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Zhihao Fan

20 accepted papers

2025

AI Hospital: Benchmarking Large Language Models in a Multi-agent Medical Interaction Simulator

COLING 2025main

Artificial intelligence has significantly revolutionized healthcare, particularly through large language models (LLMs) that demonstrate superior performance in static medical question answering benchmarks. However, evaluating the potential of LLMs for real-world clinical applications remains challen…

2025

Activating Distributed Visual Region within LLMs for Efficient and Effective Vision-Language Training and Inference

ACL 2025long

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) typically learn visual capacity through visual instruction tuning, involving updates to both a projector and their LLM backbones. Inspired by the concept of a visual region in the human brain, we investigate the existence of an analogous visual region within LLMs…

2025

Benchmark Self-Evolving: A Multi-Agent Framework for Dynamic LLM Evaluation

COLING 2025main

This paper presents a benchmark self-evolving framework to dynamically evaluate rapidly advancing Large Language Models (LLMs). We utilize a multi-agent system to reframe new evolving instances with high confidence that extend existing benchmarks. Towards a more scalable, robust and fine-grained eva…

2025

Uncover Governing Law of Pathology Propagation Mechanism Through A Mean-Field Game

NeurIPS 2025poster

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is marked by cognitive decline along with the widespread of tau aggregates across the brain cortex. Due to the challenges of imaging pathology spreading flows *in vivo*, however, quantitative analysis on the cortical pathways of tau propagation and its interaction with the c…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

DELAN: Dual-Level Alignment for Vision-and-Language Navigation by Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning

COLING 2024main

Vision-and-Language navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate in unseen environment by following natural language instruction. For task completion, the agent needs to align and integrate various navigation modalities, including instruction, observation and navigation history. Existing works pri…

2024

From LLMs to MLLMs: Exploring the Landscape of Multimodal Jailbreaking

EMNLP 2024main

The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has exposed vulnerabilities to various adversarial attacks. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of jailbreaking research targeting both LLMs and MLLMs, highlighting recent advancements in eval…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2023

AR-Diffusion: Auto-Regressive Diffusion Model for Text Generation

NeurIPS 2023poster

Diffusion models have gained significant attention in the realm of image generation due to their exceptional performance. Their success has been recently expanded to text generation via generating all tokens within a sequence concurrently. However, natural language exhibits a far more pronounced se…

2023

Query Structure Modeling for Inductive Logical Reasoning Over Knowledge Graphs

ACL 2023long

Logical reasoning over incomplete knowledge graphs to answer complex logical queries is a challenging task. With the emergence of new entities and relations in constantly evolving KGs, inductive logical reasoning over KGs has become a crucial problem. However, previous PLMs-based methods struggle to…

2023

Text Generation with Diffusion Language Models: A Pre-training Approach with Continuous Paragraph Denoise

ICML 2023poster

In this paper, we introduce a novel dIffusion language modEl pre-training framework for text generation, which we call GENIE. GENIE is a large-scale pre-trained diffusion language model that consists of an encoder and a diffusion-based decoder, which can generate text by gradually transforming a ran…

2023

Unifying Cross-Lingual and Cross-Modal Modeling Towards Weakly Supervised Multilingual Vision-Language Pre-training

ACL 2023long

Multilingual Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) is a promising but challenging topic due to the lack of large-scale multilingual image-text pairs. Existing works address the problem by translating English data into other languages, which is intuitive and the generated data is usually limited in form…

2022

Contextual Fine-to-Coarse Distillation for Coarse-grained Response Selection in Open-Domain Conversations

ACL 2022long

We study the problem of coarse-grained response selection in retrieval-based dialogue systems. The problem is equally important with fine-grained response selection, but is less explored in existing literature. In this paper, we propose a Contextual Fine-to-Coarse (CFC) distilled model for coarse-gr…

2022

DRAGONFLY: a UAV Rapidly Deployed Micro-Profiler Array for Underwater Thermocline Observation

ICRA 2022poster

Underwater thermocline, common in the lakes and ocean, plays a vital role in meteorological forecasting in the ocean and lakes dynamics research. This letter proposes a method for rapid and multipoint observation of thermocline variations with time and space using an airdropped micro-profiler array,…

Cited by 6SourceScholar
2022

Locate Then Ask: Interpretable Stepwise Reasoning for Multi-hop Question Answering

COLING 2022main

Multi-hop reasoning requires aggregating multiple documents to answer a complex question. Existing methods usually decompose the multi-hop question into simpler single-hop questions to solve the problem for illustrating the explainable reasoning process. However, they ignore grounding on the support…

2022

Logic-Driven Context Extension and Data Augmentation for Logical Reasoning of Text

ACL 2022findings

Logical reasoning of text requires identifying critical logical structures in the text and performing inference over them. Existing methods for logical reasoning mainly focus on contextual semantics of text while struggling to explicitly model the logical inference process. In this paper, we not onl…

2022

Negative Sample is Negative in Its Own Way: Tailoring Negative Sentences for Image-Text Retrieval

NAACL 2022findings

Matching model is essential for Image-Text Retrieval framework. Existing research usually train the model with a triplet loss and explore various strategy to retrieve hard negative sentences in the dataset. We argue that current retrieval-based negative sample construction approach is limited in the…

2021

An Unsupervised Sampling Approach for Image-Sentence Matching Using Document-level Structural Information

AAAI 2021technical

In this paper, we focus on the problem of unsupervised image-sentence matching. Existing research explores to utilize document-level structural information to sample positive and negative instances for model training. Although the approach achieves positive results, it introduces a sampling bias and…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2021

Mask Attention Networks: Rethinking and Strengthen Transformer

NAACL 2021long

Transformer is an attention-based neural network, which consists of two sublayers, namely, Self-Attention Network (SAN) and Feed-Forward Network (FFN). Existing research explores to enhance the two sublayers separately to improve the capability of Transformer for text representation. In this paper,…

2021

TCIC: Theme Concepts Learning Cross Language and Vision for Image Captioning

IJCAI 2021poster

Existing research for image captioning usually represents an image using a scene graph with low-level facts (objects and relations) and fails to capture the high-level semantics. In this paper, we propose a Theme Concepts extended Image Captioning (TCIC) framework that incorporates theme concepts to…

2020

An Enhanced Knowledge Injection Model for Commonsense Generation

COLING 2020main

Commonsense generation aims at generating plausible everyday scenario description based on a set of provided concepts. Digging the relationship of concepts from scratch is non-trivial, therefore, we retrieve prototypes from external knowledge to assist the understanding of the scenario for better de…

Cited by 36SourcePDFScholar