Yan Gong
2026
Vector Calligrapher: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics via Structured Linguistic Supervision
Bo Zhou | Xikang Chen | Yan Gong | Yin Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Bo Zhou | Xikang Chen | Yan Gong | Yin Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Generating SVG-based fonts requires Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to translate high-level linguistic intent into low-level, topologically constrained symbolic sequences. However, current approaches struggle with two fundamental misalignments: the semantic ambiguity of unstructured natural language for precise geometric control, and the inefficiency of generic text tokenizers, which fragment coordinate-dense SVG XML into excessively long sequences with low information density. In this work, we propose Vector Calligrapher, a system that treats SVG generation as a conditional language modeling task optimized for both semantic grounding and representational efficiency.To bridge the semantic gap, we introduce a structured linguistic supervision Font Description Framework that decomposes typographic style into interpretable linguistic dimensions (e.g., historical lineage, affective metaphors), providing structured supervision aligned with the compositional syntax of SVG. To address the tokenization bottleneck, we design a scalable separated-coordinate strategy that bypasses the vocabulary explosion of flattened tokens while significantly compressing sequence length. Supported by VectorFont, a dataset of over 10 million hierarchically annotated glyphs, our approach improves CLIP score by +23%, reduces geometric error by ≈48%, and boosts generation efficiency by achieving an 18% Command-per-Token (C/T) ratio—a 6× increase in information density over standard baselines. These results demonstrate that combining structured linguistic supervision with efficient symbolic tokenization is essential for reliable, controllable vector graphics synthesis. VectorFont dataset, Code and model weights will be publicly released.
2024
Just Ask One More Time! Self-Agreement Improves Reasoning of Language Models in (Almost) All Scenarios
Lei Lin | Jiayi Fu | Pengli Liu | Qingyang Li | Yan Gong | Junchen Wan | Fuzheng Zhang | Zhongyuan Wang | Di Zhang | Kun Gai
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Lei Lin | Jiayi Fu | Pengli Liu | Qingyang Li | Yan Gong | Junchen Wan | Fuzheng Zhang | Zhongyuan Wang | Di Zhang | Kun Gai
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Although chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting combined with language models has achieved encouraging results on complex reasoning tasks, the naive greedy decoding used in CoT prompting usually causes the repetitiveness and local optimality. To address this shortcoming, ensemble-optimization tries to obtain multiple reasoning paths to get the final answer assembly. However, current ensemble-optimization methods either simply employ rule-based post-processing such as self-consistency, or train an additional model based on several task-related human annotations to select the best one among multiple reasoning paths, yet fail to generalize to realistic settings where the type of input questions is unknown or the answer format of reasoning paths is unknown. To avoid their limitations, we propose Self-Agreement, a generalizable ensemble-optimization method applying in almost all scenarios where the type of input questions and the answer format of reasoning paths may be known or unknown. Self-agreement firstly samples from language model’s decoder to generate a diverse set of reasoning paths, and subsequently prompts the language model one more time to determine the optimal answer by selecting the most agreed answer among the sampled reasoning paths. Self-agreement simultaneously achieves remarkable performance on six public reasoning benchmarks and superior generalization capabilities.