Papers by Ye Lyu
Jigsaw-Puzzles: From Seeing to Understanding to Reasoning in Vision-Language Models (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing vision-language models lack spatial reasoning capability, despite their ability to comprehend spatial arrangements and model structural relations. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate vision-language models' spatial perception, structural understanding, and reasoning capabilities by minimizing reliance on domain-specific knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark is based on 1,100 carefully curated real-world images with high spatial complexity. |
Optimizing User Profiles via Contextual Bandits for Retrieval-Augmented LLM Personalization (2026.acl-long)
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Linfeng Du, Ye Yuan, Zichen Zhao, Fuyuan Lyu, Emiliano Penaloza, Xiuying Chen, Zipeng Sun, Jikun Kang, Laurent Charlin, Xue Liu, Haolun Wu
| Challenge: | Existing approaches for personalizing large language models require modifying parameters. |
| Approach: | They propose a lightweight approach to personalizing large language models via retrieval augmentation . relevance serves as an unreliable proxy for utility, they argue . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms strong heuristic and retrieval-augmented baselines on nine personalization tasks. |
Explanation in the Era of Large Language Models (2024.naacl-tutorials)
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| Challenge: | Explanation has long been a part of communication, where humans use language to elucidate each other and transmit information about mechanisms of events. |
| Approach: | They review the opportunities and challenges of explanations in the era of large language models and examine how they can be used to generate explanations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods are based on the models of large language models (LLMs) and their opaque nature. |
RedOne: Revealing Domain-specific LLM Post-Training in Social Networking Services (2025.emnlp-industry)
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Fei Zhao, Chonggang Lu, null Wangyue, Zheyong Xie, Ziyan Liu, Haofu Qian, Jianzhao Huang, Fangcheng Shi, Zijie Meng, Hongcheng Guo, Mingqian He, Xinze Lyu, Zheyu Ye, Weiting Liu, Boyang Wang, Shaosheng Cao
| Challenge: | Social networking services (SNS) have experienced rapid growth, which has proposed significant challenges for platform content management and interaction quality improvement. |
| Approach: | They propose a domain-specific LLM to break the performance bottleneck of single-task baselines and establish a comprehensive foundation for social networking services. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves an average improvement of 14.02% across 8 major tasks and 7.56% in bilingual evaluation benchmark, compared with baseline models. |
MedCoach: Enhancing Medical Reasoning in LLMs via Knowledge Graph-Augmented Chain-of-Thought Distillation (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for training specialized reasoning models for the medical domain are limited due to the scarcity of high-quality, large-scale Chain-of-Thought (CoT) data. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that introduces a dedicated coach role to guide the student model through question decomposition. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework smooths the learning curve in medical reasoning by facilitating domain adaptation before advancing to complex long-chain reasoning. |
Enhancing Open-Domain Task-Solving Capability of LLMs via Autonomous Tool Integration from GitHub (2025.acl-long)
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Bohan Lyu, Xin Cong, Heyang Yu, Pan Yang, Cheng Qian, Zihe Wang, Yujia Qin, Yining Ye, Yaxi Lu, Chen Qian, Zhong Zhang, Yukun Yan, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
| Challenge: | Existing approaches lack flexibility to address diverse and ever-evolving user queries in open domains. |
| Approach: | They propose to evaluate LLMs on open-domain knowledge that requires tools to solve diverse and ever-evolving user queries. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms baselines in the open domain task-solving benchmark. |