Papers by Yuhang Gao
Mixture-of-Minds: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Table Understanding (2026.acl-long)
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Yuhang Zhou, Mingrui Zhang, Ke Li, Mingyi Wang, Qiao Liu, Qifei Wang, Jiayi Liu, Fei Liu, Serena Li, Weiwei LI, Mingze Gao, Abhishek Kumar, Xiangjun Fan, Zhuokai Zhao, Lizhu Zhang
| 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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Jiawei Li, Yizhe Yang, Yu Bai, Xiaofeng Zhou, Yinghao Li, Huashan Sun, Yuhang Liu, Xingpeng Si, Yuhao Ye, Yixiao Wu, 林一冠 林一冠, Bin Xu, Ren Bowen, Chong Feng, Yang Gao, Heyan Huang
| 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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Hao Zhang, Zhenjia Li, Yifan Gao, Xi Xiao, Heng Zhang, Shuyang Zhang, null Xiaoxincc, Bo Huang, Yuhang Wu, Tianyang Wang, Hao Xu
| 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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Shouqing Yang, Qi Zhang, Yuhang Yang, Ruikang Xu, Yuwei Hou, Zhulin Jia, Lirong Gao, Haobo Wang, Jinglei Chen, Jiexiang Wang, Sheng Guo, Bo Zheng, Gang Chen
| 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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Qingsong Zou, Jingyu Xiao, Qing Li, Zhi Yan, Yuhang Wang, Li Xu, Wenxuan Wang, Kuofeng Gao, Ruoyu Li, Yong Jiang
| 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. |