Xiu Tang
Author directory2026
OmniDA: Grounding Agentic Multimodal Data Analysis with Evidence-Aware Process Rewards
Xuhang Zhu | Liyao Li | Ningtao Wang | Yanyu Chen | Hao Chen | Wentao Ye | Ziquan Wang | Haoxing Zhai | Yu Cheng | Gang Chen | Xiu Tang | Haobo Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Xuhang Zhu | Liyao Li | Ningtao Wang | Yanyu Chen | Hao Chen | Wentao Ye | Ziquan Wang | Haoxing Zhai | Yu Cheng | Gang Chen | Xiu Tang | Haobo Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Real-world data analysis often requires joint reasoning over heterogeneous artifacts such as tables, charts, and textual reports. Training reliable multimodal large language model (MLLM) agents for this setting remains challenging, as large-scale aligned training data are scarce, and outcome-only rewards are too coarse to distinguish grounded cross-source analysis from spurious success. We introduce OmniDA, a training recipe that addresses these two challenges with a scalable multimodal data-synthesis pipeline and an Evidence-Aware Process Reward (EAPR) that supervises both evidence recovery and procedural validity. Through this pipeline, we construct OmniDA-11K, a high-quality training corpus for multimodal data analysis. When instantiated with Qwen3-VL-8B, OmniDA improves over the corresponding agentic baseline by 19.2 points on average across five challenging benchmarks and achieves the strongest overall performance among existing open-source data-analysis agents. These results highlight the value of supervising evidence recovery and analytical procedure beyond final-answer correctness.
Enhancing Repository-Level Code Completion with Reinforcement Learning in Real-World Scenarios
Zhenlong Dai | Zhuoluo Zhao | Xiu Tang | Sai Wu | Chang Yao | Zhipeng Gao | Jingyuan Chen
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Zhenlong Dai | Zhuoluo Zhao | Xiu Tang | Sai Wu | Chang Yao | Zhipeng Gao | Jingyuan Chen
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) for code, which closely aligns with the practical needs of real-world software development, has sparked growing attention in repository-level code completion. However, existing Code LLMs present challenges in focusing on suitable contexts from the repository and in deeply reasoning about cross-file dependencies. To address these challenges, we propose a novel reinforcement learning framework for repository-level code completion. To better understand both in-file and cross-file contexts, we employ identifier-driven intent recognition to capture completion intent, thereby improving the model’s performance in real-world scenarios. To enhance cross-file reasoning, we propose a reward-driven completion learning to effectively reward in complex repository completion scenarios. To guide LLMs in completing code that aligns with intended functionality and repository context, we introduce a selective-exploration strategy that directs the model to focus on low-confidence, high-reward tokens, promoting the exploration of valuable, underexplored completion patterns. Experimental results show that our approach significantly improves the performance of Code LLMs.
QBridge: Bridging Natural Language and SQL via Gold Query Rewriting with Agentic Refinement
Zhensheng Luo | Sai Wu | Yuan Qiu | Chang Yao | Gang Chen | Xiu Tang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zhensheng Luo | Sai Wu | Yuan Qiu | Chang Yao | Gang Chen | Xiu Tang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Natural language to SQL (NL2SQL) provides an intuitive interface for querying structured data, yet real user questions are often noisy, ambiguous, and weakly grounded to database semantics.As a result, token-level schema linking and single-pass SQL decoding can be brittle: small misunderstandings in language or schema grounding may propagate into incorrect generation.We present QBridge, an agentic, feedback-driven NL2SQL framework based on a Refined Gold Query Paradigm, which bridges natural language and SQL via Gold Query—a structured, SQL-aligned intermediate representation.A core insight of QBridge is Distilled Back-Translation (DBT) for SL-independent rewriting.DBT converts SQL-grounded supervision into execution-verified Gold-Query-style rewrites from a teacher model, and distills a lightweight, plug-and-play rewriter that generates schema-aware rewrites without requiring explicit schema linking at inference.QBridge then (i) verifies and conservatively refines the rewrite into a high-fidelity Refined Gold Query, and (ii) refines the generated SQL with dual feedback from execution validity and semantic consistency, enabling interpretable self-correction while remaining compatible with diverse SQL backbones.Extensive experiments on Spider, BIRD, and three robustness variants demonstrate that QBridge consistently improves zero-shot NL2SQL, outperforming strong prompting and agentic baselines while showing strong robustness and generalization. Code and data are available at https://github.com/WannaBSteve/QBridge.
2025
T2DR: A Two-Tier Deficiency-Resistant Framework for Incomplete Multimodal Learning
Han Lin | Xiu Tang | Huan Li | Wenxue Cao | Sai Wu | Chang Yao | Lidan Shou | Gang Chen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Han Lin | Xiu Tang | Huan Li | Wenxue Cao | Sai Wu | Chang Yao | Lidan Shou | Gang Chen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Multimodal learning is garnering significant attention for its capacity to represent diverse human perceptions (e.g., linguistic, acoustic, and visual signals), achieving more natural and intuitive interactions with technology.However, the frequent occurrence of incomplete data, either within a single modality (intra-modality) or across different modalities (inter-modality), presents substantial challenges in reliable semantic interpretation and model reasoning.Furthermore, there is currently no robust representation learning mechanism capable of managing both intra-modality and inter-modality real-data deficiencies.To address this challenge, we present T2DR, a two-tier deficiency-resistant framework for incomplete multimodal learning, which comprises two main modules:(1) Intra-Modal Deficiency-Resistant module (IADR): To address fine-grained deficiencies, we introduce Intra-Attn to focus on the available data while avoiding excessive suppression of the missing regions.(2) Inter-Modal Deficiency-Resistant module (IEDR): To handle coarse-grained deficiencies, we propose the shared feature prediction (SFP) to leverage cross-modal shared features for preliminary data imputation. Subsequently, we apply Inter-Attn to allocate appropriate attention to each modality based on the results from the capability-aware scorer (CAS).Extensive experiments are performed on two well-known multimodal benchmarks, CMU-MOSI and CMU-MOSEI, across various missing scenarios for sentiment analysis. Experimental results show that T2DR significantly outperforms the SOTA models. Code is available at https://github.com/LH019/T2DR.