Papers by Yuyang Dai
RealFin: How Well Do LLMs Reason About Finance When Users Leave Things Unsaid? (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | General-purpose models tend to over-commit and guess, while most finance-specialized models fail to clearly identify missing premises. |
| Approach: | They propose a bilingual benchmark that removes premises from exam-style questions while keeping them linguistically plausible. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model overcommits and guesses while most finance-specialized models fail to clearly identify missing premises. |
LoopCoder: Scaling Code Intelligence via Looped Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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Jian Yang, Wei Zhang, Shuyue Guo, Yizhi LI, Linzheng Chai, Zhengmao Ye, Shukai Liu, Yuyang Song, Jiajun Wu, Che Liu, Tianyu Zheng, Siwei Wu, Leo L, Xudong Ma, Chuan Hao, Ran Tao, Yan Xing, Jianzhou Wang, Mingjie Tang, Aishan Liu, Zhoujun Li, Xianglong Liu, Weifeng Lv, Bryan Dai
| Challenge: | Large language models have mastered syntax-level code generation, but complex algorithmic reasoning remains a challenge. |
| Approach: | They propose a recurrent inductive bias that aligns with the recursive nature of programming logic. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves comparable performance to standard dense models with more parameters. |
Named Entity Recognition for Social Media Texts with Semantic Augmentation (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches for named entity recognition suffer from data sparsity problems when conducted on short and informal texts. |
| Approach: | They propose a neural-based approach to named entity recognition for social media texts . they obtain augmented semantic information from a large-scale corpus and encode it . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing approaches on three social media datasets. |
SelfMix: Robust Learning against Textual Label Noise with Self-Mixup Training (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to handle label noise in text classification tasks are limited to visual data. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to handle label noise in text classification tasks using a Gaussian Mixture Model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baselines on three types of text classification tasks on visual and textual data. |
MolErr2Fix: Benchmarking LLM Trustworthiness in Chemistry via Modular Error Detection, Localization, Explanation, and Correction (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown growing potential in molecular sciences, but they often produce chemically inaccurate descriptions and struggle to recognize or justify potential errors. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to assess LLMs on error detection and correction in molecular descriptions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark targets LLMs on error detection and correction in molecular descriptions. |
FinReporting: An Agentic Workflow for Localized Reporting of Cross-Jurisdiction Financial Disclosure (2026.acl-demo)
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Fan Zhang, Mingzi Song, Rania Elbadry, Yankai Chen, Shaobo Wang, Yixi Zhou, Xunwen Zheng, Yueru He, Yuyang Dai, Georgi Nenkov Georgiev, Ayesha Gull, Muhammad Usman Safder, Fan Wu, Liyuan Meng, Fengxian Ji, Junning Zhao, Xueqing Peng, Jimin Huang, YU Chen, Xue Liu, Preslav Nakov, Zhuohan Xie
| Challenge: | FinReporting is an agentic workflow for localized cross-jurisdiction financial reporting . existing approaches assume a single-market setting and overlook structural differences across jurisdictions . |
| Approach: | They propose a workflow that decomposes financial reporting into auditable stages . they use Large Language Models to extract and summarize corporate disclosures . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system decomposes reporting into auditable stages . it improves consistency and reliability under heterogeneous reporting regimes. |