Papers by Zhiming Ding
MindRef: Mimicking Human Memory for Hierarchical Reference Retrieval with Fine-Grained Location Awareness (2025.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods require pre-segmented article chunks, limiting reference flexibility like human memory. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that leverages parameterized knowledge stored during the pre-training phase of large language models to recall reference passages from any starting position independently. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can recall reference passages from any starting position independently. |
StraGo: Harnessing Strategic Guidance for Prompt Optimization (2024.findings-emnlp)
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Yurong Wu, Yan Gao, Bin Zhu, Zineng Zhou, Xiaodi Sun, Sheng Yang, Jian-Guang Lou, Zhiming Ding, Linjun Yang
| Challenge: | Existing methods for prompt optimization often lead to prompt drifting, wherein newly generated prompts canadversely impact previously successful cases while addressing failures. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to mitigate prompt drifting by integrating in-context learning to formulate specific, actionable strategies for prompt optimization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach mitigates prompt drifting by leveraging insights from both successful and failed cases to identify critical factors for achieving optimization objectives. |
Vulnerability of Text-to-Image Models to Prompt Template Stealing: A Differential Evolution Approach (2025.findings-acl)
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Yurong Wu, Fangwen Mu, Qiuhong Zhang, Jinjing Zhao, Xinrun Xu, Lingrui Mei, Yang Wu, Lin Shi, Junjie Wang, Zhiming Ding, Yiwei Wang
| Challenge: | Prompt trading has emerged as a significant intellectual property concern in recent years, where vendors entice users by showcasing sample images before selling prompt templates that can generate similar images. |
| Approach: | They propose a prompt-stealing benchmark consisting of 50 templates and 450 images organized into Easy and Hard difficulty levels. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baseline methods with an average improvement of over 10%. |
AMPO: Automatic Multi-Branched Prompt Optimization (2024.emnlp-main)
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Sheng Yang, Yurong Wu, Yan Gao, Zineng Zhou, Bin Zhu, Xiaodi Sun, Jian-Guang Lou, Zhiming Ding, Anbang Hu, Yuan Fang, Yunsong Li, Junyan Chen, Linjun Yang
| Challenge: | Existing prompt engineering techniques are limited to producing single flow instructions, struggling with handling diverse patterns. |
| Approach: | They propose an automatic prompt optimization method that iteratively develops a multi-branched prompt using failure cases as feedback. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves the best results across five tasks and demonstrates significant optimization efficiency due to adoption of a minimal search strategy. |