Papers by Yanjie Liang
Infinity-Parser: Layout-Aware Reinforcement Learning with High-quality Document Parsing Dataset (2026.findings-acl)
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Baode Wang, Biao Wu, Weizhen Li, Meng Fang, Zuming Huang, Jun Huang, Yanjie Liang, Haozhe Wang, Ling Chen, Wei Chu, Yuan Qi
| Challenge: | Existing supervised fine-tuning methods struggle to generalize across document types, leading to poor performance. |
| Approach: | They propose layoutRL, a reinforcement learning framework that optimizes layout understanding through composite rewards integrating normalized edit distance, paragraph count accuracy, and reading order preservation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms specialized document parsing systems and general-purpose vision-language models on a broad range of document types, languages, and structural complexities. |
PresentAgent: Multimodal Agent for Presentation Video Generation (2025.emnlp-demos)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for generating static slides or text summaries are limited to producing narrated presentations. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal agent that transforms long-form documents into narrated presentations. |
| Outcome: | The present agent produces fully synchronized visual and spoken content that closely mimics human-style presentations. |
Inducing Argument Facets for Faithful Opinion Summarization (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Faithful opinion summarization task involves generating a summary that covers the majority and minority opinions in documents. |
| Approach: | They propose a facets-guided opinion summarization method that induces facets and partitions documents into multiple facet-specific sets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods and multiple LLMs on two representative datasets and shows it can be used in specialty domains. |