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Derek F. Wong

59 accepted papers

2026

Can LLM Agents Stick to the Script? Modeling Commitment in Interactive Narratives

ICML 2026poster

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) is revolutionizing AI for Game by enabling open-ended and fluid interactive storytelling. However, existing research has largely overlooked the critical challenge of maintaining logical consistency and narrative integrity against unconstrained us…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

CoCoReviewBench: A Completeness- and Correctness-Oriented Benchmark for AI Reviewers

ICML 2026poster

Despite the rapid development of AI reviewers, evaluating such systems remains challenging: metrics favor overlap with human reviews over correctness. However, since human reviews often cover only a subset of salient issues and sometimes contain mistakes, they are unreliable as gold references. To a…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Direct Simultaneous Translation Activation for Large Audio-Language Models

ICASSP 2026poster

Simultaneous speech-to-text translation (Simul-S2TT) aims to translate speech into target text in real time, outputting translations while receiving source speech input, rather than waiting for the entire utterance to be spoken. Simul-S2TT research often modifies model architectures to implement rea…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

ExGRPO: Learning to Reason from Prior Successes

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) is an emerging paradigm for improving the reasoning ability of large language models. However, standard on-policy training discards rollout experiences after a single update, leading to computational inefficiency and instability. While prior work…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Exposing the Cracks: Vulnerabilities of Retrieval-Augmented LLM-based Machine Translation

AAAI 2026technical

REtrieval-Augmented LLM-based Machine Translation (REAL-MT) shows promise for knowledge-intensive tasks like idiomatic translation, but its reliability under noisy retrieval, a common challenge in real-world deployment, remains poorly understood. To address this gap, we propose a noise synthesis fra

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Neuron-Aware Data Selection in Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Instruction Tuning (IT) has been proven to be an effective approach to unlock the powerful capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Recent studies indicate that excessive IT data can degrade LLMs performance, while carefully selecting a small subset of high-quality IT data can significantly en…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Towards Fine-Grained Code-Switch Speech Translation with Semantic Space Alignment

IJCAI 2026

Code-switching (CS) speech translation (ST) aims to translate speech that alternates between multiple languages into a target language text, posing significant challenges due to the complexity of semantic modeling and the scarcity of CS data. Previous studies mainly rely on the models themselves to

Cited by 0Scholar
2026

UniRRM: Unified Reasoning Reward Models Across Languages and Evaluation Paradigms

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) excels on tasks with verifiable rewards, but in open-ended tasks, the reliability of reward models remains a key challenge. Existing solutions either depend on costly proprietary LLM-as-a-Judge systems or opaque scalar reward models that lack interpretability. Recent work…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Are Large Reasoning Models Good Translation Evaluators? Analysis and Performance Boost

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advancements in large reasoning models (LRMs) have introduced an intermediate "thinking" process prior to generating final answers, improving their reasoning capabilities on complex downstream tasks. However, the potential of LRMs as evaluators for machine translation (MT) quality remains und…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Benchmarking the Detection of LLMs-Generated Modern Chinese Poetry

EMNLP 2025

The rapid development of advanced large language models (LLMs) has made AI-generated text indistinguishable from human-written text. Previous work on detecting AI-generated text has made effective progress, but has not involved modern Chinese poetry. Due to the distinctive characteristics of modern

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

CDT: A Comprehensive Capability Framework for Large Language Models Across Cognition, Domain, and Task

EMNLP 2025

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced their capabilities, highlighting the need for comprehensive evaluation frameworks that extend beyond task-specific benchmarks.However, existing benchmarks often focus on isolated abilities, lacking a holistic framework for a

2025

CPsyExam: A Chinese Benchmark for Evaluating Psychology using Examinations

COLING 2025main

In this paper, we introduce a novel psychological benchmark, CPsyExam, constructed from questions sourced from Chinese examination systems. CPsyExam is designed to prioritize psychological knowledge and case analysis separately, recognizing the significance of applying psychological knowledge to rea…

2025

Can Large Language Models Identify Implicit Suicidal Ideation? An Empirical Evaluation

EMNLP 2025

Suicide remains a major global mental health challenge, and early intervention hinges on recognizing signs of suicidal ideation. In private conversations, such ideation is often expressed in subtle or conflicted ways, making detection especially difficult. Existing data sets are mainly based on publ

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

CompassVerifier: A Unified and Robust Verifier for LLMs Evaluation and Outcome Reward

EMNLP 2025

Answer verification is crucial not only for evaluating large language models (LLMs) by matching their unstructured outputs against standard answers, but also serves as the reward model to guide LLM optimization. Most evaluation frameworks rely on regularized matching or employ general LLMs for answe

2025

DelTA: An Online Document-Level Translation Agent Based on Multi-Level Memory

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved reasonable quality improvements in machine translation (MT). However, most current research on MT-LLMs still faces significant challenges in maintaining translation consistency and accuracy when processing entire documents. In this paper, we introduce DelTA…

2025

Evaluation of Text-to-Image Generation from a Creativity Perspective

EMNLP 2025

In recent years, driven by advancements in the diffusion process, Text-to-Image (T2I) models have rapidly developed. However, evaluating T2I models remains a significant challenge. While previous research has thoroughly assessed the quality of generated images and image-text alignment, there has bee

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Exploring the Impact of Personality Traits on LLM Bias and Toxicity

EMNLP 2025

With the different roles that AI is expected to play in human life, imbuing large language models (LLMs) with different personalities has attracted increasing research interest. While the “personification” enhances human experiences of interactivity and adaptability of LLMs, it gives rise to critica

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Fraud-R1 : A Multi-Round Benchmark for Assessing the Robustness of LLM Against Augmented Fraud and Phishing Inducements

ACL 2025finding

With the increasing integration of large language models (LLMs) into real-world applications such as finance, e-commerce, and recommendation systems, their susceptibility to misinformation and adversarial manipulation poses significant risks. Existing fraud detection benchmarks primarily focus on si…

2025

HiMATE: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for Machine Translation Evaluation

EMNLP 2025

The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) enables flexible and interpretable automatic evaluations. In the field of machine translation evaluation, utilizing LLMs with translation error annotations based on Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM) yields more human-aligned judgments. However, cu

2025

Intrinsic Model Weaknesses: How Priming Attacks Unveil Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models

NAACL 2025findings

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly influenced various industries but suffer from a critical flaw, the potential sensitivity of generating harmful content, which poses severe societal risks. We developed and tested novel attack strategies on popular LLMs to expose their vulnerabilities i…

2025

Is Your Model Really A Good Math Reasoner? Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning with Checklist

ICLR 2025poster

Exceptional mathematical reasoning ability is one of the key features that demonstrate the power of large language models (LLMs). How to comprehensively define and evaluate the mathematical abilities of LLMs, and even reflect the user experience in real-world scenarios, has emerged as a critical iss…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar
2025

Latent Space Chain-of-Embedding Enables Output-free LLM Self-Evaluation

ICLR 2025poster

LLM self-evaluation relies on the LLM's own ability to estimate response correctness, which can greatly improve its deployment reliability. In this research track, we propose the Chain-of-Embedding (CoE) in the latent space to enable LLMs to perform output-free self-evaluation. CoE consists of all…

2025

Let’s Focus on Neuron: Neuron-Level Supervised Fine-tuning for Large Language Model

COLING 2025main

Large Language Models (LLMs) are composed of neurons that exhibit various behaviors and roles, which become increasingly diversified as models scale. Recent studies have revealed that not all neurons are active across different datasets, and this sparsity correlates positively with the task-specific…

2025

Path Drift in Large Reasoning Models: How First-Person Commitments Override Safety

EMNLP 2025

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for complex reasoning tasks, Long Chain-of-Thought (Long-CoT) prompting has emerged as a key paradigm for structured inference. Despite early-stage safeguards enabled by alignment techniques such as RLHF, we identify a previously underexplore

2025

Rethinking Prompt-based Debiasing in Large Language Model

ACL 2025finding

Investigating bias in large language models (LLMs) is crucial for developing trustworthy AI. While prompt-based through prompt engineering is common, its effectiveness relies on the assumption that models inherently understand biases. Our study systematically analyzed this assumption using the BBQ a…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

SGIC: A Self-Guided Iterative Calibration Framework for RAG

ACL 2025long

Recent research in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has concentrated on retrieving useful information from candidate documents. However, numerous methodologies frequently neglect the calibration capabilities of large language models (LLMs), which capitalize on their robust in-context reasoning p…

2025

Spec-VLA: Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language-Action Models with Relaxed Acceptance

EMNLP 2025

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have made substantial progress by leveraging the robust capabilities of Visual Language Models (VLMs). However, VLMs’ significant parameter size and autoregressive (AR) decoding nature impose considerable computational demands on VLA models. While Speculative Deco

2025

Who Wrote This? The Key to Zero-Shot LLM-Generated Text Detection Is GECScore

COLING 2025main

The efficacy of detectors for texts generated by large language models (LLMs) substantially depends on the availability of large-scale training data. However, white-box zero-shot detectors, which require no such data, are limited by the accessibility of the source model of the LLM-generated text. In…

2024

3AM: An Ambiguity-Aware Multi-Modal Machine Translation Dataset

COLING 2024main

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) is a challenging task that seeks to improve translation quality by incorporating visual information. However, recent studies have indicated that the visual information provided by existing MMT datasets is insufficient, causing models to disregard it and overestim…

2024

A Paradigm Shift: The Future of Machine Translation Lies with Large Language Models

COLING 2024main

Machine Translation (MT) has greatly advanced over the years due to the developments in deep neural networks. However, the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and ChatGPT is introducing a new phase in the MT domain. In this context, we believe that the future of MT is intricately ti…

Cited by 16SourcePDFScholar
2024

A Two-Stage Prediction-Aware Contrastive Learning Framework for Multi-Intent NLU

COLING 2024main

Multi-intent natural language understanding (NLU) presents a formidable challenge due to the model confusion arising from multiple intents within a single utterance. While previous works train the model contrastively to increase the margin between different multi-intent labels, they are less suited…

2024

AnyTrans: Translate AnyText in the Image with Large Scale Models

EMNLP 2024finding

This paper introduces AnyText, an all-encompassing framework for the task–In-Image Machine Translation (IIMT), which includes multilingual text translation and text fusion within images. Our framework leverages the strengths of large-scale models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and text-guided…

2024

Benchmarking LLMs via Uncertainty Quantification

NeurIPS 2024poster

The proliferation of open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) from various institutions has highlighted the urgent need for comprehensive evaluation methods. However, current evaluation platforms, such as the widely recognized HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard, neglect a crucial aspect -- uncertainty…

2024

Can LLMs Learn Uncertainty on Their Own? Expressing Uncertainty Effectively in A Self-Training Manner

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit excessive, random, and uninformative uncertainty, rendering them unsuitable for decision-making in human-computer interactions. In this paper, we aim to instigate a heightened awareness of self-uncertainty in LLMs, enabling them to express uncertainty more…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

CoEvol: Constructing Better Responses for Instruction Finetuning through Multi-Agent Cooperation

EMNLP 2024main

In recent years, instruction fine-tuning (IFT) on large language models (LLMs) has garnered considerable attention to enhance model performance on unseen tasks. Attempts have been made on automatic construction and effective selection for IFT data. However, we posit that previous methods have not fu…

2024

DetectRL: Benchmarking LLM-Generated Text Detection in Real-World Scenarios

NeurIPS 2024poster

Detecting text generated by large language models (LLMs) is of great recent interest. With zero-shot methods like DetectGPT, detection capabilities have reached impressive levels. However, the reliability of existing detectors in real-world applications remains underexplored. In this study, we prese…

2024

Embedding Trajectory for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Mathematical Reasoning

NeurIPS 2024poster

Real-world data deviating from the independent and identically distributed (\textit{i.i.d.}) assumption of in-distribution training data poses security threats to deep networks, thus advancing out-of-distribution (OOD) detection algorithms. Detection methods in generative language models (GLMs) main…

2024

Large Language Model for Multi-Domain Translation: Benchmarking and Domain CoT Fine-tuning

EMNLP 2024finding

Achieving consistent high-quality machine translation (MT) across diverse domains remains a significant challenge, primarily due to the limited and imbalanced parallel training data available in various domains. While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive general understanding an…

2024

MoNMT: Modularly Leveraging Monolingual and Bilingual Knowledge for Neural Machine Translation

COLING 2024main

The effective use of monolingual and bilingual knowledge represents a critical challenge within the neural machine translation (NMT) community. In this paper, we propose a modular strategy that facilitates the cooperation of these two types of knowledge in translation tasks, while avoiding the issue…

2024

SelectIT: Selective Instruction Tuning for LLMs via Uncertainty-Aware Self-Reflection

NeurIPS 2024poster

Instruction tuning (IT) is crucial to tailoring large language models (LLMs) towards human-centric interactions. Recent advancements have shown that the careful selection of a small, high-quality subset of IT data can significantly enhance the performance of LLMs. Despite this, common approaches of…

2023

Improving Grammatical Error Correction with Multimodal Feature Integration

ACL 2023findings

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is a promising task aimed at correcting errors in a text. Many methods have been proposed to facilitate this task with remarkable results. However, most of them only focus on enhancing textual feature extraction without exploring the usage of other modalities’ info…

2023

Revisiting Commonsense Reasoning in Machine Translation: Training, Evaluation and Challenge

ACL 2023long

The ability of commonsense reasoning (CR) decides whether a neural machine translation (NMT) model can move beyond pattern recognition. Despite the rapid advancement of NMT and the use of pretraining to enhance NMT models, research on CR in NMT is still in its infancy, leaving much to be explored in…

2023

TemplateGEC: Improving Grammatical Error Correction with Detection Template

ACL 2023long

Grammatical error correction (GEC) can be divided into sequence-to-edit (Seq2Edit) and sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) frameworks, both of which have their pros and cons. To utilize the strengths and make up for the shortcomings of these frameworks, this paper proposes a novel method, TemplateGEC, wh…

2023

Test-time Adaptation for Machine Translation Evaluation by Uncertainty Minimization

ACL 2023long

The neural metrics recently received considerable attention from the research community in the automatic evaluation of machine translation. Unlike text-based metrics that have interpretable and consistent evaluation mechanisms for various data sources, the reliability of neural metrics in assessing…

2023

Toward Human-Like Evaluation for Natural Language Generation with Error Analysis

ACL 2023long

The pretrained language model (PLM) based metrics have been successfully used in evaluating language generation tasks. Recent studies of the human evaluation community show that considering both major errors (e.g. mistranslated tokens) and minor errors (e.g. imperfections in fluency) can produce hig…

2023

TransGEC: Improving Grammatical Error Correction with Translationese

ACL 2023findings

Data augmentation is an effective way to improve model performance of grammatical error correction (GEC). This paper identifies a critical side-effect of GEC data augmentation, which is due to the style discrepancy between the data used in GEC tasks (i.e., texts produced by non-native speakers) and…

2023

kNN-TL: k-Nearest-Neighbor Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

ACL 2023long

Transfer learning has been shown to be an effective technique for enhancing the performance of low-resource neural machine translation (NMT). This is typically achieved through either fine-tuning a child model with a pre-trained parent model, or by utilizing the out- put of the parent model during t…

2022

ConsistTL: Modeling Consistency in Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

EMNLP 2022main

Transfer learning is a simple and powerful method that can be used to boost model performance of low-resource neural machine translation (NMT). Existing transfer learning methods for NMT are static, which simply transfer knowledge from a parent model to a child model once via parameter initializatio…

2022

GuoFeng: A Benchmark for Zero Pronoun Recovery and Translation

EMNLP 2022main

The phenomenon of zero pronoun (ZP) has attracted increasing interest in the machine translation (MT) community due to its importance and difficulty. However, previous studies generally evaluate the quality of translating ZPs with BLEU scores on MT testsets, which is not expressive or sensitive enou…

2021

Meta-Curriculum Learning for Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation

AAAI 2021technical

Meta-learning has been sufficiently validated to be beneficial for low-resource neural machine translation (NMT). However, we find that meta-trained NMT fails to improve the translation performance of the domain unseen at the meta-training stage. In this paper, we aim to alleviate this issue by prop…

2021

On the Complementarity between Pre-Training and Back-Translation for Neural Machine Translation

EMNLP 2021finding

Pre-training (PT) and back-translation (BT) are two simple and powerful methods to utilize monolingual data for improving the model performance of neural machine translation (NMT). This paper takes the first step to investigate the complementarity between PT and BT. We introduce two probing tasks fo…

2021

Rejuvenating Low-Frequency Words: Making the Most of Parallel Data in Non-Autoregressive Translation

ACL 2021long

Knowledge distillation (KD) is commonly used to construct synthetic data for training non-autoregressive translation (NAT) models. However, there exists a discrepancy on low-frequency words between the distilled and the original data, leading to more errors on predicting low-frequency words. To alle…

2021

Understanding and Improving Encoder Layer Fusion in Sequence-to-Sequence Learning

ICLR 2021poster

Encoder layer fusion (EncoderFusion) is a technique to fuse all the encoder layers (instead of the uppermost layer) for sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models, which has proven effective on various NLP tasks. However, it is still not entirely clear why and when EncoderFusion should work. In this pape…

2021

Understanding and Improving Lexical Choice in Non-Autoregressive Translation

ICLR 2021poster

Knowledge distillation (KD) is essential for training non-autoregressive translation (NAT) models by reducing the complexity of the raw data with an autoregressive teacher model. In this study, we empirically show that as a side effect of this training, the lexical choice errors on low-frequency wor…

Cited by 100SourcePDFScholar
2021

User Retention: A Causal Approach with Triple Task Modeling

IJCAI 2021poster

For many Internet companies, it has been an important focus to improve user retention rate. To achieve this goal, we need to recommend proper services in order to meet the demands of users. Unlike conventional click-through rate (CTR) estimation, there are lots of noise in the collected data when m…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2020

Modeling Voting for System Combination in Machine Translation

IJCAI 2020poster

System combination is an important technique for combining the hypotheses of different machine translation systems to improve translation performance. Although early statistical approaches to system combination have been proven effective in analyzing the consensus between hypotheses, they suffer fro…