre-existing label information.
Pruning via Merging: Compressing LLMs via Manifold Alignment Based Layer Merging (2024.emnlp-main)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing methods for parameter pruning fail to utilize the knowledge from pruned parameters.
Approach: They propose a method that uses manifold learning and the Information Bottleneck measure to merge similar layers to preserve model performance.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms pruning methods on multiple datasets and LLMs with quantization and achieves substantial compression ratios.
Class Lifelong Learning for Intent Detection via Structure Consolidation Networks (2023.findings-acl)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing intent detection models can only handle predefined intent classes in the offline environment.
Approach: They propose a method that continually learns new intent classes from new data . structure-based retrospection and contrastive knowledge distillation are used to solve these problems .
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing models on three benchmarks.
The CRECIL Corpus: a New Dataset for Extraction of Relations between Characters in Chinese Multi-party Dialogues (2022.lrec-1)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing datasets focus on relation extraction between two entities in one sentence, and some focus on cross-sentence relationships.
Approach: They propose to use a Chinese multi-party dialogue dataset for automatic extraction of dialogue-based character relationships.
Outcome: The proposed dataset extracts relationships between 140 entities on the CRECIL corpus and another existing relation extraction corpus.
Beyond Surface Features: Advancing Medical Vision-Language Alignment via Dynamic Evidence-Guided Preference Optimization (2026.acl-long)

Copied to clipboard

Challenge: Existing preference-based methods for medical large vision-Language Models face limitations in medical settings . existing methods are limited by overfitting to superficial cues and pseudo convergence of the preference signal.
Approach: They propose a framework that enables evidence-aware and adaptive preference learning for Med-LVLMs.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves evidence-aware and adaptive preference learning for Med-LVLMs.

What is GenGO?

GenGO is an NLP powered publication search system. It currenctly indexes 30k+ papers from ACL Anthology, and implements multi-aspect summarization, semantic search, and more!

Information

About
Limitations