Yu Hu
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2026
YARD: Y-Architecture Register Decoding for Efficient Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models
Ting Chen | Geng Li | Guohao Chen | Yu Hu | Guan Huang | Mai Chen | Langsheng Lei | Yongyong Lin
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Ting Chen | Geng Li | Guohao Chen | Yu Hu | Guan Huang | Mai Chen | Langsheng Lei | Yongyong Lin
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Contrastive decoding (CD) seeks to mitigate hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) by contrasting the output distributions of a standard model and a visually degraded model. However, existing training-free CD methods suffer from sub-optimal degraded branches: completely dropping visual tokens is too extreme and induces language hallucinations, while corrupting input images offers coarse control over visual evidence and suffers from high inference latency due to requiring two full forward passes. To address these dilemmas, we propose YARD, a training-free Y-Architecture Register Decoding framework. Motivated by the observation that reliable text-to-vision grounding predominantly emerges in the middle decoder layers, YARD constructs the degraded branch internally by sharing shallow-layer computations and branching exactly at this critical stage. For the degraded branch, YARD replaces patch-level visual tokens with register tokens, which preserve global image semantics but lack fine-grained local evidence. This image-aware yet locally under-grounded design provides a faithful contrastive signal without extreme modality mismatch, while the Y-architecture strictly avoids a costly second forward pass. Extensive experiments on generative and discriminative hallucination benchmarks demonstrate that YARD consistently achieves state-of-the-art hallucination mitigation across multiple LVLMs, alongside a significant reduction in inference latency.
2025
Generating Long-form Story Using Dynamic Hierarchical Outlining with Memory-Enhancement
Qianyue Wang | Jinwu Hu | Zhengping Li | Yufeng Wang | Daiyuan Li | Yu Hu | Mingkui Tan
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Qianyue Wang | Jinwu Hu | Zhengping Li | Yufeng Wang | Daiyuan Li | Yu Hu | Mingkui Tan
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Long-form story generation task aims to produce coherent and sufficiently lengthy text, essential for applications such as novel writingand interactive storytelling. However, existing methods, including LLMs, rely on rigid outlines or lack macro-level planning, making it difficult to achieve both contextual consistency and coherent plot development in long-form story generation. To address this issues, we propose Dynamic Hierarchical Outlining with Memory-Enhancement long-form story generation method, named DOME, to generate the long-form story with coherent content and plot. Specifically, the Dynamic Hierarchical Outline(DHO) mechanism incorporates the novel writing theory into outline planning and fuses the plan and writing stages together, improving the coherence of the plot by ensuring the plot completeness and adapting to the uncertainty during story generation. A Memory-Enhancement Module (MEM) based on temporal knowledge graphs is introduced to store and access the generated content, reducing contextual conflicts and improving story coherence. Finally, we propose a Temporal Conflict Analyzer leveraging temporal knowledge graphs to automatically evaluate the contextual consistency of long-form story. Experiments demonstrate that DOME significantly improves the fluency, coherence, and overall quality of generated long stories compared to state-of-the-art methods.