Papers by Yunfei Luo
Start Simple: Progressive Difficulty Multitask Learning (2024.naacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | a novel neural network training strategy that trains neural networks using subtasks of progressive difficulty is proposed . this strategy could help us understand how neural networks learn, authors say . |
| Approach: | They propose a multitask learning strategy that employs progressive difficulty subtasks to train neural networks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed strategy can improve model performance across a range of NLP tasks and data sets. |
Enhancing Speech Large Language Models with Prompt-Aware Mixture of Audio Encoders (2025.emnlp-main)
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Weiqiao Shan, Yuang Li, Yuhao Zhang, Yingfeng Luo, Chen Xu, Xiaofeng Zhao, Long Meng, Yunfei Lu, Min Zhang, Hao Yang, Tong Xiao, JingBo Zhu
| Challenge: | Existing work on integrating audio encoders with large language models (LLMs) has focused on semantic understanding tasks, but different tasks may require distinct features that emphasize either semantic or acoustic aspects. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a prompt-aware mixture to enhance the Speech LLM that uses multiple audio encoders to extract different features based on the prompt. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms all single-encoder Speech LLMs on ASR, speaker number verification, and AC tasks. |
Prompting Explicit and Implicit Knowledge for Multi-hop Question Answering Based on Human Reading Process (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies have not explored the link between PLMs’ pre-training-based knowledge and input passages. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that uses prompts to connect explicit and implicit knowledge to elicit type-specific reasoning via prompts, a form of implicit knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs comparable to the state-of-the-art on HotpotQA. |