Papers by Jiawen Xie
LOHRec: Leveraging Order and Hierarchy in Generative Sequential Recommendation (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | generative recommenders focus on maximizing the prediction probability of the next item in the temporal sequence, ignoring diverse potential items. |
| Approach: | They propose a learning framework that leverages order and hierarchy in generative recommendation using quantized identifiers to further explore performance ceiling of lightweight generative recommenders. |
| Outcome: | The proposed learning framework outperforms strong prior baselines across multiple datasets. |
Alleviating Exposure Bias via Multi-level Contrastive Learning and Deviation Simulation in Abstractive Summarization (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Abstractive summarization systems have a severe mismatch between training and inference, i.e., exposure bias. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-level contrastive learning framework for abstractive summarization and a tailored sparse decoder self-attention pattern to bridge the gap between training and inference. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art models on two summarization datasets while adding relatively low overhead. |
Chunk, Align, Select: A Simple Long-sequence Processing Method for Transformers (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing transformer-based models struggle with long-sequence processing due to computational costs . a framework to enhance long-content processing of transformers is proposed . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to enhance long-sequence processing of transformers by three steps . they demonstrate that the framework significantly outperforms prior long-quence processors . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline models on long-sequence summarization and reading comprehension tasks. |
GECSum: Generative Evaluation-Driven Sequence Level Contrastive Learning for Abstractive Summarization (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Abstractive summarization is a technique in natural language processing that involves generating a summary of a source document by creating new sentences and phrases. |
| Approach: | They propose a sequence-level contrastive learning framework that leverages the semantic understanding capabilities of the abstractive model itself to evaluate summary in reference-based settings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art in four summarization datasets. |