Papers by Yuhang Gao

8 papers
Mixture-of-Minds: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Table Understanding (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise on understanding and reasoning over tables, but current approaches remain limited.
Approach: They propose a multi-agent framework that decomposes table reasoning into three specialized roles: planning, coding, and answering.
Outcome: The proposed framework decomposes table reasoning into three specialized roles: planning, coding, and answering.
Graph vs. Sequence: An Empirical Study on Knowledge Forms for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Knowledge-grounded dialogue systems can generate informative responses based on dialogue history and external knowledge source.
Approach: They conduct a thorough experiment to determine the optimal knowledge form, mutual effects between knowl- edge and model selection, and the few-shot performance of knowledge.
Outcome: The proposed method combines knowledge-grounded dialogue with human-generated dialogues to generate informative and meaningful responses.
Fundamental Capabilities of Large Language Models and their Applications in Domain Scenarios: A Survey (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing benchmark-based evaluations cannot accurately reflect the performance of real-world applications.
Approach: They propose a reliable strategy for domains to choose more robust LLMs for real-world applications.
Outcome: The proposed strategy addresses the challenges faced by domains to choose more robust LLMs for real-world applications.
HyperAdaLoRA: Accelerating LoRA Rank Allocation During Training via Hypernetworks without Sacrificing Performance (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) assumes a uniform rank r for each incremental matrix, not accounting for the varying significance of weight matrices across modules and layers.
Approach: They propose a framework that allows for faster convergence of low-rank adaptive models . they use a hypernetwork to prune the outputs of the hypernetworks to generate parameters .
Outcome: The proposed framework accelerates convergence of AdaLoRA by leveraging a hypernetwork.
Estimating the Black-box LLM Uncertainty with Distribution-Aligned Adversarial Distillation (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing uncertainty quantification methods depend on computationally expensive multiple sampling or internal parameters, which prevents real-time estimation and fails to capture information implicit in the black-box reasoning process.
Approach: They propose a distribution-aligned adjudication architecture to guide a lightweight proxy model to learn the high-quality regions of the output distribution of the black-box LLM.
Outcome: Extensive experiments show that a proxy model even with 1% of the target LLM’s size can achieve reliable uncertainty quantification.
FinMRAGBench: A Realistic and Complex Benchmark for Multi-Modal RAG in Financial Document Analysis (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing benchmarks for realistic financial analysis fail to capture realistic financial situations involving cross-document retrieval, multi-page evidence integration, and diverse analytical tasks.
Approach: They propose a multi-modal financial RAG benchmark that evaluates large language models in realistic financial analysis settings.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves the strongest overall performance across all models.
SuLoRA: Subspace Low-Rank Adaptation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) introduce parameter interference, leading to a gap in generalization performance for specific tasks compared to full fine-uning.
Approach: They propose a parameter-separated low-rank adapter to account for task differences by decomposing LoRA’s parameter matrix into multiple independent subspaces and assigning them differentially to distinct tasks.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms LoRA in trainable parameter efficiency and overall model performance on various NLP tasks.
QueryAttack: Jailbreaking Aligned Large Language Models Using Structured Non-natural Query Language (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods to bypass security defenses of large language models (LLMs) are not effective, but QueryAttack can be jailbroken.
Approach: They propose a framework to examine generalizability of safety alignment by translating malicious queries into structured non-natural query languages.
Outcome: The proposed framework can achieve high attack success rates and jailbreak various defense methods on mainstream LLMs.

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