Papers by Felix Zhang
Interactive Text Generation (2023.emnlp-main)
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Felix Faltings, Michel Galley, Kianté Brantley, Baolin Peng, Weixin Cai, Yizhe Zhang, Jianfeng Gao, Bill Dolan
| Challenge: | Advances in generative modeling have made it possible to automatically generate high-quality texts, code, and images, but they can be unsatisfactory in many respects. |
| Approach: | They propose a task that allows training generation models interactively without the costs of involving real users. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model trains with Imitation Learning without the cost of involving real users and is superior to non-interactive models. |
PaperMentor: A Human-Centered Multi-Agent Writing Tutor for AI Research Papers in Overleaf (2026.acl-demo)
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Jiarui Liu, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Ryan Faulkner, Xuanqiang Angelo Huang, Vilém Zouhar, Dominik Glandorf, Isabel Dahlgren, Rishit Dagli, Yuen Chen, Felix Leeb, Van Q. Truong, Punya Syon Pandey, Yves Bicker, Suvajit Majumder, Wenyuan Jiang, Zeju Qiu, Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Mrinmaya Sachan, Bernhard Schölkopf, Mona T. Diab, Zhijing Jin
| Challenge: | Emerging AI-powered writing assistants focus on grammar fixes or simulating peer review with final scores, yet they fall short of providing concrete, actionable suggestions that help students improve their papers during drafting. |
| Approach: | They propose a human-centered writing assistant system that delivers actionable suggestions as Overleaf-native inline comments while leaving the actual writing entirely to human authors. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms a baseline with the skill library and provides actionable suggestions while leaving the actual writing to human authors. |
Harnessing Black-Box Control to Boost Commonsense in LM’s Generation (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent years have seen remarkable progress in massively Pre-Trained Language Models such as GPT-3 . however, their generated outputs lack commonsense at times . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that steers a frozen Pre-Trained Language Model towards more commonsense generation by training an auxiliary model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework produces plausible outputs that incorporate concepts in a meaningful way. |
Long-Form Speech Translation through Segmentation with Finite-State Decoding Constraints on Large Language Models (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | a challenge in speech translation is that plenty of spoken content is long-form, but short units are necessary for obtaining high-quality translations. |
| Approach: | They propose a large language model to split long ASR transcripts into segments that can be independently translated to maximize translation quality. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves the average BLEU by 2.9 points for English–German, English–Spanish, and English–Arabic TED talk translation in 9 sets. |
INDUS: Effective and Efficient Language Models for Scientific Applications (2024.emnlp-industry)
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Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Aashka Trivedi, Masayasu Muraoka, Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian, Takuma Udagawa, Iksha Gurung, Nishan Pantha, Rong Zhang, Bharath Dandala, Rahul Ramachandran, Manil Maskey, Kaylin Bugbee, Michael Little, Elizabeth Fancher, Irina Gerasimov, Armin Mehrabian, Lauren Sanders, Sylvain Costes, Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma, Kelly Lockhart, Thomas Allen, Felix Grezes, Megan Ansdell, Alberto Accomazzi, Yousef El-Kurdi, Davis Wertheimer, Birgit Pfitzmann, Cesar Berrospi Ramis, Michele Dolfi, Rafael Lima, Panagiotis Vagenas, S. Mukkavilli, Peter Staar, Sanaz Vahidinia, Ryan McGranaghan, Tsengdar Lee
| Challenge: | Large language models trained on general domain corpora showed remarkable results on natural language processing tasks. |
| Approach: | They develop a suite of large language models trained on general domain corpora that address NLP tasks and smaller versions of them created using knowledge distillation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform general-purpose and domain-specific encoders on new and existing tasks and in industrial settings. |
Efficient Universal Goal Hijacking with Semantics-guided Prompt Organization (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for prompt injection have focused on optimizing the suffix, overlooking the role of the prompt. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that incorporates an efficient optimization algorithm and two semantics-guided prompt organization strategies to optimize the suffix sequence for universal goal hijacking. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can generate a fixed suffix that can concatenate to arbitrary user prompts for universal goal hijacking. |