Papers by Zihan Zheng
IMOL: Incomplete-Modality-Tolerant Learning for Multi-Domain Fake News Video Detection (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for fake news video detection focus on a specific domain and assume multiple modalities. |
| Approach: | They propose an incomplete-modality-tolerant learning framework for fake news video detection . they use cross-modal consistency to reconstruct missing modalities and transferable knowledge through cross-sample reasoning . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves performance and robustness of multi-domain fake news video detection while generalizing to unseen domains under incomplete modality conditions. |
Benchmarking Foundation Models with Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Olympic-Level Physics Problem Solving (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | a new study examines the potential of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with foundation models to enhance expert-level reasoning. |
| Approach: | They introduce PhoPile, a high-quality multimodal dataset specifically designed for Olympiad-level physics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be used to solve Olympiad-level physics problems. |
PlanningArena: A Modular Benchmark for Multidimensional Evaluation of Planning and Tool Learning (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have shown that LLMs can be significantly improved by integrating external tools. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates external tools into large language models to evaluate their ability to generate action plans. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework evaluates the ability of large language models to generate action plans and generate action plan templates. |
Demons in the Detail: On Implementing Load Balancing Loss for Training Specialized Mixture-of-Expert Models (2025.acl-long)
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Zihan Qiu, Zeyu Huang, Bo Zheng, Kaiyue Wen, Zekun Wang, Rui Men, Ivan Titov, Dayiheng Liu, Jingren Zhou, Junyang Lin
| Challenge: | Existing Mixture-of-Experts training frameworks use a micro-batch to calculate LBL . micro-batches are restricted to a single sequence, preventing expert specialization . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a global-batch to loosen the load balance constraint for MoEs models . they propose to synchronize fi across micro-batches and then use it to calculate the LBL . |
| Outcome: | The proposed global-batch LBL improves the domain specialization of experts . the micro-battery LBL is almost at the sequence level, and the router is pushed to distribute the token evenly . |
Answer-driven Deep Question Generation based on Reinforcement Learning (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for deep question generation focus on enhancing document representations, but little attention is paid to the answer information. |
| Approach: | They propose a deep question generation model that makes better use of the target answer as a guidance to facilitate question generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models in automatic and human evaluations on the hotpotQA dataset. |
NaturalGAIA: A Verifiable Benchmark and Hierarchical Framework for Long-Horizon GUI Tasks (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Current research faces an "Evaluation-Realism Dilemma" due to unstable MLLM judges or manual verification. |
| Approach: | They propose a verifiable evaluation dataset grounded in real-world human GUI intents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art framework in achieving a weighted pathway success rate of 45.6% while reducing token consumption and execution time by 76%. |
CoRAG: Enhancing Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation through a Cooperative Retriever Architecture (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods only retrieve related documents from local neighbors or subgraphs in the knowledge base, which often miss relevant information located further away from a global view. |
| Approach: | Hybrid-RAG combines textual documents and graph-structured relational information for RAG . existing methods only retrieve related documents from local neighbors or subgraphs in the knowledge base . |
| Outcome: | Hybrid-RAG combines textual documents and graph-structured relational information . existing methods only retrieve related documents from local neighbors or subgraphs in the knowledge base . |
Decompose, Prioritize, and Eliminate: Dynamically Integrating Diverse Representations for Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing research on multi-modal Named Entity Recognition (MNER) does not integrate all multi-modal representations to provide rich contextual information to improve NER. |
| Approach: | They propose an iterative reasoning framework that integrates all the diverse multi-modal representations following the strategy of "decompose, prioritize, and eliminate" . they propose to use hierarchically connected fusion layers to prioritize transitions from "easy-to-hard" and "coarse-to fine" |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework integrates all the diverse multi-modal representations following the strategy of "decompose, prioritize, and eliminate". |