Papers by Yifei Liu

43 papers
VPTQ: Extreme Low-bit Vector Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent research has focused on pushing weight-only quantization to extremely low-bit due to numerical representation limitations.
Approach: They propose a vector-based quantization approach that pushes LLMs to extremely low-bit . they propose scalar-based weight quantization that reduces memory requirements and optimizes storage costs .
Outcome: The proposed method reduces model quantization perplexity by 0.01-0.34 on LLaMA-2, 0.38-0.68 on mistral-7B, 4.41-7.34, on llaMA-3 on QA tasks on average.
Decentralized Arena: Towards Democratic and Scalable Automatic Evaluation of Language Models (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: closed-ended question-based benchmarks struggle with saturation as newer models emerge . crowd-sourced leaderboards rely on costly and slow human judges .
Approach: They propose a framework that leverages collective intelligence from all large language models to evaluate each other.
Outcome: a new framework enables a democratic, pairwise evaluation of all large language models . it achieves 97% correlation with human judgements, while significantly reducing the cost.
Reasoning as Gradient: Scaling MLE Agents Beyond Tree Search (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: LLM-based agents for machine learning engineering rely on tree search to rank candidates.
Approach: They propose an LLM-based agent that operationalizes gradient-based optimization.
Outcome: The proposed agent achieves a state-of-the-art 35.1% any-medal rate on MLE-Bench with a limited budget on a single GPU.
MulZDG: Multilingual Code-Switching Framework for Zero-shot Dialogue Generation (2022.coling-1)

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Challenge: Existing zero-shot dialogue generation systems rely on large-scale pre-trained language models.
Approach: They propose a multilingual learning framework for zero-shot dialogue generation that can transfer knowledge from an English corpus to a non-English corpus with zero samples.
Outcome: The proposed framework can transfer knowledge from an English corpus to a non-English corpus with zero samples.
Topology Matters: Measuring Memory Leakage in Multi-Agent LLMs (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Multi-agent LLMs are rapidly moving from prototype to real-world use . network topology is a first-order security parameter in multi-aggent systems .
Approach: They propose a framework for comparing topology-conditioned memory leakage in multi-agent LLM systems.
Outcome: The proposed framework evaluates topology-conditioned memory leakage in multi-agent LLM systems.
Locomo-Plus: Beyond-Factual Cognitive Memory Evaluation Framework for LLM Agents (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing benchmarks and evaluation protocols focus on surface-level factual recall.
Approach: They propose a benchmark for assessing cognitive memory under cue–trigger semantic disconnect.
Outcome: The proposed framework reveals failures not captured by existing benchmarks.
Enhancing Court View Generation with Knowledge Injection and Guidance (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Existing methods of natural language generation (NLG) rely on the extensive parameters of pretrained language models (PLMs) but their effectiveness may be compromised by insufficient domain-specific knowledge.
Approach: They propose a knowledge-injected prompt encoder to incorporate domain knowledge during the training stage, thereby reducing computational overhead.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms established baselines on real-world data in responsivity of claims and in the ability to transfer domain knowledge.
INTERS: Unlocking the Power of Large Language Models in Search with Instruction Tuning (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in various natural language processing tasks, but their application to information retrieval tasks is still challenging due to the infrequent occurrence of many IR-specific concepts in natural language.
Approach: They propose to use instruction tuning to enhance LLMs' proficiency in IR tasks by combining a dataset with manually written templates to analyze the effects of instruction design, template diversity, few-shot demonstrations, and the volume of instructions.
Outcome: The proposed model can be used to perform query understanding, document understanding, and query-document relationship understanding tasks.
EMRs2CSP : Mining Clinical Status Pathway from Electronic Medical Records (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Current studies focus on extracting tests or treatments when constructing clinical pathways, neglecting the patient's symptoms and diagnosis.
Approach: They propose a novel clinical pathway representation: the clinical status pathway and a pipeline framework for extracting clinical status from electronic medical records.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves extraction accuracy by modeling diagnostic and treatment processes and demonstrates significant improvements on medical question-answering and decision-support tasks.
MAGRET: Machine-generated Text Detection with Rewritten Texts (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Existing studies focus on detecting machine-generated text in open-source models, but their performance on closed-source large models is limited.
Approach: They propose a method to detect rewritten text from large language models using a BERT encoder and propose to refine it to achieve semantic alignment.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms baseline methods on three text-generated datasets.
Towards Interactivity and Interpretability: A Rationale-based Legal Judgment Prediction Framework (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing models lack interpretability due to the neglect of rationale in the prediction process.
Approach: They propose a rationale-based legal judgment prediction framework that follows the judge's real trial logic and provides good interactivity and interpretability.
Outcome: The proposed framework provides good interactivity and interpretability which enables practical use.
AgentThink: A Unified Framework for Tool-Augmented Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Vision-Language Models struggle with hallucinations, inefficient reasoning, and limited real-world validation hinders accurate perception and robust step-by-step reasoning.
Approach: AgentThink integrates Chain-of-Thought reasoning with dynamic, agent-style tool invocation for autonomous driving tasks.
Outcome: Experiments on the DriveLMM-o1 benchmark show AgentThink significantly boosts overall reasoning scores by 53.91% and enhances answer accuracy by 33.54% .
MoLAN: A Unified Modality-Aware Noise Dynamic Editing Framework for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to multimodal sentiment analysis treat entire modality as an independent unit for feature enhancement or denoising, which often suppresses redundant noise at the cost of weakening critical information.
Approach: They propose a ModaLity-aware noise dynAmic editiNg framework that performs modality-awful block partitioning by dividing features of each modality into multiple blocks.
Outcome: Experiments on five models and four datasets show that MoLAN+ achieves the state-of-the-art performance.
Towards Provably Secure Generative AI: Reliable Consensus Sampling (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing research on generative AI security is driven by mutually reinforcing attack and defense methodologies grounded in empirical experience.
Approach: They propose a new algorithm that uses a random sampling algorithm to control risk.
Outcome: The proposed algorithm improves robustness and utility while maintaining latency comparable to existing algorithms.
UniLR: Unleashing the Power of LLMs on Multiple Legal Tasks with a Unified Legal Retriever (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing retrieval methods are designed for general domains, struggling with legal knowledge, or tailored for specific legal tasks, unable to handle diverse legal knowledge types.
Approach: They propose a novel retrieval method that integrates specialized knowledge into LLMs.
Outcome: The proposed method can perform multiple legal retrieval tasks for LLMs.
HiFT: A Hierarchical Full Parameter Fine-Tuning Strategy (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to fine-tuning language models use zeroth-order optimizers to conserve GPU memory.
Approach: They propose a full-parameter fine-tuning strategy which updates a subset of parameters at each training step.
Outcome: The proposed approach reduces the amount of gradients and optimizer state parameters residing in GPU memory at the same time, thereby reducing GPU memory usage.
MUR: Momentum Uncertainty guided Reasoning for Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for optimizing reasoning quality are limited by overthinking.
Approach: They propose a method that allocates thinking budgets to critical reasoning steps by tracking and aggregating step-wise uncertainty over time.
Outcome: The proposed method reduces computation by over 45% on average while improving accuracy by 0.33–3.46%.
MUSE: A Multimodal Conversational Recommendation Dataset with Scenario-Grounded User Profiles (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing research focuses solely on text, leaving a gap with practical applications.
Approach: They propose to synthesize a multimodal conversational recommendation dataset using multimodal large language models to automatically synthesized data from 7,000 conversations in the Clothing domain.
Outcome: The proposed dataset contains 83,148 utterances from 7,000 conversations centered around the Clothing domain.
Unleashing the Power of LLMs in Court View Generation by Stimulating Internal Knowledge and Incorporating External Knowledge (2024.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable strides in language generation, but they encounter difficulties in the knowledge-intensive legal domain.
Approach: They propose to decompose court views into different parts, stimulate internal knowledge, and incorporate external information to unleash the power of LLMs in the task.
Outcome: The proposed method generates more accurate and reliable court views on two real-world datasets LAIC2021 and CJO2022.
Neural Parameter Search for Slimmer Fine-Tuned Models and Better Transfer (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Foundational models and their checkpoints have advanced deep learning, boosting performance across applications.
Approach: They propose a method for pruning fine-tuned models by calculating differences between them and original model.
Outcome: The proposed method can improve performance across vision, NLP, and multi-modal benchmarks.
Pixel-Level Reasoning Segmentation via Multi-turn Conversations (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing visual perception systems focus on region-level segmentation in single-turn dialogues . existing systems cannot reason at the pixel level and comprehend dynamic user intent .
Approach: They propose a task that tracks evolving user intent via multi-turn interactions for fine-grained segmentation.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing baselines in segmentation and reasoning metrics.
DialogConv: A Lightweight Fully Convolutional Network for Multi-view Response Selection (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing retrieval-based dialogue systems suffer from slow inference or huge number of parameters.
Approach: They propose a lightweight fully convolutional architecture for response selection using convolution.
Outcome: The proposed architecture extracts matching features of context and response from 3D views.
ParetoRAG: Leveraging Sentence-Context Attention for Robust and Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Retrieval-augmented generation systems face persistent challenges in retrieval inefficiency and the inability of LLMs to filter out irrelevant information.
Approach: They propose an unsupervised framework that optimizes RAG systems through sentence-level refinement guided by the Pareto principle.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves dual improvements in retrieval precision and generation quality without additional training or API resources while using only 40% of the tokens compared to traditional approaches.
Precedent-Enhanced Legal Judgment Prediction with LLM and Domain-Model Collaboration (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent advances in deep learning have enabled a variety of techniques to be used to solve the LJP task.
Approach: They propose a framework that leverages the strength of both LLMs and domain-specific models in the context of precedents.
Outcome: The proposed framework leverages the strength of both LLM and domain models in the context of precedents.
TOOLCAD: Exploring Tool-Using Large Language Models in Text-to-CAD Generation with Reinforcement Learning (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable advances in enabling language agents to tackle real-world tasks.
Approach: They propose a tool-using agent-based CAD framework that automates text-to-CAD modeling . they propose an interactive CAD gym to roll out reasoning and tool-augmented interaction trajectories with the CAD engine .
Outcome: The proposed framework can generalize across complex modeling tasks, supporting their open-source counterparts.
VortexPIA: Indirect Prompt Injection Attack against LLMs for Efficient Extraction of User Privacy (2026.findings-eacl)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) have been widely deployed in Conversational AIs . however, the methods proposed in the study rely on a white-box setting .
Approach: They propose an indirect prompt injection attack that induces privacy extraction in LLMs . they use token-efficient data containing false memories to inject LLM data .
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms baselines and achieves state-of-the-art performance.
Can MLLMs Understand the Deep Implication Behind Chinese Images? (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: MLLMs perform poorly on traditional culture images, indicating limitations in understanding high-level semantics and lacking a deep knowledge base of Chinese traditional culture.
Approach: They propose to use Chinese images to assess MLLMs' higher-order perception and understanding of Chinese visual content.
Outcome: The proposed model incorporates images that represent Chinese traditional culture, such as famous Chinese traditional paintings, to ensure the authenticity of the Chinese context.
Raw Pointer Rewriting with LLMs for Translating C to Safer Rust (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: C2Rust is a system programming language that enforces strict memory and type safety guarantees.
Approach: They propose a raw pointer rewriting technique that lifts raw pointers in individual functions to appropriate Rust data structures.
Outcome: The proposed technique eliminates 18.57% of local raw pointers and improves memory safety on 28 real-world C projects.
Libra-VLA: Achieving Learning Equilibrium via Asynchronous Coarse-to-Fine Dual-System (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Vision-Language-Action models ground high-level semantic instructions into executable physical actions.
Approach: They propose a Coarse-to-Fine Dual-System VLA architecture that decouples learning complexity into a coarse-to fine hierarchy while leveraging structural modularity to implement an asynchronous execution strategy.
Outcome: The proposed architecture decouples learning complexity into a coarse-to-fine hierarchy while leveraging structural modularity to implement an asynchronous execution strategy.
CogDual: Enhancing Dual Cognition of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Implicit Rule-Based Rewards (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to role-playing language models rely on prompt engineering or supervised fine-tuning to emulate character behaviors but neglect the underlying cognitive mechanisms driving these behaviors.
Approach: They propose a novel RPLA adopting a cognize-then-respond reasoning paradigm that leverages dual cognition for more contextually grounded and psychologically coherent responses.
Outcome: The proposed RPLA outperforms baselines and generalizes effectively across diverse role-playing tasks.
AlphaContext: An Evolutionary Tree-based Psychometric Context Generator for Creativity Assessment (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing LLM-based tools struggle with insufficient assessment cues, weak narrative coherence, limited stylistic diversity, and poor support for creative thinking.
Approach: They propose an evolutionary tree-based psychometric context generator that integrates rule-guided outline planning, sentence-level MCTS generation, MAP-Elites quality-diversity optimization and assessment-guide refiner simulation.
Outcome: The proposed tool outperforms strong LLMs and structured frameworks on 7 evaluation dimensions and shows higher alignment with expert-designed contexts.
SHIELD: LLM-Driven Schema Induction for Predictive Analytics in EV Battery Supply Chain Disruptions (2024.emnlp-industry)

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Challenge: EV battery supply chain is vulnerable to disruptions caused by natural disasters and geopolitical tensions.
Approach: They propose a system integrating Large Language Models with domain expertise for EV supply chain risk assessment.
Outcome: Evaluated on 12,070 paragraphs from 365 sources (2022-2023), SHIELD outperforms baseline GCNs and LLM+prompt methods in disruption prediction.
Chain-of-Quizzes: Pedagogy-inspired Example Selection in In-Context-Learning (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: In-context learning (ICL) is a powerful tool for enhancing large language models (LLMs) by mimicking the human learning process.
Approach: They propose a Chain-of-Quizzes framework that uses LLMs to answer a quiz to sift 'good' examples, combine them iteratively with the increasing complexity, and utilize a final exam to gauge the combined example chains.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms baseline models on diverse reasoning datasets and shows that it is scalable and can be used in future research.
Unleashing Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models via Textual Representation Guided Reasoning (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing Multimodal Large Language Models struggle with 3D spatial reasoning as they fail to construct structured abstractions of the 3D environment depicted in video inputs.
Approach: They propose a prompting method that induces MLLMs to generate 3D representations as reasoning traces for more accurate spatial question answering.
Outcome: Extensive experiments on VSI-Bench and OST-Bech show that TRACE improves over prior prompting strategies across a diverse range of MLLM backbones.
Latent Learningscape Guided In-context Learning (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods to select demonstrations based on surface-level semantic similarities fall short of identifying the most fitting ones.
Approach: They propose a method that characterizes latent learningscape features of demonstrations and uses them to create more effective prompts.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms leading models in arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic reasoning tasks showing an average increase in scores by 7.4 percentage points.
PlaM: Training-Free Plateau-Guided Model Merging for Better Visual Grounding in MLLMs (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Multimodal instruction fine-tuning degrades textual reasoning capability, undermining multimodal performance.
Approach: They propose a plateau-guided model merging method that selectively injects base language model parameters into MLLMs to mitigate this degradation.
Outcome: The proposed framework reduces multimodal instruction fine-tuning degradation by incorporating a plateau-guided model merging method into MLLMs.
NEAT: Neuron-Based Early Exit for Large Reasoning Models (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to reduce overthinking require additional rollout computation or externally labeled datasets.
Approach: They propose a Neuron-based Early reAsoning exiT framework that monitors neuron-level activation dynamics to enable training-free early exits.
Outcome: The proposed framework reduces the amount of reasoning steps generated by LRMs while maintaining accuracy.
A Critical Analysis of Document Out-of-Distribution Detection (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing document understanding models focus on single-modal inputs such as images or texts.
Approach: They propose to use a spatial-aware adapter to adapt transformer-based language models to document domain to exploit multi-modal information.
Outcome: The proposed model significantly improves the OOD detection performance compared to using a standard language model and to competitive baselines.
PVGRU: Generating Diverse and Relevant Dialogue Responses via Pseudo-Variational Mechanism (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing generative models for dialogue use the last hidden state to summarize the history of the dialogue.
Approach: They propose a Pseudo-Variational Gated Recurrent Unit (PVGRU) that summarises the accumulated distribution variations of subsequences and builds a model based on it.
Outcome: The proposed model can improve diversity and relevance of responses on two benchmark datasets.
Efficiently Editing Mixture-of-Experts Models with Compressed Experts (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Mixture-of-Experts models allow for efficient scaling of large language models . fewer experts reduce computational costs, while more experts improve performance .
Approach: They propose to activate only a subset of experts during training and inference . they propose compressed experts that preserve the most important experts .
Outcome: The proposed approach preserves the most important experts while replacing other auxiliary activated experts with compressed experts.
Knowledge Fusion By Evolving Weights of Language Models (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Experimental results on mainstream language models show that Evolver outperforms previous state-of-the-art models by large margins due to the high training costs of large language models.
Approach: They propose a method to integrate multiple models from diverse training scenarios into a unified model.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art models on mainstream language models by large margins.
OneRec-Think: In-Text Reasoning for Generative Recommendation (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing generative models lack the capacity for explicit and controllable reasoning, a key advantage of LLMs.
Approach: They propose a framework that integrates dialogue, reasoning, and personalized recommendation.
Outcome: Experiments across public benchmarks show state-of-the-art performance.
Unsolvable Problem Detection: Robust Understanding Evaluation for Large Multimodal Models (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) is widely used to assess the understanding capability of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs).
Approach: They propose a task to evaluate the robust understanding capability of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) they introduce a benchmark to assess performance across various ability dimensions .
Outcome: The proposed model can withhold answers when encountering unsolvable problems of MCQA, proving it understands the answer.

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