Papers by Hongwei Du
RESIN-11: Schema-guided Event Prediction for 11 Newsworthy Scenarios (2022.naacl-demo)
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Xinya Du, Zixuan Zhang, Sha Li, Pengfei Yu, Hongwei Wang, Tuan Lai, Xudong Lin, Ziqi Wang, Iris Liu, Ben Zhou, Haoyang Wen, Manling Li, Darryl Hannan, Jie Lei, Hyounghun Kim, Rotem Dror, Haoyu Wang, Michael Regan, Qi Zeng, Qing Lyu, Charles Yu, Carl Edwards, Xiaomeng Jin, Yizhu Jiao, Ghazaleh Kazeminejad, Zhenhailong Wang, Chris Callison-Burch, Mohit Bansal, Carl Vondrick, Jiawei Han, Dan Roth, Shih-Fu Chang, Martha Palmer, Heng Ji
| Challenge: | Existing methods for event prediction are incomplete and noisy. |
| Approach: | They propose to use news-related event schemas to extract newsworthy events . they build a demo website and include a video demonstrating the framework . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can be applied to a wide variety of newsworthy scenarios. |
SLIM: Let LLM Learn More and Forget Less with Soft LoRA and Identity Mixture (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | balancing the training budget, downstream performance, and general capabilities of large language models remains a challenge in many applications. |
| Approach: | They propose a mixture of expert framework based on Soft LoRA and Identity Mixture . SLIM allows dynamic routing between LoRA adapters and identity layers . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces training cost while maintaining general capabilities . it can be open-sourced upon publication. |
MIRAGE: Exploring How Large Language Models Perform in Complex Social Interactive Environments (2025.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in environmental perception, reasoning-based decision-making, and simulating complex human behaviors, particularly in interactive role-playing contexts. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to assess LLMs' proficiency in portraying advanced human behaviors through murder mystery games using eight intricately crafted scripts. |
| Outcome: | The framework evaluates LLMs' performance in portraying advanced human behaviors through murder mystery games. |
Building the Directed Semantic Graph for Coherent Long Text Generation (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for conditional long text generation ignore the coherence issue of the generated texts. |
| Approach: | They propose a two-stage approach to generate coherent long text based on short input text . they first build a document-level path for each output text with each sentence embedding as its node . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach is superior to state-of-the-art approaches on three real-world datasets. |