Papers by Yiyang Nan
PPT: A Minor Language News Recommendation Model via Cross-Lingual Preference Pattern Transfer (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems for minor language news recommendation lack interaction with content . linguistic gap can lead to inaccurate modeling of minor language content despite strong English capability . |
| Approach: | They propose a minor language news recommendation model by cross-lingual preference pattern transfer . their model employs the widely used two-tower architecture and large language model as the backbone of the news encoder . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models on 15 minor languages. |
Learning to Generate Instruction Tuning Datasets for Zero-Shot Task Adaptation (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing instruction tuning datasets are limited by the quality of the instruction tuning data. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that converts unannotated text into task-specific training datasets for instruction tuning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves the performance of pretrained and instruction tuned models over the de facto self-supervised baseline. |
SaSR-Net: Source-Aware Semantic Representation Network for Enhancing Audio-Visual Question Answering (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing AVQA methods often fail to link sound-producing objects in the video with the audio-visual information. |
| Approach: | They introduce a source-aware semantic representation network for AVQA . they use source-wise learnable tokens to capture and align audio-visual elements with the question . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models on the Music-AVQA and AVQA-Yang datasets. |