Mingze Kong
Author directory2026
MTO: A Multi-turn Conversational Text-to-OverpassQL Dataset for Enhanced OpenStreetMap Query Generation
Haodi Zhang | Xinrui Zhu | Mingze Kong | Zhidan Liu | Tao Fan | Kaishun Wu | Yuanfeng Song
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Haodi Zhang | Xinrui Zhu | Mingze Kong | Zhidan Liu | Tao Fan | Kaishun Wu | Yuanfeng Song
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
We propose a comprehensive framework for constructing multi-turn Text-to-OverpassQL dialogue datasets. Under this framework, we introduce the first multi-turn Text-to-OverpassQL dataset built upon the OverpassNL corpus. Our dataset comprises over 7,800 dialogues, each containing 2 to 4 user utterances, resulting in more than 20,000 individual utterances aligned with executable Overpass queries. To generate high-quality multi-turn dialogues, we design a four-stage pipeline. First, we convert Overpass queries into syntax trees using a custom parser developed based on the official OverpassQL grammar. This enables structural manipulation while preserving syntactic and executable validity. Second, we apply a diverse set of tree-editing templates, including both simple keyword-level changes and complex structural decompositions, to produce multiple valid and diverse Overpass queries. Third, we leverage a prompt-based approach to guide large language models in generating context-aware natural language questions, ensuring increasing inter-turn dependency across the dialogue. Finally, we implement a hybrid filtering strategy that combines manual annotation with model-assisted selection to validate alignment and correctness at scale. In addition to presenting the dataset, we evaluate the performance of several mainstream large language models and demonstrate that our end-to-end baseline model achieves competitive results. This work offers a new benchmark for studying executable semantic parsing and contextual understanding in map-based query tasks.
Meta-Prompt Optimization for LLM-Based Sequential Decision Making
Mingze Kong | Zhiyong Wang | Yao Shu | Zhongxiang Dai
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Mingze Kong | Zhiyong Wang | Yao Shu | Zhongxiang Dai
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large language models (LLMs) have recently been employed as agents to solve sequential decision-making tasks such as Bayesian optimization and multi-armed bandits. These works usually adopt an LLM for sequential action selection by providing it with a fixed, manually designed meta-prompt. However, numerous previous works have found that the prompt has a significant impact on the performance of the LLM, which calls for a method to automatically optimize the meta-prompt for LLM-based agents. Unfortunately, the non-stationarity in the reward observations during LLM-based sequential decision making makes meta-prompt optimization highly challenging. To address this challenge, we draw inspirations from adversarial bandit algorithms, which are inherently capable of handling non-stationary reward observations. Building on this foundation, we propose our EXPonential-weight algorithm for prompt Optimization (EXPO) to automatically optimize the task description and meta-instruction in the meta-prompt for LLM-based agents. We also extend EXPO to additionally optimize the exemplars (i.e., history of interactions) in the meta-prompt to further enhance the performance, hence introducing our EXPO-ES algorithm. We use extensive experiments to show that our algorithms significantly improve the performance of LLM-based sequential decision making.