Papers by Zhang Zhibin
Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent for Data Science (2025.findings-acl)
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Sirui Hong, Yizhang Lin, Bang Liu, Bangbang Liu, Binhao Wu, Ceyao Zhang, Danyang Li, Jiaqi Chen, Jiayi Zhang, Jinlin Wang, Li Zhang, Lingyao Zhang, Min Yang, Mingchen Zhuge, Taicheng Guo, Tuo Zhou, Wei Tao, Robert Tang, Xiangtao Lu, Xiawu Zheng, Xinbing Liang, Yaying Fei, Yuheng Cheng, Yongxin Ni, Zhibin Gou, Zongze Xu, Yuyu Luo, Chenglin Wu
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in various domains but face challenges when applied to data science workflows due to their complex, multi-stage nature. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical graph-based agent that represents complexity and a progressive strategy for step-by-step verification, refinement, and consistent context management. |
| Outcome: | The proposed agent surpasses state-of-the-art baselines on the MATH dataset and performs better on InfiAgent-DABench. |
LLM Agents in Law: Taxonomy, Applications, and Challenges (2026.acl-long)
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Shuang Liu, Ruijia Zhang, Ruoyun Ma, Yujia Deng, Lanyi Zhu, Jiayu Li, Zelong Li, Zhibin Shen, Mengnan Du
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have improved the legal domain, but deployment of standalone models faces significant limitations regarding hallucination, outdated information, and verifiability. |
| Approach: | They present a survey of LLM agents for legal tasks and analyze their architectures . they analyze the transition from standard legal LLMs to legal agents . |
| Outcome: | The proposed architectures bridge the gap between technical capabilities and domain-specific needs. |
Iterative Structured Pruning for Large Language Models with Multi-Domain Calibration (2026.eacl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing models with unstructured pruning often yield irregular sparsity patterns that necessitate specialized hardware or software support. |
| Approach: | They propose a structured pruning framework that eliminates entire architectural components and maintains compatibility with standard hardware accelerators. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model pruning framework achieves significant compression with minimal performance degradation on multiple models across diverse downstream tasks. |
LipoAgent: Coordinating Fine-Tuned LLM Agents for Safer Lipid Design (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are among the most clinically mature platforms for nucleic acid delivery, yet designing lipids that are effective and biologically safe remains a major bottleneck. |
| Approach: | They propose a safety-aware multi-agent LLM framework for lipid discovery that enforces toxicity as a prerequisite for efficiency prediction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves an average improvement in mRNA transfection efficiency prediction across multiple foundation models. |
Friendly Topic Assistant for Transformer Based Abstractive Summarization (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Abstractive document summarization is a comprehensive task in natural language processing. |
| Approach: | They propose a topic assistant that rearranges and learns document semantics . they propose TA that is compatible with Transformer-based models and user-friendly . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is compatible with Transformer-based models and user-friendly. |
MC2: Towards Transparent and Culturally-Aware NLP for Minority Languages in China (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | MC2 is the largest open-source corpus of minority languages in china . MC2, however, includes four underrepresented languages: Tibetan, Uyghur, Kazakh, and Mongolian . |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual corpus of minority languages in China that includes four underrepresented languages . they prioritize accuracy while enhancing diversity by using a quality-centric approach . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model prioritizes accuracy while enhancing diversity, the authors say . MC2 includes four underrepresented languages: Tibetan, Uyghur, Kazakh, and Mongolian . |
Enhanced Visual Instruction Tuning with Synthesized Image-Dialogue Data (2024.findings-acl)
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Yanda Li, Chi Zhang, Gang Yu, Wanqi Yang, Zhibin Wang, Bin Fu, Guosheng Lin, Chunhua Shen, Ling Chen, Yunchao Wei
| Challenge: | OpenAI's GPT-4 has demonstrated remarkable multimodal capabilities, but specific mechanics of GPT4 remain unknown. |
| Approach: | They propose a data collection methodology that synchronously synthesizes images and dialogues for visual instruction tuning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on ten commonly assessed models and provides greater flexibility compared to existing methods. |
Translatotron-V(ison): An End-to-End Model for In-Image Machine Translation (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | In-image machine translation (IIMT) aims to translate an image containing texts in source language into an image with translations in target language. |
| Approach: | They propose an end-to-end IIMT model with four modules that translate images . they propose a two-stage training framework to assist the model in learning alignment across languages . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms cascaded models with only 70.9% of parameters and is highly accurate. |
Exploring Better Text Image Translation with Multimodal Codebook (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Current studies on text image translation face bottlenecks due to lack of a publicly available dataset and poor optical character recognition. |
| Approach: | They propose a text image translation model with a multimodal codebook and an OCR dataset for Chinese-English translation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can associate the image with relevant texts, providing useful supplementary information for translation. |
EnsLM: Ensemble Language Model for Data Diversity by Semantic Clustering (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies have shown that data diversity affects the performance of LMs if we train a single LM over the entire dataset. |
| Approach: | They propose an autoencoding topic model with a mixture prior to perform clustering for the data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can learn knowledge from different samples while extracting cluster-specific features. |