Papers by Zhiyong Cheng

6 papers
Emotion–Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations via Semantic Decoupling and Alignment (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations (ECPEC) aims to identify the set of causal relations between emotion utterances and their triggering causes within a dialogue.
Approach: They propose a framework for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations that decouples emotion-oriented semantics from cause-oriented ones and employs optimal transport to enable many-to-many and globally consistent emotion-cause matching.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art on several benchmark datasets.
SeeClick: Harnessing GUI Grounding for Advanced Visual GUI Agents (2024.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing GUI agents interact with the environment through extracted structured data, which can be notably lengthy (e.g., HTML) and occasionally inaccessible (e-book).
Approach: They propose to enhance SeeClick with GUI grounding pre-training and devise a method to automate curation of GUI ground data.
Outcome: The proposed agent improves ScreenSpot, the first realistic GUI grounding benchmark that encompasses mobile, desktop, and web environments.
Genius: A Generalizable and Purely Unsupervised Self-Training Framework For Advanced Reasoning (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for enhancing LLM reasoning rely on supervisory signals . current methods rely heavily on outcome supervision and auxiliary reward models .
Approach: They propose a gen-eralizable and purely unsupervised self-training framework to enhance LLM reasoning without supervision.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves LLM reasoning without supervision without external supervision.
OS-Genesis: Automating GUI Agent Trajectory Construction via Reverse Task Synthesis (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents powered by Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated human-like computer control capability.
Approach: They propose a GUI data synthesis pipeline that reverse engineers GUI trajectory construction process by executing pre-defined tasks.
Outcome: The proposed GUI data synthesis pipeline overcomes the bottlenecks of previous methods that rely on pre-defined tasks and limited data diversity.
Interactive Evolution: A Neural-Symbolic Self-Training Framework For Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods to fine-tune Large Language Models without human annotations are lacking in the field of natural language training.
Approach: They propose an environment-guided neural-symbolic self-training framework to overcome two main challenges: the scarcity of symbolic data and the limited proficiency of LLMs in processing symbolic language.
Outcome: The proposed framework overcomes two main challenges: the scarcity of symbolic data, and the limited proficiency of LLMs in processing symbolic language.
OS-Sentinel: Towards Safety-Enhanced Mobile GUI Agents via Hybrid Validation in Realistic Workflows (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for detecting unsafe mobile GUI agents are underexplored.
Approach: They propose a mobile agent safety detection framework that integrates a formal verifier and a VLM-based contextual judge to detect system-level violations.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves 10%–30% improvements over existing approaches across multiple metrics.

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