Papers by Yujin Yuan
SELECting over Tokens: Curating Pre-training Data at Scale via Token Classification (2026.acl-long)
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Xin Tong, Weidong Zhang, Jiaang Li, Haibin Chen, Shilei Liu, Langming Liu, Kangtao Lv, Yujin Yuan, Wenbo Su, Bo Zheng
| Challenge: | Existing pipelines rely on expert-crafted heuristic rules, which lack content-aware, fine-grained noise detection. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that reframes data refinement as a highly efficient token classification task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing pipelines on benchmarks and is 2.5x faster at inference. |
Read As Human: Compressing Context via Parallelizable Close Reading and Skimming (2026.acl-long)
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Jiwei Tang, Shilei Liu, Zhicheng Zhang, Qingsong Lv, Runsong Zhao, Tingwei Lu, Langming Liu, Haibin Chen, Yujin Yuan, Hai-Tao Zheng, Wenbo Su, Bo Zheng
| Challenge: | Existing task-aware methods require loading the entire input sequence at once for compression, which suffer from computational inefficiency. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that adopts an adaptive hybrid reading strategy to reduce computational inefficiency and redundant information in long-context scenarios. |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that RAM outperforms baselines on multiple question answering and summarization benchmarks while delivering up to a 12x speedup on long inputs. |
How to inject knowledge efficiently? Knowledge Infusion Scaling Law for Pre-training Large Language Models (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies show that strategically infusing domain knowledge during pretraining can substantially improve downstream performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a knowledge infusion scaling law that predicts the optimal amount of domain knowledge to inject into large LLMs by analyzing their smaller counterparts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model predicts the optimal amount of domain knowledge to inject into large LLMs by analyzing their smaller counterparts. |
CoMeT: Collaborative Memory Transformer for Efficient Long Context Modeling (2026.acl-long)
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Runsong Zhao, Shilei Liu, Jiwei Tang, Langming Liu, Haibin Chen, Weidong Zhang, Yujin Yuan, Tong Xiao, JingBo Zhu, Wenbo Su, Bo Zheng
| Challenge: | a novel architecture that enables LLMs to handle arbitrarily long sequences with constant memory usage and linear time complexity is a major barrier to long-context processing. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel architecture that enables LLMs to handle arbitrarily long sequences with constant memory usage and linear time complexity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed architecture can handle arbitrarily long sequences with constant memory usage and linear time complexity. |
PretrainRL: Alleviating Factuality Hallucination of Large Language Models at the Beginning (2026.findings-acl)
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Langming Liu, Kangtao Lv, Haibin Chen, Weidong Zhang, Yejing Wang, Shilei Liu, Xin Tong, Yujin Yuan, Yongwei Wang, Wenbo Su, Bo Zheng
| Challenge: | Large language models suffer from factual hallucinations where they generate verifiable falsehoods. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates reinforcement learning into the pretraining phase to consolidate factual knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly alleviates factual hallucinations and outperforms state-of-the-art methods. |