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Tianyi Tang

18 accepted papers

2025

Neuron based Personality Trait Induction in Large Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly proficient at simulating various personality traits, an important capability for supporting related applications (e.g., role-playing). To further improve this capacity, in this paper, we present a neuron based approach for personality trait induc…

2025

RMTBench: Benchmarking LLMs Through Multi-Turn User-Centric Role-Playing

EMNLP 2025

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown outstanding potential for role-playing applications. Evaluating these capabilities is becoming crucial yet remains challenging. Existing benchmarks mostly adopt a character-centric approach, simplify user-character interactions to isolat

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2024

BAMBOO: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Long Text Modeling Capacities of Large Language Models

COLING 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved dramatic proficiency over NLP tasks with normal length. Recently, multiple studies have committed to extending the context length and enhancing the long text modeling capabilities of LLMs. To comprehensively evaluate the long context ability of LLMs, we pro…

2024

Beyond Imitation: Leveraging Fine-grained Quality Signals for Alignment

ICLR 2024poster

Alignment with human preference is a desired property of large language models (LLMs). Currently, the main alignment approach is based on reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). Despite the effectiveness of RLHF, it is intricate to implement and train, thus recent studies explore how to d…

2024

LLMBox: A Comprehensive Library for Large Language Models

ACL 2024system demonstrations

To facilitate the research on large language models (LLMs), this paper presents a comprehensive and unified library, LLMBox, to ease the development, use, and evaluation of LLMs. This library is featured with three main merits: (1) a unified data interface that supports the flexible implementation o…

2024

Language-Specific Neurons: The Key to Multilingual Capabilities in Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable multilingual capabilities without being pre-trained on specially curated multilingual parallel corpora.It remains a challenging problem to explain the underlying mechanisms by which LLMs process multilingual texts.In this paper, we delve into the c…

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…

2023

Learning to Imagine: Visually-Augmented Natural Language Generation

ACL 2023long

People often imagine relevant scenes to aid in the writing process. In this work, we aim to utilize visual information for composition in the same manner as humans. We propose a method, LIVE, that makes pre-trained language models (PLMs) Learn to Imagine for Visually-augmented natural language gEner…

2023

MVP: Multi-task Supervised Pre-training for Natural Language Generation

ACL 2023findings

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural language generation (NLG) tasks. Up to now, most NLG-oriented PLMs are pre-trained in an unsupervised manner using the large-scale general corpus. In the meanwhile, an increasing number of models pre-trained with labeled…

2023

Not All Languages Are Created Equal in LLMs: Improving Multilingual Capability by Cross-Lingual-Thought Prompting

EMNLP 2023long findings

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive multilingual capability, but their performance varies substantially across different languages. In this work, we introduce a simple yet effective method, called cross-lingual-thought prompting (XLT), to systematically improve the multilingual capab…

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2023

The Web Can Be Your Oyster for Improving Language Models

ACL 2023findings

Pretrained language models (PLMs) encode a large amount of world knowledge. However, as such knowledge is frozen at the time of model training, the models become static and limited by the training data at that time. In order to further improve the capacity of PLMs for knowledge-intensive tasks, we c…

2023

Zero-shot Visual Question Answering with Language Model Feedback

ACL 2023findings

In this paper, we propose a novel language model guided captioning approach, LAMOC, for knowledge-based visual question answering (VQA). Our approach employs the generated captions by a captioning model as the context of an answer prediction model, which is a Pre-Trained Language model (PLM). As the…

2022

Context-Tuning: Learning Contextualized Prompts for Natural Language Generation

COLING 2022main

Recently, pretrained language models (PLMs) have had exceptional success in language generation. To leverage the rich knowledge encoded by PLMs, a simple yet powerful paradigm is to use prompts in the form of either discrete tokens or continuous embeddings. In existing studies, these prompting metho…

2022

ELMER: A Non-Autoregressive Pre-trained Language Model for Efficient and Effective Text Generation

EMNLP 2022main

We study the text generation task under the approach of pre-trained language models (PLMs). Typically, an auto-regressive (AR) method is adopted for generating texts in a token-by-token manner. Despite many advantages of AR generation, it usually suffers from inefficient inference. Therefore, non-au…

2022

ElitePLM: An Empirical Study on General Language Ability Evaluation of Pretrained Language Models

NAACL 2022long

Nowadays, pretrained language models (PLMs) have dominated the majority of NLP tasks. While, little research has been conducted on systematically evaluating the language abilities of PLMs. In this paper, we present a large-scale empirical study on general language ability evaluation of PLMs (ElitePL…

2022

Learning to Transfer Prompts for Text Generation

NAACL 2022long

Pretrained language models (PLMs) have made remarkable progress in text generation tasks via fine-tuning. While, it is challenging to fine-tune PLMs in a data-scarce situation. Therefore, it is non-trivial to develop a general and lightweight model that can adapt to various text generation tasks bas…