Papers by Yuhao Dong

9 papers
CodeArena: A Collective Evaluation Platform for LLM Code Generation (2025.acl-demo)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have reshaped code generation, but persistent challenges impede accurate assessment.
Approach: They propose an online evaluation framework tailored for large language models to assess their coding capabilities.
Outcome: a new evaluation framework for large language models (LLMs) provides unbiased, unbiased evaluations and open access to solutions and test cases.
LLMTreeRec: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Cold-Start Recommendations (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Lack of training data leads to the system cold-start problem in recommendation systems, making them struggle to provide effective recommendations.
Approach: They propose a tree-based LLM recommendation framework which structures all items into an item tree to improve the efficiency of LLM’s item retrieval.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms the baseline model in the A/B test on Huawei industrial system.
CTC-based Non-autoregressive Speech Translation (2023.acl-long)

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Challenge: End-to-end speech translation (E2E ST) and non-autoregressive (NAR) generation are promising in language and speech processing for their advantages of less error propagation and low latency.
Approach: They develop a model that uses connectionist temporal classification to predict the source and target texts.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves an average BLEU score of 29.5 with a speed-up of 5.67.
Reward Modeling Requires Automatic Adjustment Based on Data Quality (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a method for aligning language models with human values.
Approach: They propose a method that automatically adjusts reward modeling based on data quality . they use preference data to train a reward model that is more aligned with human values .
Outcome: The proposed method stabilizes reward model training and significantly improves alignment performance on human preference datasets.
Improving Cross-task Generalization of Unified Table-to-text Models with Compositional Task Configurations (2023.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for multitask learning typically use a dataset name as input prefix, which limits the effectiveness of multitask training.
Approach: They propose compositional task configurations, a set of prompts prepended to the encoder to improve cross-task generalization of unified models.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms the UnifiedSKG baseline by noticeable margins in both in-domain and zero-shot settings.
Uni-MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Unified Benchmark (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing evaluations treat visual understanding and generation in isolation or overlook tasks that inherently couple them.
Approach: They propose a benchmark that examines the bidirectional synergy between generation and understanding across eight reasoning-centric domains.
Outcome: The proposed model systematically unfolds the bidirectional synergy between generation and understanding across eight reasoning-centric domains.
FoldMoE: Efficient Long Sequence MoE Training via Attention-MoE Pipelining (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to training LLMs with Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture on long sequences are limited by the insufficient computation.
Approach: They propose a MoE training system that enables token-level overlapping across entire Transformer blocks through novel attention-MoE pipelining.
Outcome: The proposed system achieves 1.49x and 2.72x speedup over state-of-the-art token-level overlapping and non-overlapping baselines on GPT-MoE models with sequences up to 32K tokens.
MGPO: Thinking with Images via Multi-Turn Grounding-Based Reinforcement Learning (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: State-of-the-art large multimodal models face challenges when processing high-resolution images, as these inputs are converted into enormous visual tokens, many of which are irrelevant to the downstream task.
Approach: They propose a multi-turn grounding-based policy optimization framework that enables LMMs to iteratively focus on key visual regions by automatically cropping sub-images based on model-predicted grounding coordinates within a multiple-turn conversation framework.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves on Qwen2.5-VL-7B with 21K samples and surpasses OpenAI’s o1 and GPT-4o models on the out-of-distribution (OOD) V* Bench.
LLMBox: A Comprehensive Library for Large Language Models (2024.acl-demos)

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Challenge: a library to facilitate the development, use, and evaluation of large language models (LLMs) is presented.
Approach: They propose a unified library to facilitate the development, use and evaluation of large language models (LLMs).
Outcome: The proposed library is based on extensive experiments in a variety of evaluation settings.

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