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Xin Alex Lin

6 accepted papers

2026

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine: Proactive Self-Refinement for Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in self-refinement have demonstrated significant potential for improving the outputs of large language models (LLMs) through iterative refinement. However, most existing self-refinement methods rely on a reactive process with a fixed number of iterations, making it difficult to deter…

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2025

GuideNER: Annotation Guidelines Are Better than Examples for In-Context Named Entity Recognition

AAAI 2025technical

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive performance on downstream tasks through in-context learning(ICL). However, there is a significant gap between their performance in Named Entity Recognition (NER) and in fine-tuning methods. We believe this discrepancy is due to inconsistencies in l…

2025

MRE-MI: A Multi-image Dataset for Multimodal Relation Extraction in Social Media Posts

NAACL 2025findings

Despite recent advances in Multimodal Relation Extraction (MRE), existing datasets and approaches primarily focus on single-image scenarios, overlooking the prevalent real-world cases where relationships are expressed through multiple images alongside text. To address this limitation, we present MRE…

2024

MGCL: Multi-Granularity Clue Learning for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction via Cross-Grained Knowledge Distillation

EMNLP 2024finding

Emotion-cause pair extraction (ECPE) aims to identify emotion clauses and their corresponding cause clauses within a document. Traditional methods often rely on coarse-grained clause-level annotations, which can overlook valuable fine-grained clues. To address this issue, we propose Multi-Granularit…

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2023

HypeR: Multitask Hyper-Prompted Training Enables Large-Scale Retrieval Generalization

ICLR 2023poster

Recently, large-scale text retrieval has made impressive progress, facilitating both information retrieval and downstream knowledge-intensive tasks (e.g., open-domain QA and dialogue). With a moderate amount of data, a neural text retriever can outperform traditional methods such as BM25 by a large…

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2023

UReader: Universal OCR-free Visually-situated Language Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Model

EMNLP 2023long findings

Text is ubiquitous in our visual world, conveying crucial information, such as in documents, websites, and everyday photographs. In this work, we propose UReader, a first exploration of universal OCR-free visually-situated language understanding based on the Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM). B…

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