Xinfeng Liao
Author directory2026
TRAC: Token-level Reward Assignment for Coherent Abstractive Summarization
陈宣齐 | 容梓莹 | Xinfeng Liao | Lianxi Wang | Ying Gao | Shengyi Jiang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
陈宣齐 | 容梓莹 | Xinfeng Liao | Lianxi Wang | Ying Gao | Shengyi Jiang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in text summarization, particularly through the integration of reinforcement learning. However, maintaining logical coherence and contextual consistency remains a pervasive challenge in long-form generation, often hindering the production of high-quality, unified summaries. To address these persistent issues, we propose TRAC, a framework that introduces a token-level reward function by integrating relative sentence gain, inter-sentence attention, and a Gaussian length penalty. By training a Process Reward Model (PRM) to provide fine-grained, step-wise supervision, TRAC ensures superior structural integrity and fluency during the generation process. Experimental results demonstrate that TRAC outperforms the sequence-level baseline by 11.05% in Fluency and 10.61% in Relevance. Furthermore, it achieves significant gains over competitive baselines such as FIGA and TLCR, underscoring its effectiveness and generalizability in high-quality NLP summarization.
How to Solve Noise and Hard Samples: Filtering and Difficulty-adaptive Augmentation for Fine-grained Negative Emotion Classification
Lianxi Wang | Siting Lin | Chao Liang | Yuying Li | Xinfeng Liao | Nankai Lin
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Lianxi Wang | Siting Lin | Chao Liang | Yuying Li | Xinfeng Liao | Nankai Lin
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Fine-grained negative emotion classification suffers from subjective annotation noise and semantically ambiguous hard samples, which severely degrades model performance. Most existing methods cannot distinguish valid hard samples from noise and lack strategies to improve hard sample learnability. To address these issues, we propose a Noise Filtering and Difficulty-adaptive Hard Sample Augmentation (NF-DHSA) framework for fine-grained negative emotion classification. It first mines high-risk candidates using a hybrid score of normalized loss and predictive entropy, then applies a multi-view logic-guided filtering mechanism to reliably separate noise from valid hard samples. Further, difficulty-adaptive dynamic augmentation generates moderate-difficulty, label-stable augmented samples, and prototype-guided dual-granularity contrastive learning aligns original-augmented pairs while strengthening global category boundaries. The results reported on three benchmark datasets show that NF-DHSA outperforms the baseline methods overall, with Macro-F1 scores improved by 1.25%, 2.47%, and 3.53% on the VIRUS, NLPCC, and COVID datasets, respectively.
2024
An Effective Deployment of Diffusion LM for Data Augmentation in Low-Resource Sentiment Classification
Zhuowei Chen | Lianxi Wang | Yuben Wu | Xinfeng Liao | Yujia Tian | Junyang Zhong
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Zhuowei Chen | Lianxi Wang | Yuben Wu | Xinfeng Liao | Yujia Tian | Junyang Zhong
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Sentiment classification (SC) often suffers from low-resource challenges such as domain-specific contexts, imbalanced label distributions, and few-shot scenarios. The potential of the diffusion language model (LM) for textual data augmentation (DA) remains unexplored, moreover, textual DA methods struggle to balance the diversity and consistency of new samples. Most DA methods either perform logical modifications or rephrase less important tokens in the original sequence with the language model. In the context of SC, strong emotional tokens could act critically on the sentiment of the whole sequence. Therefore, contrary to rephrasing less important context, we propose DiffusionCLS to leverage a diffusion LM to capture in-domain knowledge and generate pseudo samples by reconstructing strong label-related tokens. This approach ensures a balance between consistency and diversity, avoiding the introduction of noise and augmenting crucial features of datasets. DiffusionCLS also comprises a Noise-Resistant Training objective to help the model generalize. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in various low-resource scenarios including domain-specific and domain-general problems. Ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of our framework’s modules, and visualization studies highlight optimal deployment conditions, reinforcing our conclusions.