Papers by Yuxin Guo

9 papers
UniSonate: A Unified Model for Speech, Music, and Sound Effect Generation with Text Instructions (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Generative audio modeling has been fragmented into specialized tasks such as text-to-speech (TTS), text- to-music (TTM), and text-ta (TTA) specialized models require reference audio for timbre cloning and strict phoneme alignment, whereas TTA models generate unstructured textures from open-ended captions.
Approach: They propose a unified flow-matching framework capable of synthesizing speech, music, sound effects . they propose 'token injection mechanism' that projects unstructured environmental sounds into structured temporal latent space .
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance in instruction-based TTS and TTM while maintaining competitive fidelity in TTA.
Recontextualizing Revitalization: A Mixed Media Approach to Reviving the Nüshu Language (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Nüshu is an endangered language from Jiangyong County, Hunan, China, and the world’s only known writing system created and used exclusively by women.
Approach: They propose to use NüshuStrokes to record all 397 Unicode Nü Shu characters in sequential handwriting by an expert calligrapher.
Outcome: Evaluating five state-of-the-art Chinese Optical Character Recognition systems on NüshuVision lowers CER to 0.67, a modest but meaningful improvement over previous datasets.
KnowCoder-X: Boosting Multilingual Information Extraction via Code (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Empirical evidence indicates that Large Language Models exhibit spontaneous cross-lingual alignment in Information Extraction (IE) however, a significant imbalance across languages persists, highlighting an underlying deficiency.
Approach: They propose a code LLM with advanced cross-lingual and multilingual capabilities for universal IE that standardizes the representation of multilingual schemas using Python classes and conducts IE alignment instruction tuning on translated instance prediction task.
Outcome: The proposed model surpasses ChatGPT and SoTA by 30.17% without training in 29 unseen languages and significantly improves cross-lingual IE transferability.
Towards Event Extraction with Massive Types: LLM-based Collaborative Annotation and Partitioning Extraction (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Event Extraction (EE) is a long-standing target, but lacks an efficient and effective annotation framework to construct the corresponding datasets.
Approach: They propose an LLM-based collaborative annotation framework that refines annotations of triggers from distant supervision and carries out argument annotation.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on the largest EE dataset to date . it achieves the F1 scores of 90% and 85.3% on the human-annotated test set .
VehicleWorld: A Highly Integrated Multi-Device Environment for Intelligent Vehicle Interaction (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Traditional Function Calling (FC) approaches operate statelessly, requiring multiple exploratory calls to build environmental awareness before execution, leading to inefficiency and limited error recovery.
Approach: They propose a state-based function call approach that maintains explicit system state awareness and implements direct state transitions to achieve target conditions.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms traditional function calling approaches, achieving superior execution accuracy and reduced latency.
Mathematical Proof as a Litmus Test: Revealing Failure Modes of Advanced Large Reasoning Models (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Large reasoning models have demonstrated remarkable mathematical problem-solving abilities, but their true reasoning shortcomings are often hidden.
Approach: They propose to leverage the rigor and methodological complexity of mathematical proofs as a diagnostic tool to expose hidden failures.
Outcome: The proposed model evaluation exploits the rigor and complexity of proof problems to uncover 10 fine-grained errors.
ToxicChat: Unveiling Hidden Challenges of Toxicity Detection in Real-World User-AI Conversation (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: toxicity detection has been largely based on social media content, leaving the unique challenges inherent to real-world user-AI interactions insufficiently explored.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to detect toxicity in real-world user-AI conversations . they compare existing models with social media content to find toxicity .
Outcome: The proposed benchmark reveals that existing models fail to recognize toxicity in real-world user-AI conversations.
ABC-Bench: Benchmarking Agentic Backend Coding in Real-World Development (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have redefined the role of AI in software engineering . current benchmarks focus on localized code generation, but neglect dynamic, full-process requirements of real-world engineering.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to evaluate agentic backend coding within a realistic, executable workflow.
Outcome: The ABC-Bench benchmark evaluates agentic backend coding within a realistic, executable workflow.

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