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Xiaofei Wen

5 accepted papers

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

ThinkGuard: Deliberative Slow Thinking Leads to Cautious Guardrails

ACL 2025finding

Ensuring the safety of large language models (LLMs) is critical as they are deployed in real-world applications. Existing guardrails rely on rule-based filtering or single-pass classification, limiting their ability to handle nuanced safety violations. To address this, we propose ThinkGuard, a criti…

2024

Personalized Topic Selection Model for Topic-Grounded Dialogue

ACL 2024findings

Recently, the topic-grounded dialogue (TGD) system has become increasingly popular as its powerful capability to actively guide users to accomplish specific tasks through topic-guided conversations. Most existing works utilize side information (e.g. topics or personas) in isolation to enhance the to…

2024

Red Teaming Language Models for Processing Contradictory Dialogues

EMNLP 2024main

Most language models currently available are prone to self-contradiction during dialogues. To mitigate this issue, this study explores a novel contradictory dialogue processing task that aims to detect and modify contradictory statements in a conversation. This task is inspired by research on contex…