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Kuo Yang

PhD | Research Assistant

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Last updated: Apr 2, 2025

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Meta-Review Auto-Generation via Long-Context Modeling
Kuo Yang, Jianglin Lu, Shi Liang, Qihua Dong, Yun Fu
In Preparation for Submission to EMNLP 2025
Developed a novel approach for automated meta-review generation (MRAG) by fine-tuning LLMs. Proposed an advanced long-context training methodology designed to effectively manage and process extensive textual information inherent in MRAG tasks. Created MetaSum, the largest comprehensive dataset for meta-review generation, featuring automated updating and rigorous data cleaning policies, significantly improving the quality, coherence, and informativeness of auto-generated meta-reviews compared to state-of-the-art benchmarks.
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Meta-review auto-generation (MRAG) has emerged as a promising solution to accelerate academic publishing by automatically generating structured, concise meta-reviews with minimal human intervention. Although existing MRAG methods have shown feasibility, they are limited by data constraints, suboptimal modeling strategies, and inefficient training paradigms. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to MRAG that overcomes these limitations from three key perspectives. First, we introduce MetaSum, the largest and most up-to-date meta-review dataset, covering $31$ conferences, $225$ venues, and $52,993$ submissions across various research domains. Second, unlike prior methods that truncate lengthy reviews, we treat MRAG as a long-context modeling task to retain complete textual information. Third, we develop a multi-role, dialogue-style training framework with efficient end-to-end optimization, fully leveraging LLMs for meta-review generation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms existing MRAG baselines and state-of-the-art LLMs. Our dataset and code will be made open-source.

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Elicit Spatial Reasoning in MLLM via Rule-based Reinforcement Fine-tuning
Qihua Dong, Kuo Yang, Handong Zhao, Yitian Zhang, Yun Fu
In Preparation for Submission to NeurIPS 2025
Investigated the phenomenon of "thinking collapse" in MLLMs when performing spatial reasoning tasks using Group-Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) reinforcement learning. Proposed Reinforce with Spatial Reward (RSR), a novel method integrating spatially-grounded rewards and carefully designed prompts to maintain robust reasoning. Developed "Super-Ref," a new benchmark specifically designed to rigorously evaluate spatial reasoning abilities, demonstrating substantial improvements over existing methods.

Investigated the phenomenon of "thinking collapse" in MLLMs when performing spatial reasoning tasks using Grounded-Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) reinforcement learning. Proposed Reinforce with Spatial Reward (RSR), a novel method integrating spatially-grounded rewards and carefully designed prompts to maintain robust reasoning. Developed "Super-Ref," a new benchmark specifically designed to rigorously evaluate spatial reasoning abilities, demonstrating substantial improvements over baseline methods.

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Degree-Centric Structure Adaptation
Jianglin Lu, Hailing Wang, Yixuan Liu, Kuo Yang, Yun Fu
Submitted to ICML 2025
Proposed a novel data-centric framework, Degree-Centric Structure Adaptation (DCSA), to improve Graph Neural Network (GNN) performance on nodes with extreme degrees. Introduced supervision-guided attachment for isolated nodes and influence-altered detachment for high-degree super nodes, optimizing graph structures without altering model architectures or training parameters. Demonstrated through comprehensive analyses and experiments that this approach significantly enhances classification performance on both synthetic and real-world datasets.

Proposed a novel data-centric framework, Degree-Centric Structure Adaptation (DCSA), to improve Graph Neural Network (GNN) performance on nodes with various degrees. Introduced supervision-guided attachment for isolated nodes and influence-directed detachment for high-degree super nodes, optimizing graph structures without altering model architectures or training parameters. Demonstrated through comprehensive analyses and experiments that this approach significantly enhances classification performance on both synthetic and real-world datasets.

Projects

Human Body Measurement Project
Human Body Measurements

Developed a robust anthropometric body measurement pipeline using the SMPL framework to extract precise measurements from 3D human mesh data. Built a Python module to calculate key body dimensions from control points, scaled according to height and refined using correction factors for improved accuracy and repeatability.

Digital Human Project
Real-time Digital Human

Built a real-time digital agent by integrating TTS, STT, LLMs, and Speech-to-Image generation, synchronizing all components to deliver a seamless, interactive user experience.

Sleep Apnea Project
OurSleepKit

Created a cross-platform Flutter app utilizing Firebase as backend to support couples managing sleep apnea, promoting awareness and engagement while collecting valuable health data for research.