Papers by Yunxin Liu

8 papers
Hierarchical Acoustic-Semantic Modeling: Modality Separation and Semantic Coherence for Full-Duplex SLMs (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: despite significant progress, full-duplex SLMs are constrained by severe modality interference, authors say . modality interferes with acoustic and semantic modeling, making them unintelligent and unnatural . authors propose a hierarchical parameter separation strategy that decouples conflicting modalities in deep layers .
Approach: They propose a hierarchical parameter separation strategy that decouples conflicting modalities in deep layers while preserving cross-modality coherence via a dedicated semantic alignment channel.
Outcome: The proposed method significantly advances the state of the art on full-duplex benchmarks . it decouples conflicting modalities in deep layers while preserving cross-modality coherence .
Benchmarking LLM’s Capability in Reasoning over Conflicting Web References (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) integrated with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) are a dominant framework for building intelligent assistants.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to evaluate LLMs' reasoning capability over real-world conflicting documents retrieved from the web.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark evaluates LLMs' reasoning capability over real-world conflicting documents retrieved from the web.
FedTherapist: Mental Health Monitoring with User-Generated Linguistic Expressions on Smartphones via Federated Learning (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing passive mental health monitoring systems use alternative features such as activity, app usage, and location via smartphones due to data privacy concerns.
Approach: They propose a mobile mental health monitoring system that utilizes continuous speech and keyboard input in a privacy-preserving way via federated learning.
Outcome: The proposed system achieves 0.15 AUROC improvement and 8.21% MAE reduction in self-reported depression, stress, anxiety, and mood from 46 participants.
SwapMoE: Serving Off-the-shelf MoE-based Large Language Models with Tunable Memory Budget (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Mixture of experts (MoE) is a popular technique to improve capacity of Large Language Models (LLMs) but memory-constrained devices are a major concern in edge AI training and serving.
Approach: They propose a framework for efficient serving of MoE-based large language models with tunable memory budgets.
Outcome: Experiments show that SwapMoE can reduce memory consumption while maintaining reasonable accuracy.
UniMoE-Audio: Unified Speech and Music Generation with Dynamic-Capacity Mixture-of-Experts (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent advances in unified multimodal models indicate a clear trend towards comprehensive content generation.
Approach: They propose a unified speech and music generation model built upon a novel framework . they propose specialized MoE architectures and curated training strategies to tackle data imbalances .
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on major speech and music generation benchmarks.
Condor: Enhance LLM Alignment with Knowledge-Driven Data Synthesis and Refinement (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing high-quality human-annotated SFT data is a bottleneck for Large Language Models (LLMs).
Approach: They propose a two-stage synthetic data generation framework that incorporates World Knowledge Trees and Self-Reflection Refinement to produce high-quality SFT data at scale.
Outcome: The proposed model fine-tuned on 20K condor-generated samples achieves superior performance compared to instruct model trained with RLHF.
An Empirical Study of LLM Reasoning Ability Under Strict Output Length Constraint (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) are a powerful tool for test-time scaling, but they are often used under time constraints.
Approach: They propose to use LLMs to make models think before answering questions . they also use self-correction and best-of-N decoding to encourage deeper thinking .
Outcome: The proposed models are able to achieve higher inference accuracy with extra inference computation under time constraints.
Enhancing Agentic Textual Graph Retrieval with Synthetic Stepwise Supervision (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for integrating textual graphs with LLMs are limited by symbolic inference and high annotation costs.
Approach: They propose a textual graph reasoning framework that integrates textual diagrams with large language models.
Outcome: The proposed approach achieves 15.6% accuracy and 17.2% in F1 score on three common datasets.

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