Qianhao Yuan
2026
DeepPresenter: Environment-Grounded Reflection for Agentic Presentation Generation
Hao Zheng | Guozhao Mo | Xinru Yan | Qianhao Yuan | Wenkai Zhang | Xuanang Chen | Yaojie Lu | Hongyu Lin | Xianpei Han | Le Sun
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Hao Zheng | Guozhao Mo | Xinru Yan | Qianhao Yuan | Wenkai Zhang | Xuanang Chen | Yaojie Lu | Hongyu Lin | Xianpei Han | Le Sun
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Presentation generation requires deep content research, coherent visual design, and iterative refinement based on observation. However, existing presentation agents often rely on predefined workflows and fixed templates. To address this, we present DeepPresenter, an agentic framework that adapts to diverse user intents, enables effective feedback-driven refinement, and generalizes beyond a scripted pipeline. Specifically, DeepPresenter autonomously plans, renders, and revises intermediate slide artifacts to support long-horizon refinement with environmental observations. Furthermore, rather than relying on self-reflection over internal signals (e.g., reasoning traces), our environment-grounded reflection conditions the generation process on perceptual artifact states (e.g., rendered slides), enabling the system to identify and correct presentation-specific issues during execution. Results on the evaluation set covering diverse presentation-generation scenarios show that DeepPresenter achieves state-of-the-art performance, and the fine-tuned DeepPresenter-9B remains highly competitive at substantially lower cost.
MemSearcher: Iterative Memory Integration for Search Agent via End-to-End Reinforcement Learning
Qianhao Yuan | Jie Lou | Zichao Li | Jiawei Chen | Yaojie Lu | Hongyu Lin | Le Sun | Debing Zhang | Xianpei Han
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Qianhao Yuan | Jie Lou | Zichao Li | Jiawei Chen | Yaojie Lu | Hongyu Lin | Le Sun | Debing Zhang | Xianpei Han
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
LLM-based search agents often concatenate the full interaction history into the context, producing long and noisy inputs, and increasing compute cost and GPU memory overhead. To address this issue, we propose MemSearcher, an agent framework that maintains a compact memory during multi-turn interactions, retaining only question-relevant information and thereby keeping the context length stable across turns. Training MemSearcher is challenging because each trajectory spans multiple turns under different LLM contexts, making each turn an independent optimization target in reinforcement learning. We introduce multi-context GRPO, which propagates trajectory-level advantages to all turns for end-to-end optimization. Experiments demonstrate that MemSearcher outperforms strong history-concatenation (ReAct-style) baselines on a range of public datasets while maintaining nearly constant token counts across multi-turn interactions. The code and models will be publicly available at https://github.com/icip-cas/MemSearcher.
2025
ConsistentChat: Building Skeleton-Guided Consistent Multi-Turn Dialogues for Large Language Models from Scratch
Jiawei Chen | Xinyan Guan | Qianhao Yuan | Guozhao Mo | Weixiang Zhou | Yaojie Lu | Hongyu Lin | Ben He | Le Sun | Xianpei Han
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Jiawei Chen | Xinyan Guan | Qianhao Yuan | Guozhao Mo | Weixiang Zhou | Yaojie Lu | Hongyu Lin | Ben He | Le Sun | Xianpei Han
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Current instruction data synthesis methods primarily focus on single-turn instructions and often neglect cross-turn coherence, resulting in context drift and reduced task completion rates in extended conversations. To address this limitation, we propose Skeleton-Guided Multi-Turn Dialogue Generation, a framework that constrains multi-turn instruction synthesis by explicitly modeling human conversational intent. It operates in two stages: (1) Intent Modeling, which captures the global structure of human dialogues by assigning each conversation to one of nine well-defined intent trajectories, ensuring a coherent and goal-oriented information flow; and (2) Skeleton Generation, which constructs a structurally grounded sequence of user queries aligned with the modeled intent, thereby serving as a scaffold that constrains and guides the downstream instruction synthesis process. Based on this process, we construct ConsistentChat, a multi-turn instruction dataset with approximately 15,000 multi-turn conversations and 224,392 utterances. Experiments on the Light, Topdial, and MT-Eval benchmarks show that models fine-tuned on ConsistentChat achieve a 20–30% improvement in chat consistency and up to a 15% increase in task success rate, significantly outperforming models trained on existing single-turn and multi-turn instruction datasets.
ShortGPT: Layers in Large Language Models are More Redundant Than You Expect
Xin Men | Mingyu Xu | Qingyu Zhang | Qianhao Yuan | Bingning Wang | Hongyu Lin | Yaojie Lu | Xianpei Han | Weipeng Chen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Xin Men | Mingyu Xu | Qingyu Zhang | Qianhao Yuan | Bingning Wang | Hongyu Lin | Yaojie Lu | Xianpei Han | Weipeng Chen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to advance, their computational overhead has increased significantly. In this study, we identify notable redundancy across the layers of LLMs, where some layers contribute minimally to the overall network functionality. To quantify this, we introduce a metric called Block Influence (BI), which measures the importance of each layer based on the similarity between its input and output. Based on the observation of layer redundancy, we propose straightforward pruning methods for different tasks: ShortGPT for multiple-choice tasks and ShortGPT-gen for generative tasks. They prune redundant layers based on their BI scores. Our methods demonstrate superior performance over previous pruning methods. The ability to achieve better results through simple layer pruning, as opposed to more complex pruning techniques, suggests a high degree of redundancy across layers. We hope this work will contribute to future research for improving LLM efficiency.