Papers by Zhaocheng Liu
Bridging Relevance and Reasoning: Rationale Distillation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2025.findings-acl)
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Pengyue Jia, Derong Xu, Xiaopeng Li, Zhaocheng Du, Xiangyang Li, Yichao Wang, Yuhao Wang, Qidong Liu, Maolin Wang, Huifeng Guo, Ruiming Tang, Xiangyu Zhao
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to rerank and align documents based on reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) . prior work shows that LLMs have exceptional reasoning and text generation capabilities . |
| Approach: | They propose a rationale extraction method that leverages reasoning capabilities of large language models to extract the rationales necessary for answering a query. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is compared with baseline methods on two tasks across three datasets. |
KEPLER: A Unified Model for Knowledge Embedding and Pre-trained Language Representation (2021.tacl-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing language representation models (PLMs) cannot capture factual knowledge from text. |
| Approach: | They propose a unified model for Knowledge Embedding and Pre-trained LanguagERepresentation which integrates factual knowledge into PLMs and produces effective text-enhanced KE with the strong PLM. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on existing pre-trained language representation models and improves their performance on various NLP tasks. |
GenPilot: A Multi-Agent System for Test-Time Prompt Optimization in Image Generation (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Wen Ye, Zhaocheng Liu, Gui Yuwei, Tingyu Yuan, Yunyue Su, Bowen Fang, Chaoyang Zhao, Qiang Liu, Liang Wang
| Challenge: | Existing methods for text-to-image synthesis lack systematic error analysis and refinement strategies, resulting in limited reliability and effectiveness. |
| Approach: | They propose a plug-and-play multi-agent system called GenPilot that integrates error analysis, clustering-based adaptive exploration, fine-grained verification and a memory module for iterative optimization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves text consistency and structural coherence on images with a plug-and-play system. |
ICG: Improving Cover Image Generation via MLLM-based Prompting and Personalized Preference Alignment (2025.emnlp-main)
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Zhipeng Bian, Jieming Zhu, Qijiong Liu, Wang Lin, Guohao Cai, Zhaocheng Du, Jiacheng Sun, Zhou Zhao, Zhenhua Dong
| Challenge: | Large language models and diffusion models have opened new possibilities for AI-generated content . personalized cover image generation remains underexplored despite its critical role in boosting user engagement on digital platforms. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates MLLM-based prompting with personalized preference alignment to generate high-quality, contextually relevant covers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves image quality, semantic fidelity, and personalization, leading to stronger user appeal and offline recommendation accuracy in downstream tasks. |