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Xinlu Zhang

7 accepted papers

2025

CBT-Bench: Evaluating Large Language Models on Assisting Cognitive Behavior Therapy

NAACL 2025long

There is a significant gap between patient needs and available mental health support today. In this paper, we aim to thoroughly examine the potential of using Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist professional psychotherapy. To this end, we propose a new benchmark, CBT-Bench, for the systematic eva…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2025

Search Wisely: Mitigating Sub-optimal Agentic Searches By Reducing Uncertainty

EMNLP 2025

Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems enhance Large Language Models (LLMs) by enabling dynamic, multi-step reasoning and information retrieval. However, these systems often exhibit sub-optimal search behaviors like over-search (retrieving redundant information) and under-search (faili

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Unveiling the Impact of Coding Data Instruction Fine-Tuning on Large Language Models Reasoning

AAAI 2025technical

Instruction Fine-Tuning (IFT) significantly enhances the zero-shot capabilities of pretrained Large Language Models (LLMs). While coding data is known to boost LLM reasoning abilities during pretraining, its role in activating internal reasoning capacities during IFT remains understudied. This paper…

2024

Enhancing Small Medical Learners with Privacy-preserving Contextual Prompting

ICLR 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable medical expertise, but data privacy concerns impede their direct use in healthcare environments. Although offering improved data privacy protection, domain-specific small language models (SLMs) often underperform LLMs, emphasizing the need for meth…

2023

Improving Medical Predictions by Irregular Multimodal Electronic Health Records Modeling

ICML 2023poster

Health conditions among patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are monitored via electronic health records (EHRs), composed of numerical time series and lengthy clinical note sequences, both taken at $\textit{irregular}$ time intervals. Dealing with such irregularity in every modality, and integrat…

2022

PcMSP: A Dataset for Scientific Action Graphs Extraction from Polycrystalline Materials Synthesis Procedure Text

EMNLP 2022finding

Scientific action graphs extraction from materials synthesis procedures is important for reproducible research, machine automation, and material prediction. But the lack of annotated data has hindered progress in this field. We demonstrate an effort to annotate Polycrystalline Materials Synthesis Pr…