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Daqing He

6 accepted papers

2026

Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge: Representation-as-a-Judge with Small Language Models via Semantic Capacity Asymmetry

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as reference-free evaluators via prompting, but this “LLM-as-a-Judge” paradigm is costly, opaque, and sensitive to prompt design. In this work, we investigate whether smaller models can serve as efficient evaluators by leveraging internal representations…

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2025

Learning from Committee: Reasoning Distillation from a Mixture of Teachers with Peer-Review

ACL 2025finding

While reasoning capabilities typically emerge in large language models (LLMs) with tens of billions of parameters, recent research focuses on improving smaller open-source models through knowledge distillation (KD) from commercial LLMs. However, many of these studies rely solely on responses from a…

2024

Traffic Light or Light Traffic? Investigating Phrasal Semantics in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024finding

Phrases are fundamental linguistic units through which humans convey semantics. This study critically examines the capacity of API-based large language models (LLMs) to comprehend phrase semantics, utilizing three human-annotated datasets. We assess the performance of LLMs in executing phrase semant…

2023

General-to-Specific Transfer Labeling for Domain Adaptable Keyphrase Generation

ACL 2023findings

Training keyphrase generation (KPG) models require a large amount of annotated data, which can be prohibitively expensive and often limited to specific domains. In this study, we first demonstrate that large distribution shifts among different domains severely hinder the transferability of KPG model…

2021

An Empirical Study on Neural Keyphrase Generation

NAACL 2021long

Recent years have seen a flourishing of neural keyphrase generation (KPG) works, including the release of several large-scale datasets and a host of new models to tackle them. Model performance on KPG tasks has increased significantly with evolving deep learning research. However, there lacks a comp…

2021

Bringing Structure into Summaries: a Faceted Summarization Dataset for Long Scientific Documents

ACL 2021short

Faceted summarization provides briefings of a document from different perspectives. Readers can quickly comprehend the main points of a long document with the help of a structured outline. However, little research has been conducted on this subject, partially due to the lack of large-scale faceted s…