Yan Zhang
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2026
DynSess: Dynamic Session-Level Evaluation and Optimization Framework for Role-Playing Agents
Rongsheng Zhang | Jiji Tang | Junnan Ren | Zuyi Bao | Weijie Chen | Ruofan Hu | Tangjie Lv | Zhou Zhao | Yan Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Rongsheng Zhang | Jiji Tang | Junnan Ren | Zuyi Bao | Weijie Chen | Ruofan Hu | Tangjie Lv | Zhou Zhao | Yan Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Role-playing with large language models is fundamentally a *session-level* task, requiring agents to sustain character identity and interaction quality across extended multi-turn conversations. Yet existing evaluation and optimization methods remain largely turn-level, failing to capture long-horizon quality. We propose **DynSess**, a unified session-level framework for role-playing agents. **DynSess-Eval** scores complete dialogue sessions via rubrics targeting long-horizon behaviors. Leveraging its session-level rewards, we construct high-quality training trajectories through multi-turn lookahead search and train **DynSess-Character** with two complementary variants: DSPO (off-policy) and GSRPO (on-policy). Experiments show that DynSess-Eval aligns with human judgments substantially better than prior evaluators, and blind human evaluation further shows that DynSess-Character matches the strongest character model despite using substantially fewer parameters, while maintaining strong role consistency and interactive ability. The dataset and code are publicly available in https://github.com/Collab-Gen/DynSess.
Relaxing the Constraints: A Dual-Importance Projection Mechanism for Lifelong Model Editing
Zhenghai Chen | Senbin Xu | Jiaxi Tan | Xinhua Wu | Yan Zhang | Xiawu Zheng | Shengchuan Zhang | Ke Li | Sicheng Zhao | Liujuan Cao | Rongrong Ji
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Zhenghai Chen | Senbin Xu | Jiaxi Tan | Xinhua Wu | Yan Zhang | Xiawu Zheng | Shengchuan Zhang | Ke Li | Sicheng Zhao | Liujuan Cao | Rongrong Ji
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Factual knowledge stored in Large Language Models (LLMs) inevitably becomes outdated or erroneous over time, making it critical to update these models without incurring the high cost of retraining. Existing sequential knowledge editing methods predominantly rely on strict orthogonal projection to preserve previously edited knowledge. However, this excessive constraint limits gradient expressiveness, resulting in a significant degradation of model generalization and overall performance as the number of edits increases. To address this challenge, we propose Dual-Importance Projection Editing (DipEdit). This method leverages Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to identify critical gradient subspaces and introduces a dual mechanism comprising “accumulated importance” and “projection importance.” Unlike traditional approaches that enforce strict orthogonality, DipEdit dynamically scales gradient components parallel to key subspaces based on their projection importance rather than discarding them directly. This approach enhances the model’s adaptability to new knowledge while maximally preserving historical knowledge. Extensive experiments conducted on five mainstream LLMs using the ZsRE and Counterfact datasets demonstrate that DipEdit effectively handles thousands of sequential edits. The proposed method achieves an average comprehensive performance improvement of 10.36% and effectively maintains the model’s general capabilities on downstream tasks. Code is available at: https://github.com/czhhhla/DipEdit.
MOAQ: A Multi-Scale Outlier-Aware Framework for Extreme Quantization of Large Language Models
Jiaxi Tan | Xudong Li | Yan Zhang | Jiayi Ji | Xiawu Zheng | Yunhang Shen | Ke Li | Liujuan Cao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Jiaxi Tan | Xudong Li | Yan Zhang | Jiayi Ji | Xiawu Zheng | Yunhang Shen | Ke Li | Liujuan Cao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Low-bit quantization is crucial for deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on resource-constrained hardware. However, existing Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) methods adopt a monolithic view of outliers, overlooking their global spatial patterns within LLM architectures and weights that are quantization-sensitive but not numerically large. To overcome these challenges, we introduce MOAQ, a novel finetuning-free weight-only PTQ framework based on a new perspective for outlier analysis. MOAQ holistically addresses the outlier problem by three core components: (1) Spatial Calibration (SC) uses a clustering-optimized Hadamard matrix to reorganize disordered outliers into both discrete and clustered patterns. (2) Local Awareness and Suppression (LAS) adopts a dual strategy guided by our outlier metric. It assigns higher bit-widths to clustered outliers via Clustered Outlier Bit Search (COBS), enabling flexible fractional-bit quantization, while further refining quantization parameters for local discrete outliers through Local Outlierness-Aware Calibration (LOAC). (3) Global Feedback and Denoising (GFD) introduces a dynamic correction mechanism informed by our outlier metric to mitigate the progressive cross-layer enrichment of outliers. Extensive experiments show that MOAQ achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming both finetuning-free and many finetuning-based methods with substantially lower computational cost.