Publications
Selected work from REAL Lab, listed by year. For the complete list, see Google Scholar.
2026
Beyond Literal Translation: Evaluating Cultural Effectiveness in Social Media UGC
ICML 2026 NEW
Context-Aware Reasoner: Enhancing Contextual Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
ICML 2026 NEW
Reality vs Counterfactual: Multi-World Contrastive Reinforcement Learning for Enhancing MLLM's Theory of Mind in Egocentric Videos
AAAI 2026 ORAL
How Controllable Are Large Language Models? A Unified Evaluation across Behavioral Granularities
ACL 2026
Label-Free GUI Grounding via Confidence-Guided Negative Reinforcement Learning
2026
2025
Active Confusion Expression in Large Language Models: Leveraging World Models toward Better Social Reasoning
arXiv preprint, 2025
Cooper: Co-Optimizing Policy and Reward Models in Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models
arXiv preprint, 2025
Scaling LLMs' Social Reasoning: Sprinkle Cognitive "Aha Moment" into Fundamental Long-Thought Logical Capabilities
ACL 2025 (Findings)
TimeHC-RL: Temporal-Aware Hierarchical Cognitive Reinforcement Learning for Enhancing LLMs' Social Intelligence
arXiv preprint, 2025
Think Twice, Click Once: Enhancing GUI Grounding via Fast and Slow Systems
arXiv preprint, 2025
DB-Explore: Automated Database Exploration and Instruction Synthesis for Text-to-SQL
EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
MathFimer: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning by Expanding Reasoning Steps through Fill-in-the-Middle Task
ICLR 2026
2024
MAKIMA: Tuning-Free Multi-Attribute Open-Domain Video Editing via Mask-Guided Attention Modulation
arXiv preprint, 2024
GaVaMoE: Gaussian-Variational Gated Mixture of Experts for Explainable Recommendation
arXiv preprint, 2024
EgoSocialArena: Benchmarking the Social Intelligence of Large Language Models from a First-Person Perspective
arXiv preprint, 2024
Progressive Tuning: Towards Generic Sentiment Abilities for Large Language Models
ACL 2024 (Findings)
Advancing Process Verification for Large Language Models via Tree-Based Preference Learning
EMNLP 2024
Specialized Mathematical Solving by a Step-By-Step Expression Chain Generation
IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process. 32 (2024)
2023 and earlier · selected
DAMO-NLP at SemEval-2022 Task 11: A Knowledge-Based System for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition
SemEval 2022 BEST SYSTEM
For the full list, see Google Scholar.