Long Meng
2026
From Short Video to Clickable Search: RLVR-Enabled Listwise Query Suggestion with Retrieval-Augmented Context
Mingkai Tian | Xuye | Long Meng | Liwei Chen | Zhiheng Qin | Yi Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
Mingkai Tian | Xuye | Long Meng | Liwei Chen | Zhiheng Qin | Yi Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
Short-video platforms now present tappable search entries beneath the video player, making it effortless for users to shift from passively watching to actively searching for information. Prior work on bottom-bar query generation conditions on titles and OCR to generate a single query per forward pass, constrains decoding with a trie, and evaluates against a single reference using edit-distance–style supervision—making it difficult to cover the diverse intents a video can trigger and to credit semantically equivalent query variants. Motivated by these limitations, we propose four complementary improvements. First, we reformulate the task as one-shot list generation, producing multiple distinct queries per video, and build multi-query ground truth from exposure and CTR logs. Second, we redesign offline evaluation with \operatorname{CTR\text{-}HungF1}, a CTR-weighted set-matching metric via optimal assignment over token-level F1 score. Third, we enrich context with a video-to-video-to-query (V2V2Q) RAG pipeline to provide behavior-grounded background knowledge. Finally, we apply thinking-free RLVR with deterministic format checks and \operatorname{CTR\text{-}HungF1} rewards to train a compact LLM without reward models or CoT distillation. The resulting system yields strong offline and online improvements, and has been deployed on Kuaishou to serve hundreds of millions of users daily.
2025
Enhancing Speech Large Language Models with Prompt-Aware Mixture of Audio Encoders
Weiqiao Shan | Yuang Li | Yuhao Zhang | Yingfeng Luo | Chen Xu | Xiaofeng Zhao | Long Meng | Yunfei Lu | Min Zhang | Hao Yang | Tong Xiao | JingBo Zhu
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Weiqiao Shan | Yuang Li | Yuhao Zhang | Yingfeng Luo | Chen Xu | Xiaofeng Zhao | Long Meng | Yunfei Lu | Min Zhang | Hao Yang | Tong Xiao | JingBo Zhu
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Connecting audio encoders with large language models (LLMs) allows the LLM to perform various audio understanding tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and audio captioning (AC). Most research focuses on training an adapter layer to generate a unified audio feature for the LLM. However, different tasks may require distinct features that emphasize either semantic or acoustic aspects, making task-specific audio features more desirable. In this paper, we propose Prompt-aware Mixture (PaM) to enhance the Speech LLM that uses multiple audio encoders. Our approach involves using different experts to extract different features based on the prompt that indicates different tasks. Experiments demonstrate that with PaM, only one Speech LLM surpasses the best performances achieved by all single-encoder Speech LLMs on ASR, speaker number verification, and AC tasks. PaM also outperforms other feature fusion baselines, such as concatenation and averaging.