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Michael Lyu

26 accepted papers

2026

Position: Code Benchmarks Should Prioritize Rigor, Reliability, and Reproducibility

ICML 2026poster

Code-related benchmarks play a critical role in evaluating large language models (LLMs), yet their quality fundamentally shapes how the com- munity interprets model capabilities. In the past few years, awareness of benchmark quality has grown. Yet, after a decade-scale (2014 - 2025) survey over 572 …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

CodeCrash: Exposing LLM Fragility to Misleading Natural Language in Code Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong capabilities in code-related tasks, but their robustness in code reasoning under perturbations remains underexplored. We introduce CodeCrash, a stress-testing framework with 1,279 questions from CRUXEVAL and LIVECODEBENCH, designed to ev…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Competing Large Language Models in Multi-Agent Gaming Environments

ICLR 2025poster

Decision-making is a complex process requiring diverse abilities, making it an excellent framework for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs). Researchers have examined LLMs' decision-making through the lens of Game Theory. However, existing evaluation mainly focus on two-player scenarios where an…

2025

MedChain: Bridging the Gap Between LLM Agents and Clinical Practice with Interactive Sequence

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Clinical decision making (CDM) is a complex, dynamic process crucial to healthcare delivery, yet it remains a significant challenge for artificial intelligence systems. While Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have been tested on general medical knowledge using licensing exams and knowledge que…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

On the Resilience of LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration with Faulty Agents

ICML 2025poster

Large language model-based multi-agent systems have shown great abilities across various tasks due to the collaboration of expert agents, each focusing on a specific domain. However, the impact of clumsy or even malicious agents—those who frequently make errors in their tasks—on the overall performa…

2024

All Languages Matter: On the Multilingual Safety of LLMs

ACL 2024findings

Safety lies at the core of developing and deploying large language models (LLMs). However, previous safety benchmarks only concern the safety in one language, e.g. the majority language in the pretraining data such as English. In this work, we build the first multilingual safety benchmark for LLMs,…

2024

Apathetic or Empathetic? Evaluating LLMs' Emotional Alignments with Humans

NeurIPS 2024poster

Evaluating Large Language Models’ (LLMs) anthropomorphic capabilities has become increasingly important in contemporary discourse. Utilizing the emotion appraisal theory from psychology, we propose to evaluate the empathy ability of LLMs, i.e., how their feelings change when presented with specific…

2024

Beyond Embeddings: The Promise of Visual Table in Visual Reasoning

EMNLP 2024main

Visual representation learning has been a cornerstone in computer vision, involving typical forms such as visual embeddings, structural symbols, and text-based representations. Despite the success of CLIP-type visual embeddings, they often lack access to world knowledge critical for visual reasoning…

2024

Enhancing Temporal Modeling of Video LLMs via Time Gating

EMNLP 2024finding

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on video-and-language tasks, such as video question answering. However, most existing Video LLMs neglect temporal information in video data, leading to struggles with temporal-aware video understanding. To address this gap…

2024

LogicAsker: Evaluating and Improving the Logical Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

We introduce LogicAsker, a novel approach for evaluating and enhancing the logical reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and GPT-4. Despite LLMs’ prowess in tasks like writing assistance, code generation, and machine translation, assessing their ability to reason has…

2024

Making Long-Context Language Models Better Multi-Hop Reasoners

ACL 2024long

Recent advancements in long-context modeling have enhanced language models (LMs) for complex tasks across multiple NLP applications. Despite this progress, we find that these models struggle with multi-hop reasoning and exhibit decreased performance in the presence of noisy contexts. In this paper,…

2024

Not All Countries Celebrate Thanksgiving: On the Cultural Dominance in Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

This paper identifies a cultural dominance issue within large language models (LLMs) due to the predominant use of English data in model training (e.g., ChatGPT). LLMs often provide inappropriate English-culture-related answers that are not relevant to the expected culture when users ask in non-Engl…

Cited by 62SourcePDFScholar
2024

On the Humanity of Conversational AI: Evaluating the Psychological Portrayal of LLMs

ICLR 2024oral

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently showcased their remarkable capacities, not only in natural language processing tasks but also across diverse domains such as clinical medicine, legal consultation, and education. LLMs become more than mere applications, evolving into assistants capable of a…

2024

On the Reliability of Psychological Scales on Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

Recent research has focused on examining Large Language Models’ (LLMs) characteristics from a psychological standpoint, acknowledging the necessity of understanding their behavioral characteristics. The administration of personality tests to LLMs has emerged as a noteworthy area in this context. How…

2022

Accelerating Code Search with Deep Hashing and Code Classification

ACL 2022long

Code search is to search reusable code snippets from source code corpus based on natural languages queries. Deep learning-based methods on code search have shown promising results. However, previous methods focus on retrieval accuracy, but lacked attention to the efficiency of the retrieval process.…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2022

Eliciting Knowledge from Large Pre-Trained Models for Unsupervised Knowledge-Grounded Conversation

EMNLP 2022main

Recent advances in large-scale pre-training provide large models with the potential to learn knowledge from the raw text. It is thus natural to ask whether it is possible to leverage these large models as knowledge bases for downstream tasks. In this work, we answer the aforementioned question in un…

2022

FlowEval: A Consensus-Based Dialogue Evaluation Framework Using Segment Act Flows

EMNLP 2022main

Despite recent progress in open-domain dialogue evaluation, how to develop automatic metrics remains an open problem. We explore the potential of dialogue evaluation featuring dialog act information, which was hardly explicitly modeled in previous methods. However, defined at the utterance level in…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2022

Retrieval-Augmented Multilingual Keyphrase Generation with Retriever-Generator Iterative Training

NAACL 2022findings

Keyphrase generation is the task of automatically predicting keyphrases given a piece of long text. Despite its recent flourishing, keyphrase generation on non-English languages haven’t been vastly investigated. In this paper, we call attention to a new setting named multilingual keyphrase generatio…

2022

Towards Efficient Post-training Quantization of Pre-trained Language Models

NeurIPS 2022accept

Network quantization has gained increasing attention with the rapid growth of large pre-trained language models~(PLMs). However, most existing quantization methods for PLMs follow quantization-aware training~(QAT) that requires end-to-end training with full access to the entire dataset. Therefore, t…

Cited by 65SourcePDFScholar
2022

Understanding and Improving Sequence-to-Sequence Pretraining for Neural Machine Translation

ACL 2022long

In this paper, we present a substantial step in better understanding the SOTA sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) pretraining for neural machine translation (NMT). We focus on studying the impact of the jointly pretrained decoder, which is the main difference between Seq2Seq pretraining and previous enco…

2021

BinaryBERT: Pushing the Limit of BERT Quantization

ACL 2021long

The rapid development of large pre-trained language models has greatly increased the demand for model compression techniques, among which quantization is a popular solution. In this paper, we propose BinaryBERT, which pushes BERT quantization to the limit by weight binarization. We find that a binar…

2021

Multi-Task Learning with Shared Encoder for Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation

NAACL 2021long

Non-Autoregressive machine Translation (NAT) models have demonstrated significant inference speedup but suffer from inferior translation accuracy. The common practice to tackle the problem is transferring the Autoregressive machine Translation (AT) knowledge to NAT models, e.g., with knowledge disti…

2021

Self-Training Sampling with Monolingual Data Uncertainty for Neural Machine Translation

ACL 2021long

Self-training has proven effective for improving NMT performance by augmenting model training with synthetic parallel data. The common practice is to construct synthetic data based on a randomly sampled subset of large-scale monolingual data, which we empirically show is sub-optimal. In this work, w…

2020

Revisiting Parameter Sharing for Automatic Neural Channel Number Search

NeurIPS 2020poster

Recent advances in neural architecture search inspire many channel number search algorithms~(CNS) for convolutional neural networks. To improve searching efficiency, parameter sharing is widely applied, which reuses parameters among different channel configurations. Nevertheless, it is unclear how p…

2020

Unsupervised Text Generation by Learning from Search

NeurIPS 2020poster

In this work, we propose TGLS, a novel framework for unsupervised Text Generation by Learning from Search. We start by applying a strong search algorithm (in particular, simulated annealing) towards a heuristically defined objective that (roughly) estimates the quality of sentences. Then, a conditio…