Papers by Yining Huang
Stylized Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation via Disentangled Template Rewriting (2022.naacl-main)
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Qingfeng Sun, Can Xu, Huang Hu, Yujing Wang, Jian Miao, Xiubo Geng, Yining Chen, Fei Xu, Daxin Jiang
| Challenge: | Existing knowledge-grounded dialogue generation models only produce pedantic responses, which lacks emotion and attraction compared with the responses with polite style, positive and negative sentiments. |
| Approach: | They propose a method which generates responses via combing disentangled style templates and content templates. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on evaluation metrics compared with state-of-the-art methods. |
Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Extractive Document Summarization (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing models capture cross-sentence relations with recurrent neural networks, but they are hard to capture sentence-level long-distance dependency. |
| Approach: | They propose a graph-based neural network for extractive summarization which contains semantic nodes apart from sentences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed graph-based neural network is the first to incorporate different types of nodes into it and perform a qualitative analysis. |
LoRA-PAR: A Flexible Dual-System LoRA Partitioning Approach to Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Large-scale generative models like DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI-O1 benefit substantially from chain-of-thought reasoning, yet pushing their performance typically requires vast data, large model sizes, and full-parameter fine-tuning. |
| Approach: | They propose a dual-system LoRA framework that partitions data and parameters by System 1 or System 2 demands and adopts a two-stage fine-tuning strategy to enhance knowledge and intuition. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework partitions data and parameters by System 1 or System 2 demands, using fewer yet more focused parameters for each task. |
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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Kangan Qian, Sicong Jiang, Yang Zhong, Ziang Luo, Zilin Huang, Tianze Zhu, Kun Jiang, Mengmeng Yang, Zheng Fu, Jinyu Miao, Yining Shi, He Zhe Lim, Li Liu, Tianbao Zhou, Hongyi Wang, Huang Yu, Yifei Hu, Guang Li, Guang Chen, Hao Ye, Lijun Sun, Diange Yang
| 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% . |
VehicleWorld: A Highly Integrated Multi-Device Environment for Intelligent Vehicle Interaction (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Jie Yang, Jiajun Chen, Zhangyue Yin, Shuo Chen, Yuxin Wang, Yiran Guo, Yuan Li, Yining Zheng, Xuanjing Huang, Xipeng Qiu
| Challenge: | Traditional Function Calling (FC) approaches operate statelessly, requiring multiple exploratory calls to build environmental awareness before execution, leading to inefficiency and limited error recovery. |
| Approach: | They propose a state-based function call approach that maintains explicit system state awareness and implements direct state transitions to achieve target conditions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms traditional function calling approaches, achieving superior execution accuracy and reduced latency. |
Maria: A Visual Experience Powered Conversational Agent (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on grounding conversational agents on text-only corpora, but they lack the perception ability to our physical world. |
| Approach: | They propose to ground conversational agents on images retrieved from large-scale image indexes . they propose to use visual knowledge to generate informative responses based on the extracted knowledge . |
| Outcome: | The proposed agent outperforms state-of-the-art methods on automatic metrics and human evaluation. |
Learning Neural Templates for Recommender Dialogue System (2021.emnlp-main)
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Zujie Liang, Huang Hu, Can Xu, Jian Miao, Yingying He, Yining Chen, Xiubo Geng, Fan Liang, Daxin Jiang
| Challenge: | Recent advances in neural models have shown promising progress on this task, but key challenges remain . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that can decouple dialogue generation from item recommendation . they use a response template generator and item selector to generate a responses template . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on the benchmark ReDial. |