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Multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) in the medical domain serves as a foundational task for various downstream applications such as speech translation, spoken language understanding, and voice-activated assistants. This technology improves patient care by enabling efficient communication across language barriers, alleviating specialized workforce shortages, and facilitating improved diagnosis and treatment, particularly during pandemics. In this work, we introduce MultiMed, the first multilingual medical ASR dataset, along with the first collection of small-to-large end-to-end medical ASR models, spanning five languages: Vietnamese, English, German, French, and Mandarin Chinese. To our best knowledge, MultiMed stands as the world’s largest medical ASR dataset across all major benchmarks: total duration, number of recording conditions, number of accents, and number of speaking roles. Furthermore, we present the first multilinguality study for medical ASR, which includes reproducible empirical baselines, a monolinguality-multilinguality analysis, Attention Encoder Decoder (AED) vs Hybrid comparative study and a linguistic analysis. We present practical ASR end-to-end training schemes optimized for a fixed number of trainable parameters that are common in industry settings. All code, data, and models are available online.

ACL 2025

MultiMed: Multilingual Medical Speech Recognition via Attention Encoder Decoder

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Attribute value extraction plays a crucial role in enhancing e-commerce search, filtering, and recommendation systems. However, prior visual attribute value extraction methods typically rely on both product images and textual information such as product descriptions and titles. In practice, text can be ambiguous, inaccurate, or unavailable, which can degrade model performance. We propose Mixture of Image Captioning Experts (MICE), a novel augmentation framework for product attribute value extraction. MICE leverages a curated pool of image captioning models to generate accurate captions from product images, resulting in robust attribute extraction solely from an image. Extensive experiments on the public ImplicitAVE dataset and a proprietary women’s tops dataset demonstrate that MICE significantly improves the performance of state-of-the-art large multimodal models (LMMs) in both zero-shot and fine-tuning settings. An ablation study validates the contribution of each component in the framework. MICE’s modular design offers scalability and adaptability, making it well-suited for diverse industrial applications with varying computational and latency requirements.

MICE: Mixture of Image Captioning Experts Augmented e-Commerce Product Attribute Value Extraction

Charts are ubiquitous as they help people understand and reason with data. Recently, various downstream tasks, such as chart question answering, chart2text, and fact-checking, have emerged. Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) show promise in tackling these tasks, but their evaluation is costly and time-consuming, limiting real-world deployment. While using LVLMs as judges to assess chart comprehension capabilities of other LVLMs could streamline evaluation processes, challenges like proprietary datasets, restricted access to powerful models, and evaluation costs hinder their adoption in industrial settings. To this end, we present a comprehensive evaluation of 13 open-source LVLMs as judges for diverse chart comprehension and reasoning tasks. We design both pairwise and pointwise evaluation tasks covering criteria like factual correctness, informativeness, and relevancy. Additionally, we analyze LVLM judges based on format adherence, positional consistency, length bias, and instruction-following. We focus on cost-effective LVLMs (<10B parameters) suitable for both research and commercial use, following a standardized evaluation protocol and rubric to measure the LVLM judge accuracy. Experimental results reveal notable variability: while some open LVLM judges achieve GPT-4-level evaluation performance (about 80\% agreement with GPT-4 judgments), others struggle (below ~10\% agreement). Our findings highlight that state-of-the-art open-source LVLMs can serve as cost-effective automatic evaluators for chart-related tasks, though biases such as positional preference and length bias persist.

Judging the Judges: Can Large Vision-Language Models Fairly Evaluate Chart Comprehension and Reasoning?

With the release of R1, a publicly available large reasoning model (LRM), researchers commonly train new LRMs by training language models on R1's long chain-of-thought (CoT) inferences. While prior works show that LRMs' capabilities can be reproduced through direct distillation, the continued reliance on the existing models (e.g., R1) remains a critical limitation in advancing the field.
As a first step toward independent LRM development, this paper explores the possibility of constructing a long CoT dataset with LLMs that are not trained for inference-time scaling.
To this end, we present the Long CoT Collection, a dataset of 100K CoT rationales annotated using existing short CoT LLMs. 
We develop a pipeline that induces o1's novel reasoning strategies into short CoT LLMs, enabling them to think longer and introducing controllability over the thought budget to better manage the overthinking problem.
Our extensive analyses validate that our dataset achieves quality comparable to—or slightly below—R1. 
Furthermore, our experiments demonstrate that training on our dataset not only strengthens general reasoning skills, but also provides a strong foundation for reinforcement learning—models initialized on our data achieve 2-3x larger gains with RLVR. 
We make the codes, datasets, and models publicly available at LINK.

One Missing Piece for Open-Source Reasoning Models: A Dataset to Mitigate Cold-Starting Short CoT LLMs in RL

Query classification, including multiple subtasks such as intent and category prediction, is a vital part of e-commerce applications. E-commerce queries are usually short and lack context, and the information between labels cannot be used, resulting in insufficient prior information for modeling. Most existing industrial query classification methods rely on users' posterior click behavior to construct training samples, resulting in a Matthew vicious cycle. Furthermore, the subtasks of query classification lack a unified framework, leading to low efficiency for algorithm improvement.

In this paper, we propose a novel Semi-supervised Scalable Unified Framework (SSUF), containing multiple enhanced modules to unify the query classification tasks. The knowledge-enhanced module uses world knowledge to enhance query representations and solve the problem of insufficient query information. The label-enhanced module uses label semantics and semi-supervised signals to reduce the dependence on posterior labels. The structure-enhanced module enhances the label representation based on the complex label relations. Each module is highly pluggable, and input features can be added or removed as needed according to each subtask. We conduct extensive offline and online A/B experiments, and the results show that SSUF significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art models.

A Semi-supervised Scalable Unified Framework for E-commerce Query Classification

A comprehensive benchmark is crucial for evaluating automated Business Intelligence (BI) systems and their real-world effectiveness. We propose BI-Bench, a holistic, end-to-end benchmarking framework that assesses BI systems based on the quality, relevance, and depth of insights. It categorizes queries into descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive types, aligning with practical BI needs. Our fully automated approach enables custom benchmark generation tailored to specific datasets. Additionally, we introduce an automated evaluation mechanism within BI-Bench that removes reliance on strict ground truth, ensuring scalable and adaptable assessments. By addressing key limitations, it offers a flexible and robust, user-centered methodology for advancing next-generation BI systems.

BI-Bench : A Comprehensive Benchmark Dataset and Unsupervised Evaluation for BI Systems

Modern digital platforms rely on related search query recommendations to enhance engagement, yet existing methods fail to reconcile click-through rate (CTR) optimization with topic expansion. We propose CMAQ, a Consistent Multi-Objective Aligned Query generation framework that harmonizes these goals through three components: (1) reward modeling to quantify objectives, (2) style alignment for format compliance, and (3) consistency-aware optimization to coordinate joint improvements. CMAQ employs adaptive-beta scaled DPO with geometric mean rewards, balancing CTR and expansion while mitigating objective conflicts. Extensive offline and online evaluations in a large-scale industrial setting demonstrate CMAQ’s superiority, achieving significant CTR gains (+2.3%) and higher human-rated query quality compared to state-of-the-art methods. Our approach enables high-quality query generation while sustaining user engagement and platform ecosystem health.



Consistency-Aware Online Multi-Objective Alignment for Related Search Query Generation

This paper introduces a task aimed at extracting structured tables from text using natural language (NL) instructions. 
We present TableCoder, an approach that leverages the symbolic nature of code to enhance the robustness of table structure construction and content extraction. TableCoder first generates Python classes or SQL statements to explicitly construct table structures, capturing semantic ontology, computational dependencies, numerical properties, and format strings. This approach reliably mitigates issues such as structural errors, erroneous computations, and mismatched value types. Subsequently, TableCoder proposes grounded content extraction, populating table cells sequentially and maintaining the exact order in which they are mentioned in the source text. By simulating a grounded "translation" from text to code, this method reduces the likelihood of omissions and hallucinations.

Experimental results demonstrate that TableCoder significantly improves F1 scores and mitigates hallucination and computational errors, crucial for high-stakes applications like government data analytics and financial compliance reporting. Moreover, the code-generation-based method naturally integrates with standard SQL databases and Python workflows, ensuring seamless deployment in existing enterprise data pipelines.

TableCoder: Table Extraction from Text via Reliable Code Generation

Due to the legal and ethical responsibilities of healthcare providers (HCPs) for accurate documentation and protection of patient data privacy, the natural variability in the responses of large language models (LLMs) presents challenges for incorporating clinical note generation (CNG) systems, driven by LLMs, into real-world clinical processes. The complexity is further amplified by the detailed nature of texts in CNG. To enhance the confidence of HCPs in tools powered by LLMs, this study evaluates the reliability of 12 open-weight and proprietary LLMs from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, and OpenAI in CNG in terms of their ability to generate notes that are string equivalent (consistency rate), have the same meaning (semantic consistency) and are correct (semantic similarity), across several iterations using the same prompt. The results show that (1) LLMs from all model families are stable, such that their responses are semantically consistent despite being written in various ways, and (2) most of the LLMs generated notes close to the corresponding notes made by experts. Overall, Meta's Llama 70B was the most reliable, followed by Mistral's Small model. With these findings, we recommend the local deployment of these relatively smaller open-weight models for CNG to ensure compliance with data privacy regulations, as well as to improve the efficiency of HCPs in clinical documentation.

Are LLMs reliable? An exploration of the reliability of large language models in clinical note generation

Emotional support conversation (ESC) aims to alleviate the emotional distress of individuals through effective conversations. Although large language models (LLMs) have obtained remarkable progress on ESC, most of these studies might not define the diagram from the state model perspective, therefore providing a suboptimal solution for long-term satisfaction. To address such an issue, we leverage the Q-learning on LLMs, and propose a framework called straQ*. Our framework allows a plug-and-play LLM to bootstrap the planning during ESC, determine the optimal strategy based on long-term returns, and finally guide the LLM to response. Substantial experiments on ESC datasets suggest that straQ* outperforms many baselines, including direct inference, self-refine, chain of thought, finetuning, and finite state machines.

Convert Language Model into a Value-based Strategic Planner

System-level programming is essential for modern enterprise infrastructure, enabling the automation and management of complex systems through declarative code. Developers write this code based on schemas, which themselves are a form of code that defines constraints like data types and required fields. These schemas help ensure operational correctness and smooth integration across systems. However, as enterprise schemas become complex, manually writing code adhering to these constraints becomes challenging for developers. Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in code generation and natural language understanding, particularly in zero-shot and few-shot settings. However, applying LLMs to handle constraints represented in code, essential for system-level programming rather than natural language, has not been explored. Hence, we introduce ConCodeEval, a study across two key dimensions: format and constraint efficacy, with a first-of-its-kind benchmark involving two novel experiments for code constraints across five representations (JSON, YAML, XML, Python, and natural language). Our findings suggest that conscious choice of representations can lead to optimal use of LLMs in enterprise use cases involving constraints. Nonetheless, LLMs continue to struggle significantly with code constraints, motivating the need for innovation in this direction.

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