Papers by Jingzhou Liu

6 papers
Distilling Knowledge Learned in BERT for Text Generation (2020.acl-main)

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Challenge: Large-scale pre-trained language models such as BERT have revolutionized the state of the art in many language understanding tasks.
Approach: They propose a conditional masked language modeling approach to fine tune BERT on target generation tasks by imposing global sequence-level supervision on conventional Seq2Seq models.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms strong Transformer baselines on multiple language generation tasks such as machine translation and text summarization.
MoE Adapter for Large Audio Language Models: Sparsity, Disentanglement, and Gradient-Conflict-Free (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing research on Large Language Models (LLMs) limited to textual input modality . acoustic information is intrinsically heterogeneous, entangling attributes such as speech, music, and environmental context.
Approach: They propose a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture to decouple acoustic information by routing audio tokens to specialized experts.
Outcome: The proposed architecture outperforms existing models on audio semantic and paralinguistic tasks while retaining shared experts for global context.
COFFEE: Counterfactual Fairness for Personalized Text Generation in Explainable Recommendation (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Personalized text generation (PTG) is a key component of our digital lives but can inadvertently associate different levels of linguistic quality with users’ protected attributes.
Approach: They propose a framework to achieve measure-specific counterfactual fairness in explanation generation by focusing on one of the most studied settings: generating natural language explanations for recommendations.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves measure-specific counterfactual fairness in explanation generation.
Taming Text-to-Image Synthesis for Novices: User-centric Prompt Generation via Multi-turn Guidance (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing solutions for text-to-image synthesis are sensitive on textual prompts, posing a challenge for novice users.
Approach: They propose a dialogue-based TIS prompt generation model that emphasizes user experience for novice users.
Outcome: The proposed model emphasizes user experience for novice users . it improves user-centricity score while maintaining a competitive quality of synthesized images.
Stack-Pointer Networks for Dependency Parsing (P18-1)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to dependency parsing are local and greedy transitionbased . StackPtr parsers use the information of whole sentences and previously derived subtree structures .
Approach: They propose a stack-pointer network-based dependency parser that reads whole sentence and builds dependency tree top-down in a depth-first fashion.
Outcome: The proposed model reads and encodes whole sentence, then builds dependency tree top-down (from root-to-leaf) in a depth-first fashion.

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