Linhao Zhang
2026
SADA: Bridging In-Context Learning and Fine-Tuning via State-Aligned Distillation Adapters
Wenhao Gao | Tianlong Wang | Wei Jia | Linhao Zhang | Aiwei Liu | Miao Fan | Zhou Xiao
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Wenhao Gao | Tianlong Wang | Wei Jia | Linhao Zhang | Aiwei Liu | Miao Fan | Zhou Xiao
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Prompt-based in-context learning (ICL) and parameter fine-tuning are two dominant paradigms for incorporating external information into large language models (LLMs), but they incur high inference costs or require expensive retraining. To bridge this gap, context-to-parameter mapping converts prompts into temporary adapter weights. However, we identify a critical failure mode in existing methods: *hidden-state collapse*, where the adapter-augmented model’s internal states diverge sharply from the full-context oracle in deeper layers. We trace this failure to two coupled gaps: suboptimal **Input-Selection** and inadequate **Supervision-Signal**. To address these issues, we propose SADA (**S**tate-**A**ligned **D**istillation **A**dapters). We establish the *attention-block output* as a principled feature interface to improve input selection and introduce *state-alignment distillation* to enforce consistency between the adapter-augmented model and the full-context oracle. Experiments on long-context language modeling (PG19) and downstream NLU and summarization benchmarks show that SADA consistently outperforms strong baselines like *StreamAdapter* and *GenerativeAdapter*, achieving performance comparable to ICL while significantly reducing memory footprint and latency. We further analyze when parameterized context compression is effective and when explicit context retention remains preferable. Our code is available at [https://github.com/Taylor-Gavel/SADA.git](https://github.com/Taylor-Gavel/SADA.git).
Beyond Transcription: Unified Audio Schema for Perception-Aware AudioLLMs
Linhao Zhang | Yuhan Song | Aiwei Liu | Chuhan Wu | Sijun Zhang | Wei Jia | Yuan Liu | Houfeng Wang | Zhou Xiao
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Linhao Zhang | Yuhan Song | Aiwei Liu | Chuhan Wu | Sijun Zhang | Wei Jia | Yuan Liu | Houfeng Wang | Zhou Xiao
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Recent Audio Large Language Models (AudioLLMs) exhibit a striking performance inversion: while excelling at complex reasoning tasks, they consistently underperform on fine-grained acoustic perception. We attribute this gap to a fundamental limitation of ASR-centric training, which provides precise linguistic targets but implicitly teaches models to suppress paralinguistic cues and acoustic events as noise. To address this, we propose Unified Audio Schema (UAS), a holistic and structured supervision framework that organizes audio information into three explicit components—Transcription, Paralinguistics, and Non-linguistic Events—within a unified JSON format. This design achieves comprehensive acoustic coverage without sacrificing the tight audio-text alignment that enables reasoning. We validate the effectiveness of this supervision strategy by applying it to both discrete and continuous AudioLLM architectures. Extensive experiments on MMSU, MMAR, and MMAU demonstrate that UAS-Audio yields consistent improvements, boosting fine-grained perception by 10.9% on MMSU over the same-size state-of-the-art models while preserving robust reasoning capabilities. Our code and model are publicly available at https://github.com/Tencent/Unified_Audio_Schema.
2025
CodeV: Issue Resolving with Visual Data
Linhao Zhang | Daoguang Zan | Quanshun Yang | Zhirong Huang | Dong Chen | Bo Shen | Tianyu Liu | Yongshun Gong | Huang Pengjie | Xudong Lu | Guangtai Liang | Lizhen Cui | Qianxiang Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Linhao Zhang | Daoguang Zan | Quanshun Yang | Zhirong Huang | Dong Chen | Bo Shen | Tianyu Liu | Yongshun Gong | Huang Pengjie | Xudong Lu | Guangtai Liang | Lizhen Cui | Qianxiang Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced rapidly in recent years, with their applications in software engineering expanding to more complex repository-level tasks. GitHub issue resolving is a key challenge among these tasks. While recent approaches have made progress on this task, they focus on textual data within issues, neglecting visual data. However, this visual data is crucial for resolving issues as it conveys additional knowledge that text alone cannot. We propose CodeV, the first approach to leveraging visual data to enhance the issue-resolving capabilities of LLMs. CodeV resolves each issue by following a two-phase process: data processing and patch generation. To evaluate CodeV, we construct a benchmark for visual issue resolving, namely Visual SWE-bench. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of CodeV, as well as provide valuable insights into leveraging visual data to resolve GitHub issues.
2024
GOME: Grounding-based Metaphor Binding With Conceptual Elaboration For Figurative Language Illustration
Linhao Zhang | Jintao Liu | Li Jin | Hao Wang | Kaiwen Wei | Guangluan Xu
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Linhao Zhang | Jintao Liu | Li Jin | Hao Wang | Kaiwen Wei | Guangluan Xu
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
The illustration or visualization of figurative language, such as linguistic metaphors, is an emerging challenge for existing Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal models. Due to their comparison of seemingly unrelated concepts in metaphors, existing LLMs have a tendency of over-literalization, which illustrates figurative language solely based on literal objects, ignoring the underlying groundings and associations across disparate metaphorical domains. Furthermore, prior approaches have ignored the binding process between visual objects and metaphorical attributes, which further intensifies the infidelity of visual metaphors. To address the issues above, we propose GOME (Grounding-based Metaphor Binding), which illustrates linguistic metaphors from the grounding perspective elaborated through LLMs. GOME consists of two steps for metaphor illustration, including grounding-based elaboration and scenario visualization. In the elaboration step, metaphorical knowledge is integrated into systematic instructions for LLMs, which employs a CoT prompting method rooted in rhetoric. This approach specifies metaphorical devices such as vehicles and groundings, to ensure accurate and faithful descriptions consumed by text-to-image models. In the visualization step, an inference-time metaphor binding method is realized based on elaboration outputs, which register attentional control during the diffusion process, and captures the underlying attributes from the abstract metaphorical domain. Comprehensive evaluations using multiple downstream tasks confirm that, GOME is superior to isolated LLMs, diffusion models, or their direct collaboration.
Rethinking the Reversal Curse of LLMs: a Prescription from Human Knowledge Reversal
Zhicong Lu | Li Jin | Peiguang Li | Yu Tian | Linhao Zhang | Sirui Wang | Guangluan Xu | Changyuan Tian | Xunliang Cai
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Zhicong Lu | Li Jin | Peiguang Li | Yu Tian | Linhao Zhang | Sirui Wang | Guangluan Xu | Changyuan Tian | Xunliang Cai
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited exceptional performance across diverse domains. However, recent studies reveal that LLMs are plagued by the “reversal curse”. Most existing methods rely on aggressive sample permutation and pay little attention to delving into the underlying reasons for this issue, resulting in only partial mitigation. In this paper, inspired by human knowledge reversal, we investigate and quantify the individual influence of three potential reasons on the reversal curse: 1) knowledge clarity, 2) entity correlation modeling, and 3) pairwise relationship reasoning capability. Motivated by the analysis of these reasons, we propose a novel **P**airwise entity **O**rder- and **R**elationship-**E**nhanced (**PORE**) data strategy, which facilitates bidirectional entity correlation modeling and pairwise relationship reasoning to overcome the reversal curse. Specifically, PORE augments the samples with entity order-reversal and semantically preserved question-answer pairs, enhancing the encoding of entity correlations in both directions. PORE also employs entity-interleaved pairwise relationship data, which elevates the model’s capability for relationship reasoning. Additionally, to improve the recall of reverse relationships, we leverage knowledge clarity to construct high-clarity data for PORE. Extensive experimental results on available and two newly assembled datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and generalization of our method in both data-sufficient and -constrained situations.
2023
Guide the Many-to-One Assignment: Open Information Extraction via IoU-aware Optimal Transport
Kaiwen Wei | Yiran Yang | Li Jin | Xian Sun | Zequn Zhang | Jingyuan Zhang | Xiao Li | Linhao Zhang | Jintao Liu | Guo Zhi
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Kaiwen Wei | Yiran Yang | Li Jin | Xian Sun | Zequn Zhang | Jingyuan Zhang | Xiao Li | Linhao Zhang | Jintao Liu | Guo Zhi
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Open Information Extraction (OIE) seeks to extract structured information from raw text without the limitations of close ontology. Recently, the detection-based OIE methods have received great attention from the community due to their parallelism. However, as the essential step of those models, how to assign ground truth labels to the parallelly generated tuple proposals remains under-exploited. The commonly utilized Hungarian algorithm for this procedure is restricted to handling one-to-one assignment among the desired tuples and tuple proposals, which ignores the correlation between proposals and affects the recall of the models. To solve this problem, we propose a dynamic many-to-one label assignment strategy named IOT. Concretely, the label assignment process in OIE is formulated as an Optimal Transport (OT) problem. We leverage the intersection-over-union (IoU) as the assignment quality measurement, and convert the problem of finding the best assignment solution to the one of solving the optimal transport plan by maximizing the IoU values. To further utilize the knowledge from the assignment, we design an Assignment-guided Multi-granularity loss (AM) by simultaneously considering word-level and tuple-level information. Experiment results show the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art models on three benchmarks.
2022
PILE: Pairwise Iterative Logits Ensemble for Multi-Teacher Labeled Distillation
Lianshang Cai | Linhao Zhang | Dehong Ma | Jun Fan | Daiting Shi | Yi Wu | Zhicong Cheng | Simiu Gu | Dawei Yin
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
Lianshang Cai | Linhao Zhang | Dehong Ma | Jun Fan | Daiting Shi | Yi Wu | Zhicong Cheng | Simiu Gu | Dawei Yin
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
Pre-trained language models have become a crucial part of ranking systems and achieved very impressive effects recently. To maintain high performance while keeping efficient computations, knowledge distillation is widely used. In this paper, we focus on two key questions in knowledge distillation for ranking models: 1) how to ensemble knowledge from multi-teacher; 2) how to utilize the label information of data in the distillation process. We propose a unified algorithm called Pairwise Iterative Logits Ensemble (PILE) to tackle these two questions simultaneously. PILE ensembles multi-teacher logits supervised by label information in an iterative way and achieved competitive performance in both offline and online experiments. The proposed method has been deployed in a real-world commercial search system.
2021
Do It Once: An Embarrassingly Simple Joint Matching Approach to Response Selection
Linhao Zhang | Dehong Ma | Sujian Li | Houfeng Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021
Linhao Zhang | Dehong Ma | Sujian Li | Houfeng Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021
2020
Syntax-Aware Graph Attention Network for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification
Lianzhe Huang | Xin Sun | Sujian Li | Linhao Zhang | Houfeng Wang
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Lianzhe Huang | Xin Sun | Sujian Li | Linhao Zhang | Houfeng Wang
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Aspect-level sentiment classification aims to distinguish the sentiment polarities over aspect terms in a sentence. Existing approaches mostly focus on modeling the relationship between the given aspect words and their contexts with attention, and ignore the use of more elaborate knowledge implicit in the context. In this paper, we exploit syntactic awareness to the model by the graph attention network on the dependency tree structure and external pre-training knowledge by BERT language model, which helps to model the interaction between the context and aspect words better. And the subwords of BERT are integrated into the dependency tree graphs, which can obtain more accurate representations of words by graph attention. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.
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