Papers by Zeyao Ma
FFAEval: Evaluating Dialogue System via Free-For-All Ranking (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing evaluation metrics for open-domain dialogue systems show poor correlation with human assessment. |
| Approach: | They propose a free-for-all human evaluation framework that shares dialogue history with annotators for multi-turn scoring. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves a strong correlation with human assessment on English and Chinese dialogue systems. |
Dynamic Scaling of Unit Tests for Code Reward Modeling (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing large language models struggle to produce accurate responses on the first attempt for complex reasoning tasks like code generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a lightweight yet effective unit test generator that scales unit tests based on problem difficulty. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach significantly improves performance on three benchmarks. |
TableLLM: Enabling Tabular Data Manipulation by LLMs in Real Office Usage Scenarios (2025.findings-acl)
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Xiaokang Zhang, Sijia Luo, Bohan Zhang, Zeyao Ma, Jing Zhang, Yang Li, Guanlin Li, Zijun Yao, Kangli Xu, Jinchang Zhou, Daniel Zhang-Li, Jifan Yu, Shu Zhao, Juanzi Li, Jie Tang
| Challenge: | TableLLM is a robust large language model capable of handling tabular data manipulation tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a distant supervision method for training which includes a reasoning process extension strategy and a cross-way validation strategy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model has 8 billion parameters and is capable of handling tabular data tasks. |
From Completion to Editing: Unlocking Context-Aware Code Infilling via Search-and-Replace Instruction Tuning (2026.acl-long)
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Jiajun Zhang, Zeyu Cui, Jiaxi Yang, Lei Zhang, Yuheng Jing, Zeyao Ma, Tianyi Bai, Zilei Wang, Qiang Liu, Liang Wang, Binyuan Hui, Junyang Lin
| Challenge: | Fill-in-the-Middle (FIM) models suffer from performance degradation and prohibitive latency. |
| Approach: | They propose a search-and-replace infilling framework that integrates agentic verification and editing into a single-pass inference process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework harmonizes completion tasks with the instruction-following priors of Chat LLMs, extending the paradigm from static infilling to dynamic context-aware editing. |