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Bowen Cao

10 accepted papers

2026

From Abstract to Contextual: What LLMs Still Cannot Do in Mathematics

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models now solve many benchmark math problems at near‑expert levels, yet this progress has not fully translated into reliable performance in real‑world applications. We study this gap through contextual mathematical reasoning, where the mathematical core must be formulated from descri…

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2025

InfiniteICL: Breaking the Limit of Context Window Size via Long Short-term Memory Transformation

ACL 2025finding

In-context learning (ICL) is critical for large language models (LLMs), but its effectiveness is constrained by finite context windows, particularly in ultra-long contexts. To overcome this, we introduce **InfiniteICL**, a framework that parallels context and parameters in LLMs with short- and long-…

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2024

On the Worst Prompt Performance of Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

The performance of large language models (LLMs) is acutely sensitive to the phrasing of prompts, which raises significant concerns about their reliability in real-world scenarios. Existing studies often divide prompts into task-level instructions and case-level inputs and primarily focus on evaluati…

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2023

Alleviating Over-smoothing for Unsupervised Sentence Representation

ACL 2023long

Currently, learning better unsupervised sentence representations is the pursuit of many natural language processing communities. Lots of approaches based on pre-trained language models (PLMs) and contrastive learning have achieved promising results on this task. Experimentally, we observe that the o…

2023

FTM: A Frame-Level Timeline Modeling Method for Temporal Graph Representation Learning

AAAI 2023technical

Learning representations for graph-structured data is essential for graph analytical tasks. While remarkable progress has been made on static graphs, researches on temporal graphs are still in its beginning stage. The bottleneck of the temporal graph representation learning approach is the neighborh…

2023

FiTs: Fine-Grained Two-Stage Training for Knowledge-Aware Question Answering

AAAI 2023technical

Knowledge-aware question answering (KAQA) requires the model to answer questions over a knowledge base, which is essential for both open-domain QA and domain-specific QA, especially when language models alone cannot provide all the knowledge needed. Despite the promising result of recent KAQA system…

2023

ML-LMCL: Mutual Learning and Large-Margin Contrastive Learning for Improving ASR Robustness in Spoken Language Understanding

ACL 2023findings

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a fundamental task in the task-oriented dialogue systems. However, the inevitable errors from automatic speech recognition (ASR) usually impair the understanding performance and lead to error propagation. Although there are some attempts to address this problem…

2023

MRRL: Modifying the Reference via Reinforcement Learning for Non-Autoregressive Joint Multiple Intent Detection and Slot Filling

EMNLP 2023long findings

With the rise of non-autoregressive approach, some non-autoregressive models for joint multiple intent detection and slot filling have obtained the promising inference speed. However, most existing SLU models (1) suffer from the multi-modality problem that leads to reference intents and slots may no…

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2020

Bias-based Universal Adversarial Patch Attack for Automatic Check-out

ECCV 2020poster

Adversarial examples are inputs with imperceptible perturbations that easily misleading deep neural networks (DNNs). Recently, adversarial patch, with noise confined to a small and localized patch, has emerged for its easy feasibility in real-world scenarios. However, existing strategies failed to g…