Papers by Yuhao Lin
Don’t Miss the Labels: Label-semantic Augmented Meta-Learner for Few-Shot Text Classification (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on building a meta-learner from input text but ignore abundant semantic information beneath class labels. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to make full use of label semantics in few-shot text classification systems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can be plugged into the existing few-shot text classification system. |
AdaMix: Adaptive Mixing for Short and Long Reasoning Adapters (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for large reasoning models have improved efficiency but still face limitations such as conflicting objectives and limited adaptability. |
| Approach: | They propose an adaptive reasoning framework that applies a uniform, computation-intensive deep reasoning strategy to all problems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces the average response length of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B by 54.9% while improving accuracy by up to 4.8% on five mathematical datasets. |
S2S-Arena: Evaluating Paralinguistic Instruction Following in Speech-to-Speech Models (2026.acl-long)
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Feng Jiang, Zhiyu Lin, Yiyang Liu, Liumeng Xue, Fan Bu, Yuhao Du, Xiangying Chen, Benyou Wang, Haizhou Li
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks rely heavily on text-based evaluation and largely ignore paralinguistic cues such as prosody, emotion, and speaker traits. |
| Approach: | They propose a speech-native benchmark for evaluating instruction-following S2S models with explicit assessment of both semantic understanding and paralinguistic expression. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system enables more natural, robust, and human-aligned speech agents. |
RecLM: Recommendation Instruction Tuning (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Modern recommender systems aim to understand user-item relationships through past interactions, but their effectiveness is limited when handling sparse data or zero-shot scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a model-agnostic recommendation instruction-tuning paradigm that integrates large language models with collaborative filtering. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model-agnostic recommendation instruction-tuning paradigm improves performance across various settings and plug-and-play compatibility with state-of-the-art recommender systems. |
Second Language (Arabic) Acquisition of LLMs via Progressive Vocabulary Expansion (2025.acl-long)
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Jianqing Zhu, Huang Huang, Zhihang Lin, Juhao Liang, Zhengyang Tang, Khalid Almubarak, Mosen Alharthi, Bang An, Juncai He, Xiangbo Wu, Fei Yu, Junying Chen, Ma Zhuoheng, Yuhao Du, He Zhang, Saied Alshahrani, Emad A. Alghamdi, Lian Zhang, Ruoyu Sun, Haizhou Li, Benyou Wang, Jinchao Xu
| Challenge: | In the evolving landscape of large language models, the predominant focus has been on English and Chinese. |
| Approach: | They propose to utilize Arabic-specific vocabulary in the tokenizer to accelerate decoding. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves decent performance comparable to the best Arabic LLMs across various Arabic benchmarks. |
Stable Language Guidance for Vision–Language–Action Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing vision-Language-Action models are notoriously brittle to linguistic perturbations. |
| Approach: | They propose a probabilistic framework that disentangles physical affordance from semantic execution. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework disentangles physical affordance from semantic execution. |
HAHE: Hierarchical Attention for Hyper-Relational Knowledge Graphs in Global and Local Level (2023.acl-long)
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Haoran Luo, Haihong E, Yuhao Yang, Yikai Guo, Mingzhi Sun, Tianyu Yao, Zichen Tang, Kaiyang Wan, Meina Song, Wei Lin
| Challenge: | Existing research on HKGs rarely models the graphical and sequential structure of HKG, limiting their representation. |
| Approach: | They propose a Hierarchical Attention model for HKG Embedding that includes global-level and local-level attention to model the graphical structure of HKGs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on HKG standard datasets and addresses the issue of HKG multi-position prediction for the first time. |
MM-Doc-R1: Training Agents for Long Document Visual Question Answering through Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning (2026.findings-acl)
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Jiahang Lin, Kai Hu, Binghai Wang, Yuhao Zhou, Zhiheng Xi, Honglin Guo, Shichun Liu, Junzhe Wang, Shihan Dou, Enyu Zhou, Hang Yan, Zhenhua Han, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
| Challenge: | Existing work on long document visual question answering is based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) where textual or visual content is encoded into embeddings and relevance is determined by similarity scores with respect to the original query. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that employs an agentic, vision-aware workflow to address long document visual question answering through iterative information discovery and synthesis. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing RL systems by 10.4% on the MMLongbench-Doc benchmark and demonstrates superior training performance over GRPO. |
Semantic Role Labeling Guided Out-of-distribution Detection (2024.lrec-main)
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Jinan Zou, Maihao Guo, Yu Tian, Yuhao Lin, Haiyao Cao, Lingqiao Liu, Ehsan Abbasnejad, Javen Qinfeng Shi
| Challenge: | Existing methods for identifying domain-shifted instances are prone to OOD and adversarial inputs. |
| Approach: | They propose an unsupervised method that separates, extracts, and learns the semantic role labeling guided out-of-distribution Detection (SRLOOD) they propose a self-supervised approach to enhance global-local feature learning by predicting SRL extracted role. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves SOTA performance on four OOD benchmarks. |