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Jingyan Zhou

9 accepted papers

2025

NILE: Internal Consistency Alignment in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Recent advances show that the world knowledge in the Instruction Fine-Tuning (IFT) dataset, which is incompatible with LLMs’ internal knowledge, can greatly hurt the IFT performance. However, the effective integration and balancing of the internal knowledge of LLMs, acquired during pre-training, wit

2025

Self-Tuning: Instructing LLMs to Effectively Acquire New Knowledge through Self-Teaching

ACL 2025finding

Large language models (LLMs) often struggle to provide up-to-date information due to their one-time training and the constantly evolving nature of the world. To keep LLMs current, existing approaches typically involve continued pre-training on new documents. However, they frequently face difficultie…

2025

WebCoT: Enhancing Web Agent Reasoning by Reconstructing Chain-of-Thought in Reflection, Branching, and Rollback

EMNLP 2025

Web agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for next-generation AI, but their limited reasoning in uncertain, dynamic web environments hinders robust deployment. In this paper, we identify key reasoning skills essential for effective web agents, i.e., reflection & lookahead, bran

2024

Rethinking Machine Ethics – Can LLMs Perform Moral Reasoning through the Lens of Moral Theories?

NAACL 2024findings

Making moral judgments is an essential step toward developing ethical AI systems. Prevalent approaches are mostly implemented in a bottom-up manner, which uses a large set of annotated data to train models based on crowd-sourced opinions about morality. These approaches have been criticized for pote…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar
2024

SeRTS: Self-Rewarding Tree Search for Biomedical Retrieval-Augmented Generation

EMNLP 2024finding

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great potential in the biomedical domain with the advancement of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). However, existing retrieval-augmented approaches face challenges in addressing diverse queries and documents, particularly for medical knowledge queries, res…

2024

Self-Alignment for Factuality: Mitigating Hallucinations in LLMs via Self-Evaluation

ACL 2024long

Despite showing impressive abilities, large language models (LLMs) often struggle with factual inaccuracies, i.e., ”hallucinations”, even when they hold relevant knowledge. To mitigate these hallucinations, current approaches typically necessitate high-quality human factuality annotations. In this w…

Cited by 35SourcePDFScholar
2023

SGP-TOD: Building Task Bots Effortlessly via Schema-Guided LLM Prompting

EMNLP 2023long findings

Building and maintaining end-to-end task bots using minimal human effort is a long-standing challenge in dialog research. In this work, we introduce SGP-TOD, Schema-Guided Prompting for building Task-Oriented Dialog systems effortlessly based on large language models (LLMs). Utilizing the predefined…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2022

COLD: A Benchmark for Chinese Offensive Language Detection

EMNLP 2022main

Offensive language detection is increasingly crucial for maintaining a civilized social media platform and deploying pre-trained language models. However, this task in Chinese is still under exploration due to the scarcity of reliable datasets. To this end, we propose a benchmark –COLD for Chinese o…

2022

Towards Identifying Social Bias in Dialog Systems: Framework, Dataset, and Benchmark

EMNLP 2022finding

Among all the safety concerns that hinder the deployment of open-domain dialog systems (e.g., offensive languages, biases, and toxic behaviors), social bias presents an insidious challenge. Addressing this challenge requires rigorous analyses and normative reasoning. In this paper, we focus our inve…