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Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Β· 380 papers

CS2W: A Chinese Spoken-to-Written Style Conversion Dataset with Multiple Conversion Types

Zishan Guo (Tianjin University), Deyi Xiong (Tianjin University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningPrompt EngineeringTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Constructed the first open Chinese speech-to-text conversion dataset CS2W, covering four types of errors in spoken language and providing fine-grained annotations;

CT-GAT: Cross-Task Generative Adversarial Attack based on Transferability

Minxuan Lv (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Songlin Hu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

CodeAdversarial AttackTransformerGenerative Adversarial NetworkText

🎯 What it does: Propose a generative adversarial attack (CT-GAT) based on cross-task transferable features, which directly generates adversarial text by training a sequence-to-sequence generator, avoiding the need to construct an alternative model.

Cultural Concept Adaptation on Multimodal Reasoning

Zhi Li (Zhejiang University), Yin Zhang (Zhejiang University)

CodeData SynthesisDomain AdaptationSupervised Fine-TuningVision Language ModelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an unlabeled cultural concept adaptation method and designs a multimodal data augmentation technique called CultureMixup, aiming to improve the performance of cross-lingual and cross-cultural vision-text reasoning models.

DALE: Generative Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Legal NLP

Sreyan Ghosh (University of Maryland), Dinesh Manocha (University of Maryland)

CodeClassificationData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: In low-resource legal NLP tasks, the DALE framework is proposed, which uses BART pretraining and performs selective masked denoising sequence-to-sequence learning on legal texts, then generates diverse, coherent, and label-consistent synthetic data augmentation samples for downstream tasks.

DecoMT: Decomposed Prompting for Machine Translation Between Related Languages using Large Language Models

Ratish Puduppully (Institute for Infocomm Research, A STAR), Nancy Chen

CodeGenerationTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringText

🎯 What it does: Propose a machine translation method called DecoMT, which uses large language models for few-shot prompting by splitting sentences into chunks for decomposed prompting.

Democratizing Reasoning Ability: Tailored Learning from Large Language Model

Zhaoyang Wang (Sun Yat-sen University), Qi Zhang (Microsoft)

CodeKnowledge DistillationLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringContrastive LearningTextBenchmarkChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Through multi-round interactive learning, a small LM is trained to possess chain-of-thought (CoT) capabilities, while self-reflective learning enhances its reasoning quality.

DEPN: Detecting and Editing Privacy Neurons in Pretrained Language Models

Xinwei Wu (Tianjin University), Deyi Xiong (Tianjin University)

CodeSafty and PrivacyTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Propose the DEPN framework, which reduces the risk of models leaking private information by detecting and zeroing out privacy neurons in pre-trained language models.

DeSIQ: Towards an Unbiased, Challenging Benchmark for Social Intelligence Understanding

Xiao-Yu Guo (Monash University), Reza Haf

CodeKnowledge DistillationTransformerLarge Language ModelMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Identify biases in the Social-IQ dataset, construct a bias-free and more challenging DeSIQ benchmark, and provide new multimodal model baselines.

Detecting Spoilers in Movie Reviews with External Movie Knowledge and User Networks

Heng Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Minnan Luo (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

CodeClassificationGraph Neural NetworkTransformerLarge Language ModelTextGraphRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Proposed a multi-view movie review spoiler detection framework named MVSD, and constructed a large-scale LCS dataset and a UKM movie knowledge base based on IMDb.

Discourse Structures Guided Fine-grained Propaganda Identification

Yuanyuan Lei (Texas A&M University), Ruihong Huang (Texas A&M University)

CodeClassificationKnowledge DistillationTransformerText

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes to utilize two types of discourse structures, local and global, for fine-grained propaganda content identification at both the sentence-level and word-level.

Diversify Question Generation with Retrieval-Augmented Style Transfer

Qi Gou (Nanjing University), Cam-Tu Nguyen (Nanjing University)

CodeGenerationRetrievalTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningReinforcement LearningTextRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a retrieval-augmented style transfer framework (RAST), which generates diverse question-answering questions by retrieving and combining context from an external question template library.

Diversity Enhanced Narrative Question Generation for Storybooks

Hokeun Yoon (Sungkyunkwan University), JinYeong Bak (Sungkyunkwan University)

CodeGenerationTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningContrastive LearningText

🎯 What it does: Proposed and implemented a multi-question generation model called mQG, which can automatically generate diverse and answerable narrative questions given context, question type, and already generated questions.

DNA: Denoised Neighborhood Aggregation for Fine-grained Category Discovery

Wenbin An (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Ping Chen (University of Massachusetts Boston)

CodeRepresentation LearningTransformerContrastive LearningTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes a self-supervised framework DNA, which utilizes k-NN to retrieve neighbors and aggregate information, learning fine-grained category representations from coarse-grained labeled data.

Do All Languages Cost the Same? Tokenization in the Era of Commercial Language Models

Orevaoghene Ahia (University of Washington), Yulia Tsvetkov (University of Washington)

CodeComputational EfficiencyData-Centric LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Studied the usage cost and performance differences caused by tokenization imbalance in commercial language model APIs across different languages.

Do Language Models Have a Common Sense regarding Time? Revisiting Temporal Commonsense Reasoning in the Era of Large Language Models

Raghav Jain (Indian Institute of Technology Patna), Sandipan Dandapat (Microsoft)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringTextBenchmarkChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Systematic evaluation and benchmarking of large language models (LLMs) on temporal reasoning tasks

Document-Level Machine Translation with Large Language Models

Longyue Wang (Tencent AI Lab), Zhaopeng Tu (Tencent AI Lab)

CodeGenerationTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper systematically evaluates the performance of large language models (ChatGPT GPT-3.5 and GPT-4) in document-level machine translation, conducting in-depth experiments from three aspects: prompt engineering, model comparison, and discourse modeling.

Document-level Relationship Extraction by Bidirectional Constraints of Beta Rules

Yichun Liu (Tianjin University), Yaxin Li (Tianjin University)

CodeGraph Neural NetworkTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: Propose a framework named BCBR that enhances document-level relation extraction models by utilizing a Beta rule miner and bidirectional logical constraints;

Don’t Trust ChatGPT when your Question is not in English: A Study of Multilingual Abilities and Types of LLMs

Xiang Zhang (University of Alberta), Grzegorz Kondrak (University of Alberta)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringText

🎯 What it does: Systematically evaluate the multilingual capabilities of large language models using both quantitative and qualitative methods, and experimentally test GPT's performance on translation equivalence and variation tasks through prompt translation and response back-translation methods.

Doolittle: Benchmarks and Corpora for Academic Writing Formalization

Shizhe Diao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Tong Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

CodeGenerationTransformerLarge Language ModelReinforcement LearningTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose the academic writing formalization (AWF) task and the non-parallel dataset DOOLITTLE, using multi-objective reinforcement learning to enhance text quality.

DPP-TTS: Diversifying prosodic features of speech via determinantal point processes

Seongho Joo (Seoul National University), Kyomin Jung (Seoul National University)

CodeGenerationTransformerFlow-based ModelAudio

🎯 What it does: Proposed a text-to-speech model called DPP‑TTS based on Determinantal Point Processes (DPP), enhancing speech expressiveness diversity through diversified intonation and rhythm.

DUnE: Dataset for Unified Editing

Afra AkyΓΌrek (Boston University), Derry Wijaya (Boston University)

CodeData-Centric LearningLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningTextBenchmarkRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Construct a unified editing dataset DUNE that covers four types of editing scenarios: factual, reasoning, arithmetic, and bias.

e-THERAPIST: I suggest you to cultivate a mindset of positivity and nurture uplifting thoughts

Kshitij Mishra (Indian Institute of Technology Patna), Asif Ekbal (Indian Institute of Technology Patna)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningReinforcement LearningText

🎯 What it does: Developed a psychological therapy dialogue system called e-THERAPIST capable of generating polite and friendly conversations based on user gender, age, personality traits, and emotions.

EasyQuant: An Efficient Data-free Quantization Algorithm for LLMs

Hanlin Tang, Zhanhui Kang

CodeComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: Proposes EasyQuant, a data-free and training-free LLM weight-only quantization method.

EDIS: Entity-Driven Image Search over Multimodal Web Content

Siqi Liu (Cornell University), William Wang (University of California Santa Barbara)

CodeRetrievalTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningVision Language ModelContrastive LearningMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose a large-scale (millions of scale) news domain entity-driven image search dataset called EDIS and study how to retrieve multimodal candidates (image + title).

Editing Common Sense in Transformers

Anshita Gupta (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Niket Tandon (Allen Institute for AI)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Proposed MEMITCSK, an improved parameter editing algorithm for directly correcting common-sense misjudgments in Transformer models, and constructed a new evaluation set called PROBE SET;

Empathy Intent Drives Empathy Detection

Liting Jiang (Xinjiang University), Wushour Slamu (Xinjiang University)

CodeClassificationRecognitionTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: This paper introduces a co-sympathetic intent recognition task and jointly trains empathy detection, significantly improving the accuracy of empathy detection.

Empower Nested Boolean Logic via Self-Supervised Curriculum Learning

Hongqiu Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Min Zhang (Soochow University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelTextBenchmarkChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Designed a self-supervised curriculum learning method called CLR to train language models to master multi-layer nested Boolean logic reasoning, and proposed the corresponding BoolKill benchmark dataset.

End-to-End Single-Channel Speaker-Turn Aware Conversational Speech Translation

Juan Pablo Zuluaga-Gomez (Idiap Research Institute), Marcello Federico (AWS AI Labs)

CodeTransformerTextAudio

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an end-to-end multi-speaker multi-turn dialogue speech translation system (STAC-ST), which simultaneously accomplishes ASR, speech translation, and speaker switch detection through multi-task training, achieving joint output of tasks using special marker sequences;

Enhancing Code-Switching for Cross-lingual SLU: A Unified View of Semantic and Grammatical Coherence

Zhihong Zhu (Peking University), Yuexian Zou (Peking University)

CodeDomain AdaptationRepresentation LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Propose a framework named SOGO for improving semantic and syntactic consistency in zero-shot cross-lingual SLU tasks through enhanced code-switching.

Enhancing Low-resource Fine-grained Named Entity Recognition by Leveraging Coarse-grained Datasets

Su Lee, Woohwan Jung (Hanyang University)

CodeRecognitionData-Centric LearningTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: For low-resource fine-grained named entity recognition, a Fine-to-Coarse (F2C) mapping matrix is constructed using coarse-grained data, combined with inconsistency filtering to achieve joint training;

Enhancing Structured Evidence Extraction for Fact Verification

Zirui Wu (Peking University), Yansong Feng (Peking University)

CodeRetrievalGraph Neural NetworkTransformerTabularBenchmarkRetrieval-Augmented GenerationChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: In open-domain fact verification, the SEE-ST method is proposed, improving table extraction and cell selection to enhance the efficiency of structured evidence retrieval.

Enhancing the Ranking Context of Dense Retrieval through Reciprocal Nearest Neighbors

George Zerveas (Brown University), Carsten Eickhoff (University of TΓΌbingen)

CodeRetrievalText

🎯 What it does: Propose an evidence label smoothing method based on reciprocal nearest neighbors (rNN) to improve the training of dense retrieval models under sparse annotations, and perform efficient re-ranking using rNN during the inference phase.

Euphemistic Abuse – A New Dataset and Classification Experiments for Implicitly Abusive Language

Michael Wiegand (Alpen-Adria University), Josef Ruppenhofer (FernUniversity)

CodeClassificationTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: Construct and utilize a novel euphemistic abuse dataset aimed at identifying implicit attack statements targeting non-identity groups.

Explaining Interactions Between Text Spans

Sagnik Ray Choudhury (University of Michigan), Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Create and use the multi-annotator SpanEx dataset, manually annotate cross-sentence span interactions in natural language inference (NLI) and fact checking (FC) tasks, and evaluate the decision-making process of large language models (LLMs) based on this dataset; propose an unsupervised method based on community detection to automatically extract interpretable text span interactions.

Explaining with Contrastive Phrasal Highlighting: A Case Study in Assisting Humans to Detect Translation Differences

Eleftheria Briakou (Google), Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityTransformerContrastive LearningText

🎯 What it does: Proposed a post-hoc interpretable method that uses contrastive phrase highlighting to explain predictions of NLP models comparing two texts, focusing on identifying translation differences;

Explanation Selection Using Unlabeled Data for Chain-of-Thought Prompting

Xi Ye (University of Texas at Austin), Greg Durrett (University of Texas at Austin)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language ModelTextChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Propose a black-box search framework based on unlabeled data to automatically generate and optimize chain-of-thought (explanation) prompts, thereby improving the performance of large language models on text reasoning tasks.

Explicit Planning Helps Language Models in Logical Reasoning

Hongyu Zhao (University of Chicago), Hongyuan Mei (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelContrastive LearningText

🎯 What it does: Proposed the LEAP system, which utilizes language models for multi-step logical reasoning and incorporates explicit planning during the reasoning process.

Exploiting Asymmetry for Synthetic Training Data Generation: SynthIE and the Case of Information Extraction

Martin Josifoski (EPFL), Robert West (EPFL)

CodeData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningPrompt EngineeringText

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a process for generating synthetic training data through reverse tasks, utilizing a large language model (LLM) to first sample structured outputs (entity–relation–object triplets) and then prompt the LLM to generate corresponding natural language text, thereby obtaining high-quality, balanced closed information extraction (cIE) training samples.

Explore-Instruct: Enhancing Domain-Specific Instruction Coverage through Active Exploration

Fanqi Wan (Sun Yat Sen University), Shuming Shi (Tencent Ai Lab)

CodeData-Centric LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Construct domain-specific instruction sets and perform instruction tuning by combining active exploration (lookahead, backtracking) with LLMs to enhance model performance in specific domains.

Exploring Discourse Structure in Document-level Machine Translation

Xinyu Hu (Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University), Xiaojun Wan (Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University)

CodeGenerationRepresentation LearningTransformerTextSequential

🎯 What it does: Explore the impact of discourse structure on translation quality in document-level machine translation, and propose a multi-granularity attention mechanism based on RST.

Exploring Jiu-Jitsu Argumentation for Writing Peer Review Rebuttals

Sukannya Purkayastha (Technical University of Darmstadt), Iryna Gurevych (Technical University of Darmstadt)

CodeClassificationGenerationDomain AdaptationTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Constructed the JITSUPEER dataset and proposed a rebuttal generation task for peer review based on the 'Jiu-Jitsu' argumentation framework, focusing on attitude origins and theme-driven rebuttals; designed three subtasks (feasibility scoring, description generation, terminal generation) and conducted baseline experiments.

Exploring Linguistic Probes for Morphological Generalization

Jordan Kodner (Stony Brook University), Sarah Payne (Stony Brook University)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityRepresentation LearningRecurrent Neural NetworkTransformerTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Designed and evaluated language-specific morphological probes to examine the morphological generalization capabilities of different models on English, Spanish, and Swahili.

FactKB: Generalizable Factuality Evaluation using Language Models Enhanced with Factual Knowledge

Shangbin Feng (University of Washington), Yulia Tsvetkov (University of Washington)

CodeClassificationRepresentation LearningData-Centric LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Propose a knowledge-based pre-training method that first performs fact-based pre-training on language models and then conducts fact consistency evaluation.

Fair Text Classification with Wasserstein Independence

Thibaud Leteno (University of Saint Etienne), Christophe Gravier (University of Saint Etienne)

CodeClassificationTransformerLarge Language ModelGenerative Adversarial NetworkText

🎯 What it does: Propose an unsupervised fair text classification method (WFC) based on Wasserstein mutual information minimization, which enforces independence between the target and sensitive attributes in the latent space through a pre-trained sensitive attribute model and Wasserstein regularization, without requiring access to sensitive labels during training or inference.

FAME: Flexible, Scalable Analogy Mappings Engine

Shahar Jacob (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Dafna Shahaf (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityRepresentation LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelTextRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Proposes FAME, a system that performs analogy mapping using only entity names, automatically extracts common-sense relationships, and generates explainable mappings.

Fast and Accurate Factual Inconsistency Detection Over Long Documents

Barrett Lattimer (ASAPP), Yi Yang (ASAPP)

CodeAnomaly DetectionExplainability and InterpretabilityComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language ModelTextBenchmarkRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Proposed the SCALE method based on NLI, which detects factual inconsistencies in generated text by splitting long texts into chunks and reasoning between each chunk and generated sentences.

Fast and Robust Early-Exiting Framework for Autoregressive Language Models with Synchronized Parallel Decoding

Sangmin Bae (KAIST AI), Se-Young Yun (KAIST AI)

CodeComputational EfficiencyKnowledge DistillationTransformerText

🎯 What it does: Propose a Fast and Robust Early-Exiting (FREE) framework to accelerate the inference speed of autoregressive language models;

Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning

Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge), Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge)

CodeComputational EfficiencyText

🎯 What it does: Proposed an iterative confidence pruning algorithm to accelerate Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoding and reduce the number of utility function calls.

Federated Learning of Large Language Models with Parameter-Efficient Prompt Tuning and Adaptive Optimization

Tianshi Che (Auburn University), Dejing Dou (Baidu Inc)

CodeFederated LearningSafty and PrivacyLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringText

🎯 What it does: Proposes the FedPepTAO framework in a federated learning environment for parameter-efficient prompt tuning of large language models, enhancing performance through adaptive optimization.

FedID: Federated Interactive Distillation for Large-Scale Pretraining Language Models

Xinge Ma (Yunnan University), Xuejie Zhang (Yunnan University)

CodeFederated LearningKnowledge DistillationTransformerLarge Language ModelTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose the Federated Interactive Distillation (FedID) framework, which uses a small amount of labeled data on the server to correct confirmation bias in traditional federated distillation, achieving decentralized training of large-scale pre-trained language models

FedTherapist: Mental Health Monitoring with User-Generated Linguistic Expressions on Smartphones via Federated Learning

Jaemin Shin (KAIST), Sung-Ju Lee (KAIST)

CodeClassificationFederated LearningSafty and PrivacyComputational EfficiencyKnowledge DistillationTransformerText

🎯 What it does: Proposes FedTherapist, a mobile mental health monitoring system based on federated learning, utilizing user-generated speech transcriptions and keyboard input text data;

Fidelity-Enriched Contrastive Search: Reconciling the Faithfulness-Diversity Trade-Off in Text Generation

Wei-Lin Chen (National Taiwan University), Chung-Chi Chen (Artificial Intelligence Research Center AIST)

CodeGenerationTransformerLarge Language ModelContrastive LearningText

🎯 What it does: Proposed a new decoding strategy called Fidelity-Enriched Contrastive Search (FECS), which enhances the faithfulness of text generation and suppresses repetition by incorporating a semantic similarity reward into Contrastive Search.

Fighting Fire with Fire: The Dual Role of LLMs in Crafting and Detecting Elusive Disinformation

Jason Lucas (Pennsylvania State University), Dongwon Lee (Pennsylvania State University)

CodeGenerationAnomaly DetectionTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringTextChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Propose the F3 framework, leveraging LLMs for generating, purifying, and zero-shot detection of fake information, constructing an end-to-end 'fighting fire with fire' process.

Find-2-Find: Multitask Learning for Anaphora Resolution and Object Localization

Cennet Oguz (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence), Josef van Genabith (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)

CodeObject DetectionTransformerVision Language ModelVideoTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose the Find2Find dataset and design a joint multi-task learning model to address coreference resolution and object localization under multimodal visual-language ambiguity.

Finding Authentic Counterhate Arguments: A Case Study with Public Figures

Abdullah Albanyan (Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University), Eduardo Blanco (University of Arizona)

CodeClassificationRetrievalTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningTextRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: A corpus consisting of 250 hate tweets and 54,816 paragraphs was constructed, with real counter-arguments against hate annotated; a method to retrieve online articles for real counter-arguments was proposed.

FinGPT: Large Generative Models for a Small Language

Risto Luukkonen (TurkuNLP Group, University of Turku), Sampo Pyysalo (TurkuNLP Group, University of Turku)

CodeGenerationData-Centric LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Developed large-scale generative models for Finnish, FinGPT and BLUUMI.

FOCUS: Effective Embedding Initialization for Monolingual Specialization of Multilingual Models

Konstantin Dobler (University of Potsdam), Gerard de Melo (University of Potsdam)

CodeDomain AdaptationComputational EfficiencyRepresentation LearningTransformerText

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an embedding initialization method called FOCUS, which rapidly adapts the target language's dedicated tokenizer while keeping the structure of multilingual pre-trained models unchanged.

From Values to Opinions: Predicting Human Behaviors and Stances Using Value-Injected Large Language Models

Dongjun Kang (Sungkyunkwan University), JinYeong Bak (Sungkyunkwan University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: In this study, the authors propose a Value Injection Method (VIM), which injects fine-grained value distributions into LLAMA through two tasks: argument generation and question answering. Subsequently, the model with injected values is used to predict group opinions and behaviors.

From Wrong To Right: A Recursive Approach Towards Vision-Language Explanation

Jiaxin Ge (UC Berkeley), Boyi Li (UC Berkeley)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityTransformerLarge Language ModelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose the ReVisE recursive visual explanation framework, which utilizes multi-step generation self-correcting explanations

G-Eval: NLG Evaluation using Gpt-4 with Better Human Alignment

Yang Liu (Microsoft Azure AI), Chenguang Zhu (Microsoft Azure AI)

CodeGenerationTransformerLarge Language ModelTextChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Propose the G-EVAL framework, which combines large language models (GPT-4) with chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, further integrated with a form-filling paradigm, to perform reference-free automatic evaluation of natural language generation (NLG) text.

GATITOS: Using a New Multilingual Lexicon for Low-resource Machine Translation

Alexander Jones (Google Research), Ishank Saxena (Google Research)

CodeData-Centric LearningTransformerText

🎯 What it does: This paper significantly improves translation quality by incorporating bilingual dictionaries for data augmentation in low-resource and unsupervised machine translation training.

GazeVQA: A Video Question Answering Dataset for Multiview Eye-Gaze Task-Oriented Collaborations

Muhammet Ilaslan, Mike Shou

CodeObject DetectionSegmentationTransformerVision Language ModelContrastive LearningImageVideoTextMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Constructed a collaborative task VQA dataset named GazeVQA containing multi-perspective videos and eye movement data, and proposed the AssistGaze model capable of answering questions with text, images, and videos.

GEM: Gestalt Enhanced Markup Language Model for Web Understanding via Render Tree

Zirui Shao (Zhejiang University), Xiaozhong Liu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

CodeRepresentation LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes GEM (Gestalt Enhanced Markup Language Model), which enhances web understanding capabilities without requiring visual input by leveraging visual information from web rendering trees (style and position) during pre-training, and introducing two pre-training tasks based on Gestalt principles (Same Textual Style Prediction and Proximate Nodes Prediction).

Generating Commonsense Counterfactuals for Stable Relation Extraction

Xin Miao (Wuhan University), Tieyun Qian (Wuhan University)

CodeData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringText

🎯 What it does: Propose a framework for generating causal counterfactual data (CCG) that complies with common-sense constraints, aiming to enhance the stability of relation extraction models in low-resource, cross-domain, and adversarial scenarios.

Generating Data for Symbolic Language with Large Language Models

Jiacheng Ye (University of Hong Kong), Tao Yu (University of Hong Kong)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningPrompt EngineeringText

🎯 What it does: Leveraging large language models (e.g., Codex) as data generators, combined with prompt engineering and self-consistent verification to generate symbolic language data with high annotation costs, then training with a small-scale task model (e.g., T5-Large) to significantly reduce deployment and inference costs;

GLEN: General-Purpose Event Detection for Thousands of Types

Sha Li (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Jiawei Han (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

CodeClassificationRecognitionTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Constructed a large-scale general event detection dataset GLEN (3,465 event types, 208,000 sentences) and proposed a multi-stage event detection model CEDAR, which performs trigger word identification, sentence-level type ranking, and trigger word-level type classification separately.

GLEN: Generative Retrieval via Lexical Index Learning

Sunkyung Lee (Sungkyunkwan University), Jongwuk Lee (Sungkyunkwan University)

CodeRetrievalTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningContrastive LearningText

🎯 What it does: Proposed a generative retrieval framework called GLEN, which utilizes dynamic vocabulary-based indexing learning to directly generate document identifiers corresponding to queries, and enhances retrieval performance through two-phase training (keyword assignment and ranking-based ID fine-tuning) as well as collision-free inference.

GlobalBench: A Benchmark for Global Progress in Natural Language Processing

Yueqi Song (Carnegie Mellon University), Graham Neubig (George Mason University)

CodeTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose GlobalBench, a continuously expanding multilingual multitask benchmark and leaderboard, tracking the performance, utility, and fairness of NLP systems across all languages, and incentivizing improvements for under-served languages through a reward mechanism.

Goal-Driven Explainable Clustering via Language Descriptions

Zihan Wang (University of California San Diego), Ruiqi Zhong (University of California Berkeley)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: Proposed a new text clustering task called GOALEX, which requires clustering results to align with user-specified goals and provide natural language explanations for the meaning of each cluster.

GQA: Training Generalized Multi-Query Transformer Models from Multi-Head Checkpoints

Joshua Ainslie (Google Research), Sumit Sanghai (Google Research)

CodeComputational EfficiencyTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: The study converts multi-head attention models into multi-query/grouped query attention models to improve decoding speed.

GradSim: Gradient-Based Language Grouping for Effective Multilingual Training

Mingyang Wang (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence), Hinrich Schuetze (LMU Munich)

CodeOptimizationRepresentation LearningTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Studied a language grouping method based on gradient similarity to help select sets of languages that mutually positively influence each other during multilingual training.

Grammar-Constrained Decoding for Structured NLP Tasks without Finetuning

Saibo Geng (EPFL), Robert West (EPFL)

CodeGenerationTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringText

🎯 What it does: Proposes the Grammar-Constrained Decoding (GCD) framework, which uses formal grammar to constrain the generation process of large language models (LLMs), enabling them to perform various structured NLP tasks without fine-tuning.

GROOViST: A Metric for Grounding Objects in Visual Storytelling

Aditya K Surikuchi (University of Amsterdam), Raquel FernΓ‘ndez (University of Amsterdam)

CodeVision Language ModelContrastive LearningImageTextMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed a new no-reference evaluation metric called GROOViST to measure the visual groundedness in visual story generation.

Hallucination Detection for Generative Large Language Models by Bayesian Sequential Estimation

Xiaohua Wang (Fudan University), Xuanjing Huang (Fudan University)

CodeRetrievalAnomaly DetectionTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringTextRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Propose a hallucination detection framework based on Bayesian sequential analysis, dynamically determining the number of external evidence retrievals and performing hierarchical judgment.

HaluEval: A Large-Scale Hallucination Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models

Junyi Li (Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China), Ji-Rong Wen (Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelTextBenchmarkRetrieval-Augmented GenerationChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Constructed HaluEval, an evaluation benchmark for large language models containing 35,000 hallucination samples generated both by human annotation and automatic generation, used to test models' ability to detect hallucinations.

Have LLMs Advanced Enough? A Challenging Problem Solving Benchmark For Large Language Models

Daman Arora (Microsoft Research), Mausam (IIT Delhi)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelTextBenchmarkChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Proposed JEEBENCH, a challenging question bank consisting of 515 high-difficulty mathematics, physics, and chemistry problems from 8 years of the Indian IIT JEE-Advanced exams, to evaluate LLMs' long-range reasoning and professional knowledge application capabilities.

Hi-ArG: Exploring the Integration of Hierarchical Argumentation Graphs in Language Pretraining

Jingcong Liang (Fudan University), Zhongyu Wei (Fudan University)

CodeRepresentation LearningGraph Neural NetworkTransformerLarge Language ModelContrastive LearningText

🎯 What it does: Proposed a hierarchical argumentation graph Hi-ArG and built an automated construction process, followed by further pretraining of language models using the GreaseArG multimodal model and custom pretraining tasks

Hidding the Ghostwriters: An Adversarial Evaluation of AI-Generated Student Essay Detection

Xinlin Peng (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yingfei Sun (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

CodeClassificationAdversarial AttackTransformerLarge Language ModelTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Constructed the AIG-ASAP dataset to evaluate adversarial perturbations on AI-generated student essays and tested the robustness of existing AI-generated content detectors on this dataset.

Hierarchical Pretraining on Multimodal Electronic Health Records

Xiaochen Wang (Pennsylvania State University), Fenglong Ma (Pennsylvania State University)

CodeClassificationRecurrent Neural NetworkTransformerAuto EncoderContrastive LearningTextMultimodalityTabularTime SeriesBiomedical DataElectronic Health Records

🎯 What it does: Proposes a hierarchical multimodal pretraining framework called MEDHMP for pretraining on electronic health records (EHR) and downstream tasks;

HutCRS: Hierarchical User-Interest Tracking for Conversational Recommender System

Mingjie Qian (Sun Yat-sen University), Liang Lin (Sun Yat-sen University)

CodeRecommendation SystemGraph Neural NetworkReinforcement LearningGraph

🎯 What it does: Designed a multi-round conversational recommendation framework called HutCRS based on a hierarchical interest tree, which operates in two phases: first identifying the aspects of user interest, then asking about attributes related to these aspects or directly recommending items.

Identification of Multimodal Stance Towards Frames of Communication

Maxwell Weinzierl, Sanda Harabagiu

CodeClassificationData SynthesisGraph Neural NetworkTransformerVision Language ModelImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed the first multimodal stance annotation dataset MMVAX-STANCE for 113 COVID-19 vaccine communication frameworks, generated 46,000 synthetic multimodal instances by inferring text-image relationships, and constructed a stance detection model.

Identifying Informational Sources in News Articles

Alexander Spangher (University of Southern California), Jonathan May (University of Southern California)

CodeClassificationRetrievalTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningTextBenchmarkRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Constructed the largest annotated news source dataset and proposed a source prediction task to study the combination patterns of sources in news.

IDTraffickers: An Authorship Attribution Dataset to link and connect Potential Human-Trafficking Operations on Text Escort Advertisements

Vageesh Saxena (Law & Tech Lab Maastricht University), Gerasimos Spanakis (Law & Tech Lab Maastricht University)

CodeRecognitionRetrievalExplainability and InterpretabilityTransformerContrastive LearningTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Constructed and released a trafficker author attribution dataset named IDTraffickers, trained and evaluated author identification and verification models using this dataset to help law enforcement link potential traffickers in online prostitution ads.

Image Manipulation via Multi-Hop Instructions - A New Dataset and Weakly-Supervised Neuro-Symbolic Approach

Harman Singh (Indian Institute Of Technology Delhi), Parag Singla (Indian Institute Of Technology Delhi)

CodeGenerationExplainability and InterpretabilityGraph Neural NetworkVision Language ModelGenerative Adversarial NetworkImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose a weakly supervised neuro-symbolic image editing framework called NEUROSIM, which can perform add, delete, and modify operations on multi-object images based on multi-step natural language instructions;

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

Xiang Geng (Nanjing University), Shujian Huang (Nanjing University)

CodeData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: Utilize constrained Beam Search (CBSQE) during NMT decoding to retain high-probability words from the reference, generating more accurate pseudo QE data;

Improved Unsupervised Chinese Word Segmentation Using Pre-trained Knowledge and Pseudo-labeling Transfer

Hsiu-Wen Li (National Cheng Kung University), Hung-Yu Kao (National Cheng Kung University)

CodeSegmentationComputational EfficiencyRepresentation LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Proposed a Chinese word segmentation framework that utilizes an unsupervised segmentation model to generate pseudo labels and fine-tunes a pre-trained BERT model based on these pseudo labels, improving segmentation performance while significantly reducing training time.

Improving Chinese Pop Song and Hokkien Gezi Opera Singing Voice Synthesis by Enhancing Local Modeling

Peng Bai (Xiamen University), Xiaodong Shi (Xiamen University)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisTransformerAudio

🎯 What it does: Study the singing voice synthesis of Mandarin pop songs and Minnan opera, proposing two techniques to enhance local modeling, significantly improving the quality of synthesized audio.

Improving Dialogue Discourse Parsing via Reply-to Structures of Addressee Recognition

Yaxin Fan (Soochow University), Qiaoming Zhu (Soochow University)

CodeRecognitionRecurrent Neural NetworkTransformerReinforcement LearningText

🎯 What it does: The study proposes a multi-task framework that jointly learns dialogue discourse parsing and addressee recognition to leverage partially overlapping structural information between the two tasks for improved parsing performance.

Improving Image Captioning via Predicting Structured Concepts

Ting Wang (University of Science and Technology of China), Zhendong Mao (University of Washington)

CodeGenerationRepresentation LearningGraph Neural NetworkTransformerReinforcement LearningVision Language ModelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose a Structured Concept Predictor (SCP) that simultaneously predicts semantic concepts and their structures in images, and feeds the structured concepts along with visual features into a Transformer decoder to achieve end-to-end image caption generation.

Improving Language Models’ Meaning Understanding and Consistency by Learning Conceptual Roles from Dictionary

Myeongjun Jang (University of Oxford), Thomas Lukasiewicz (Vienna University of Technology)

CodeComputational EfficiencyRepresentation LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an intermediate pre-training task, Concept Role Modeling (CRM), learned through dictionary definitions, to enhance the semantic understanding capability of pre-trained language models (PLMs). This significantly reduces model inconsistencies across multiple consistency types (semantic, negational, symmetric, transitive) and achieves efficient fine-tuning of large PLMs via parameter fusion techniques.

Improving Summarization with Human Edits

Zonghai Yao (University of Massachusetts), Sai Selvaraj (Abridge AI)

CodeGenerationReinforcement Learning from Human FeedbackTransformerLarge Language ModelReinforcement LearningTextBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a method to improve summary quality by leveraging human editor feedback, combining sequence alignment with forward/backward likelihood training, with a focus on clinical dialogue summaries in the healthcare domain.

Improving Unsupervised Relation Extraction by Augmenting Diverse Sentence Pairs

Qing Wang (Iowa State University), Qi Li (Iowa State University)

CodeRepresentation LearningData-Centric LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelContrastive LearningText

🎯 What it does: Propose the AugURE method, improving relation representation learning in unsupervised relation extraction through diverse positive sample augmentation and margin loss.

Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs

Simone Conia (Sapienza University of Rome), Yunyao Li (Apple)

CodeLarge Language ModelTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an automated knowledge graph embedding (KGE) method aimed at improving the coverage and accuracy of entity names and descriptions for non-English languages in Wikidata.

Indicative Summarization of Long Discussions

Shahbaz Syed (Leipzig University), Martin Potthast (Leipzig University)

CodeGenerationTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringTextChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Propose an unsupervised method for long discussion indicative summarization, leveraging LLMs to first cluster sentences, generate cluster labels, and then assign argument frameworks to form a hierarchical summary resembling a table of contents.

Inference-Time Policy Adapters (IPA): Tailoring Extreme-Scale LMs without Fine-tuning

Ximing Lu (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence), Yejin Choi (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

CodeComputational EfficiencyKnowledge DistillationTransformerLarge Language ModelReinforcement LearningMixture of ExpertsText

🎯 What it does: Propose Inference-time Policy Adapters (IPA), which optimize the outputs of large language models (e.g., GPT-3) during inference using a lightweight adapter, avoiding the need for model fine-tuning.

INFORM : Information eNtropy based multi-step reasoning FOR large language Models

Chuyue Zhou (Soochow University), Min Zhang (Soochow University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language ModelTextBenchmarkChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Propose the INFORM framework, which uses information entropy to select problems, automatically generates chained reasoning steps, and enhances LLM reasoning performance through information entropy-based self-consistent reasoning;

Information Value: Measuring Utterance Predictability as Distance from Plausible Alternatives

Mario Giulianelli (University of Amsterdam), Raquel FernΓ‘ndez (University of Amsterdam)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an 'information value' metric based on a complete sentence alternative set, which quantifies the predictability of a sentence relative to feasible alternative sentences that can be generated in a given context.

Instruct and Extract: Instruction Tuning for On-Demand Information Extraction

Yizhu Jiao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Jiawei Han (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningPrompt EngineeringTextTabularBenchmarkChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Proposed the 'on-demand information extraction' task and constructed the corresponding benchmark dataset INSTRUCTIE; based on this, trained an instruction-tuned model ODIE to extract structured tables from text according to user instructions.

Instructive Dialogue Summarization with Query Aggregations

Bin Wang (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR), Nancy Chen

CodeGenerationData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Proposed the InstructDS model, which supports query-based instruction dialogue summarization.

Interpreting Embedding Spaces by Conceptualization

Adi Simhi (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), Shaul Markovitch (Technion Israel Institute of Technology)

CodeClassificationExplainability and InterpretabilityRepresentation LearningLarge Language ModelTextGraph

🎯 What it does: Proposes an algorithm called Concept Embedding Space (CES) that maps non-interpretable embedding spaces generated by LLMs to an interpretable concept space, enabling explanation and analysis of embeddings through the concept space.