Papers with CMR
A Compressive Memory-based Retrieval Approach for Event Argument Extraction (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing retrieval-based EAE methods have input length constraints and the gap between the retriever and the inference model. |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-based retrieval mechanism that overcomes input length constraints . they use compressive memory to cache retrieved information and support continuous updates . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms retrieval-based methods on three public datasets. |
On Continual Model Refinement in Out-of-Distribution Data Streams (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing continual learning (CL) problems cannot cover real-world scenarios such as out-of-distribution errors. |
| Approach: | They propose a continual model refinement problem formulation to solve this problem . they extend several existing continual learning approaches to the CMR problem based on a general sampling algorithm . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model refinement solution improves on existing models and their performance metrics. |
Dialogue Graph Modeling for Conversational Machine Reading (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for conversational machine reading (CMR) are not effective for capturing multiple objects in complex interactive scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a dialogue graph modeling framework that captures explicit and implicit interactions hidden in the rule documents and a model that asks clarification questions to the machine. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model exceeds the milestone accuracy score of 80% on the ShARC benchmark and achieves new state-of-the-art by first exceeding the milestone precision score of 90%. |
Smoothing Dialogue States for Open Conversational Machine Reading (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies train independent or pipeline systems for the two subtasks but are trivial by using hard-label decisions to activate question generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to smooth two dialogue states in one decoder and bridge decision making and question generation to provide a richer dialogue state reference. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art on the OR-ShARC dataset. |
Explicit Alignment and Many-to-many Entailment Based Reasoning for Conversational Machine Reading (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Recent research has explored how to improve the abilities of decision-making and question generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a pipeline framework that aligns the document and user-provided information in an explicit way, makes decisions using a lightweight many-to-many entailment reasoning module and generates follow-up questions based on the document. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art in micro-accuracy and ranks the first place on the public leaderboard of the CMR benchmark dataset ShARC. |
CMR Scaling Law: Predicting Critical Mixture Ratios for Continual Pre-training of Language Models (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in diverse tasks but often underperform in specialized fields due to limited domain-specific or proprietary corpus. |
| Approach: | They propose a power-law relationship between loss, mixture ratio, and training tokens scale and formalize the trade-off between general and domain-specific capabilities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves the desired domain transfer while maintaining general ability and highest utilization of available resources. |
CAIR: Causal Adaptive Information-based Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal Emotion Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for multimodal emotion reasoning produce fluent but superficial explanations that lack authentic logical derivation. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that treats rationales as causal mediators between raw perceptual signals and emotional semantics and an adaptive optimization mechanism to balance perception and reasoning across varying cognitive loads. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms specialized SFT models by 14.4% while enhancing rationale faithfulness. |