Papers by Zhiyin Yu
Prompting Large Language Models to Tackle the Full Software Development Lifecycle: A Case Study (2025.coling-main)
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Bowen Li, Wenhan Wu, Ziwei Tang, Lin Shi, John Yang, Jinyang Li, Shunyu Yao, Chen Qian, Binyuan Hui, Qicheng Zhang, Zhiyin Yu, He Du, Ping Yang, Dahua Lin, Chao Peng, Kai Chen
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks focused on simplified or isolated aspects of coding, ignoring the full spectrum of programming challenges. |
| Approach: | They propose a case study that examines the performance of large language models across the entire software development lifecycle with four programming languages, multiple domains, and carefully designed and verified metrics for each task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs across the entire software development lifecycle, including design, environment setup, implementation, acceptance testing, and unit testing. |
Easy Samples Are All You Need: Self-Evolving LLMs via Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Experimental results show that EasyRL consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines due to the substantial annotation cost and issues such as model collapse or reward hacking. |
| Approach: | They propose a supervised RL approach with a divide-and-conquer strategy that simulates the human cognitive acquisition curve using easy labeled data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art models on mathematical and scientific benchmarks using only 10% of easy labeled data. |
A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models under Data Scarcity: Challenges and Solutions (2026.acl-long)
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Zhiyin Yu, Yuchen Mou, Juncheng Yan, Junyu Luo, Chunchun Chen, Xing Wei, Yunhui Liu, Hongru Sun, Yuxing Zhang, Jun Xu, Yatao Bian, Ming Zhang, Wei Ye, Tieke He, Jie Yang, Guanjie Zheng, Zhonghai Wu, Bo Zhang, Lei Bai, Xiao Luo
| Challenge: | Existing research on reinforcement learning for LLMs under data scarcity has not been unified. |
| Approach: | They propose a top-up hierarchical framework built around three complementary perspectives: data-centric, training-centric and framework-centric. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework provides a clear conceptual foundation for understanding the design space of data-efficient RL for large language models and to guide researchers working in this emerging area. |
scRAG: Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation for LLM-based Cross-Tissue Single-Cell Annotation (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive potential in a wide range of fields, including biology, genomics and healthcare. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates advanced LLM-based RAG techniques into cross-tissue single-cell annotation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline models, generalist models, domain-specific methods, and trained classifiers on a cross-tissue dataset. |