Papers by Yuhui Xu
MAKAR: a Multi-Agent framework based Knowledge-Augmented Reasoning for Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (2025.emnlp-main)
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Xinkui Lin, Yuhui Zhang, Yongxiu Xu, Kun Huang, Hongzhang Mu, Yubin Wang, Gaopeng Gou, Li Qian, Li Peng, Wei Liu, Jian Luan, Hongbo Xu
| Challenge: | Existing methods for GMNER fail to address semantic ambiguity caused by polysemy and long-tail distribution of datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition that leverages a Multimodal Large Language Model to address semantic ambiguity. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments show that the proposed framework outperforms existing methods on two benchmark datasets. |
One QuantLLM for ALL: Fine-tuning Quantized LLMs Once for Efficient Deployments (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Quantization has shown promise for Large Language Models, but current methods require lengthy training to alleviate quantization loss. |
| Approach: | They propose to decouple weights and incorporate Low-Rank adapters to reduce weight sharing . they validate the approach on LLaMA2 families and Mistral on downstream evaluation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach shows high performance while reducing deployment time faced with multiple scenarios. |
Not All Experts are Equal: Efficient Expert Pruning and Skipping for Mixture-of-Experts Large Language Models (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLMs achieve higher performance with fewer active parameters, but are still difficult to deploy due to their immense parameter sizes. |
| Approach: | They propose expert-level sparsification techniques to enhance the deployment efficiency of large language models by introducing plug-and-play expert pruning and skipping techniques. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods reduce model sizes and increase inference speed while maintaining satisfactory performance across a wide range of tasks. |
LPO: Towards Accurate GUI Agent Interaction via Location Preference Optimization (2026.findings-acl)
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Jiaqi Tang, Yu Xia, Yi-Feng Wu, Yuwei Hu, Chen Yuhui, Qing-Guo Chen, Xiaogang Xu, Xiangyu Wu, Hao LU, Yanqing Ma, Shiyin Lu, Qifeng Chen
| Challenge: | Existing strategies for spatial localization are limited due to their limited capacity to perceive positional data. |
| Approach: | They propose a location-based approach that leverages locational data to optimize interaction preferences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves SOTA results across offline benchmarks and real-world evaluations. |
Beyond ’Aha!’: Toward Systematic Meta-Abilities Alignment in Large Reasoning Models (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Prior work has shown that outcome-based reinforcement learning (RL) can incidentally elicit advanced reasoning behaviors such as self-correction, backtracking, and verification. |
| Approach: | They explicitly align large reasoning models with three meta-abilities: deduction, induction, and abduction, using automatically generated, self-verifiable tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model aligns models with deduction, induction, and abduction meta-abilities using automatically generated, self-verifiable tasks. |