← Search

Hongyuan Lu

12 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…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

LNE-Blocking: An Efficient Framework for Contamination Mitigation Evaluation on Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

The problem of data contamination is now almost inevitable during the development of large language models (LLMs), with the training data commonly integrating those evaluation benchmarks even unintentionally. This problem subsequently makes it hard to benchmark LLMs fairly. Instead of constructing c

2025

SLoW: Select Low-frequency Words! Automatic Dictionary Selection for Translation on Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

There are more than 7,000 languages around the world, and current Large Language Models (LLMs) only support hundreds of languages. Dictionary-based prompting methods can enhance translation on them, but most methods use all the available dictionaries, which could be expensive. Instead, it will be fl

2025

Stephanie: Step-by-Step Dialogues for Mimicking Human Interactions in Social Conversations

NAACL 2025findings

In the rapidly evolving field of natural language processing, dialogue systems primarily employ a single-step dialogue paradigm. Although this paradigm is commonly adopted, it lacks the depth and fluidity of human interactions and does not appear natural. We introduce a novel **Step**-by-Step Dialog…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

CLEAN–EVAL: Clean Evaluation on Contaminated Large Language Models

NAACL 2024findings

We are currently in an era of fierce competition among various large language models (LLMs), continuously pushing the boundaries of benchmark performance. However, genuinely assessing the capabilities of these LLMs has become a challenging and critical issue due to potential data contamination. In t…

Cited by 17SourcePDFScholar
2024

Chain-of-Dictionary Prompting Elicits Translation in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) have shown surprisingly good performance in multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) even if not being trained explicitly for translation. Yet, they still struggle with translating low-resource languages. As supported by our experiments, a bilingual dictionary betw…

2024

Consecutive Batch Model Editing with HooK Layers

EMNLP 2024main

As the typical retraining paradigm is unacceptably time- and resource-consuming, researchers are turning to model editing to find an effective way that supports both consecutive and batch scenarios to edit the model behavior directly. Despite all these practical expectations, existing model editing…

2024

Not All Metrics Are Guilty: Improving NLG Evaluation by Diversifying References

NAACL 2024long

Most research about natural language generation (NLG) relies on evaluation benchmarks with limited references for a sample, which may result in poor correlations with human judgements. The underlying reason is that one semantic meaning can actually be expressed in different forms, and the evaluation…

2024

Unveiling the Generalization Power of Fine-Tuned Large Language Models

NAACL 2024long

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional multitasking abilities, fine-tuning these models on downstream, domain-specific datasets is often necessary to yield superior performance on test sets compared to their counterparts without fine-tuning. However, the comprehensive effec…

2023

TRIP: Accelerating Document-level Multilingual Pre-training via Triangular Document-level Pre-training on Parallel Data Triplets

EMNLP 2023long findings

Despite the success of multilingual sequence-to-sequence pre-training, most existing approaches rely on document-level monolingual corpora in many different languages, sentence-level bilingual corpora,\footnote{In this paper, we use bilingual corpora to denote parallel corpora with bilingual transla…

Cited by 0SourceScholar