About Me 🤗

I’m a final-year master student at Southeast University and a member of the PALM Lab.

My research interest focuses on Retrieval-Augmented Generation(RAG), LLM-based Agents, and Natural Language Processing. I am also very interested in Efficient Methods of LLM, Multimodal LLM.

I am always open to potential collaborations or research opportunities. Feel free to contact me at yilong.lai@seu.edu.cn.

News

  • One paper is accepted by EMNLP 2025, see in Suzhou!
  • Two papers are accepted by ACL 2025, thanks to my collaborators!
  • Three papers are accepted by COLING 2025, see in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪!

Publications

  • AdaRewriter: Unleashing the Power of Prompting-based Conversational Query Reformulation via Test-Time Adaptation, Yilong Lai, Jialong Wu, Zhenglin Wang, Deyu Zhou. (EMNLP 2025 Main) [Papers, Codes]
  • SCOPE: Optimizing Key-Value Cache Compression in Long-context Generation, Jialong Wu, Zhenglin Wang, Linhai Zhang, Yilong Lai, Yulan He, Deyu Zhou. (ACL 2025 Main) [Papers, Codes]
  • AdaCQR: Enhancing Query Reformulation for Conversational Search via Sparse and Dense Retrieval Alignment, Yilong Lai\(^*\), Jialong Wu\(^*\), Congzhi Zhang, Haowen Sun, Deyu Zhou. (COLING 2025) [Papers, Codes]
  • SeeD: Accelerating Reasoning Tree Construction via Scheduled Speculative Decoding, Zhenglin Wang, Jialong Wu, Yilong Lai, CongZhi Zhang, Deyu Zhou. (COLING 2025, NIPS 2024 Compression Workshop)[Papers]
  • LASS: A Novel and Economical Data Augmentation Framework Based on Language Models for Debiasing Opinion Summarization, Yanyue Zhang, Pengfei Li, Yilong Lai, Deyu Zhou, Yulan He. (COLING 2025)[Papers]
  • Opinions Are Not Always Positive: Debiasing Opinion Summarization with Model-Specific and Model-Agnostic Methods, Yanyue Zhang, Yilong Lai, Zhenglin Wang, Pengfei Li, Deyu Zhou, Yulan He. (LREC-COLING 2024) [Papers]

Education

  • M.S. in Software Engineering, Southeast University, 2023-2026 (Expected)
  • B.S. in Electronic Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, 2019-2023

Intern

  • Zoom Video Communication(Hefei), SDE intern, 2022.11-2023.2

Service

  • ACL Rolling Review(ARR) 2024-2025 Reviewer

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