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Yafeng Yin

Nanjing University, School of Intelligent Software and Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing, China

15 papers at tracked venues · 15 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×5ACM MM ×3NeurIPS ×3AAAI ×2CVPR ×1SIGIR ×1

Frequent coauthors

Zhiwei Jiang
×15
Qing Gu
×12
Zifeng Cheng
×10
Cong Wang
×7
Shiping Ge
×5
Ao Zhou
×4
Yuchen Fu
×4
Shiwei Gan
×4
Shufan Yang
×2
Fei Shen
×2
Zhonghui Wang
×2
Mingsheng Tu
×2

Papers

  1. AEA: Adaptive Expert Allocation Improves Sentence Embeddings from Mixture-of-Experts LLM
    ACL 2026 ·
    Shufan Yang
    ,
    Zifeng Cheng
    ,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    ,
    Qingfeng Qi
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Cong Wang
    ,
    Ao Zhou
    ,
    Qing Gu
  2. Focusing Condition: Inference-Time Self-Contrastive Steering Elicits Better Conditional Text Embeddings in LLMs
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zifeng Cheng
    ,
    Lingyun Qian
    ,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    ,
    Cong Wang
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Fei Shen
    ,
    Ao Zhou
    ,
    Qing Gu
  3. RegionMarker: A Region-Triggered Semantic Watermarking Framework for Embedding-as-a-Service Copyright Protection
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Shufan Yang
    ,
    Zifeng Cheng
    ,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Cong Wang
    ,
    Shiping Ge
    ,
    Yuchen Fu
    ,
    Qing Gu
  4. Advanced Sign Language Video Generation with Compressed and Quantized Multi-Condition Tokenization
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Cong Wang
    ,
    Zexuan Deng
    ,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Fei Shen
    ,
    Zifeng Cheng
    ,
    Shiping Ge
    ,
    Shiwei Gan
    ,
    Qing Gu
  5. Contrastive Prompting Enhances Sentence Embeddings in LLMs through Inference-Time Steering
    ACL 2025 ·
    Zifeng Cheng
    ,
    Zhonghui Wang
    ,
    Yuchen Fu
    ,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Cong Wang
    ,
    Qing Gu
  6. Cross-Modal Prototype Augmentation and Dual-Grained Prompt Learning for Social Media Popularity Prediction
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Ao Zhou
    ,
    Mingsheng Tu
    ,
    Luping Wang
    ,
    Tenghao Sun
    ,
    Zifeng Cheng
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    ,
    Qing Gu
  7. Hierarchical Vision-Language Reasoning for Multimodal Multiple-Choice Question Answering
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Ao Zhou
    ,
    Zebo Gu
    ,
    Tenghao Sun
    ,
    Jiawen Chen
    ,
    Mingsheng Tu
    ,
    Zifeng Cheng
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    ,
    Qing Gu
  8. Implicit Location-Caption Alignment via Complementary Masking for Weakly-Supervised Dense Video Captioning
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Shiping Ge
    ,
    Qiang Chen
    ,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Liu Qin
    ,
    Ziyao Chen
    ,
    Qing Gu
  9. MixSignGraph: A Sign Sequence is Worth Mixed Graphs of Nodes
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Shiwei Gan
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    ,
    Lei Xie
    ,
    Sanglu Lu
    ,
    Hongkai Wen
  10. Multi-Prompting Decoder Helps Better Language Understanding
    ACL 2025 ·
    Zifeng Cheng
    ,
    Zhaoling Chen
    ,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Cong Wang
    ,
    Shiping Ge
    ,
    Qing Gu
  11. Sentence-level Segmentation for Long Sign Language Videos with Captions
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Bowen Guo
    ,
    Shiwei Gan
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Xiao Liu
    ,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    ,
    Shunmei Meng
  12. Steering When Necessary: Flexible Steering Large Language Models with Backtracking
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Zifeng Cheng
    ,
    Jinwei Gan
    ,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    ,
    Cong Wang
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Xiang Luo
    ,
    Yuchen Fu
    ,
    Qing Gu
  13. Token Prepending: A Training-Free Approach for Eliciting Better Sentence Embeddings from LLMs
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yuchen Fu
    ,
    Zifeng Cheng
    ,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    ,
    Zhonghui Wang
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Zhengliang Li
    ,
    Qing Gu
  14. Short Video Ordering via Position Decoding and Successor Prediction
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Shiping Ge
    ,
    Qiang Chen
    ,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Ziyao Chen
    ,
    Qing Gu
  15. SignGraph: A Sign Sequence is Worth Graphs of Nodes
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Shiwei Gan
    , Yafeng Yin,
    Zhiwei Jiang
    ,
    Hongkai Wen
    ,
    Lei Xie
    ,
    Sanglu Lu