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Xueqi Cheng

120 accepted papers

2026

Annotation-Efficient Honesty Alignment via Confidence Elicitation and Calibration

ICLR 2026poster

Honesty alignment—the ability of large language models (LLMs) to recognize their knowledge boundaries and express calibrated confidence—is essential for trustworthy deployment. Existing methods either rely on training-free confidence estimation (e.g., token probabilities, self-consistency) or traini…

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2026

Beyond Text-Only: Towards Multimodal Table Retrieval in Open-World

ICLR 2026poster

Open-domain table retrieval aims to retrieve semantically relevant structured tables from a large-scale corpus in response to natural language queries. Unlike unstructured text, tables store information not only through their textual or numerical content but also through their structural properties,…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

DIVA-GRPO: Enhancing Multimodal Reasoning through Difficulty-Adaptive Variant Advantage

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) with group relative policy optimization (GRPO) has become a widely adopted approach for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). While GRPO enables long-chain reasoning without a traditional critic model, it often suffers from spar…

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2026

Extra-Merge: Tracing the Rank-1 Subspace of Model Merging in Language Model Pre-Training

ICML 2026poster

Model merging has emerged as a lightweight paradigm for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this work, we analyze late-stage pre-training trajectories and uncover a \textbf{Rank-1 Subspace} phenomenon: while raw optimization steps oscill…

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2026

MemFlow: A Lightweight Forward Memorizing Framework for Quick Domain Adaptive Feature Mapping

CVPR 2026

Deploying pretrained visual models in real-world environments often suffers from significant performance degradation due to the diversity of testing scenarios. Continuous adaptation of learning models on edge devices via unlabeled data collected from the target domain is highly effective for boostin

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2026

Parameters vs. Context: Fine-Grained Control of Knowledge Reliance in Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge. However, conflicts between parametric knowledge and retrieved context pose challenges, particularly when retrieved information is unreliable or the model's internal knowle…

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2026

RLKD: Distilling LLMs’ Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

AAAI 2026technical

Distilling reasoning paths from teacher to student models via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) provides a shortcut for improving the reasoning ability of the smaller Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the reasoning paths generated by teacher models often reflect only surface-level traces of their un

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2026

RaPA: Enhancing Transferable Targeted Attacks via Random Parameter Pruning

CVPR 2026

Compared to untargeted attacks, targeted transfer-based attack still suffers from much lower Attack Success Rates (ASRs), although significant improvements have been achieved by kinds of methods, such as diversifying input, stabilizing the gradient, and re-training surrogate models. In this paper, w

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2026

Reward and Guidance through Rubrics: Promoting Exploration to Improve Multi-Domain Reasoning

ICML 2026spotlight

Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have significantly improved the complex reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Despite these successes, existing methods mainly focus on single-domain RL (e.g., mathematics) with verifiable rewards (RLVR), and their reliance on purely o…

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2026

The Stability of Singular Distribution: A Spectral Perspective on the Two-Phase Dynamics of Language Model Pre-training

ICML 2026poster

Large language model pre-training typically exhibits a two-phase trajectory: a fast initial loss drop followed by a prolonged slow improvement. We identify an underlying spectral phenomenon, Stability of Singular Distribution (SoSD), where the trace-normalized singular value spectrum stabilizes earl…

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2026

Thinking Forward and Backward: Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning

AAAI 2026technical

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has proven to be effective in mitigating hallucinations in large language models, yet its effectiveness remains limited in complex, multi-step reasoning scenarios. Recent efforts have incorporated search-based interactions into RAG, enabling iterative reasoning w

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2026

Zeus: Towards Tuning-Free Foundation Model for Time Series Analysis

ICML 2026poster

We present Zeus, a unified tuning-free Time Series Foundation Model (TSFM) that delivers superior performance across diverse analysis tasks without any task-specific fine-tuning. Unlike prior studies that primarily focus on zero-shot forecasting but require task-specific tuning for other tasks, Zeus…

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2025

A Generative Framework for Personalized Sticker Retrieval

EMNLP 2025

Formulating information retrieval as a variant of generative modeling, specifically using autoregressive models to generate relevant identifiers for a given query, has recently attracted considerable attention. However, its application to personalized sticker retrieval remains largely unexplored and

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2025

A Survey of Link Prediction in N-ary Knowledge Graphs

EMNLP 2025

N-ary Knowledge Graphs (NKGs) are a specialized type of knowledge graph designed to efficiently represent complex real-world facts. Unlike traditional knowledge graphs, where a fact typically involves two entities, NKGs can capture n-ary facts containing more than two entities. Link prediction in NK

2025

A Theory for Token-Level Harmonization in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

ICLR 2025poster

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) utilizes retrieved texts to enhance large language models (LLMs). Studies show that while RAG provides valuable external information (benefit), it may also mislead LLMs (detriment) with noisy or incorrect retrieved texts. Although many existing methods attempt to…

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2025

ALiiCE: Evaluating Positional Fine-grained Citation Generation

NAACL 2025long

Large Language Model (LLM) can enhance its credibility and verifiability by generating text with citations. However, existing research on citation generation is predominantly limited to sentence-level statements, neglecting the significance of positional fine-grained citations that can appear anywhe…

2025

Attack-in-the-Chain: Bootstrapping Large Language Models for Attacks Against Black-Box Neural Ranking Models

AAAI 2025technical

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have been shown to be highly effective in terms of retrieval performance. Unfortunately, they have also displayed a higher degree of sensitivity to attacks than previous generation models. To help expose and address this lack of robustness, we introduce a novel ranking a…

2025

BSFA: Leveraging the Subspace Dichotomy to Accelerate Neural Network Training

EMNLP 2025

Recent studies (CITATION) highlight a fundamental dichotomy in deep learning optimization: Although parameter updates along the top eigendirections of the loss Hessian (Dom-space) capture most of the update magnitude, they often contribute minimally to loss reduction. In contrast, updates in the ort

2025

CLIPure: Purification in Latent Space via CLIP for Adversarially Robust Zero-Shot Classification

ICLR 2025poster

In this paper, we aim to build an adversarially robust zero-shot image classifier that can accurately and efficiently classify unseen examples while defending against unforeseen adversarial attacks, addressing critical challenges in real-world safety-sensitive scenarios. To achieve this, we focus on…

2025

Can Graph Descriptive Order Affect Solving Graph Problems with LLMs?

ACL 2025long

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant success in reasoning tasks, including mathematical reasoning and logical deduction. Among these reasoning tasks, graph problems stand out due to their complexity and unique structural characteristics, attracting considerable attention from resea…

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2025

Cross-Modal Safety Mechanism Transfer in Large Vision-Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

Vision-language alignment in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) successfully enables LLMs to understand visual input. However, we find that existing vision-language alignment methods fail to transfer the existing safety mechanism for text in LLMs to vision, which leads to vulnerabilities in toxic…

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2025

Decoding by Contrasting Knowledge: Enhancing Large Language Model Confidence on Edited Facts

ACL 2025long

The knowledge within large language models (LLMs) may become outdated quickly. While in-context editing (ICE) is currently the most effective method for knowledge editing (KE), it is constrained by the black-box modeling of LLMs and thus lacks interpretability. Our work aims to elucidate the superio…

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2025

Do LLMs Play Dice? Exploring Probability Distribution Sampling in Large Language Models for Behavioral Simulation

COLING 2025main

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) for handling complex language tasks, an increasing number of studies are employing LLMs as agents to emulate the sequential decision-making processes of humans often represented as Markov decision-making processes (MDPs). The actions in MDPs…

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2025

Evaluating Implicit Bias in Large Language Models by Attacking From a Psychometric Perspective

ACL 2025finding

As large language models (LLMs) become an important way of information access, there have been increasing concerns that LLMs may intensify the spread of unethical content, including implicit bias that hurts certain populations without explicit harmful words. In this paper, we conduct a rigorous eval…

2025

Everything is Editable: Extend Knowledge Editing to Unstructured Data in Large Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

Recent knowledge editing methods have primarily focused on modifying structured knowledge in large language models. However, this task setting overlooks the fact that a significant portion of real-world knowledge is stored in an unstructured format, characterized by long-form content, noise, and a c…

2025

Following the Autoregressive Nature of LLM Embeddings via Compression and Alignment

EMNLP 2025

A new trend uses LLMs as dense text encoders via contrastive learning. However, since LLM embeddings predict the probability distribution of the next token, they are inherently generative and distributive, conflicting with contrastive learning, which requires embeddings to capture full-text semantic

2025

G2S: A General-to-Specific Learning Framework for Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting with Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

Forecasting over Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) which predicts future facts based on historical ones has received much attention. Recent studies have introduced Large Language Models (LLMs) for this task to enhance the models’ generalization abilities. However, these models perform forecasting via…

2025

Inductive Link Prediction in N-ary Knowledge Graphs

COLING 2025main

N-ary Knowledge Graphs (NKGs), where a fact can involve more than two entities, have gained increasing attention. Link Prediction in NKGs (LPN) aims to predict missing elements in facts to facilitate the completion of NKGs. Current LPN methods implicitly operate under a closed-world assumption, mean…

2025

Inference-time Alignment in Continuous Space

NeurIPS 2025poster

Aligning large language models with human feedback at inference time has received increasing attention due to its flexibility. Existing methods rely on generating multiple responses from the base policy for search using a reward model, which can be considered as searching in a discrete response spac…

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2025

Is Factuality Enhancement a Free Lunch For LLMs? Better Factuality Can Lead to Worse Context-Faithfulness

ICLR 2025poster

As the modern tools of choice for text understanding and generation, large language models (LLMs) are expected to accurately output answers by leveraging the input context. This requires LLMs to possess both context-faithfulness and factual accuracy. While extensive efforts aim to reduce hallucinati…

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2025

Jailbreak LLMs through Internal Stance Manipulation

EMNLP 2025

To confront the ever-evolving safety risks of LLMs, automated jailbreak attacks have proven effective for proactively identifying security vulnerabilities at scale. Existing approaches, including GCG and AutoDAN, modify adversarial prompts to induce LLMs to generate responses that strictly follow a

2025

KnowCoder-X: Boosting Multilingual Information Extraction via Code

ACL 2025finding

Empirical evidence indicates that LLMs exhibit spontaneous cross-lingual alignment. However, although LLMs show promising cross-lingual alignment in Information Extraction (IE), a significant imbalance across languages persists, highlighting an underlying deficiency. To address this, we propose Know…

2025

Large Language Model-Based Event Relation Extraction with Rationales

COLING 2025main

Event Relation Extraction (ERE) aims to extract various types of relations between different events within texts. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in many natural language processing tasks, existing ERE methods based on LLMs still face three key challen…

2025

Low-Entropy Watermark Detection via Bayes’ Rule Derived Detector

ACL 2025finding

Text watermarking, which modify tokens to embed watermark, has proven effective in detecting machine-generated texts. Yet its application to low-entropy texts like code and mathematics presents significant challenges. A fair number of tokens in these texts are hardly modifiable without changing the…

2025

MLaKE: Multilingual Knowledge Editing Benchmark for Large Language Models

COLING 2025main

The extensive utilization of large language models (LLMs) underscores the crucial necessity for precise and contemporary knowledge embedded within their intrinsic parameters. Existing research on knowledge editing primarily concentrates on monolingual scenarios, neglecting the complexities presented…

2025

MPRF: Interpretable Stance Detection through Multi-Path Reasoning Framework

EMNLP 2025

Stance detection, a critical task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), aims to identify the attitude expressed in text toward specific targets. Despite advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), challenges such as limited interpretability and handling nuanced content persist. To address these is

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2025

MPVStance: Mitigating Hallucinations in Stance Detection with Multi-Perspective Verification

ACL 2025long

Stance detection is a pivotal task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), identifying textual attitudes toward various targets. Despite advances in using Large Language Models (LLMs), challenges persist due to hallucination-models generating plausible yet inaccurate content. Addressing these challeng…

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2025

NAPPure: Adversarial Purification for Robust Image Classification under Non-Additive Perturbations

ICCV 2025poster

Adversarial purification has achieved great success in combating adversarial image perturbations, which are usually assumed to be additive. However, non-additive adversarial perturbations such as blur, occlusion, and distortion are also common in the real world. Under such perturbations, existing ad…

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2025

QUITO-X: A New Perspective on Context Compression from the Information Bottleneck Theory

EMNLP 2025

Generative large language models ( LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various industrial applications, owing to their promising In-Context Learning capabilities. However, the issue of long context in complex tasks poses a significant barrier to their wider adoption, manifested in two main asp

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2025

SafetyQuizzer: Timely and Dynamic Evaluation on the Safety of LLMs

NAACL 2025long

With the expansion of the application of Large Language Models (LLMs), concerns about their safety have grown among researchers. Numerous studies have demonstrated the potential risks of LLMs generating harmful content and have proposed various safety assessment benchmarks to evaluate these risks. H…

2025

Text2Sql: Pure Fine-Tuning and Pure Knowledge Distillation

NAACL 2025industry

Text2Sql is a task that converts natural language questions into SQL queries. In previous research on LLM fine-tuning, researchers typically input both the entire database schema and the natural language question into the model. This approach has two issues: 1) the model’s context is limited when de…

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2025

The Mirage of Model Editing: Revisiting Evaluation in the Wild

ACL 2025long

Despite near-perfect results reported in the literature, the effectiveness of model editing in real-world applications remains unclear. To bridge this gap, we introduce QAEdit, a new benchmark aligned with widely used question answering (QA) datasets, and WILD, a task-agnostic evaluation framework d…

2025

The Silent Saboteur: Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks against Black-Box Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

ACL 2025finding

We explore adversarial attacks against retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems to identify their vulnerabilities. We focus on generating human-imperceptible adversarial examples and introduce a novel imperceptible retrieve-to-generate attack against RAG. This task aims to find imperceptible per…

2025

Too Consistent to Detect: A Study of Self-Consistent Errors in LLMs

EMNLP 2025

As large language models (LLMs) often generate plausible but incorrect content, error detection has become increasingly critical to ensure truthfulness.However, existing detection methods often overlook a critical problem we term as **self-consistent error**, where LLMs repeatedly generate the same

2025

ToolCoder: A Systematic Code-Empowered Tool Learning Framework for Large Language Models

ACL 2025long

Tool learning has emerged as a crucial capability for large language models (LLMs) to solve complex real-world tasks through interaction with external tools. Existing approaches face significant challenges, including reliance on hand-crafted prompts, difficulty in multi-step planning, and lack of pr…

2025

Towards Event Extraction with Massive Types: LLM-based Collaborative Annotation and Partitioning Extraction

EMNLP 2025

Developing a general-purpose system that can extract events with massive types is a long-standing target in Event Extraction (EE). In doing so, the basic challenge comes from the absence of an efficient and effective annotation framework to construct the corresponding datasets. In this paper, we pro

2025

Towards Fully Exploiting LLM Internal States to Enhance Knowledge Boundary Perception

ACL 2025long

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive performance across diverse tasks but often struggle to accurately gauge their knowledge boundaries, leading to confident yet incorrect responses. This paper explores leveraging LLMs’ internal states to enhance their perception of knowledge boundaries f…

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2025

Towards Robust Universal Information Extraction: Dataset, Evaluation, and Solution

ACL 2025long

In this paper, we aim to enhance the robustness of Universal Information Extraction (UIE) by introducing a new benchmark dataset, a comprehensive evaluation, and a feasible solution. Existing robust benchmark datasets have two key limitations: 1) They generate only a limited range of perturbations f…

2025

Training a Utility-based Retriever Through Shared Context Attribution for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Retrieval-Augmented Language Models boost task performance, owing to the retriever that provides external knowledge. Although crucial, the retriever primarily focuses on semantics relevance, which may not always be effective for generation. Thus, utility-based retrieval has emerged as a promising to

2025

Utility-Focused LLM Annotation for Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

EMNLP 2025

This paper explores the use of large language models (LLMs) for annotating document utility in training retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, aiming to reduce dependence on costly human annotations. We address the gap between retrieval relevance and generative utility by employ

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2025

Who is in the Spotlight: The Hidden Bias Undermining Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

EMNLP 2025

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have become essential in knowledge-intensive and open-domain tasks. As retrieval complexity increases, ensuring the robustness of these systems is critical. However, current RAG models are highly sensitive to the order in which evidence is pres

2025

“Not Aligned” is Not “Malicious”: Being Careful about Hallucinations of Large Language Models’ Jailbreak

COLING 2025main

“Jailbreak” is a major safety concern of Large Language Models (LLMs), which occurs when malicious prompts lead LLMs to produce harmful outputs, raising issues about the reliability and safety of LLMs. Therefore, an effective evaluation of jailbreaks is very crucial to develop its mitigation strateg…

2024

A Topological Perspective on Demystifying GNN-Based Link Prediction Performance

ICLR 2024poster

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great promise in learning node embeddings for link prediction (LP). While numerous studies improve the overall GNNs' LP performance, none have explored their varying performance across different nodes and the underlying reasons. To this end, we demystify which…

2024

Adaptive Token Biaser: Knowledge Editing via Biasing Key Entities

EMNLP 2024finding

The parametric knowledge memorized by large language models (LLMs) becomes outdated quickly. In-context editing (ICE) is currently the most effective method for updating the knowledge of LLMs. Recent advancements involve enhancing ICE by modifying the decoding strategy, obviating the need for alteri…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2024

Blinded by Generated Contexts: How Language Models Merge Generated and Retrieved Contexts When Knowledge Conflicts?

ACL 2024long

While auxiliary information has become a key to enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs), relatively little is known about how LLMs merge these contexts, specifically contexts generated by LLMs and those retrieved from external sources.To investigate this, we formulate a systematic framework to identi…

2024

Bootstrapped Pre-training with Dynamic Identifier Prediction for Generative Retrieval

ACL 2024findings

Generative retrieval uses differentiable search indexes to directly generate relevant document identifiers in response to a query. Recent studies have highlighted the potential of a strong generative retrieval model, trained with carefully crafted pre-training tasks, to enhance downstream retrieval…

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2024

CausalDiff: Causality-Inspired Disentanglement via Diffusion Model for Adversarial Defense

NeurIPS 2024poster

Despite ongoing efforts to defend neural classifiers from adversarial attacks, they remain vulnerable, especially to unseen attacks. In contrast, humans are difficult to be cheated by subtle manipulations, since we make judgments only based on essential factors. Inspired by this observation, we atte…

2024

Controlling Risk of Retrieval-augmented Generation: A Counterfactual Prompting Framework

EMNLP 2024finding

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a popular solution to mitigate the hallucination issues of large language models. However, existing studies on RAG seldom address the issue of predictive uncertainty, i.e., how likely it is that a RAG model’s prediction is incorrect, resulting in u…

2024

Enhancing Training Data Attribution for Large Language Models with Fitting Error Consideration

EMNLP 2024main

The black-box nature of large language models (LLMs) poses challenges in interpreting results, impacting issues such as data intellectual property protection and hallucination tracing. Training data attribution (TDA) methods are considered effective solutions to address these challenges.Most recent…

2024

Few-shot Link Prediction on Hyper-relational Facts

COLING 2024main

Hyper-relational facts, which consist of a primary triple (head entity, relation, tail entity) and auxiliary attribute-value pairs, are widely present in real-world Knowledge Graphs (KGs). Link Prediction on Hyper-relational Facts (LPHFs) is to predict a missing element in a hyper-relational fact, w…

2024

Generative Retrieval Meets Multi-Graded Relevance

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Generative retrieval represents a novel approach to information retrieval, utilizing an encoder-decoder architecture to directly produce relevant document identifiers (docids) for queries. While this method offers benefits, current implementations are limited to scenarios with binary relevance data,…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

LINKAGE: Listwise Ranking among Varied-Quality References for Non-Factoid QA Evaluation via LLMs

EMNLP 2024finding

Non-Factoid (NF) Question Answering (QA) is challenging to evaluate due to diverse potential answers and no objective criterion. The commonly used automatic evaluation metrics like ROUGE or BERTScore cannot accurately measure semantic similarities or answers from different perspectives. Recently, La…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

LPNL: Scalable Link Prediction with Large Language Models

ACL 2024findings

Exploring the application of large language models (LLMs) to graph learning is an emerging endeavor. However, the vast amount of information inherent in large graphs poses significant challenges to graph learning with LLMs. This work focuses on the link prediction task and introduces **LPNL** (Link…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2024

Nested Event Extraction upon Pivot Element Recognition

COLING 2024main

Nested Event Extraction (NEE) aims to extract complex event structures where an event contains other events as its arguments recursively. Nested events involve a kind of Pivot Elements (PEs) that simultaneously act as arguments of outer-nest events and as triggers of inner-nest events, and thus conn…

2024

PDE+: Enhancing Generalization via PDE with Adaptive Distributional Diffusion

AAAI 2024technical

The generalization of neural networks is a central challenge in machine learning, especially concerning the performance under distributions that differ from training ones. Current methods, mainly based on the data-driven paradigm such as data augmentation, adversarial training, and noise injection,…

2024

Perturbation-Invariant Adversarial Training for Neural Ranking Models: Improving the Effectiveness-Robustness Trade-Off

AAAI 2024technical

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have shown great success in information retrieval (IR). But their predictions can easily be manipulated using adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding imperceptible perturbations to legitimate documents. This vulnerability raises significant concerns about their…

2024

Pretraining Data Detection for Large Language Models: A Divergence-based Calibration Method

EMNLP 2024main

As the scale of training corpora for large language models (LLMs) grows, model developers become increasingly reluctant to disclose details on their data. This lack of transparency poses challenges to scientific evaluation and ethical deployment. Recently, pretraining data detection approaches, whic…

2024

Qsnail: A Questionnaire Dataset for Sequential Question Generation

COLING 2024main

The questionnaire is a professional research methodology used for both qualitative and quantitative analysis of human opinions, preferences, attitudes, and behaviors. However, designing and evaluating questionnaires demands significant effort due to their intricate and complex structure. Questionnai…

2024

RoCEL: Advancing Table Entity Linking through Distinctive Row and Column Contexts

EMNLP 2024main

Table entity linking (TEL) aims to map entity mentions in the table to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base (KB). The core of this task is to leverage structured contexts, specifically row and column contexts, to enhance the semantics of mentions in entity disambiguation. Most entity lin…

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2024

SLANG: New Concept Comprehension of Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

The dynamic nature of language, particularly evident in the realm of slang and memes on the Internet, poses serious challenges to the adaptability of Large Language Models (LLMs). Traditionally anchored to static datasets, these models often struggle to keep up with the rapid linguistic evolution ch…

2024

Selective Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning

COLING 2024main

Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG), which characterizes temporally evolving facts in the form of (subject, relation, object, timestamp), has attracted much attention recently. TKG reasoning aims to predict future facts based on given historical ones. However, existing TKG reasoning models are unable to…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

The Butterfly Effect of Model Editing: Few Edits Can Trigger Large Language Models Collapse

ACL 2024findings

Although model editing has shown promise in revising knowledge in Large Language Models (LLMs), its impact on the inherent capabilities of LLMs is often overlooked. In this work, we reveal a critical phenomenon: even a single edit can trigger model collapse, manifesting as significant performance de…

2024

Think Before You Speak: Cultivating Communication Skills of Large Language Models via Inner Monologue

NAACL 2024findings

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) further improves the capabilities of open-domain dialogue systems and can generate fluent, coherent, and diverse responses. However, LLMs still lack a crucial ability: communication skills. This limitation renders them more like information seeking tools…

2024

Understanding and Improving Adversarial Collaborative Filtering for Robust Recommendation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Adversarial Collaborative Filtering (ACF), which typically applies adversarial perturbations at user and item embeddings through adversarial training, is widely recognized as an effective strategy for enhancing the robustness of Collaborative Filtering (CF) recommender systems against poisoning atta…

2024

Unsupervised Information Refinement Training of Large Language Models for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

ACL 2024long

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by incorporating additional information from retrieval. However, studies have shown that LLMs still face challenges in effectively using the retrieved information, even ignore it or be misled by it. The key reason is that the…

2024

When Do LLMs Need Retrieval Augmentation? Mitigating LLMs’ Overconfidence Helps Retrieval Augmentation

ACL 2024findings

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been found to have difficulty knowing they do not possess certain knowledge and tend to provide specious answers in such cases. Retrieval Augmentation (RA) has been extensively studied to mitigate LLMs’ hallucinations. However, due to the extra overhead and unassure…

2023

A Provable Framework of Learning Graph Embeddings via Summarization

AAAI 2023technical

Given a large graph, can we learn its node embeddings from a smaller summary graph? What is the relationship between embeddings learned from original graphs and their summary graphs? Graph representation learning plays an important role in many graph mining applications, but learning em-beddings of…

2023

Augmentation-Aware Self-Supervision for Data-Efficient GAN Training

NeurIPS 2023poster

Training generative adversarial networks (GANs) with limited data is challenging because the discriminator is prone to overfitting. Previously proposed differentiable augmentation demonstrates improved data efficiency of training GANs. However, the augmentation implicitly introduces undesired invari…

2023

BERM: Training the Balanced and Extractable Representation for Matching to Improve Generalization Ability of Dense Retrieval

ACL 2023long

Dense retrieval has shown promise in the first-stage retrieval process when trained on in-domain labeled datasets. However, previous studies have found that dense retrieval is hard to generalize to unseen domains due to its weak modeling of domain-invariant and interpretable feature (i.e., matching…

2023

From Relevance to Utility: Evidence Retrieval with Feedback for Fact Verification

EMNLP 2023short findings

Retrieval-enhanced methods have become a primary approach in fact verification (FV); it requires reasoning over multiple retrieved pieces of evidence to verify the integrity of a claim. To retrieve evidence, existing work often employs off-the-shelf retrieval models whose design is based on the prob…

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2023

LLMDet: A Third Party Large Language Models Generated Text Detection Tool

EMNLP 2023long findings

Generated texts from large language models (LLMs) are remarkably close to high-quality human-authored text, raising concerns about their potential misuse in spreading false information and academic misconduct. Consequently, there is an urgent need for a highly practical detection tool capable of acc…

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2023

Learning Adversarially Robust Sparse Networks via Weight Reparameterization

AAAI 2023technical

Although increasing model size can enhance the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks, in resource-constrained environments, there exist critical sparsity constraints. While the recent robust pruning technologies show promising direction to obtain adversarially robust sparse networks, they p…

2023

MacLaSa: Multi-Aspect Controllable Text Generation via Efficient Sampling from Compact Latent Space

EMNLP 2023long findings

Multi-aspect controllable text generation aims to generate fluent sentences that possess multiple desired attributes simultaneously. Traditional methods either require expensive iteration / searching within the discrete text space during the decoding stage, or train separate controllers for each asp…

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2023

RegaVAE: A Retrieval-Augmented Gaussian Mixture Variational Auto-Encoder for Language Modeling

EMNLP 2023long findings

Retrieval-augmented language models show promise in addressing issues like outdated information and hallucinations in language models (LMs). However, current research faces two main problems: 1) determining what information to retrieve, and 2) effectively combining retrieved information during gener…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

Rich Event Modeling for Script Event Prediction

AAAI 2023technical

Script is a kind of structured knowledge extracted from texts, which contains a sequence of events. Based on such knowledge, script event prediction aims to predict the subsequent event. To do so, two aspects should be considered for events, namely, event description (i.e., what the events should co…

2023

Semantic Structure Enhanced Event Causality Identification

ACL 2023long

Event Causality Identification (ECI) aims to identify causal relations between events in unstructured texts. This is a very challenging task, because causal relations are usually expressed by implicit associations between events. Existing methods usually capture such associations by directly modelin…

2023

SimOAP: Improve Coherence and Consistency in Persona-based Dialogue Generation via Over-sampling and Post-evaluation

ACL 2023long

Language models trained on large-scale corpora can generate remarkably fluent results in open-domain dialogue. However, for the persona-based dialogue generation task, consistency and coherence are also key factors, which are great challenges for language models. Existing works mainly focus on valua…

2023

Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning Based on N-tuple Modeling

EMNLP 2023long findings

Reasoning over Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) that predicts temporal facts (e.g., events) in the future is crucial for many applications. The temporal facts in existing TKGs only contain their core entities (i.e., the entities playing core roles therein) and formulate them as quadruples, i.e., (su…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2022

A Re-Balancing Strategy for Class-Imbalanced Classification Based on Instance Difficulty

CVPR 2022poster

Real-world data often exhibits class-imbalanced distributions, where a few classes (a.k.a. majority classes) occupy most instances and lots of classes (a.k.a. minority classes) have few instances. Neural classification models usually perform poorly on minority classes when training on such imbalance…

Cited by 44PDFScholar
2022

Complex Evolutional Pattern Learning for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning

ACL 2022short

A Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) is a sequence of KGs corresponding to different timestamps. TKG reasoning aims to predict potential facts in the future given the historical KG sequences. One key of this task is to mine and understand evolutional patterns of facts from these sequences. The evolution…

2022

Conditional GANs with Auxiliary Discriminative Classifier

ICML 2022spotlight

Conditional generative models aim to learn the underlying joint distribution of data and labels to achieve conditional data generation. Among them, the auxiliary classifier generative adversarial network (AC-GAN) has been widely used, but suffers from the problem of low intra-class diversity of the…

2022

HiSMatch: Historical Structure Matching based Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning

EMNLP 2022finding

A Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) is a sequence of KGs with respective timestamps, which adopts quadruples in the form of (subject, relation, object, timestamp) to describe dynamic facts. TKG reasoning has facilitated many real-world applications via answering such queries as (query entity, query rel…

2022

Knowledge-Enhanced Self-Supervised Prototypical Network for Few-Shot Event Detection

EMNLP 2022finding

Prototypical network based joint methods have attracted much attention in few-shot event detection, which carry out event detection in a unified sequence tagging framework. However, these methods suffer from the inaccurate prototype representation problem, due to two main reasons: the number of inst…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2022

MGAD: Learning Descriptional Representation Distilled from Distributional Semantics for Unseen Entities

IJCAI 2022poster

Entity representation plays a central role in building effective entity retrieval models. Recent works propose to learn entity representations based on entity-centric contexts, which achieve SOTA performances on many tasks. However, these methods lead to poor representations for unseen entities sinc…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2022

Meta-CQG: A Meta-Learning Framework for Complex Question Generation over Knowledge Bases

COLING 2022main

Complex question generation over knowledge bases (KB) aims to generate natural language questions involving multiple KB relations or functional constraints. Existing methods train one encoder-decoder-based model to fit all questions. However, such a one-size-fits-all strategy may not perform well si…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2022

MetaSLRCL: A Self-Adaptive Learning Rate and Curriculum Learning Based Framework for Few-Shot Text Classification

COLING 2022main

Due to the lack of labeled data in many realistic scenarios, a number of few-shot learning methods for text classification have been proposed, among which the meta learning based ones have recently attracted much attention. Such methods usually consist of a learner as the classifier and a meta learn…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2022

Visual Named Entity Linking: A New Dataset and A Baseline

EMNLP 2022finding

Visual Entity Linking (VEL) is a task to link regions of images with their corresponding entities in Knowledge Bases (KBs), which is beneficial for many computer vision tasks such as image retrieval, image caption, and visual question answering. While existing tasks in VEL either rely on textual dat…

2021

Adaptive Information Seeking for Open-Domain Question Answering

EMNLP 2021main

Information seeking is an essential step for open-domain question answering to efficiently gather evidence from a large corpus. Recently, iterative approaches have been proven to be effective for complex questions, by recursively retrieving new evidence at each step. However, almost all existing ite…

2021

AugSplicing: Synchronized Behavior Detection in Streaming Tensors

AAAI 2021technical

How can we track synchronized behavior in a stream of time-stamped tuples, such as mobile devices installing and uninstalling applications in the lockstep, to boost their ranks in the app store? We model such tuples as entries in a streaming tensor, which augments attribute sizes in its modes over…

2021

Integrating Deep Event-Level and Script-Level Information for Script Event Prediction

EMNLP 2021main

Scripts are structured sequences of events together with the participants, which are extracted from the texts. Script event prediction aims to predict the subsequent event given the historical events in the script. Two kinds of information facilitate this task, namely, the event-level information an…

2021

Learning to Truncate Ranked Lists for Information Retrieval

AAAI 2021technical

Ranked list truncation is of critical importance in a variety of professional information retrieval applications such as patent search or legal search. The goal is to dynamically determine the number of returned documents according to some user-defined objectives, in order to reach a balance between…

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2021

SDGNN: Learning Node Representation for Signed Directed Networks

AAAI 2021technical

Network embedding is aimed at mapping nodes in a network into low-dimensional vector representations. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received widespread attention and lead to state-of-the-art performance in learning node representations. However, most GNNs only work in unsigned networks, where on…

2021

Search from History and Reason for Future: Two-stage Reasoning on Temporal Knowledge Graphs

ACL 2021long

Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) have been developed and used in many different areas. Reasoning on TKGs that predicts potential facts (events) in the future brings great challenges to existing models. When facing a prediction task, human beings usually search useful historical information (i.e., cl…

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2021

Sketch and Customize: A Counterfactual Story Generator

AAAI 2021technical

Recent text generation models are easy to generate relevant and fluent text for the given text, while lack of causal reasoning ability when we change some parts of the given text. Counterfactual story rewriting is a recently proposed task to test the causal reasoning ability for text generation mode…

2021

Slimmable Generative Adversarial Networks

AAAI 2021technical

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved remarkable progress in recent years, but the continuously growing scale of models make them challenging to deploy widely in practical applications. In particular, for real-time generation tasks, different devices require generators of different si…

2021

Towards Consumer Loan Fraud Detection: Graph Neural Networks with Role-Constrained Conditional Random Field

AAAI 2021technical

Consumer loans, i.e., loans to finance consumers to buy certain types of expenditures, is increasingly popular in e-commerce platform. Different from traditional loans with mortgage, online consumer loans only take personal credit as collateral for loans. Consequently, loan fraud detection is partic…

Cited by 88SourcePDFScholar
2021

Transductive Learning for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer

EMNLP 2021main

Unsupervised style transfer models are mainly based on an inductive learning approach, which represents the style as embeddings, decoder parameters, or discriminator parameters and directly applies these general rules to the test cases. However, the lacking of parallel corpus hinders the ability of…

2021

Uncertainty Calibration for Ensemble-Based Debiasing Methods

NeurIPS 2021poster

Ensemble-based debiasing methods have been shown effective in mitigating the reliance of classifiers on specific dataset bias, by exploiting the output of a bias-only model to adjust the learning target. In this paper, we focus on the bias-only model in these ensemble-based methods, which plays an i…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar
2020

Evaluating Natural Language Generation via Unbalanced Optimal Transport

IJCAI 2020poster

Embedding-based evaluation measures have shown promising improvements on the correlation with human judgments in natural language generation. In these measures, various intrinsic metrics are used in the computation, including generalized precision, recall, F-score and the earth mover's distance. How…

2020

Event Coreference Resolution with their Paraphrases and Argument-aware Embeddings

COLING 2020main

Event coreference resolution aims to classify all event mentions that refer to the same real-world event into the same group, which is necessary to information aggregation and many downstream applications. To resolve event coreference, existing methods usually calculate the similarities between even…

Cited by 46SourcePDFScholar
2020

On the Relation between Quality-Diversity Evaluation and Distribution-Fitting Goal in Text Generation

ICML 2020poster

The goal of text generation models is to fit the underlying real probability distribution of text. For performance evaluation, quality and diversity metrics are usually applied. However, it is still not clear to what extend can the quality-diversity evaluation reflect the distribution-fitting goal.…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar