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Congying Xia

15 accepted papers

2026

Benchmarking LLMs for Political Science: A United Nations Perspective

AAAI 2026technical

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant advances in natural language processing, yet their potential for high-stake political decision-making remains largely unexplored. This paper addresses the gap by focusing on the application of LLMs to the United Nations (UN) decision-making proc

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2025

AAAR-1.0: Assessing AI’s Potential to Assist Research

ICML 2025poster

Numerous studies have assessed the proficiency of AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), in facilitating everyday tasks such as email writing, question answering, and creative content generation. However, researchers face unique challenges and opportunities in leveraging LLMs for the…

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2025

ReGenesis: LLMs can Grow into Reasoning Generalists via Self-Improvement

ICLR 2025oral

Post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) with explicit reasoning trajectories can enhance their reasoning abilities. However, acquiring such high-quality trajectory data typically demands meticulous supervision from humans or superior models, which can be either expensive or license-constrained. I…

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2024

FOFO: A Benchmark to Evaluate LLMs’ Format-Following Capability

ACL 2024long

This paper presents FoFo, a pioneering benchmark for evaluating large language models’ (LLMs) ability to follow complex, domain-specific formats, a crucial yet under-examined capability for their application as AI agents. Despite LLMs’ advancements, existing benchmarks fail to assess their format-fo…

2024

LLM-REDIAL: A Large-Scale Dataset for Conversational Recommender Systems Created from User Behaviors with LLMs

ACL 2024findings

The large-scale conversational recommendation dataset is pivotal for the development of conversational recommender systems (CRS). Most existing CRS datasets suffers from the problems of data inextensibility and semantic inconsistency. To tackle these limitations and establish a benchmark in the conv…

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2024

LLMs Assist NLP Researchers: Critique Paper (Meta-)Reviewing

EMNLP 2024main

Claim: This work is not advocating the use of LLMs for paper (meta-)reviewing. Instead, wepresent a comparative analysis to identify and distinguish LLM activities from human activities. Two research goals: i) Enable better recognition of instances when someone implicitly uses LLMs for reviewing act…

2023

Preference-grounded Token-level Guidance for Language Model Fine-tuning

NeurIPS 2023poster

Aligning language models (LMs) with preferences is an important problem in natural language generation. A key challenge is that preferences are typically provided at the *sequence level* while LM training and generation both occur at the *token level*. There is, therefore, a *granularity mismatch* b…

2021

Few-Shot Intent Detection via Contrastive Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning

EMNLP 2021main

In this work, we focus on a more challenging few-shot intent detection scenario where many intents are fine-grained and semantically similar. We present a simple yet effective few-shot intent detection schema via contrastive pre-training and fine-tuning. Specifically, we first conduct self-supervise…

2021

HETFORMER: Heterogeneous Transformer with Sparse Attention for Long-Text Extractive Summarization

EMNLP 2021main

To capture the semantic graph structure from raw text, most existing summarization approaches are built on GNNs with a pre-trained model. However, these methods suffer from cumbersome procedures and inefficient computations for long-text documents. To mitigate these issues, this paper proposes HetFo…

2021

Incremental Few-shot Text Classification with Multi-round New Classes: Formulation, Dataset and System

NAACL 2021long

Text classification is usually studied by labeling natural language texts with relevant categories from a predefined set. In the real world, new classes might keep challenging the existing system with limited labeled data. The system should be intelligent enough to recognize upcoming new classes wit…

2021

PDALN: Progressive Domain Adaptation over a Pre-trained Model for Low-Resource Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition

EMNLP 2021main

Cross-domain Named Entity Recognition (NER) transfers the NER knowledge from high-resource domains to the low-resource target domain. Due to limited labeled resources and domain shift, cross-domain NER is a challenging task. To address these challenges, we propose a progressive domain adaptation Kno…

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2020

Hierarchical Bi-Directional Self-Attention Networks for Paper Review Rating Recommendation

COLING 2020main

Review rating prediction of text reviews is a rapidly growing technology with a wide range of applications in natural language processing. However, most existing methods either use hand-crafted features or learn features using deep learning with simple text corpus as input for review rating predicti…

2020

MZET: Memory Augmented Zero-Shot Fine-grained Named Entity Typing

COLING 2020main

Named entity typing (NET) is a classification task of assigning an entity mention in the context with given semantic types. However, with the growing size and granularity of the entity types, few previous researches concern with newly emerged entity types. In this paper, we propose MZET, a novel mem…

Cited by 36SourcePDFScholar
2020

Mixup-Transformer: Dynamic Data Augmentation for NLP Tasks

COLING 2020main

Mixup is a latest data augmentation technique that linearly interpolates input examples and the corresponding labels. It has shown strong effectiveness in image classification by interpolating images at the pixel level. Inspired by this line of research, in this paper, we explore i) how to apply mix…

Cited by 184SourcePDFScholar