Publications

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NüshuVoice: Reviving the Voice of Endangered Nüshu with Pitch-Aware Text-to-Speech

Published in Under Review, 2026

Hongkun Yang, Xinhui Yi, Xiyan Zhao, Yibo Meng, Lionel Z. Wang, Lixu Wang, Yaqi Zhang, Ruiqi Chen, Xuanyue Zhao, Lanxin Zhang, Yu Zeng, Weijia Chu, Yiming Ma, Chenyu Liu, Jianghao Lin, Xin Xu
Under review. Built the first Nüshu TTS benchmark and contributed to the pitch-aware Nüshu-PitchVITS framework. View paper

PerDFKD: Source-Data-Free Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Personalized ECG Adaptation

Published in Under Review at KDD 2027, 2026

Hongkun Yang, Yilin Song, Wei Qiu.
Under review at KDD 2027.

DeAR: Fine-Grained VLM Adaptation by Decomposing Attention Head Roles

Published in CVPR 2026, 2026

Yiming Ma^*, Hongkun Yang^*, Lionel Z. Wang, et al. Accepted at CVPR 2026. (^*Equal contribution.)

AppellateGen: A Benchmark for Appellate Legal Judgment Generation

Published in Under Review, 2026

Hongkun Yang, Lionel Z. Wang, Wei Fan, et al.
Under review. Built the benchmark, developed the SOP-based multi-agent system, and led evaluations and writing. View paper