Papers by Jenq-Neng Hwang
Bayesian Optimization for Controlled Image Editing via LLMs (2025.findings-acl)
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Chengkun Cai, Haoliang Liu, Xu Zhao, Zhongyu Jiang, Tianfang Zhang, Zongkai Wu, John Lee, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Lei Li
| Challenge: | achieving precise control over generated content and maintaining semantic consistency remain significant limitations, particularly concerning grounding techniques and the necessity for model fine-tuning. |
| Approach: | They propose an off-the-shelf approach that integrates Large Language Models with Bayesian Optimization to facilitate precise and user-friendly image editing. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing methods in editing accuracy and semantic preservation, as validated using different LLMs including Claude3 and GPT-4. |
The Role of Deductive and Inductive Reasoning in Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)
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Chengkun Cai, Xu Zhao, Haoliang Liu, Zhongyu Jiang, Tianfang Zhang, Zongkai Wu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Lei Li
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in reasoning tasks, yet their reliability in problem-solving remains debatable. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates both deductive and inductive reasoning approaches to enhance LLM reasoning by progressively adapting its reasoning pathways based on problem complexity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves 70.3% accuracy on AIW, compared to 62.2% for Tree of Thought, while maintaining lower computational costs. |
Attention Consistency for LLMs Explanation (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing interpretability methods face limitations such as low resolution and high computational cost. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-layer attention consistency score to estimate the importance of input tokens in large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed heuristic achieves a favorable trade-off between interpretability quality and computational efficiency . |
BCL: Bayesian In-Context Learning Framework for Information Extraction (2026.findings-acl)
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Haoliang Liu, Chengkun Cai, Xu Zhao, Han Zhu, Shizhou Huang, Xinglin Zhang, Tao Chen, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Zhang Huaping, Lei Li
| Challenge: | Existing information extraction (IE) tasks rely on in-context learning with large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a Bayesian-based in-context learning framework that refines label representations across IE tasks using particle filtering and Bayes updates. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves performance over existing methods (up to 30%) it underperforms one-shot prompting by a substantial margin on NER tasks and CodeIE fails on RE tasks with near-zero micro-F1. |
PAMN: Multi-phase Correlation Modeling for Contrast-Enhanced 3D Medical Image Retrieval (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Current 3D medical imaging models focus on spatial features, neglecting phase-specific progression detailed in clinical reports. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that fuses imaging phases with clinical text to enhance 3D medical image retrieval. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art models on a phase-series dataset of 12,230 hospital CT scans. |