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One Adapts to Any: Meta Reward Modeling for
Personalized LLM Alignment, accepted by the 49th International ACM SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2026),
Melbourne, Australia, July 20-24, 2026. 
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Benchmarking and Improving Agent-Oriented Multimodal
Embeddings, accepted by the forty-Third International Conference on Machine
Learning (ICML'2026), Seoul, South Korea, July 6-11, 2026.
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What Makes Effective Supervision in Latent
Chain-of-Thought: An Information-Theoretic Analysis, accepted by the
forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'2026), Seoul,
South Korea, July 6-11, 2026.
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Where and What: Reasoning Dynamic and Implicit
Preferences in Situated Conversational Recommendation, to appear in Proceedings
of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL'2026), San Diego, California, July 2-7, 2026.
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TInR:
Exploring Tool-Internalized Reasoning in Large Language Models, to appear in
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2026), San Diego, California, July 2-7, 2026.
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Supervised
Fine-Tuning or Contrastive Learning? Towards Better Multimodal LLM Reranking, in
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations
(ICLR'2026), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 23-27, 2026, pp1-24.
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KNN-SSD:
Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set
Optimization, in Proceedings of
the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (EACL'2026), Rabat, Morocco, March 24-29, 2026, pp641¨C655.
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SCALE:
Selective Resource Allocation for Overcoming Performance Bottlenecks in
Mathematical Test-time Scaling, in
Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'26),
Singapore, January 20-27, 2026, 34034-34042.
2025
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BeyondLIMO:
Reasoning Refinement for Efficient and Effective Test-time Scaling, in
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing
Systems (NeurIPS'2025), December 23-7, San Diego, USA, 2025, pp1-26.
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R2ec:
Towards Large Recommender Models with Reasoning, in
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing
Systems (NeurIPS'2025), December 23-7, San Diego, USA, 2025, pp1-30.
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SSRB: Direct Natural Language Querying to Massive
Heterogeneous Semi-Structured Data, in Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'2025), Datasets and Benchmarks
Track, December 23-7, San Diego, USA, 2025, pp1-30.
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TokenSkip: Controllable Chain-of-Thought Compression in LLMs, in Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2025), Suzhou, China, November
5-9, 2025, pp3351-3363.
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RAR2: Retrieval-Augmented Medical Reasoning
via Thought-Driven Retrieval, in
Findings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP'2025), Suzhou, China, November 5-9, 2025, pp20386-20396.
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Beyond Single Frames: Can LMMs Comprehend Temporal and
Contextual Narratives in Image Sequences? in Findings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2025), Suzhou, China, November
5-9, 2025, pp6436-6452.
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Phased Training for LLM-powered Text Retrieval Models
Beyond Data Scaling, in Proceedings of
the 2nd Conference on Language Modeling (COLM'2025), Montreal, Canada, October
7-10, 2025, pp1-27.
o
Towards
Harmless Multimodal Assistants with Blind Preference Optimization, in
Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia
(ACMMM'2025), Dublin, Ireland, October 27-31, 2025, pp4254-4269, pp4992-5000.
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Towards Text-Image
Interleaved Retrieval, in Proceedings of
the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL'2025), Vienna, Austria, July 28-30, 2025, pp4254-4269.
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Why Safeguarded
Ships Run Aground? Aligned Large Language Models' Safety Mechanisms Tend to be
Anchored in the Template Region, in
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2025), Vienna, Austria, July 28-30, 2025, pp15212-15229.
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RADAR: Enhancing
Radiology Report Generation with Supplementary Knowledge Injection, in
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2025), Vienna, Austria, July 28-30, 2025, pp26366-26381.
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Subtle Errors
Matter: Preference Learning via Error-injected Self-editing, in
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2025), Vienna, Austria, July 28-30, 2025, pp31184-31203.
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Towards Dynamic
Theory of Mind: Evaluating LLM Adaptation to Temporal Evolution of Human States, in
Proceedings the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2025), Vienna, Austria, July 28-30, 2025, pp24036-24057.
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UniICL: An
Efficient ICL Framework Unifying Compression, Selection, and Generation, in
Proceedings the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2025), Vienna, Austria, July 28-30, 2025, pp500-510.
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Training
Turn-by-Turn Verifiers for Dialogue Tutoring Agents: The Curious Case of LLMs
as Your Coding Tutors, in Findings of
the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL'2025), Vienna, Austria, July 28-30, 2025, pp12416-12436.
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Learning
to Align Multi-Faceted Evaluation: A Unified and Robust Framework, in
Findings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2025), Vienna, Austria, July 28-30, 2025, pp9488-9502.
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STeCa: Step-level Trajectory Calibration for LLM Agent
Learning, in Findings of
the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL'2025), Vienna, Austria, July 28-30, 2025, pp11597-11614.
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PEToolLLM: Towards Personalized Tool Learning in Large Language
Models, in Findings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2025), Vienna, Austria, July
28-30, 2025, pp21488-21503.
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Unveiling
the Key Factors for Distilling Chain-of-Thought Reasoning, in
Findings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2025), Vienna, Austria, July 28-30, 2025, pp15094-15119.
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How Far
are LLMs from Being Our Digital Twins? A Benchmark for Persona-Based Behavior
Chain Simulation, in Findings of
the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL'2025), Vienna, Austria, July 28-30, 2025, pp15738-15763.
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Constrain
Alignment with a Sparse AutoEncoder, in
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning
(ICML¡¯2025), Vancouver, Canada, July 13-19, PMLR 267:72349-72363, 20252025.
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Exploring Training
and Inference Scaling Laws for Generative Retrieval, in
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and
Development in the Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2025), Padua, Italy, July
13-17, 2025, pp1339-1349.
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Revolutionizing
Text-to-Image Retrieval as Autoregressive Token-to-Voken
Generation, in Proceedings of
the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in the
Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2025), Padua, Italy, July 13-17, 2025, pp813-822.
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Meta-Learning for
Incomplete Multimodal Emotion Recognition, in
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and
Development in the Information Retrieval (SIGIR¡¯2025), Padua, Italy, July
13-17, 2025, pp2911-2915.
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Interleaved-Modal
Chain-of-Thought, in Proceedings of
the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR'2025),
Nashville, June 10-15, 2025, pp19520-19529.
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Bridging
Modalities: Improving Universal Multimodal Retrieval by Large-Scale Fused-Modal
Data Synthesis, in Proceedings of
the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR'2025),
Nashville, June 10-15, 2025, pp9274-9285.
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Integrative
Decoding: Improving Factuality via Implicit Self-consistency, in
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Learning Representations
(ICLR'2025), Singapore, April 24-28, 2025, pp1-46.
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SWIFT: On-the-Fly
Self-Speculative Decoding for LLM Inference Acceleration, in
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Learning Representations
(ICLR'2025), Singapore, April 24-28, 2025, pp1-24.
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Large Language
Models Empowered Personalized Web Agent, in
Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW'2025), Sydney, Australia, April 28 to
May 2, 2025, pp198-215.
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SupportPlay: A Multi-Agent Role-Playing System for Personalized
and Sustained Multimodal Emotional Support Conversation, in
Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW¡¯2025), Demo Track, Sydney, Australia,
April 28 to May 2, 2025, pp2915-2918.
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AIM: Let Any Multimodal Large Language Models Embrace
Efficient In-Context Learning, in Proceedings of the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2025), Pennsylvania, U.A, February 25 - March 4,
2025, pp3077-3085.
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Personalized Large Language Model Assistant with
Evolving Conditional Memory, in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference
on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2025), Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 19-24, 2025,
pp3764-3777.
2024
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E2C: Exploration-based Error Correction
Learning in Embodied Language Models, in
Findings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP'2024), Florida, USA, November 12-16, 2024, pp7626-7639.
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Query
Routing for Homogeneous Tools: A Instantiation in the RAG Scenario, in
Findings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP'2024), Florida, USA, November 12-16, 2024, pp10225-10230.
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ICON:
Improving Inter-Report Consistency of Radiology Report Generation via
Lesion-aware Mix-up Augmentation, in
Findings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP'2024), Florida, USA, November 12-16, 2024, pp9043-9056.
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Enhancing
Tool Retrieval with Iterative Feedback from Large Language Models, in
Findings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP'2024), Florida, USA, November 12-16, 2024, pp9609-9619.
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SCREEN: A Benchmark for Situated Conversational Recommendation, in
Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2024 (MM'2024), Melbourne, Australia, 28 October
- 1 November 2024, pp9591-9600.
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A Causal Approach for Counterfactual Reasoning in Narratives, in
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2024), Bangkok, Thailand, August 11-16, 2024, pp6556-6569.
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Generating Contrastive Narratives Using the Brownian Bridge Process for
Narrative Coherence Learning, in Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2024), Bangkok, Thailand, August
11-16, 2024, pp6538-6555.
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Instruct Once, Chat Consistently in Multiple Rounds: An Efficient Tuning
Framework for Dialogue, in Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2024), Bangkok, Thailand, August
11-16, 2024, pp3993-4010.
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Generative Cross-Modal Retrieval: Memorizing Images in Multimodal
Language Models for Retrieval and Beyond, in
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2024), Bangkok, Thailand, August 11-16, 2024, pp11851-11861.
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Distillation Enhanced Generative Retrieval, in
Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2024), Bangkok, Thailand, August 11-16, 2024, pp11119-11129.
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Muffin: Mitigating Unhelpfulness in Emotional Support
Conversations with Multifaceted AI Feedback, in
Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2024), Bangkok, Thailand, August 11-16, 2024, pp567-585.
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Prompt Chaining or Stepwise Prompt? Refinement in Text
Summarization, in Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2024), Bangkok, Thailand, August
11-16, 2024, pp7551-7558.
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The Critique of Critique, in
Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2024), Bangkok, Thailand, August 11-16, 2024, pp9077-9096.
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Reasoning Like a Doctor: Improving Medical Dialogue
Systems via Diagnostic Reasoning Process Alignment, in
Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2024), Bangkok, Thailand, August 11-16, 2024, pp6796-6814.
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Unlocking Efficiency in Large Language Model
Inference: A Comprehensive Survey of Speculative Decoding, in
Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2024), Bangkok, Thailand, August 11-16, 2024, pp7655-7671.
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Contrastive Preference Learning for Neural Machine
Translation, in Findings of the 2024 Annual Conference of the
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(NAACL'2024), Mexico City, Mexico, June 16-21, 2024, pp2723-2735.
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Learning
to Rank in Generative Retrieval, in Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2024), Vancouver, Canada, February 20-27,
2024, pp8716-8723.
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Cooper:
Coordinating Specialized Agents towards A Complex Dialogue Goal, in
Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2024),
Vancouver, Canada, February 20-27, 2024, pp17853-17861.
2023
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Detoxifying Language Models by Reversing Toxification, in
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP'2023), Singapore, December 10-16, 2023, pp4433-4449.
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Target-oriented Proactive Dialogue with Personalization: Problem
Formulation and Dataset Curation, in Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2023), Singapore, December 10-16,
2023, pp1132-1143.
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VIBE: Topic-Driven Temporal Adaptation for Twitter
Classification, in Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2023), Singapore, December 10-16,
2023, pp3340-3354.
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RECAP: Towards Precise Radiology Report Generation via
Dynamic Disease Progression Reasoning, in
Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP'2023), Singapore, December 10-16, 2023, pp2134-2147.
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Data Selection Curriculum for Abstractive Text
Summarization, in Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2023), Singapore, December 10-16,
2023, pp7990-7995.
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KBioXLM: A Knowledge-Anchored Biomedical Multilingual
Pretrained Model, in Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2023), Singapore, December 10-16,
2023, pp11239-11250.
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Aligning Language Models with Human Preferences via a Bayesian Approach, in
Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
(NeurIPS'2023), December 10-16, 2023, Louisiana, USA, pp1-20.
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Multiview Identifiers Enhanced Generative Retrieval, in
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp6636-6648.
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ORGAN: Observation-Guided Radiology Report Generation via Tree Reasoning, in
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp8108-8122.
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Enhancing Event Causality Identification with Counterfactual Reasoning, in
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp967-975.
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Dialogue Planning via Brownian Bridge Stochastic
Process for Goal-directed Dialogue Generation, in
Findings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp370-387.
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Separating Context and Pattern: Learning Disentangled
Sentence Representations for Low-Data Extractive Summarization, in
Findings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp7575-7586.
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Medical Dialogue Generation via Dual Flow Modeling, in
Findings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023, pp6771-6784.
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Improving Sentence Similarity Estimation for Unsupervised Extractive
Summarization, in Proceedings of the 48th IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP'2023), Greek
island of Rhodes, Greece June 4-10, 2023.
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Preserve Context
Information through Interpretability for Extract-Generate Long-Input Summarization
Framework, in Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI'2023), Washington, DC, USA, February 7-14, 2023,
pp13932-13939.
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COLA: Improving
Conversational Recommender Systems by Collaborative Augmentation, in
Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2023),
Washington, DC, USA, February 7-14, 2023, pp4462-4470.
2022
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Improving Multi-turn Emotional Support Dialogue Generation with
Lookahead Strategy Planning, in Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2022), December 7-11, 2022,
pp3014-3026.
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Few-shot Query-Focused Summarization with Prefix-Merging, in
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP'2022), December 7-11, 2022, pp3704-3714.
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CARE: Causality Reasoning for Empathetic Responses by Conditional Graph
Generation, in Findings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2022), December 7-11, 2022, pp729-741.
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Addressing Token Uniformity in Transformers via
Singular Value Transformation, in Proceedings of the 38th Conference on
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Eindhoven, Netherlands (UAI'2022), August 1-5, 2022, PMLR 180:2181-2191.
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Enhancing Text Generation via Multi-Level Knowledge Aware Reasoning, in
Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI'2022), Vienna, Austria, July 23-29, 2022, pp4310-4316.
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'My nose is running.' 'Are you also coughing?': Building A Medical
Diagnosis Agent with Interpretable Inquiry Logics, in
Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI'2022), Vienna, Austria, July 23-29, 2022, pp4266-4272.
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MMCoQA: Conversational Question
Answering over Text, Tables, and Images, in
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2022), Dublin, May 22-27, 2022, pp4220-4231.
2021
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Event Graph based Sentence Fusion, in Proceedings
of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP'2021), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 7-11, 2021, pp4075-4084.
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Effect Generation based on Causal Reasoning, in
Findings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP'2021), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 7-11, 2021,
pp527-533.
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Template-guided
Clarifying Question Generation for Web Search Clarification, in Proceedings
of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM'2021), November 1-5, 2021, pp3468-347.
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Target-guided
Knowledge-aware Recommendation Dialogue System: An Empirical Investigation,
in Proceedings of RECSYS 2021 Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational
Recommender System, Amsterdam, September 27 to October 1, 2021.
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Graph-Structured
Context Understanding for Knowledge-grounded Response Generation, in
Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and
Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2021), July 11-15, 2021,
pp1930-1934.
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POLYU at
TREC 2020 Conversational Assistant Track: Query Reformulation with Heuristic
Topic Phrases Discovery, in Proceedings of
TREC'2020.
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Fact-level Extractive Summarization with Hierarchical
Graph Mask on BERT, in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference
on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2020), December 8-11, 2020, Barcelona, Spain.
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Reinforcement
Learning based Recommendation with Graph Convolutional Q-network, in
Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and
Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2020),
July 25-30, 2020, Xi'an, China.
2019
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Neighborhood Interaction Attention Network for Link
Prediction, in Proceedings of the 28th ACM International
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2019), Beijing, China,
November 3-7, 2019, pp2153-2156.
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Knowledge Graph
Convolutional Networks for Recommender Systems with Label Smoothness
Regularization, in Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'2019),
Alaska, USA, August 4-8, 2019, pp968-977.
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Jointly
Learning Semantic Parser and Generator via Dual Information Maximization,
in Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2019), Florence, Italy, July 28-August 2, 2019, pp2090-2101.
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Hierarchical
Diffusion Attention Network, in Proceedings of the 28th International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'2019),
Macao, China, August 10-16, 2019, pp3828-3834.
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Social Attentive Deep
Q-network for Recommendation, in Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference
on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2019), Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019,
pp1189-1192.
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Multi-Task
Feature Learning for Knowledge Graph Enhanced Recommendation, in
Proceedings of the Web Conference 2019 (WWW'2019), San Francisco, CA, USA, May
13-17, 2019, pp2000-2010.
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Knowledge
Graph Convolutional Networks for Recommender Systems, in Proceedings of the
Web Conference 2019 (WWW'2019), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 13-17, 2019,
pp3307-3313.
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Meta-path
Augmented Response Generation, in Proceedings of the 33rd AAAI Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2019), Hawaii, USA, January 29-31, 2019,
pp9971-9972.
2018
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Nexus
Network: Connecting the Preceding and the Following in Dialogue Generation,
in Proceedings of 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP'2018), Brussels, Belgium, October 31 - November 4 2018,
pp4316-4327.
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Variational
Autoregressive Decoder for Neural Response Generation, in Proceedings of
2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP'2018), Brussels, Belgium, October 31 - November 4 2018, pp3154-3163.
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A
Sequential Neural Information Diffusion Model with Structure Attention, in
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management (CIKM'2018), Turin, Italy, October 22-26, 2018,
pp1795-1798.
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Variational
Recurrent Model for Session-based Recommendation, in Proceedings of the
27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM'2018), Turin, Italy, October 22-26, 2018, pp1839-1842.
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Ripple Network: Propagating
User Preferences on the Knowledge Graph for Recommender Systems, in
Proceedings of the 27th ACM
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2018), Turin, Italy, October 22-26, 2018,
pp417-426.
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Retrieve,
Rerank and Rewrite: Soft Template Neural
Summarization, in Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2018), Melbourne, Australia, July 15-20,
2018.
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Unpaired
Sentiment-to-Sentiment Translation Using Cycled Reinforcement Learning, in
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2018), Melbourne, Australia, July 15-20, 2018.
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Query
and Output: Generating Words by Querying Distributed Word Representations for
Paraphrase Generation, in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human
Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT'2018), Louisiana, USA, June 1-6, 2018.
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Attention Network for
Information Diffusion Prediction, in Proceedings of the 27th International
Conference on World Wide Web, The Web Conference (WWW'2018), Lyon, France,
April 23-27, 2018, pp65-66.
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Modeling
Scientific Influence for Research Trending Topic Prediction, in Proceedings
of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2018), New
Orleans, USA, February 2-7, 2018.
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Faithful
to the Original: Fact Aware Neural Abstractive Summarization, in
Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2018),
New Orleans, USA, February 2-7, 2018.
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Deep Representation
Decoupling Neural Networks for Monaural Music Mixture Separation, in
Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2018),
New Orleans, USA, February 2-7, 2018.
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Dialogue
Generation with GAN, in Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2018), New Orleans, USA, February 2-7, 2018.
2017
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DailyDialog: A Manually Labeled Multi-turn Dialogue Dataset,
in Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language
Processing (IJCNLP'2017), Taiwan, November-December 1, 2017, pp986-995.
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Modeling Language
Discrepancy for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis, in Proceedings of the
26th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM'2017), Singapore, November 6-10, 2017, pp117-126.
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Alternating
Pointwise-Pairwise Learning for Personalized Item Ranking, in Proceedings
of the 26th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM'2017), Singapore, November 6-10, 2017, pp2155-2158.
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Modeling
Opinion Influence with User Dual Identity, in Proceedings of the 26th
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2017),
Singapore, November 6-10, 2017, pp2019-2022.
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Predictive
Network Representation Learning for Link Prediction, in Proceedings of the
40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2017), Tokyo, Japan. August 7-11, 2017, pp969-972.
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Neural
Network based Reinforcement Learning for Real-time Pushing on Text Stream,
in Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and
Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2017), Tokyo, Japan. August 7-11,
2017, pp913-916.
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A
Conditional Variational Framework for Dialog Generation, in Proceedings of the 55th
annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2017), Vancouver, Canada,
July 30 - August 4, 2017, pp504-509.
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Improving
Semantic Relevance for Chinese Social Media Text Summarization, in
Proceedings of the 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL'2017), Vancouver, Canada, July 30 - August 4, 2017, pp635-640.
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Determining
Gains Acquired from Word Embedding Quantitatively using Discrete Distribution
Clustering, in Proceedings of the 55th annual meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL'2017), Vancouver,
Canada, July 30 - August 4, 2017,
pp1847-1856.
o
Mode Regularized Generative
Adversarial Networks, in Proceedings of
the 5th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'2017), Toulon, France, April 24 - 26, 2017.
o
Cross-lingual
Sentiment Relation Capturing for Cross-lingual Sentiment Analysis, in Proceedings of the 39th European Conference on Information
Retrieval (ECIR'2017), Scotland
UK, April 8-13, 2017, pp54-67.
o
A
Part-of-Speech Enhanced Neural Conversation Model, in Proceedings
of the 39th European Conference on
Information Retrieval (ECIR'2017),
Scotland UK, April 8-13, 2017, pp173-185.
o
Improving
Multi-Document Summarization via Text Classification, in Proceedings of the
31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2017), San Francisco,
California, February 4-9, 2017, pp3053-3059.
o
Joint
Copying and Restricted Generation for Paraphrase, in Proceedings of the
31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2017), San Francisco,
California, February 4-9, 2017, pp3152-3158.
2016
o
AttSum:
Joint Learning of Focusing and Summarization with Neural Attention, in
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
(COLING'2016), Osaka, Japan, December 11-16, 2016, pp547-556.
o
Content-based
Influence Modeling for Opinion Behavior Prediction, in Proceedings of the
26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2016),
Osaka, Japan, December 11-16, 2016, pp2207-2216.
o
Emotion
Corpus Construction Based on Selection from Hashtags, in Proceedings of the
10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'16), Portorož, Slovenia, May 23-28, 2016, pp1845-1849.
o
PolyU at CL-SciSumm, in
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information
Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL'16),
Newark, USA, June 23, 2016, pp132-138.
o
TGSUM:
Build Tweet Guided Multi-Document Summarization Dataset, in Proceedings of
the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2016), Arizona USA,
February 12-17, 2016, pp 2906-2912.
o
Iterative
Project Quasi-Newton Algorithm for Training RBM, in Proceedings of the 30th
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2016), Arizona USA, February
12-17, 2016, pp4236-4237.
Journal Publications in the Past 5 Years
2026
o
Is Multimodal Conversational Emotion Recognition
Satisfactory? Exploring the Gaps in Performance, Generalization, and
Confidence, accepted by Pattern Recognition, January 12, 2026.
o
Multi-Task Mutual Learning Enhanced for Multimodal
Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations,
Information Fusion, 27B, No. 103877, March, 2026.
2025
o
Adaptive Sparse Softmax: An Effective and
Efficient Softmax Variant, IEEE
Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), 33:3148-3159,
July, 2025.
o
Enhancing Narrative Commonsense Reasoning with Multi-Level Causal
Knowledge, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning
Systems (TNNLS), 36(3):5601-5613, March, 2025.
2024
o
JobFormer:
Skill-Aware Job Recommendation with Semantic-Enhanced Transformer, ACM
Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 19(1), No.18, December,
2024.
o
SelfCP: Compressing Over-Limit Prompt via the Frozen Large Language Model
Itself, Information Processing and Management (IPM), 61(6),
No. 103873, November, 2024.
o
A
Target-driven Planning Approach for Goal-oriented Dialogue Systems, IEEE
Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS),
35(8):10475-10487, August, 2024.
o
Dialogue Acts Enhanced Extract-Abstract
Framework for Meeting Summarization, Information
Processing and Management, 61(3), No. 103635, May, 2024.
o
Target-constrained
Bidirectional Planning for Goal-driven Dialogue Generation,
accepted by ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), March 7, 2024.
o
Alignment Efficient Image-Sentence
Retrieval Considering Transferable Cross-Modal Representation Learning,
Frontiers of Computer Science, 18(1), No. 181335, 2024.
2023
o
Alignment Efficient Image-Sentence Retrieval
Considering Transferable Cross-Modal Representation Learning, Frontiers of
Computer Science, 18(1), No. 181335, September, 2023.
o
Contextualized
Knowledge Graph Embedding for Explainable Talent Training Course Recommendation, ACM
Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 42(2), No. 33, September, 2023.
o
Generative
Retrieval for Conversational Question Answering, Information Processing and
Management, 60(5), No. 103475, September, 2023.
o
Geo-Tile2Vec:
A Multi-Modal and Multi-Stage Embedding Framework for Urban Analytics, ACM
Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, 9(2) No. 10, April 2023
2022
o
Mutually
Reinforced Network Embedding: An Integrated Approach to Research Paper
Recommendation, Expert Systems with Applications, 204, No. 117616, October
2022.
o
Social
Attentive Deep Q-networks for Recommender Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 34(5): 2443-2457, May 2022.
o
Joint
Learning of User Representation with Diffusion Sequence and Network Structure,
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 34(3):1275-1287,
March 2022.
o
Dynamic Graph Reasoning for Conversational
Open-domain Question Answering, ACM Transactions
on Information Systems (TOIS), 40(4), No. 821, January 2022.
o
Hierarchical
Prediction and Adversarial Learning for Conditional Response Generation, IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 34(1):314-327, January
2022.
2021
o
Empathetic Response Generation through
Graph-based Multi-hop Reasoning on Emotional Causality,
Knowledge-based Systems (KBS), 233(5), 107547, December 2021.
o
Hierarchical Attention Link Prediction
Neural Network, Knowledge-based Systems (KBS), 232(28), 107431,
November 2021.
o
Neighborhood Attention Networks with Adversarial Learning for
Link Prediction, Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and
Learning Systems (TNNLS), 32(8):3653-3663, August 2021.
o
Learning
Graph Representation with Generative Adversarial Nets, IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 33(8):3090-3103, August
2021.
o
Affective Awareness in Neural Sentiment
Analysis, Knowledge-based Systems (KBS), 226(17), No. 107137,
August 2021.
o
Lexical
Data Augmentation for Sentiment Analysis, Journal of the Association for
Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 72(11):1432-1447, June, 2021.
2020
o
Tracking Dynamics
of Opinion Behaviors with Content-based Sequential Opinion Influence Model,
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC), 11(4):627-639, October, 2020.
o
Visual-Textual
Emotion Analysis with Deep Coupled Video and Danmu
Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 22(6):1634-1646,
June 2020.
o
Joint
Model of Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction with Self-attention
Mechanism, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
(TALIP), 19(4), No. 59, May 2020.
