Papers by Yuelin Bai
Enhancing Noise Robustness of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models with Adaptive Adversarial Training (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) exhibit substantial capabilities yet face challenges such as hallucination, outdated knowledge, and untraceable reasoning processes. |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-augmented generation approach that leverages adaptive adversarial training to dynamically adjust the model’s training process in response to retrieval noises. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves the performance of the LLaMA-2 7B model under diverse noise conditions. |
MAmmoTH-VL: Eliciting Multimodal Reasoning with Instruction Tuning at Scale (2025.acl-long)
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Jiawei Guo, Tianyu Zheng, Yizhi Li, Yuelin Bai, Bo Li, Yubo Wang, King Zhu, Graham Neubig, Wenhu Chen, Xiang Yue
| Challenge: | Current instruction-tuning datasets focus on simplistic visual question answering tasks, and provide phrase-level answers without any intermediate rationales. |
| Approach: | They propose to use open-source multimodal large language models to train MLLMs on a dataset with 12M instruction-response pairs to elicit CoT reasoning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks such as MathVerse, MMMU-Pro, and MuirBench, and gains improvements of up to 4% on non-reasoning-based benchmarks. |
Can MLLMs Understand the Deep Implication Behind Chinese Images? (2025.acl-long)
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Chenhao Zhang, Xi Feng, Yuelin Bai, Xeron Du, Jinchang Hou, Kaixin Deng, Guangzeng Han, Qinrui Li, Bingli Wang, Jiaheng Liu, Xingwei Qu, Yifei Zhang, Qixuan Zhao, Yiming Liang, Ziqiang Liu, Feiteng Fang, Min Yang, Wenhao Huang, Chenghua Lin, Ge Zhang, Shiwen Ni
| 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. |
DEFT: Distribution-guided Efficient Fine-Tuning for Human Alignment (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Experimental results show that the methods enhanced by DEFT outperform the original methods in both alignment capability and generalization ability, with significantly reduced training time. |
| Approach: | They propose a distribution-based alignment framework that integrates data filtering and distributional guidance to improve alignment efficiency and generalization ability. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods in alignment capability and generalization ability with significantly reduced training time. |
COIG-P: A High-Quality and Large-Scale Chinese Preference Dataset for Alignment with Human Values (2026.findings-eacl)
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Siwei Wu, JinCheng Ren, Xeron Du, Shuyue Guo, Xingwei Qu, Yiming Liang, Jie Liu, Yunwen Li, Tyler Loakman, Tianyu Zheng, Boyu Feng, Huaqing Yuan, Zili Wang, Jiaheng Liu, Wenhao Huang, Chenglin Cai, Haoran Que, Jian Yang, Yuelin Bai, Zekun Moore Wang, Zhouliang Yu, Qunshu Lin, Ding Pan, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Tiannan Wang, Wangchunshu Zhou, Shenzhi Wang, Xingyuan Bu, Minghao Liu, Guoyin Wang, Ge Zhang, Chenghua Lin
| Challenge: | Existing Chinese preference datasets suffer from limited scale, restricted domain coverage, and insufficiently rigorous data validation. |
| Approach: | They propose an LLM-based data annotation pipeline with no human intervention to annotate Chinese preference datasets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline outperforms existing Chinese preference datasets on AlignBench and Chinese Reward Benchmark. |
Ruler: A Model-Agnostic Method to Control Generated Length for Large Language Models (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Large language models struggle to meet user’s needs when required to generate responses of a specific length due to their inherent difficulty in accurately perceiving numerical constraints. |
| Approach: | They propose a Target Length Generation Task and propose RULER, a model-agnostic approach that controls generated length for large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model-agnostic approach improves instruction-following ability of large language models under length-constrained instructions and can generate appropriate MLT when length constraints are not explicitly provided. |
MoZIP: A Multilingual Benchmark to Evaluate Large Language Models in Intellectual Property (2024.lrec-main)
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Shiwen Ni, Minghuan Tan, Yuelin Bai, Fuqiang Niu, Min Yang, Bowen Zhang, Ruifeng Xu, Xiaojun Chen, Chengming Li, Xiping Hu
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various natural language processing tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark for the evaluation of large language models in the IP domain . they also propose supervised multilingual large language model called MoZi . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms four well-known LLMs on the MoZIP benchmark . the most powerful ChatGPT does not reach the passing level . |
COIG-CQIA: Quality is All You Need for Chinese Instruction Fine-tuning (2025.findings-naacl)
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Yuelin Bai, Xeron Du, Yiming Liang, Leo Jin, Junting Zhou, Ziqiang Liu, Feiteng Fang, Mingshan Chang, Tianyu Zheng, Xincheng Zhang, Nuo Ma, Zekun Moore Wang, Ruibin Yuan, Haihong Wu, Hongquan Lin, Wenhao Huang, Jiajun Zhang, Chenghua Lin, Jie Fu, Min Yang, Shiwen Ni, Ge Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing datasets for Chinese instruction tuning are not well-aligned with Chinese users’ interaction patterns. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Chinese instruction tuning datasets to improve instruction fine-tuning for Chinese users. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that Chinese models achieve competitive performance in diverse benchmarks. |