Papers by Zixuan Yang

9 papers
AgentCourt: Simulating Court with Adversarial Evolvable Lawyer Agents (2025.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing legal language models struggle with dynamic courtroom interactions, resulting in overfitting to standardized legal tasks.
Approach: They propose a new adversarial evolutionary approach for agents that performs dynamic knowledge learning and evolution through structured adversarials in a simulated courtroom program.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms existing LLM-based models in three critical dimensions: cognitive agility, professional knowledge, and logical rigor.
An Evaluation Resource for Grounding Translation Errors (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Current fine-grained error analyses do not ground the errors to the reasons why the annotated text spans are erroneous.
Approach: They use a bi-directional grounding scheme to ground erroneous text in two directions . if the error spans of both directions are consistent, the explanation is valid .
Outcome: The proposed grounding process improves translation error detection significantly.
RATE: Reviewer Profiling and Annotation-free Training for Expertise Ranking in Peer Review Systems (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: LR-bench is a high-fidelity, up-to-date benchmark curated from 2024–2025 AI/NLP manuscripts with five-level self-assessed familiarity ratings collected via a large-scale email survey .
Approach: They propose a reviewer-centric ranking framework that distills each reviewer’s recent publications into compact keyword-based profiles and fine-tunes an embedding model with weak preference supervision constructed from heuristic retrieval signals.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms existing benchmarks and the CMU gold-standard dataset in the evaluation of AI/NLP manuscripts.
Reasoning-Enhanced Domain-Adaptive Pretraining of Multimodal Large Language Models for Short Video Content Governance (2025.emnlp-industry)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to identifying inappropriate content require extensive human-labeled data and lack cross-issue generalization.
Approach: They propose a reasoning-enhanced multimodal large language model (MLLM) pretraining paradigm for unified inappropriate content detection.
Outcome: The proposed model improves the MLLM's performance in both zero-shot and supervised fine-tuning settings and shows strong generalization capabilities to emergent, previously unseen issues.
AMA: Adaptive Memory via Multi-Agent Collaboration (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to longterm memory rely on rigid retrieval granularity, accumulation-heavy maintenance strategies, and coarse-grained update mechanisms.
Approach: They propose a framework that leverages coordinated agents to manage memory across multiple granularities.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art benchmarks while reducing token consumption by approximately 80%.
The CRECIL Corpus: a New Dataset for Extraction of Relations between Characters in Chinese Multi-party Dialogues (2022.lrec-1)

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Challenge: Existing datasets focus on relation extraction between two entities in one sentence, and some focus on cross-sentence relationships.
Approach: They propose to use a Chinese multi-party dialogue dataset for automatic extraction of dialogue-based character relationships.
Outcome: The proposed dataset extracts relationships between 140 entities on the CRECIL corpus and another existing relation extraction corpus.
Towards Informative Open-ended Text Generation with Dynamic Knowledge Triples (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Pretrained language models (PLMs) have impressive capabilities in open-ended text generation.
Approach: They propose a dynamic knowledge-guided informative open-ended text generation approach that utilizes a knowledge graph to help the model generate more contextually related entities and detailed facts.
Outcome: The proposed approach generates more informative texts than baselines.
CuriousLLM: Elevating Multi-Document Question Answering with LLM-Enhanced Knowledge Graph Reasoning (2025.naacl-industry)

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Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant success in open-domain question answering, however, they continue to face challenges such as knowledge cutoffs and hallucinations.
Approach: They propose a new mechanism that integrates a curiosity-driven reasoning mechanism into an LLM agent to generate relevant follow-up questions.
Outcome: The proposed enhancement integrates a curiosity-driven reasoning mechanism into an LLM agent, enabling it to generate relevant follow-up questions, thereby guiding the information retrieval process more efficiently.

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