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Ruihui Zhao

12 accepted papers

2026

SIFThinker: Spatially-Aware Image Focus for Visual Reasoning

AAAI 2026technical

Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) still face significant challenges in complex visual tasks (e.g., spatial understanding, fine-grained perception). Prior methods have tried to incorporate visual reasoning, however, they fail to leverage attention correction with spatial cues to iterat

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Efficient and Accurate Prompt Optimization: the Benefit of Memory in Exemplar-Guided Reflection

ACL 2025long

Automatic prompt engineering aims to enhance the generation quality of large language models (LLMs). Recent works utilize feedbacks generated from erroneous cases to guide the prompt optimization. During inference, they may further retrieve several semantically-related exemplars and concatenate them…

2023

Fighting against Organized Fraudsters Using Risk Diffusion-based Parallel Graph Neural Network

IJCAI 2023poster

Medical insurance plays a vital role in modern society, yet organized healthcare fraud causes billions of dollars in annual losses, severely harming the sustainability of the social welfare system. Existing works mostly focus on detecting individual fraud entities or claims, ignoring hidden conspira…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2023

Identify Event Causality with Knowledge and Analogy

AAAI 2023technical

Event causality identification (ECI) aims to identify the causal relationship between events, which plays a crucial role in deep text understanding. Due to the diversity of real-world causality events and difficulty in obtaining sufficient training data, existing ECI approaches have poor generalizab…

2023

Semi-supervised Credit Card Fraud Detection via Attribute-Driven Graph Representation

AAAI 2023technical

Credit card fraud incurs a considerable cost for both cardholders and issuing banks. Contemporary methods apply machine learning-based classifiers to detect fraudulent behavior from labeled transaction records. But labeled data are usually a small proportion of billions of real transactions due to e…

2022

Improving Multi-turn Emotional Support Dialogue Generation with Lookahead Strategy Planning

EMNLP 2022main

Providing Emotional Support (ES) to soothe people in emotional distress is an essential capability in social interactions. Most existing researches on building ES conversation systems only considered single-turn interactions with users, which was over-simplified. In comparison, multi-turn ES convers…

2022

“My nose is running.” “Are you also coughing?”: Building A Medical Diagnosis Agent with Interpretable Inquiry Logics

IJCAI 2022poster

With the rise of telemedicine, the task of developing Dialogue Systems for Medical Diagnosis (DSMD) has received much attention in recent years. Different from early researches that needed to rely on extra human resources and expertise to build the system, recent researches focused on how to build D…

2021

Graph-Evolving Meta-Learning for Low-Resource Medical Dialogue Generation

AAAI 2021technical

Human doctors with well-structured medical knowledge can diagnose a disease merely via a few conversations with patients about symptoms. In contrast, existing knowledge-grounded dialogue systems often require a large number of dialogue instances to learn as they fail to capture the correlations betw…

2021

Guiding the Growth: Difficulty-Controllable Question Generation through Step-by-Step Rewriting

ACL 2021long

This paper explores the task of Difficulty-Controllable Question Generation (DCQG), which aims at generating questions with required difficulty levels. Previous research on this task mainly defines the difficulty of a question as whether it can be correctly answered by a Question Answering (QA) syst…

Cited by 54SourcePDFScholar
2021

Imperfect also Deserves Reward: Multi-Level and Sequential Reward Modeling for Better Dialog Management

NAACL 2021long

For task-oriented dialog systems, training a Reinforcement Learning (RL) based Dialog Management module suffers from low sample efficiency and slow convergence speed due to the sparse rewards in RL. To solve this problem, many strategies have been proposed to give proper rewards when training RL, bu…

2021

Integrating Semantics and Neighborhood Information with Graph-Driven Generative Models for Document Retrieval

ACL 2021long

With the need of fast retrieval speed and small memory footprint, document hashing has been playing a crucial role in large-scale information retrieval. To generate high-quality hashing code, both semantics and neighborhood information are crucial. However, most existing methods leverage only one of…

2021

Refining BERT Embeddings for Document Hashing via Mutual Information Maximization

EMNLP 2021finding

Existing unsupervised document hashing methods are mostly established on generative models. Due to the difficulties of capturing long dependency structures, these methods rarely model the raw documents directly, but instead to model the features extracted from them (e.g. bag-of-words (BOG), TFIDF).…