Papers by Yiqiao Zhang
PunMemeCN: A Benchmark to Explore Vision-Language Models’ Understanding of Chinese Pun Memes (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Pun memes combine wordplay with visual elements to create humor, irony, or other rhetorical effects. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to assess Chinese pun memes' processing capabilities across three progressive tasks: pun meme detection, sentiment analysis, and chat-driven meme response. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can detect pun memes, analyze sentiments, and respond to chats, while ignoring homophone wordplay. |
A Survey on Efficient Large Language Model Training: From Data-centric Perspectives (2025.acl-long)
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Junyu Luo, Bohan Wu, Xiao Luo, Zhiping Xiao, Yiqiao Jin, Rong-Cheng Tu, Nan Yin, Yifan Wang, Jingyang Yuan, Wei Ju, Ming Zhang
| Challenge: | achieving data-efficient post-training of Large Language Models is a key research question. |
| Approach: | They propose a taxonomy of data-efficient LLM post-training methods from a data-centric perspective. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods cover data selection, data quality enhancement, synthetic data generation, data distillation and compression, and self-evolving data ecosystems. |
Prototypical Reward Network for Data-Efficient Model Alignment (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a reward model that fine-tunes Large Language Models (LLMs) by utilizing Prototypical Networks. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework utilizing Prototypical Networks to enhance reward models under limited human feedback, enabling more stable and reliable structural learning from fewer samples. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves reward models under limited human feedback, surpassing traditional methods, especially in data-limited scenarios. |
Protein Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Yijia Xiao, Wanjia Zhao, Junkai Zhang, Yiqiao Jin, Han Zhang, Zhicheng Ren, Renliang Sun, Haixin Wang, Guancheng Wan, Pan Lu, Xiao Luo, Yu Zhang, James Zou, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang
| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on specific aspects or applications, but this study provides a comprehensive overview of Protein-specific large language models. |
| Approach: | This paper proposes a structured taxonomy of state-of-the-art ProteinLLMs . they analyze how they leverage large-scale protein sequence data for improved accuracy . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model covers their architectures, training datasets, evaluation metrics, and diverse applications. |