Papers by Zhuo Zhang
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| Challenge: | Existing zero-shot text-to-speech systems struggle in challenging scenarios such as tongue twisters, repeated words, code-switching, and cross-lingual synthesis. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset that leverages preference alignment techniques to improve performance . they also extend the Direct Preference Optimization framework to accommodate diverse TTS architectures . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset improves intelligibility, similarity, and audio quality for multiple models across domains. |
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| Challenge: | a growing number of cloud-based inference services are relying on SMPC to protect data privacy. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for Privacy-Preserving Inference for Transformer models that eliminates exponential and maximum operations in PPI without sacrificing model performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms MPCFormer in terms of performance and efficiency . it is 3.57 and 3.58 times faster than PUMA for BERTBASE and BERTLARGE . |
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to graph representation only consider the local neighbors, sacrificing the Transformer’s ability to attend to elements at any distance. |
| Approach: | They propose a dual-encoding Transformer architecture that uses a structural encoder and a semantic encoder to seek for semantically relevant nodes. |
| Outcome: | The proposed architecture achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art attention-based methods on complex relational graphs like KGs and citation networks. |
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| Challenge: | Existing pruning methods ignore prefill-decode (PD) disaggregation in practice. |
| Approach: | They propose a pruning method that is highly integrated with prefill-decode (PD) disaggregation, enabling more precise pruning of blocks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves strong performance in both PD disaggregation and PD unified settings, and can be extended to other non-block pruning methods. |
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| Challenge: | Existing DRA methods fail to accurately recover the original text of real-world privacy data. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a real-world privacy dataset to examine the performance of federated learning (FL) methods. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on a real-world privacy dataset and shows that the tokens within a recovery sentence are disordered and intertwined with tokens from other sentences in the same training batch. |
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| Challenge: | 305 open access scientific articles are used for synthesis action graphs . lack of annotated data has hindered progress in this field . |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate Polycrystalline Materials Synthesis Procedures PcMSP from 305 open access scientific articles for the construction of synthesis action graphs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contains the synthesis sentences, entity mentions and intra-sentence relations extracted from the experimental paragraphs. |
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| Challenge: | Current efforts to integrate MMKG with pretraining are scarce. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that integrates multi-modal entity features into MMKGs using a Transformer-based architecture equipped with modality-level noise masking. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves SOTA performance across ten datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for generating layer importance ignore the fine-grained influence of spectral distribution shape. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical rank allocation framework with two stages to address this gap . they propose SVD-based lowrank approximation that exploits spectral heterogeneity . |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that HiSVD outperforms state-of-the-art methods on LLMs . |
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| Challenge: | Experimental results demonstrate that ProtLLM achieves superior performance against protein-specialized baselines on protein-centric tasks and induces zero-shot and in-context learning capabilities on protein language tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a cross-modal large language model (LLM) that can handle protein-centric and protein-language tasks by using a dynamic protein mounting mechanism. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can predict proteins from a vast pool of candidates and can also predict natural language and biological papers. |
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| Challenge: | Existing Large language models (LLMs) have low pass rates and accuracy on competitive programming tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a generate-and-edit approach that uses execution results of generated code from LLMs to improve code quality on competitive programming tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves pass@1 by 89% on APPS-dev, 31% on apps-test, and 48% on HumanEval over nine popular code generation LLMs with parameter sizes ranging from 110M to 175B. |
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| Challenge: | Despite the maturity of LLM-based code assistance for mainstream languages, the capabilities of ArkTS are largely unexplored. |
| Approach: | They propose to benchmark repository-level code completion for ArkTS using 7,519 samples from 20 official HarmonyOS repositories. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark covers multiple difficulty levels and categorizes completion instances into Single-File, Cross-Filled Independent, and Cross-Filed Dependent settings based on dependency analysis. |
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| Challenge: | Existing literature on the generalization of machine learning models to out-of-distribution data is lacking. |
| Approach: | They propose to present the first comprehensive review of recent progress, methods, and evaluations on the generalization challenge from an OOD perspective in natural language understanding. |
| Outcome: | The proposed survey provides the first comprehensive review of recent progress, methods, and evaluations on the generalization challenge from an OOD perspective in natural language understanding. |
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches focus on generating multi-level citations linked to specific references, making it verifiable and trustworthy. |
| Approach: | They propose a new data construction pipeline and a benchmark to improve citation granularity and awareness of unknown information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on the existing benchmark and data construction pipeline and provides citation granularity and awareness of unknown information. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to analyze malware behavior only disclose a subset of behaviors due to inherent difficulties. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel malware behavior search technique that is based on graph isomorphism at the attention layers of Transformer models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed technique outperforms state-of-the-art methods in a case study of 10 real-world malwares by 6-14%. |
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| Challenge: | et al., 2017) address domain-specific knowledge barriers, schemas complexity, and computational costs of large LLMs. |
| Approach: | They propose a domain-adapted Text2SQL system that addresses critical deployment challenges in professional fields. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves 97% execution accuracy on real-world databases . it is faster than existing systems and has a higher performance than existing ones. |
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| Challenge: | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is employed to tackle these challenges . a Knowledge Boundary Model (KBM) is used to express the known/unknown of a given question . |
| Approach: | They propose a Knowledge Boundary Model to express the known/unknown of a given question . they find that not all questions need to trigger RAG to improve performance . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model reduces time and computational costs by retrieving parts of unknown knowledge . the proposed model can express the known/unknown of a given question and determine whether a RAG needs to be triggered . |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to enhance textual entity prediction neglect the need for external knowledge or encounter high redundancy in the retrieved knowledge. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that leverages ChatGPT as an implicit knowledge base and heuristically generates auxiliary knowledge for more efficient entity prediction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two classic datasets and exhibits a stronger robustness and generalization capability. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to improve LLMs' reasoning abilities suffer from diminishing returns or high computing overhead. |
| Approach: | They propose a genetic evolutionary framework that casts CoT generation as a population-based search over reasoning trajectories. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves correct-CoT synthesis success by over 30% and enhances structural diversity with markedly improved efficiency. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to detect hallucinations suffer from inherent confirmation bias, where the verifier inadvertently reproduces the errors of the original generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that enforces rigorous factual alignment by leveraging deliberate *information asymmetry* by combining a pipeline of three specialized agents: a Solver, a Proposer, and a Checker. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments across hallucination benchmarks demonstrate that MARCH substantially reduces hallucinism rates. |
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| Challenge: | Existing research on federated learning (FL) for pre-trained language models (PLMs) with increasing concerns about data privacy, enterprises or institutions are not allowed to collect data from end devices or local clients to a centralized server for fine-tuning PLMs. |
| Approach: | They investigate the parameter-efficient tuning of pre-trained language models (PLMs) and develop a federated benchmark for four representative PETuning methods . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can defend against privacy attacks and maintain acceptable performance with reducing heavy resource consumption. |
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| Challenge: | Existing Dev Knowledge QA benchmarks are limited in development knowledge scope and often not built from real user queries. |
| Approach: | They conduct preliminary analysis of real user–LLM dialogues from WildChat to investigate the importance of Dev Knowledge QA in AI-assisted software development scenarios. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark is based on real user–LLM dialogues from WildChat. |
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| Challenge: | Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is effective for aligning Large Language Models with human preferences, but its complex process limits its ability to continually learn human feedback. |
| Approach: | They propose a non-RL offline method to convert historical optimal policies into optimization constraints when continually learning new preferences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms strong CL baselines in terms of reward-based evaluations and human assessment. |
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| Challenge: | Large language models have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of tasks, yet their performance remains heavily biased toward high-resource languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a pipeline for advancing Tibetan language modeling through multilingual continual pre-training with Tibetan, Chinese, and English. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms open-source and Tibetan-focused models on diverse tasks. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to train federated learning (FL) for natural language processing require sensitive data to leave local devices. |
| Approach: | They propose a fedrated model decomposition method that protects the privacy of vocabularies . they propose an adaptive updating technique to improve the performance of local models . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method protects the privacy of vocabularies in federated learning tasks . it maintains competitive performance and provides better privacy-preserving capacity compared to status quo methods. |
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| Challenge: | Domain-specific question answering (QA) requires a comprehensive understanding of a specific domain to answer specialized questions. |
| Approach: | They propose a new alignment objective to align the LLM preference with different human preferences uniformly to optimize LLM performance in real-world, domain-specific QA settings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline is superior for real-scenario domain-specific question answering with LLMs. |
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| Challenge: | Pathology imaging is used for identifying the causes and effects of diseases or injuries. |
| Approach: | They propose a pathological visual question answering framework to analyze pathology images and answer medical questions related to these images. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework performs self-supervised pretraining and finetuning end-to-end to learn powerful visual and textual representations jointly and automatically identifies and excludes noisy self-controlled examples from pretraining. |
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| Challenge: | GigaSpeech 2 is a large-scale, multi-domain, multilingual speech recognition corpus for low-resource languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale, multi-domain, multilingual speech recognition corpus for low-resource languages and an automated pipeline for data crawling, transcription, and label refinement. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus reduces the word error rate for Thai, Indonesian, and Vietnamese on a realistic YouTube test set by 25% to 40% compared to Whisper large-v3. |
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on understanding and reasoning with abstractive information from the visual modality have not explored the use of STructured and Abstractive Reasoning (STAR) on such data. |
| Approach: | They propose an automatic STAR data engine to synthesize images with MMRK to build multi-modal instructions with reliable chain-of-thought thinking for various STAR tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms GPT-4o in STAR and improves performance across 8 open-source MLLMs. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to integrate external knowledge into LLMs focus on specific problems, lacking a comprehensive exploration of the generalization and capability boundaries of SKP. |
| Approach: | They propose a new paradigm for structural knowledge prompting to integrate external structural knowledge into LLMs by incorporating structural representations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark SUBARU enables the evaluation of the generalization capabilities of SKP from four perspectives. |
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| Challenge: | federated learning (FL) is a promising technique for preserving data privacy . however, there is no work on applying FL to legal NLP . |
| Approach: | They propose to use federated learning to train models in a collaborative way without sharing data . they propose to test the FL benchmark on real-world legal data from Chinese courts . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark combines five legal NLP tasks and one privacy task on Chinese courts. |
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| Challenge: | LegalBench evaluated 20 LLMs in 162 legal tasks in 20 countries and jurisdictions. |
| Approach: | They present a comprehensive evaluation of 21 popular Large Language Models and the first comparative analysis of the empirical results. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks are based on the Bloom’s cognitive taxonomy and are compared to 21 popular LLMs. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to detect the knowledge boundary of Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) are expensive and require indiscriminate retrieval to address questions that require real-time information or are knowledge-intensive. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that fine-tunes a VLLM on an automatically constructed dataset for boundary identification. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces indiscriminate retrieval while maintaining or improving the performance of a VLLM on an automatically constructed dataset. |
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) can specialize under fixed memory and inference budgets, but they struggle to achieve high performance across heterogeneous domains. |
| Approach: | They propose a modular improvement framework that partitions full capabilities of a general-purpose model into domain-specific delta modules that reorganize and refine the model's internal knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms monolithic models on multi-task and agentic benchmarks and achieves up to 4 speedup. |
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| Challenge: | Despite its versatility, CLIP-based applications often suffer from misunderstandings regarding user intent, leading to discrepancies between the required number of objects and the actual outputs. |
| Approach: | They empirically evaluate CLIP’s understanding of quantity from text, image, and cross-modal perspectives by carefully designing different experimental settings and datasets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model has shown significant success in various downstream tasks, including editing, generation, and quality evaluation. |
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to optimize large language models with human preferences suffer from preference conflicts in the data. |
| Approach: | They propose to construct Pareto-optimal responses to resolve preference conflicts by using a self-improving DPO framework that enables LLMs to self-generate and select Paret-optimized responses. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves superior Pareto Front performance over baselines on two datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods implicitly model time constraints by learning time-aware embeddings of questions and candidate answers, which is far from understanding the question comprehensively. |
| Approach: | They propose a temporal-based temporal programming method that leverages the in-context learning ability of Large Language Models to understand combinatory time constraints in questions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods on multiTQ and CronQuestions datasets and is highly efficient on multi-level questions. |
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| Challenge: | Existing MMKGC methods overlook the imbalance problem of modality information among entities, resulting in inadequate modal fusion and inefficient utilization of the raw modality. |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate structural, visual, and textual information of entities into the discriminant models to predict the missing triples. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms 19 recent methods and achieves state-of-the-art results on three public MMKGC benchmarks. |
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| Challenge: | Existing work shows that large language models generate incorrect statements due to over-reliance on parametric knowledge. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that utilizes syntax trees to guide information retrieval and reasoning for question answering. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on existing state-of-the-art methods for large-scale query processing. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to identify the origin of AI-generated texts fail to identify origin due to the high similarity of different LLMs. |
| Approach: | They propose a black-box AI-generated text origin detection method which accurately predicts the origin of an input text by extracting distinct context inference patterns. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms 10 state-of-the-art baselines and achieves a 25% increase in AUC score on average across natural language and code datasets. |
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| Challenge: | Large language models face vulnerabilities related to the extraction of sensitive information. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to exploit the model's lower-ranked output tokens to extract private information from retrieved documents or training knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is effective in both the agentic application privacy extraction setting and the direct training data extraction. |
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| Challenge: | Recent research has neglected instances-level prompt variations and their implications on subjective evaluations. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to evaluate and comprehend prompt sensitivity in large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework evaluates and comprehends prompt sensitivity in large language models. |
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| Challenge: | Existing frameworks for multilingual modeling face communication costs and parameter interference conflicts. |
| Approach: | They propose a communication-efficient federated learning framework with low-rank adaptation and language family clustering for Multilingual Modeling (MM) they maintain the weights of the base model, updating the lightweight Low-rank adapt parameters to minimize communication costs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the baseline models in performance and reduces communication overhead. |
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| Challenge: | Large language models often overlook key behavioral patterns underlying human financial behavior. |
| Approach: | FinHEAR is a multi-agent framework for human expertise and Adaptive Risk-aware reasoning. |
| Outcome: | FinHEAR outperforms baseline models in trend forecasting and decision-making. |
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| Challenge: | Existing studies evaluate the tool utilization ability of large language models based on the final output or only consider the single-step tool calling. |
| Approach: | They propose a new approach to evaluate the tool utilization capability of large language models (LLMs) they decompose the tool usage into multiple sub-processes, including instruction following, planning, reasoning, retrieval, understanding, and review. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model exhibits consistency with the outcome-oriented evaluation and provides a more fine-grained analysis of the capabilities of LLMs. |