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Xiang Lorraine Li

14 accepted papers

2026

MMBERT: Scaled Mixture-of-Experts Multimodal BERT for Robust Chinese Hate Speech Detection Under Cloaking Perturbations

AAAI 2026technical

Hate speech detection on Chinese social networks presents distinct challenges, particularly due to the widespread use of cloaking techniques designed to evade conventional text-based detection systems. Although large language models (LLMs) have recently improved hate speech detection capabilities, t

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2025

Leveraging Large Models to Evaluate Novel Content: A Case Study on Advertisement Creativity

EMNLP 2025

Evaluating creativity is challenging, even for humans, not only because of its subjectivity but also because it involves complex cognitive processes. Inspired by work in marketing, we attempt to break down visual advertisement creativity into atypicality and originality. With fine-grained human anno

2025

Resolving UnderEdit & OverEdit with Iterative & Neighbor-Assisted Model Editing

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely deployed in downstream tasks, but keeping their knowledge up-to-date via retraining or fine-tuning is often computationally expensive. Model editing provides a more efficient alternative by updating a targeted subset of parameters, which often follows the loca

2025

Think Globally, Group Locally: Evaluating LLMs Using Multi-Lingual Word Grouping Games

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) can exhibit biases in reasoning capabilities due to linguistic modality, performing better on tasks in one language versus another, even with similar content. Most previous works evaluate this through reasoning tasks where reliance on strategies or knowledge can ensure s

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2024

In Search of the Long-Tail: Systematic Generation of Long-Tail Inferential Knowledge via Logical Rule Guided Search

EMNLP 2024main

To effectively use large language models (LLMs) for real-world queries, it is imperative that they generalize to the long-tail distribution, i.e. rare examples where models exhibit low confidence. In this work, we take the first step towards evaluating LLMs in the long-tail distribution of inferenti…

2024

Incorporating Geo-Diverse Knowledge into Prompting for Increased Geographical Robustness in Object Recognition

CVPR 2024poster

Existing object recognition models have been shown to lack robustness in diverse geographical scenarios due to domain shifts in design and context. Class representations need to be adapted to more accurately reflect an object concept under these shifts. In the absence of training data from target ge…

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2024

Persuasiveness of Generated Free-Text Rationales in Subjective Decisions: A Case Study on Pairwise Argument Ranking

EMNLP 2024finding

Generating free-text rationales is among the emergent capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). These rationales have been found to enhance LLM performance across various NLP tasks. Recently, there has been growing interest in using these rationales to provide insights for various important down…

2024

PlaSma: Procedural Knowledge Models for Language-based Planning and Re-Planning

ICLR 2024poster

Procedural planning, which entails decomposing a high-level goal into a sequence of temporally ordered steps, is an important yet intricate task for machines. It involves integrating common-sense knowledge to reason about complex and often contextualized situations, e.g. ``scheduling a doctor's appo…

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2023

Editing Common Sense in Transformers

EMNLP 2023long main

Editing model parameters directly in Transformers makes updating open-source transformer-based models possible without re-training. However, these editing methods have only been evaluated on statements about encyclopedic knowledge with a single correct answer. Commonsense knowledge with multiple co…

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2023

Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Transformer large language models (LLMs) have sparked admiration for their exceptional performance on tasks that demand intricate multi-step reasoning. Yet, these models simultaneously show failures on surprisingly trivial problems. This begs the question: Are these errors incidental, or do they si…

2022

A Systematic Investigation of Commonsense Knowledge in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2022main

Language models (LMs) trained on large amounts of data have shown impressive performance on many NLP tasks under the zero-shot and few-shot setup. Here we aim to better understand the extent to which such models learn commonsense knowledge — a critical component of many NLP applications. We conduct…

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2021

Looking Beyond Sentence-Level Natural Language Inference for Question Answering and Text Summarization

NAACL 2021long

Natural Language Inference (NLI) has garnered significant attention in recent years; however, the promise of applying NLI breakthroughs to other downstream NLP tasks has remained unfulfilled. In this work, we use the multiple-choice reading comprehension (MCRC) and checking factual correctness of te…

2021

Probabilistic Box Embeddings for Uncertain Knowledge Graph Reasoning

NAACL 2021long

Knowledge bases often consist of facts which are harvested from a variety of sources, many of which are noisy and some of which conflict, resulting in a level of uncertainty for each triple. Knowledge bases are also often incomplete, prompting the use of embedding methods to generalize from known fa…