Papers by Yidong Chen
RubricBench: Aligning Model-Generated Rubrics with Human Standards (2026.acl-long)
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Junyi Zhou, Qiyuan Zhang, Yufei Wang, Fuyuan Lyu, Yidong Ming, Can Xu, Qingfeng Sun, Kai Zheng, Peng Kang, Xue Liu, Chen Ma
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks lack discriminative complexity and ground-truth rubric annotations required for rigorous evaluation. |
| Approach: | They propose a curated benchmark with 1,147 pairwise comparisons to assess the reliability of rubric-based evaluation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks show that they support diverse domains, exhibit discriminative ability, provide high-quality annotations, and include human-authored rubrics. |
Towards Robust Neural Machine Translation with Iterative Scheduled Data-Switch Training (2022.coling-1)
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Zhongjian Miao, Xiang Li, Liyan Kang, Wen Zhang, Chulun Zhou, Yidong Chen, Bin Wang, Min Zhang, Jinsong Su
| Challenge: | Existing methods on robust neural machine translation (NMT) construct adversarial examples by injecting noise into authentic examples and indiscriminately exploit two types of examples. |
| Approach: | They propose an iterative scheduled data-switch training framework to mitigate this problem by injecting noise into authentic examples and indiscriminately exploiting two types of examples. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms several competitive benchmarks on four translation benchmarks. |
CNSL-bench: Benchmarking the Sign Language Understanding Capabilities of MLLMs on Chinese National Sign Language (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | CNSL-bench is the first comprehensive Chinese National Sign Language benchmark . current MLLMs are inferior to human performance, despite advances in multimodal modeling . |
| Approach: | They propose a Chinese National Sign Language benchmark to evaluate multimodal large language models in sign language understanding. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark evaluates 21 open-source and proprietary MLLMs . results show that current models are inferior to human performance . |
wav2vec-S: Adapting Pre-trained Speech Models for Streaming (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Pre-trained speech models have advanced speech-related tasks, including speech recognition and translation. |
| Approach: | They propose a pre-trained speech model that incorporates modifications to ensure consistent speech representations during training and inference phases for streaming speech inputs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models on speech recognition and translation tasks and achieves a superior balance between quality and latency. |
LLMs Can Achieve High-quality Simultaneous Machine Translation as Efficiently as Offline (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models perform well in offline machine translation when the complete source sentence is provided . however, in many real scenarios, the source tokens arrive in a streaming manner and simultaneous machine translation is required . |
| Approach: | They propose a new paradigm that includes constructing supervised fine-tuning data for simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) to achieve SiMT, source and target tokens are rearranged into interleaved sequences, separated by special tokens according to varying latency requirements. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art performance across various SiMT benchmarks and evaluation metrics while maintaining efficient auto-regressive decoding. |
Towards Better Document-level Relation Extraction via Iterative Inference (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods only consider feature information of entity pairs, but our model exploits both feature information and previous predictions of entity pair. |
| Approach: | They propose a document-level relation extraction model with iterative inference to extract relations between entities from raw texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing methods on three commonly-used datasets. |
Dynamic Feature Fusion for Sign Language Translation Using HyperNetworks (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Using RGB and keypoint streams, sign language translation is highly dependent on the brain's ability to process color, shape, and motion simultaneously. |
| Approach: | They propose a hypernetwork-based fusion method that extracts salient features from RGB and keypoint streams and introduces self-distillation and SST contrastive learning to maintain feature advantages while aligning the global semantic space. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on two public sign language datasets, reducing model parameters by about two-thirds. |
A Multi-Task Approach for Improving Biomedical Named Entity Recognition by Incorporating Multi-Granularity information (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Neural named entity recognition (BioNER) methods require large amount of annotated data, while the annotating BioNER datasets are often difficult to obtain and small in scale due to the limitations of privacy, ethics and high degree of specialization. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that utilizes latent multi-granularity information in annotated bioNER datasets to alleviate the lack of training samples. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves over the BioBERT baseline and can get more than 3% improvement of F1score in low-resource scenarios. |
Representation Purification for End-to-End Speech Translation (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to enhance speech translation focus on enhancing knowledge transfer . factors in speech that are not relevant to translation content, such as timbre and rhythm, often limit the efficiency of knowledge transfer. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that excludes content-agnostic perturbations from speech representations to mitigate their negative impact on ST. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly improves translation performance across all translation directions in three settings and achieves preeminent performance under a *transcript-free* setting. |
Ready Jurist One: Benchmarking Language Agents for Legal Intelligence in Dynamic Environments (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks for legal intelligence are limited to static evaluation paradigms or simplified scenarios. |
| Approach: | They introduce J1-ENVS, the first interactive and dynamic legal environment tailored for LLM-based agents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework assesses task performance and procedural compliance across legal proficiency levels. |
Improving Multilingual Sign Language Translation with Automatically Clustered Language Family Information (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent research has focused on bilingual translation models, but multilingual sign language translation presents unique challenges due to the diversity of sign languages across nations. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that leverages sign language families to improve MSLT performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach can achieve balance between translation accuracy and computational cost by regulating the number of language families. |
Adapting Offline Speech Translation Models for Streaming with Future-Aware Distillation and Inference (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to streaming speech translation use an offline model with a wait-k policy . however, there is a mismatch problem with an offline inference model trained with complete utterances . |
| Approach: | They propose an offline streaming speech translation model with wait-k policy to support different latency requirements. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves better trade-offs between translation quality and latency than baselines. |
Exploring All-In-One Knowledge Distillation Framework for Neural Machine Translation (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge distillation methods only obtain one lightweight student each time . this could be resource-intensive and resulting in multiple students not being optimally utilized . |
| Approach: | They propose a knowledge distillation framework which generates multiple satisfactory students at once. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework generates multiple satisfactory students at once. |
Adaptive Simultaneous Sign Language Translation with Confident Translation Length Estimation (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing non-simultaneous sign language translation methods suffer from inherent inference delays in real-time scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose an adaptive policy for simultaneous sign language translation that progressively converts incrementally received sign video into its corresponding natural sentence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed policy excels in situations requiring extremely low latency. |
HyperNetwork-based Decoupling to Improve Model Generalization for Few-Shot Relation Extraction (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies cannot generalize well to unseen relations using Prototypical Networks . current approaches are dependent on large amount of labeled data and cannot deal with unseense relations well. |
| Approach: | They propose a HyperNetwork-based Decoupling approach to improve FSRE generalization . they propose FSre models with an encoder, network generator and refined classifiers . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the generalization of few-shot relation extraction models. |
TempParaphraser: “Heating Up” Text to Evade AI-Text Detection through Paraphrasing (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing detectors that perform well on benchmark datasets have weaknesses that can be exploited to manipulate AI-text. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that simulates high-temperature sampling effects through multiple normal-temperaturing generations, effectively evading detection. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces detector accuracy by an average of 82.5% while preserving high text quality. |
Selective Contrastive Learning For Gloss Free Sign Language Translation (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent SLT systems adopt CLIP-like Vision-Language pretraining, but the random in-batch contrast provides few, batch-dependent negatives. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to train sign video-text similarity over a time period of 3 months . they use a random in-batch contrast strategy to track negative video- text similarity . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system improves sign language translation by focusing on challenging negatives . the results show that the random in-batch contrast provides few negatives and noisy supervision . |
A Document-Level Neural Machine Translation Model with Dynamic Caching Guided by Theme-Rheme Information (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have shown that inter-sentence information is helpful for improving the performance of document-level Neural Machine Translation models, but what information should be regarded as context remains ambiguous. |
| Approach: | They propose a cache-based document-level NMT model which conducts dynamic caching guided by theme-rheme information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves substantial improvements over the state-of-the-art models on NIST evaluation sets. |
Signer Diversity-driven Data Augmentation for Signer-Independent Sign Language Translation (2024.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for sign language translation (SLT) rely on signer identity labels, which is often impractical and costly in real-world applications. |
| Approach: | They propose a signer diversity-driven data augmentation method that can generalize to signers not encountered during training. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results without relying on signer identity labels. |
Translation with Thought: Difficulty-Adaptive Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Domain Machine Translation (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Multi-domain machine translation (MDMT) is a unique challenge due to varying levels of linguistic complexity across domains. |
| Approach: | They propose a resource-rational framework that learns to modulate inference between intuitive and deliberate reasoning. |
| Outcome: | Evaluated on 15 benchmarks spanning in-domain and out-of-domain settings, as well as 3 seen and 59 unseen languages, with ablations across three backbone models, TwT-7B and Twt-14B outperform much larger SOTA reasoning models in translation quality, while reducing token usage by 32–60%. |
Learning to Compose Representations of Different Encoder Layers towards Improving Compositional Generalization (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies show that sequence-to-sequence (seq2sequ) models struggle with compositional generalization (CG) a crucial property of human language learning is its compositional globalization (GC), the algebraic ability to understand and produce a potentially infinite number of novel combinations from known components. |
| Approach: | They propose a sequence-to-sequence (seq2sequ) extension which learns to compose representations of different encoder layers dynamically for different tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves competitive results on two comprehensive and realistic benchmarks, which empirically demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed model. |