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Mingyu Derek Ma

16 accepted papers

2026

iSeal: Encrypted Fingerprinting for Reliable LLM Ownership Verification

AAAI 2026technical

Given the high cost of large language model (LLM) training from scratch, safeguarding LLM intellectual property (IP) becomes increasingly crucial. As the standard paradigm for IP ownership verification, LLM fingerprinting thus plays a vital role in addressing this challenge. Existing LLM fingerprint

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

GIVE: Structured Reasoning of Large Language Models with Knowledge Graph Inspired Veracity Extrapolation

ICML 2025poster

Existing approaches based on context prompting or reinforcement learning (RL) to improve the reasoning capacities of large language models (LLMs) depend on the LLMs' internal knowledge to produce reliable Chain-Of-Thought (CoT). However, no matter the size of LLMs, certain problems cannot be resolve…

2025

Inferring from Logits: Exploring Best Practices for Decoding-Free Generative Candidate Selection

ACL 2025long

Generative Language Models rely on autoregressive decoding to produce the output sequence token by token. Many tasks such as preference optimization, require the model to produce task-level output consisting of multiple tokens directly by selecting candidates from a pool as predictions. Determining…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Memorize and Rank: Elevating Large Language Models for Clinical Diagnosis Prediction

AAAI 2025technical

Clinical diagnosis prediction models, when provided with a patient's medical history, aim to detect potential diseases early, facilitating timely intervention and improving prognostic outcomes. However, the inherent scarcity of patient data and large disease candidate space often pose challenges in…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2025

MetaScientist: A Human-AI Synergistic Framework for Automated Mechanical Metamaterial Design

NAACL 2025system demonstrations

The discovery of novel mechanical metamaterials, whose properties are dominated by their engineered structures rather than chemical composition, is a knowledge-intensive and resource-demanding process. To accelerate the design of novel metamaterials, we present MetaScientist, a human-in-the-loop sys…

2025

MuirBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Robust Multi-image Understanding

ICLR 2025poster

We introduce MuirBench, a comprehensive benchmark that focuses on robust multi-image understanding capabilities of multimodal LLMs. MuirBench consists of 12 diverse multi-image tasks (e.g., scene understanding, ordering) that involve 10 categories of multi-image relations (e.g., multiview, temporal…

2024

Decoding Susceptibility: Modeling Misbelief to Misinformation Through a Computational Approach

EMNLP 2024main

Susceptibility to misinformation describes the degree of belief in unverifiable claims, a latent aspect of individuals’ mental processes that is not observable. Existing susceptibility studies heavily rely on self-reported beliefs, which can be subject to bias, expensive to collect, and challenging…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

GraphVis: Boosting LLMs with Visual Knowledge Graph Integration

NeurIPS 2024poster

The rapid evolution of large language models (LLMs) has expanded their capabilities across various data modalities, extending from well-established image data to increasingly popular graph data. Given the limitation of LLMs in hallucinations and inaccuracies in recalling factual knowledge, Knowledge…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

MIDDAG: Where Does Our News Go? Investigating Information Diffusion via Community-Level Information Pathways

AAAI 2024technical

We present MIDDAG, an intuitive, interactive system that visualizes the information propagation paths on social media triggered by COVID-19-related news articles accompanied by comprehensive insights including user/community susceptibility level, as well as events and popular opinions raised by the…

2024

STAR: Boosting Low-Resource Information Extraction by Structure-to-Text Data Generation with Large Language Models

AAAI 2024technical

Information extraction tasks such as event extraction require an in-depth understanding of the output structure and sub-task dependencies. They heavily rely on task-specific training data in the form of (passage, target structure) pairs to obtain reasonable performance. However, obtaining such data…

Cited by 20SourcePDFScholar
2023

Can NLI Provide Proper Indirect Supervision for Low-resource Biomedical Relation Extraction?

ACL 2023long

Two key obstacles in biomedical relation extraction (RE) are the scarcity of annotations and the prevalence of instances without explicitly pre-defined labels due to low annotation coverage. Existing approaches, which treat biomedical RE as a multi-class classification task, often result in poor gen…

2023

DICE: Data-Efficient Clinical Event Extraction with Generative Models

ACL 2023long

Event extraction for the clinical domain is an under-explored research area. The lack of training data along with the high volume of domain-specific terminologies with vague entity boundaries makes the task especially challenging. In this paper, we introduce DICE, a robust and data-efficient generat…

2023

Multi-hop Evidence Retrieval for Cross-document Relation Extraction

ACL 2023findings

Relation Extraction (RE) has been extended to cross-document scenarios because many relations are not simply described in a single document. This inevitably brings the challenge of efficient open-space evidence retrieval to support the inference of cross-document relations,along with the challenge o…

2022

Summarization as Indirect Supervision for Relation Extraction

EMNLP 2022finding

Relation extraction (RE) models have been challenged by their reliance on training data with expensive annotations. Considering that summarization tasks aim at acquiring concise expressions of synoptical information from the longer context, these tasks naturally align with the objective of RE, i.e.,…

2021

EventPlus: A Temporal Event Understanding Pipeline

NAACL 2021system demonstrations

We present EventPlus, a temporal event understanding pipeline that integrates various state-of-the-art event understanding components including event trigger and type detection, event argument detection, event duration and temporal relation extraction. Event information, especially event temporal kn…

2021

HyperExpan: Taxonomy Expansion with Hyperbolic Representation Learning

EMNLP 2021finding

Taxonomies are valuable resources for many applications, but the limited coverage due to the expensive manual curation process hinders their general applicability. Prior works attempt to automatically expand existing taxonomies to improve their coverage by learning concept embeddings in Euclidean sp…