Papers by Yuan Zang
MinerU2.5: A Decoupled Vision-Language Model for Efficient High-Resolution Document Parsing (2026.acl-industry)
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Junbo Niu, Zheng Liu, Zhuangcheng Gu, Bin Wang, Linke Ouyang, Zhiyuan Zhao, Tao Chu, Tianyao He, Fan Wu, Qintong Zhang, Zhenjiang Jin, Guang Liang, Rui Zhang, Wenzheng Zhang, Yuan Qu, Zhifei Ren, Yuefeng Sun, Zirui Tang, Boyu Niu, Yuanhong Zheng, Dongsheng Ma, Ziyang Miao, Hejun Dong, Siyi Qian, Junyuan Zhang, Fangdong Wang, Jingzhou Chen, Xiaomeng Zhao, Liqun Wei, Wei Li, Shasha Wang, RuiLiang Xu, Yuanyuan Cao, Lu Chen, Qianqian Wu, Huaiyu Gu, Lindong Lu, Dechen Lin, null Shenguanlin, Xuanhe Zhou, Linfeng Zhang, Yuhang Zang, Xiaoyi Dong, Jiaqi Wang, Bo Zhang, Lei Bai, Pei Chu, Weijia Li, Jiang Wu, Lijun Wu, Zhenxiang Li, Guangyu Wang, Zhongying Tu, Chao Xu, Kai Chen, Bowen Zhou, Dahua Lin, Wentao Zhang, Conghui He
| Challenge: | Document images are characterized by higher resolutions, denser content, and more complex structural layouts. |
| Approach: | They propose a 1.2B-parameter document parsing vision-language model that decouples layout analysis from local content recognition. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model surpasses general-purpose and domain-specific models on multiple benchmarks while maintaining significantly lower computational overhead. |
Word-level Textual Adversarial Attacking as Combinatorial Optimization (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing word-level attack models are far from perfect because of unsuitable search space reduction methods and inefficient optimization algorithms. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel adversarial adversarialist model that incorporates word substitution and particle swarm optimization to solve two problems separately. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves much higher success rates and crafts more high-quality adversarial examples as compared to baseline methods. |
OpenAttack: An Open-source Textual Adversarial Attack Toolkit (2021.acl-demo)
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Guoyang Zeng, Fanchao Qi, Qianrui Zhou, Tingji Zhang, Zixian Ma, Bairu Hou, Yuan Zang, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
| Challenge: | Various attack models are distinct and implemented with different programming frameworks and settings, which hinders quick utilization and fair comparison of attack models. |
| Approach: | They propose an open-source textual adversarial attack toolkit to solve these issues by combining 15 typical attack models into one toolkit. |
| Outcome: | The proposed toolkit supports all attack types, multilinguality, and parallel processing. |
Uncertainty-Aware Iterative Preference Optimization for Enhanced LLM Reasoning (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for enhancing the performance of large language models require expensive manual annotations. |
| Approach: | They propose an offline direct preference optimization method that collects preference pairs through iterative sampling and execution feedback to improve model confidence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves performance on three reasoning tasks and shows a 3.6% improvement over the standard method. |
SOAR: Supervision from Observation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Prior work assigns supervision based on outcome rewards or external reward models, but ignores environment observations, a critical source of learning. |
| Approach: | They propose a supervision-based agentic reinforcement learning system that integrates environment observations as an explicit supervision signal. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves performance on reasoning and deep research tasks while reducing erroneous and inefficient tool usage. |
Try to Substitute: An Unsupervised Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation Method Based on HowNet (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing unsupervised methods for word sense disambiguation cannot work for HowNet-based WSD because of its uniqueness. |
| Approach: | They propose a method which exploits the masked language model task of pre-trained language models to conduct word sense disambiguation using a lexical knowledge base as the sense inventory. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves significantly better performance than baseline methods. |