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Xiaoyan Zhao

10 accepted papers

2026

NextQuill: Causal Preference Modeling for Enhancing LLM Personalization

ICLR 2026poster

Personalizing large language models (LLMs) is increasingly important as they are progressively integrated into real-world applications to support users’ daily lives. However, existing approaches often fail to distinguish which components of response predictions by model and ground-truth response in…

Cited by 29SourcecodeScholar
2026

Reinforced Latent Reasoning for LLM-based Recommendation

ICLR 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities in complex problem-solving tasks, sparking growing interest in their application to preference reasoning in recommendation systems. Existing methods typically rely on fine-tuning with explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) dat…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Think-While-Generating: On-the-Fly Reasoning for Personalized Long-Form Generation

ICLR 2026poster

Preference alignment has enabled large language models (LLMs) to better reflect human expectations, but current methods mostly optimize for population-level preferences, overlooking individual users. Personalization is essential, yet early approaches—such as prompt customization or fine-tuning—strug…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

IGD: Token Decisiveness Modeling via Information Gain in LLMs for Personalized Recommendation

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for recommendation by framing item prediction as a token-by-token language generation task. However, existing methods treat all item tokens equally, simply pursuing likelihood maximization during both optimization and decoding. This overlooks…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Latent Inter-User Difference Modeling for LLM Personalization

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into users’ daily lives, leading to a growing demand for personalized outputs.Previous work focuses on leveraging a user’s own history, overlooking inter-user differences that are crucial for effective personalization.While recent work has att

2025

Measuring What Makes You Unique: Difference-Aware User Modeling for Enhancing LLM Personalization

ACL 2025finding

Personalizing Large Language Models (LLMs) has become a critical step in facilitating their widespread application to enhance individual life experiences. In pursuit of personalization, distilling key preference information from an individual’s historical data as instructional preference context to…

2025

PEARL: Towards Permutation-Resilient LLMs

ICLR 2025poster

The in-context learning (ICL) capability of large language models (LLMs) enables them to perform challenging tasks using provided demonstrations. However, ICL is highly sensitive to the ordering of demonstrations, leading to instability in predictions. This paper shows that this vulnerability can be…

2024

PACAR: Automated Fact-Checking with Planning and Customized Action Reasoning Using Large Language Models

COLING 2024main

In an era characterized by the rapid proliferation of information, the pervasive issues of misinformation and disinformation have significantly impacted numerous individuals. Consequently, the evaluation of information’s truthfulness and accuracy has garnered substantial attention among researchers.…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2024

PITA: Prompting Task Interaction for Argumentation Mining

ACL 2024long

Argumentation mining (AM) aims to detect the arguments and their inherent relations from argumentative textual compositions. Generally, AM comprises three key challenging subtasks, including argument component type classification (ACTC), argumentative relation identification (ARI), and argumentative…

2022

Dependency-aware Prototype Learning for Few-shot Relation Classification

COLING 2022main

Few-shot relation classification aims to classify the relation type between two given entities in a sentence by training with a few labeled instances for each relation. However, most of existing models fail to distinguish multiple relations that co-exist in one sentence. This paper presents a novel…