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19 accepted papers

2026

ELSPR: Evaluator LLM Training Data Self-Purification on Non-Transitive Preferences via Tournament Graph Reconstruction

AAAI 2026technical

Pairwise evaluation of large language models (LLMs) has become the dominant paradigm for benchmarking open-ended tasks, yet non-transitive preferences—where evaluators prefer A over B, B over C, but C over A—fundamentally undermine ranking reliability. We show that this critical issue stems largely

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2026

MIDB: Multilingual Instruction Data Booster for Enhancing Cultural Equality in Multilingual Instruction Synthesis

AAAI 2026technical

Despite doubts on data quality, instruction synthesis has been widely applied into instruction tuning (IT) of LLMs as an economic and rapid alternative. Recent endeavors focus on improving data quality for synthesized instruction pairs in English and have facilitated IT of English-centric LLMs. Howe

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2026

Measuring the Unmeasurable: Unveiling Latent Cognitive Capabilities of LLM

AAAI 2026technical

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains such as education, healthcare, and law, accurately evaluating their nuanced reasoning process becomes essential to ensure their safety, reliability, and trustworthiness. However, most existing benchmarks evaluate LLMs a

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2025

M-Ped: Multi-Prompt Ensemble Decoding for Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

With the widespread application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), enhancing their performance has become a research hotspot. This paper presents a novel multi-prompt ensemble decoding approach designed to bolster the generation quality of LLMs by leve

2025

SRDC: Semantics-based Ransomware Detection and Classification with LLM-assisted Pre-training

AAAI 2025technical

In recent years, ransomware has emerged as a formidable data security threat, causing significant data privacy breaches that inflict substantial financial, reputational, and operational damages on society. Many studies employ dynamic feature analysis for ransomware detection. However, these methods…

2025

Taming Text-to-Image Synthesis for Novices: User-centric Prompt Generation via Multi-turn Guidance

EMNLP 2025

The emergence of text-to-image synthesis (TIS) models has significantly influenced digital image creation by producing high-quality visuals from written descriptions. Yet these models are sensitive on textual prompts, posing a challenge for novice users who may not be familiar with TIS prompt writin

2025

Two Intermediate Translations Are Better Than One: Fine-tuning LLMs for Document-level Translation Refinement

ACL 2025long

Recent research has shown that large language models (LLMs) can enhance translation quality through self-refinement. In this paper, we build on this idea by extending the refinement from sentence-level to document-level translation, specifically focusing on document-to-document (Doc2Doc) translation…

2024

Clustering and Ranking: Diversity-preserved Instruction Selection through Expert-aligned Quality Estimation

EMNLP 2024main

With contributions from the open-source community, a vast amount of instruction tuning (IT) data has emerged. Given the significant resource allocation required by training and evaluating models, it is advantageous to have an efficient method for selecting high-quality IT data. However, existing met…

2024

Evaluation Dataset for Lexical Translation Consistency in Chinese-to-English Document-level Translation

COLING 2024main

Lexical translation consistency is one of the most common discourse phenomena in Chinese-to-English document-level translation. To better evaluate the performance of lexical translation consistency, previous researches assumes that all repeated source words should be translated consistently. However…

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2024

Translate Meanings, Not Just Words: IdiomKB’s Role in Optimizing Idiomatic Translation with Language Models

AAAI 2024technical

To translate well, machine translation (MT) systems and general-purposed language models (LMs) need a deep understanding of both source and target languages and cultures. Therefore, idioms, with their non-compositional nature, pose particular challenges for Transformer-based systems, as literal tran…

2023

Denoising Pre-training for Machine Translation Quality Estimation with Curriculum Learning

AAAI 2023technical

Quality estimation (QE) aims to assess the quality of machine translations when reference translations are unavailable. QE plays a crucial role in many real-world applications of machine translation. Because labeled QE data are usually limited in scale, recent research, such as DirectQE, pre-trains…

2023

Improved Pseudo Data for Machine Translation Quality Estimation with Constrained Beam Search

EMNLP 2023long main

Machine translation (MT) quality estimation (QE) is a crucial task to estimate the quality of MT outputs when reference translations are unavailable. Many studies focus on generating pseudo data using large parallel corpus and achieve remarkable success in the supervised setting. However, pseudo dat…

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2023

Lexical Translation Inconsistency-Aware Document-Level Translation Repair

ACL 2023findings

Following the idea of “one translation per discourse”, in this paper we aim to improve translation consistency via document-level translation repair (DocRepair), i.e., automatic post-editing on translations of documents. To this end, we propose a lexical translation inconsistency-aware DocRepair to…

2023

SmartSpanNER: Making SpanNER Robust in Low Resource Scenarios

EMNLP 2023long findings

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is one of the most fundamental tasks in natural language processing. Span-level prediction (SpanNER) is more naturally suitable for nested NER than sequence labeling (SeqLab). However, according to our experiments, the SpanNER method is more sensitive to the amount of…

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2023

UCorrect: An Unsupervised Framework for Automatic Speech Recognition Error Correction

ICASSP 2023accepted

Error correction techniques have been used to refine the output sentences from automatic speech recognition (ASR) models and achieve a lower word error rate (WER). Previous works usually adopt end-to-end models and has strong dependency on Pseudo Paired Data and Original Paired Data. But when only p…

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2022

Capture Human Disagreement Distributions by Calibrated Networks for Natural Language Inference

ACL 2022findings

Natural Language Inference (NLI) datasets contain examples with highly ambiguous labels due to its subjectivity. Several recent efforts have been made to acknowledge and embrace the existence of ambiguity, and explore how to capture the human disagreement distribution. In contrast with directly lear…

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2022

Modeling Consistency Preference via Lexical Chains for Document-level Neural Machine Translation

EMNLP 2022main

In this paper we aim to relieve the issue of lexical translation inconsistency for document-level neural machine translation (NMT) by modeling consistency preference for lexical chains, which consist of repeated words in a source-side document and provide a representation of the lexical consistency…

2022

Neighbors Are Not Strangers: Improving Non-Autoregressive Translation under Low-Frequency Lexical Constraints

NAACL 2022long

Lexically constrained neural machine translation (NMT) draws much industrial attention for its practical usage in specific domains. However, current autoregressive approaches suffer from high latency. In this paper, we focus on non-autoregressive translation (NAT) for this problem for its efficiency…