Papers by Jiaping Zhang
Temporal Token Matters: Investigating and Interpreting the Consistency of Temporal Ordering in Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit notable deficiencies in temporal reasoning . phrasing changes can lead LLMs to produce inconsistent outputs . |
| Approach: | They investigate the mechanistic interpretability of temporal ordering within event temporal reasoning . they identify a sparse subset of attention heads that are causally responsible for reasoning outcomes . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms other models in a variety of tasks and is validated by intervention-based experiments. |
Gunrock: A Social Bot for Complex and Engaging Long Conversations (D19-3)
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Dian Yu, Michelle Cohn, Yi Mang Yang, Chun Yen Chen, Weiming Wen, Jiaping Zhang, Mingyang Zhou, Kevin Jesse, Austin Chau, Antara Bhowmick, Shreenath Iyer, Giritheja Sreenivasulu, Sam Davidson, Ashwin Bhandare, Zhou Yu
| Challenge: | Gunrock is a speech-based social chatbot that can be used to understand complex sentences and have in-depth conversations. |
| Approach: | They propose a system that allows users to understand complex sentences and have in-depth conversations in open domains. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system produces longer sentences, which are directly related to user engagement (e.g., ratings, number of turns). |