Papers by Zhongjie Wang
PAI-Diffusion: Constructing and Serving a Family of Open Chinese Diffusion Models for Text-to-image Synthesis on the Cloud (2024.acl-demos)
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| Challenge: | Existing diffusion models fail to address the challenges of generating high-quality images from textual descriptions due to its large vocabulary size and complex character relationships. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates Chinese diffusion models with Alibaba Cloud's Platform for AI and enables the generation of contextually relevant images. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework integrates with Alibaba Cloud’s Platform for AI, providing accessible and scalable solutions. |
Learning Knowledge-Enhanced Contextual Language Representations for Domain Natural Language Understanding (2023.emnlp-main)
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Taolin Zhang, Ruyao Xu, Chengyu Wang, Zhongjie Duan, Cen Chen, Minghui Qiu, Dawei Cheng, Xiaofeng He, Weining Qian
| Challenge: | Existing methods for pre-training KEPLMs with relational triples are difficult to adapt to close domains due to the lack of sufficient domain graph semantics. |
| Approach: | They propose a Knowledge-enhanced language representation learning framework for various closed domains that captures the implicit graph structure among the entities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods for pre-training KEPLMs in closed domains significantly. |
Rapid Diffusion: Building Domain-Specific Text-to-Image Synthesizers with Fast Inference Speed (2023.acl-industry)
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Bingyan Liu, Weifeng Lin, Zhongjie Duan, Chengyu Wang, Wu Ziheng, Zhang Zipeng, Kui Jia, Lianwen Jin, Cen Chen, Jun Huang
| Challenge: | Text-to-Image Synthesis (TIS) aims to generate images based on textual inputs . but, current diffusion-based models lack entity knowledge and low inference speed . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for training and deploying latent diffusion models with rich entity knowledge injected and optimized networks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves image quality and inference speed and can be used in industrial applications. |
Self-Critique Guided Iterative Reasoning for Multi-hop Question Answering (2025.findings-acl)
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Zheng Chu, Huiming Fan, Jingchang Chen, Qianyu Wang, Mingda Yang, Jiafeng Liang, Zhongjie Wang, Hao Li, Guo Tang, Ming Liu, Bing Qin
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities, but they still face challenges in knowledge-intensive multi-hop reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses self-critique feedback to guide iterative reasoning by enabling iteration and self-evaluation of its intermediate reasoning steps. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method surpasses the previous SOTA by 8.6% on three multi-hop reasoning datasets. |
Memory-Driven Role-Playing: Evaluation and Enhancement of Persona Knowledge Utilization in LLMs (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing models fail to recall and accurately apply designated persona knowledge without explicit cues . memory-driven role-playing paradigms are attracting significant interest . |
| Approach: | They propose a memory-driven role-playing paradigm that frames persona knowledge as the LLM's internal memory store and a prompting architecture that guides structured memory retrieval and response generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed paradigm provides a comprehensive diagnostic for four-stage role-playing abilities across 12 LLMs. |
Towards Faithful Multi-step Reasoning through Fine-Grained Causal-aware Attribution Reasoning Distillation (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances have witnessed large language models (LLMs) achieving significant milestones across various domains of natural language processing. |
| Approach: | They introduce fine-grained attribution reasoning distillation (FARD) which incorporates grounded citations to consolidate the relationships between reasoning steps. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms CoT distillation methods on mathematical and general reasoning benchmarks. |
LaERC-S: Improving LLM-based Emotion Recognition in Conversation with Speaker Characteristics (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is a task of discerning human emotions for each utterance within a conversation. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that uses large language models to analyze speaker characteristics . they use two-stage learning to make the models reason speaker characteristics and track emotion of the speaker . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods on three benchmark datasets. |