Papers by Yuxing Wang
An Overview of the Active Gene Annotation Corpus and the BioNLP OST 2019 AGAC Track Tasks (D19-57)
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| Challenge: | Biomedical natural language processing (BioNLP) has long been recognized as effective method to accelerate drug-related knowledge discovery. |
| Approach: | They developed an active gene annotation corpus (AGAC) to support drug repurposing. |
| Outcome: | The active gene annotation corpus (AGAC) was developed to support knowledge discovery for drug repurposing. |
Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention (2025.acl-long)
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Jingyang Yuan, Huazuo Gao, Damai Dai, Junyu Luo, Liang Zhao, Zhengyan Zhang, Zhenda Xie, Yuxing Wei, Lean Wang, Zhiping Xiao, Yuqing Wang, Chong Ruan, Ming Zhang, Wenfeng Liang, Wangding Zeng
| Challenge: | Long-context modeling is crucial for next-generation language models, but high computational cost of standard attention mechanisms poses significant computational challenges. |
| Approach: | They propose a natively trained Sparse Attention mechanism that integrates algorithms with hardware-aligned optimizations to achieve efficient long-context modeling. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model maintains or exceeds Full Attention models across general benchmarks, long-context tasks, and instruction-based reasoning. |
Breaking the Hourglass Phenomenon of Residual Quantization: Enhancing the Upper Bound of Generative Retrieval (2024.emnlp-industry)
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Zhirui Kuai, Zuxu Chen, Huimu Wang, Mingming Li, Dadong Miao, Wang Binbin, Xusong Chen, Li Kuang, Yuxing Han, Jiaxing Wang, Guoyu Tang, Lin Liu, Songlin Wang, Jingwei Zhuo
| Challenge: | Generative retrieval (GR) is a transformative paradigm in search and recommender systems . however, data sparsity and long-tailed distribution hinder the full utilization of GR . |
| Approach: | They propose a method to reduce the "Hourglass" phenomenon in RQ-SID where codebook tokens become overly concentrated. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods improve retrieval efficiency and generalization capabilities. |
Multimodal Recommendation Dialog with Subjective Preference: A New Challenge and Benchmark (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing multimodal task-oriented dialog data fails to demonstrate the diverse expressions of user subjective preferences and recommendation acts in the real-life shopping scenario. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal task-oriented dialog dataset with subjective preferences and recommendation acts that is well-annotated with sales experts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is powered by a state-of-the-art multimodal model for these tasks. |
MetaBench: A Multi-task Benchmark for Assessing LLMs in Metabolomics (2026.acl-long)
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Yuxing Lu, Xukai Zhao, J. Ben Tamo, Micky C. Nnamdi, Rui Peng, Shuang Zeng, Xingyu Hu, Jinzhuo Wang, May Dongmei Wang
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities on general text, but their proficiency in specialized scientific domains remains uncharacterized. |
| Approach: | They evaluate the capabilities of large language models in metabolomics research using MetaBench . they found that models perform well on text generation tasks, but cross-database identifier grounding remains challenging . |
| Outcome: | The evaluation of 25 open- and closed-source LLMs reveals distinct performance patterns across metabolomics tasks. |