Papers by Jun Xie
MoNMT: Modularly Leveraging Monolingual and Bilingual Knowledge for Neural Machine Translation (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing models for multi-domain translation tasks only use monolingual data, whereas bilingual data is indispensable for improving the models. |
| Approach: | They propose a modular strategy that facilitates the cooperation of monolingual and bilingual knowledge in translation tasks by avoiding catastrophic forgetting. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model exhibits superior generalization and robustness over the conventional approach. |
Fantastic Expressions and Where to Find Them: Chinese Simile Generation with Multiple Constraints (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing attempts to generate similes as context-free tasks are not suitable for simile generation . however, simile generated under such settings might be undesirable, we argue . |
| Approach: | They propose a model to generate a simile with multiple simile elements . they propose to use a vehicle retrieval module to obtain the explicable comparison . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate a simile with multiple simile elements, e.g., context and vehicle. |
Context-Interactive Pre-Training for Document Machine Translation (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Document machine translation typically suffers from a lack of document-level bilingual data. |
| Approach: | They propose a document machine translation model that incorporates contextual information into the training signals by capturing cross-sentence dependency within the target document and cross sentence translation to make better use of contextual information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baselines on three benchmark datasets and significantly outperformed previous approaches. |
Improving Event Detection via Open-domain Trigger Knowledge (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for event detecting are prone to overfitting densely labeled trigger words due to the small scale of training data. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel Enrichment Knowledge Distillation model to leverage external open-domain trigger knowledge to reduce in-built biases to frequent trigger words in annotations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms nine strong baselines and is especially effective for unseen/sparsely labeled trigger words. |
Legal Mathematical Reasoning with LLMs: Procedural Alignment through Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing legal mathematical reasoning models lack structured numerical reasoning . existing models perform poorly on LexNum, while LexPam improves both mathematical accuracy and legal coherence. |
| Approach: | They propose a legal mathematical reasoning benchmark LexNum and LexPam to address this problem . LexPam is a two-stage reinforcement learning framework for efficient legal reasoning training. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves mathematical accuracy and legal coherence . it also improves legal cohesion and generalizes effectively across tasks and domains. |
Named Entity Recognition via Noise Aware Training Mechanism with Data Filter (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for named entity recognition (NER) do not distinguish noisy from hard samples. |
| Approach: | They propose a noise-aware-with-filter method to help model identify noisy samples . they propose 'incomplete trust' loss function which boosts L CRF with a robust term . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the existing methods on six real-world Chinese and English NER datasets. |
Tailoring Vaccine Messaging with Common-Ground Opinions (2024.findings-naacl)
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Rickard Stureborg, Sanxing Chen, Roy Xie, Aayushi Patel, Christopher Li, Chloe Zhu, Tingnan Hu, Jun Yang, Bhuwan Dhingra
| Challenge: | Vaccine interventions aim to answer concerns expressed about vaccination. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset to evaluate how well responses are tailored to a common-ground opinion . they find that GPT-4-Turbo performs significantly better than others . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset outperforms fine tuned LLMs on the task of tailoring vaccine responses to common-ground opinions. |
Emotion Classification by Jointly Learning to Lexiconize and Classify (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to identify emotions in short text are limited and lack coverage and inaccuracies when applied to informal short text. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel emotional network to jointly learn sentence emotions and construct emotion lexicons which are dynamically adapted to a given context. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms several approaches proposed in previous studies and achieves new state-of-the-art on the benchmark Twitter dataset. |
FedED: Federated Learning via Ensemble Distillation for Medical Relation Extraction (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing relation extraction methods require centralizing training data from different medical platforms while holding the privacy-sensitive data puts patients' privacy at risk. |
| Approach: | They propose a federated relation extraction model that trains a central model without sharing or exchange of private local data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model trains a central model without uploading local parameters, and it performs well on three publicly available datasets. |
WR-One2Set: Towards Well-Calibrated Keyphrase Generation (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Experimental results show that keyphrase generation has serious calibration errors . ONE2SET generates short phrases summarizing an input document . |
| Approach: | They propose a paradigm for keyphrase generation that generates short phrases summarizing an input document. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model over-estimates tokens and makes it well-calibrated on common datasets. |
Unifying Discrete and Continuous Representations for Unsupervised Paraphrase Generation (2023.emnlp-main)
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Mingfeng Xue, Dayiheng Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Jie Fu, Jian Lan, Mei Li, Baosong Yang, Jun Xie, Yidan Zhang, Dezhong Peng, Jiancheng Lv
| Challenge: | Existing unsupervised paraphrase generation methods require large-scale, manually annotated paraphrase datasets, which are labor-intensive to build. |
| Approach: | They propose a self-supervised pseudo-data construction method that generates diverse pseudo-paraphrases in distinct surface structures for a given sentence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method generates diverse pseudo-paraphrases in distinct surface structures for a given sentence. |
Large Language Model for Multi-Domain Translation: Benchmarking and Domain CoT Fine-tuning (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Achieving consistent high-quality machine translation across diverse domains remains a challenge due to limited and imbalanced parallel training data available in various domains. |
| Approach: | They propose a domain Chain of Thought technique that uses the multi-domain intelligence of LLMs to improve translation performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves significant improvements in translation accuracy and domain robustness over traditional fine-tuning on a small dataset of four domains. |
CLUE: A Chinese Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark (2020.coling-main)
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Liang Xu, Hai Hu, Xuanwei Zhang, Lu Li, Chenjie Cao, Yudong Li, Yechen Xu, Kai Sun, Dian Yu, Cong Yu, Yin Tian, Qianqian Dong, Weitang Liu, Bo Shi, Yiming Cui, Junyi Li, Jun Zeng, Rongzhao Wang, Weijian Xie, Yanting Li, Yina Patterson, Zuoyu Tian, Yiwen Zhang, He Zhou, Shaoweihua Liu, Zhe Zhao, Qipeng Zhao, Cong Yue, Xinrui Zhang, Zhengliang Yang, Kyle Richardson, Zhenzhong Lan
| Challenge: | Existing language evaluation benchmarks for English are limited to English . lack of such benchmarks makes it difficult to replicate success in other languages . |
| Approach: | They introduce a large-scale Chinese language understanding evaluation benchmark . the benchmark uses a set of current state-of-the-art pre-trained Chinese models . |
| Outcome: | The first large-scale Chinese Language Understanding Evaluation (CLUE) benchmark is released . the benchmark evaluates models across a wide range of tasks on original Chinese text . existing language evaluation benchmarks are mostly limited to English . |
Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation with Word-Level Domain Context Discrimination (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Experimental results on Chinese-English and English-French multi-domain translation tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. |
| Approach: | They propose to use mixed-domain parallel sentences to construct a unified model that allows translation to switch between different domains. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model distinguishes and exploits word-level domain contexts on Chinese-English and English-French translation tasks. |
ZhuJiu: A Multi-dimensional, Multi-faceted Chinese Benchmark for Large Language Models (2023.emnlp-demo)
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Baoli Zhang, Haining Xie, Pengfan Du, Junhao Chen, Pengfei Cao, Yubo Chen, Shengping Liu, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao
| Challenge: | Various types of LLMs have recently been rapidly developing, such as Llama2 and ChatGLM2 . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark that comprehensively evaluates LLMs across 7 ability dimensions covering 51 tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks are comprehensive and systematic, with a high level of accuracy and authority. |
Multi-Granularity Contrasting for Cross-Lingual Pre-Training (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to pre-training focus on embedding alignment, but they neglect the modeling of bidirectional contexts. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to learn languageuniversal representations using multi-granularity contrasting framework . they encode semantic equivalents from different languages into similar representations . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can achieve significant performance gains in machine translation and cross-lingual language understanding. |
A Reinforced Generation of Adversarial Examples for Neural Machine Translation (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Neural machine translation systems fail on less decent inputs, which may harm the credibility of these systems. |
| Approach: | They propose a paradigm that generates adversarial examples using reinforcement learning to expose pitfalls for a given performance metric. |
| Outcome: | The proposed paradigm produces stable attacks with meaning-preserving adversarial examples. |
Improving Neural Machine Translation by Multi-Knowledge Integration with Prompting (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods focus on how to integrate multiple types of knowledge into NMT models . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates multiple types of knowledge into NMT models . they use multiple types as prefix-prompts of input for the encoder and decoder . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baselines on English-Chinese and English-German translation. |
Unsupervised Preference-Aware Language Identification (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies do not consider inter-personal variations due to the lack of user annotated training data. |
| Approach: | They propose to use user preferences to identify ambiguous texts in multilingual applications without user annotated training data to build a preference-aware LID model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model significantly outperforms existing LID systems on handling ambiguous texts. |
Beyond Rejection Sampling: Trajectory Fusion for Scaling Mathematical Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned using rejection sampling retain only correct reasoning trajectories . however, this paradigm treats supervision as a binary filter that systematically excludes teacher-generated errors, leaving a gap in how reasoning failures are modeled during training. |
| Approach: | They propose a fine-tuning strategy that reframes rejection sampling as a structured supervision construction process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms RFT on multiple math benchmarks while retaining only correct reasoning trajectories. |
Dagger Behind Smile: Fool LLMs with a Happy Ending Story (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have attracted significant attention from jailbreak attacks . existing manual designs are either easily detectable or require intricate interactions with LLMs. |
| Approach: | They propose a happy ending attack that wraps up a malicious request in a scenario template . |
| Outcome: | The proposed attack wraps up a malicious request in a scenario template involving a positive prompt formed mainly via a happy ending, fooling LLMs into jailbreaking either immediately or at a follow-up malicious request. |
Long Chain-of-Thought Fine-tuning via Understanding-to-Reasoning Transition (2025.emnlp-main)
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Chenxin An, Zhihui Xie, Xiaonan Li, Ming Zhong, Shansan Gong, Lei Li, Jun Zhang, Jingjing Xu, Lingpeng Kong
| Challenge: | Existing research on long-context scaling in language models has focused on managing lengthy input prompts instead of producing long outputs. |
| Approach: | They propose a sequence-level curriculum learning framework that shifts a model’s focus from interpreting long chain-of-thoughts to generating them. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on rigorous reasoning benchmarks, including AIME24 and GPQA Diamond, show that the proposed approach surpasses standard fine-tuning by over 10% while maintaining robust performance on understanding tasks. |
Towards Linear Time Neural Machine Translation with Capsule Networks (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an endto-end learning approach to machine translation. |
| Approach: | They propose a capsule network with dynamic routing for linear time Neural Machine Translation . they map the source sentence into a matrix with pre-determined size and apply a deep LSTM network to decode the target sequence from the source representation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed network achieves comparable results with the Transformer system on English-German and English-French tasks. |
Leveraging AMR Graph Structure for Better Sequence-to-Sequence AMR Parsing (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies on AMR parsing often regard this task as a seq2seq translation problem. |
| Approach: | They propose to translate AMR graphs into AMR token sequences in pre-processing and recover AMR from sequences after decoding. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms baseline and achieves 85.5 0.1 and 84.2 0.2 Smatch scores on AMR 2.0 and AMR 3.0. |
DaMo: Data Mixing Optimizer in Fine-tuning Multimodal LLMs for Mobile Phone Agents (2026.findings-acl)
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Kai Shi, Jun Yang, Ni Yang, Binqiang Pan, Qingsong Xie, null Zhangchao, Zhenyu Yang, Tianhuang Su, Haonan Lu
| Challenge: | Mobile Phone Agents (MPAs) have attracted huge attention due to their practicability in a multitude of scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a data mixture optimization solution that extrapolates optimal data mixtures from a trainable network. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing methods on open-source benchmarks and on open source benchmarks. |
Specificity-Driven Cascading Approach for Unsupervised Sentiment Modification (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for unsupervised sentiment modification lack specific information in text generated without parallel data . specificity-driven cascading approach can improve specificity of generated text and content preservation . |
| Approach: | They propose a specificity-driven cascading approach for unsupervised sentiment modification . the method performs target sentiment addition and content reconstruction independently . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms competitive systems by a large margin on Yelp and Amazon datasets. |
Tailor: A Soft-Prompt-Based Approach to Attribute-Based Controlled Text Generation (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing work focuses on generating sentences satisfying pre-specified attributes such as topic and sentiment, yet suffers from increases in storage and inference time. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses a pre-trained continuous vector to generate a fixed pre-trainable language model to satisfy a specified attribute. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can achieve improvements on eleven attribute-specific generation tasks with 0.08% extra training parameters. |
Bridging the Domain Gaps in Context Representations for k-Nearest Neighbor Neural Machine Translation (2023.acl-long)
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Zhiwei Cao, Baosong Yang, Huan Lin, Suhang Wu, Xiangpeng Wei, Dayiheng Liu, Jun Xie, Min Zhang, Jinsong Su
| Challenge: | Existing methods to improve k-Nearest neighbor machine translation (kNN-MT) are based on the ability to non-parametrically adapt to new domains. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to boost the datastore retrieval of k-Nearest neighbor machine translation by reconstructing the original datastore. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method boosts the retrieval and translation quality of k-Nearest neighbor machine translation by reconstructing the original datastore. |
Automatic Song Translation for Tonal Languages (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing automatic song translation systems for tonal languages do not match the number of notes and beat the original rhythm of the song. |
| Approach: | They propose three criteria for effective AST: preserving meaning, singability and intelligibility. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system balances semantics and singability with human evaluations. |
MMNMT: Modularizing Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Flexibly Assembled MoE and Dense Blocks (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) based sparse architectures are prone to overfitting on low-resource language translation. |
| Approach: | They propose a modularized MNMT framework that flexibly assembles dense and MoE-based sparse modules to achieve the best of both worlds. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing models on low-resource language translation and zero-shot translation on benchmark datasets. |
Bridging the Gap between Training and Inference: Multi-Candidate Optimization for Diverse Neural Machine Translation (2022.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing diverse NMT models lack translation diversity due to a discrepancy between training and inference . despite the success of diverse NTM, there is still a lack of translation diversity . |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-candidate optimization framework for diverse NMT to deal with this defect. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is transparent to basic diverse NMT models, and universally makes better trade-off between diversity and quality. |
LLaSE-G1: Incentivizing Generalization Capability for LLaMA-based Speech Enhancement (2025.acl-long)
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Boyi Kang, Xinfa Zhu, Zihan Zhang, Zhen Ye, Mingshuai Liu, Ziqian Wang, Yike Zhu, Guobin Ma, Jun Chen, Longshuai Xiao, Chao Weng, Wei Xue, Lei Xie
| Challenge: | Recent advances in language models have demonstrated strong capabilities in semantic understanding and contextual modeling. |
| Approach: | They propose a LLaMA-based language model that incentivizes generalization capabilities for speech enhancement. |
| Outcome: | The proposed language model outperforms prior task-specific discriminative and generative models in acoustic enhancement tasks. |
Dynamic Voting for Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models (2023.findings-emnlp)
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Mingfeng Xue, Dayiheng Liu, Wenqiang Lei, Xingzhang Ren, Baosong Yang, Jun Xie, Yidan Zhang, Dezhong Peng, Jiancheng Lv
| Challenge: | Multi-path voting methods generate multiple reasoning paths for each problem, causing factual errors and illusion generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-path voting technique that effectively reduces the number of reasoning paths during multi-path voting while preserving accuracies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms Self-consistency using 24.7% of the number of paths on the LetterConcat task. |
Competency-Aware Neural Machine Translation: Can Machine Translation Know its Own Translation Quality? (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Neural machine translation models are often criticized for failures that happen without competency awareness. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that extends conventional NMT with a self-estimator to translate a source sentence and estimate its competency. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method performs on translation tasks intact and on quality estimation tasks better than existing methods. |
What Have We Achieved on Text Summarization? (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for text summarization have been investigated, but there are still gaps between them and human professionals. |
| Approach: | They analyze 8 major sources of errors on 10 representative summarization models manually. |
| Outcome: | Aiming to gain more understanding of summarization systems with respect to their strengths and limitations on a fine-grained syntactic and semantic level, we use 8 major sources of errors on 10 representative summarizing models. |
Non-Parametric Domain Adaptation for End-to-End Speech Translation (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | End-to-end speech translation (E2E-ST) systems have received increasing attention due to its less error propagation, lower latency and fewer parameters. |
| Approach: | They propose a non-parametric method that leverages in-domain text translation corpus to achieve domain adaptation for E2E-ST systems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the existing in-domain fine-tuning strategies on the Europarl-ST benchmark. |
Language Modeling with Sparse Product of Sememe Experts (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing language modeling methods rely on large-scale text data to learn the sequential patterns of words. |
| Approach: | They propose to use sememes to represent the implicit semantics behind words for language modeling . they propose to employ sememe-driven language models to fine-grained semem-level semantics . |
| Outcome: | Experiments on language modeling and the downstream application of headline generation show the effectiveness of SDLM. |
Neural Machine Translation with Decoding History Enhanced Attention (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | Neural machine translation with source-side attention has been criticized for its poor memory performance. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a Decoding History Enhanced Attention mechanism to render NMT models better at selecting both source-side and target-side information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves by 0:9 BLEU on Chinese-English translation and the state-of-the-art on a larger task. |
Revealing the Deceptiveness of Knowledge Editing: A Mechanistic Analysis of Superficial Editing (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge editing algorithms are prone to generating original knowledge . despite the fact that many models achieve near-perfect performance, superficial editing remains a challenge . |
| Approach: | They propose to use "**superficial editing**" to describe the phenomenon . they investigate the internal mechanisms of the attention module and their corresponding left singular vectors . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can modify specific knowledge in a pretrained large language model while ensuring that unrelated knowledge remains unaffected. |
CBLUE: A Chinese Biomedical Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark (2022.acl-long)
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Ningyu Zhang, Mosha Chen, Zhen Bi, Xiaozhuan Liang, Lei Li, Xin Shang, Kangping Yin, Chuanqi Tan, Jian Xu, Fei Huang, Luo Si, Yuan Ni, Guotong Xie, Zhifang Sui, Baobao Chang, Hui Zong, Zheng Yuan, Linfeng Li, Jun Yan, Hongying Zan, Kunli Zhang, Buzhou Tang, Qingcai Chen
| Challenge: | a new benchmark for biomedical language understanding is being developed in Chinese . most benchmarks are limited to English, which makes it difficult to replicate success in other languages. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Chinese biomedical language understanding evaluation benchmarks to evaluate Chinese models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks show that the current models perform worse than the human ceiling. |
Rethinking Zero-shot Neural Machine Translation: From a Perspective of Latent Variables (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to achieve zero-shot translation suffer from spurious correlations between output language and language invariant semantics. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that denoizes the autoencoder objective based on pivot language into traditional training objective to improve translation accuracy on zero-shot directions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method eliminates spurious correlations and outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two benchmark machine translation datasets. |
Making the Best Use of Review Summary for Sentiment Analysis (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for sentiment analysis of user reviews are limited to a few examples. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchically-refined attention model that exploits the sentimental distribution of a review and its corresponding summary. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can make better use of user-written summaries for review sentiment analysis and is more effective compared to existing methods when the user summary is replaced with summary generated by an automatic summarization system. |
HumanLLM: Benchmarking and Improving LLM Anthropomorphism via Human Cognitive Patterns (2026.acl-long)
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Xintao Wang, Jian Yang, Weiyuan Li, Rui Xie, Jen-tse Huang, Jun Gao, Shuai Huang, Yueping Kang, Yuanli Guo, Hongwei Feng, Yanghua Xiao
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning and generation, serving as the foundation for advanced persona simulation and Role-Playing Language Agents (RPLAs). |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that treats psychological patterns as interacting causal forces and synthesizes 113 scenarios where 2-5 patterns reinforce, conflict, or modulate each other. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms Qwen3-32B on multi-pattern dynamics despite 4 fewer parameters. |
Towards Text-Image Interleaved Retrieval (2025.acl-long)
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Xin Zhang, Ziqi Dai, Yongqi Li, Yanzhao Zhang, Dingkun Long, Pengjun Xie, Meishan Zhang, Jun Yu, Wenjie Li, Min Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing multimodal information retrieval models rely on single-image inputs . current models use a dense retrieval paradigm, but this approach is not effective . |
| Approach: | They propose a text-image interleaved retrieval task where query and document are interleaves . they adapt off-the-shelf retrievers and build a dense baseline by interleaded multimodal large language model . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves significant improvements over the baseline by substantially fewer visual tokens. |
Non-Parametric Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | kNN-MT is a non-parametric method that uses nearest neighbor retrieval to translate out-of-domain sentences, rare words, etc. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that directly uses in-domain monolingual sentences to build an effective datastore for k-nearest-neighbor retrieval. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves translation accuracy with target-side monolingual data while achieving comparable performance with back-translation. |