Papers by Ming Tang
DiffuSpec: Unlocking Diffusion Language Models for Speculative Decoding (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Autoregressive (AR) decoding in large language models is latency-bounded by strictly sequential token generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a diffusion-based drafter that proposes multi-token candidates and then verifies them in parallel by the target model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed drafter generates multi-token proposals in a single forward pass while remaining compatible with standard AR verifiers. |
WhiteningBERT: An Easy Unsupervised Sentence Embedding Approach (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Pre-trained language models perform well on learning sentence semantics when fine-tuned with supervised data. |
| Approach: | They conduct a thorough examination of pretrained model based unsupervised sentence embeddings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves on whitening-based vector normalization with less than 10 lines of code. |
R2A-TLS: Reflective Retrieval-Augmented Timeline Summarization with Causal-Semantic Integration (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods struggle to capture coherent event narratives due to fragmented descriptions . Existing approaches accumulate noise through iterative retrieval strategies that lack relevance evaluation. |
| Approach: | They propose a reflective retrieval-augmented timeline summarization with Causal-Semantic Intergration approach for open-domain timeline summarizing . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms the best prior published approaches. |
LCR-RAG: Enhancing Logical Consistency in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Neuro-symbolic Reinforcement Learning (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is widely used to ground large language models in external knowledge and improve factual accuracy. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates neuro-symbolic verification with reinforcement learning to optimize logical consistency. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms strong RAG baselines on hotpotQA, ASQA, and TriviaQA. |
AnRe: Analogical Replay for Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) are vital for event prediction, yet current methods face limitations. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free Analogical Replay reasoning framework that uses LLMs to extract historical contexts and generate analogical reasoning examples as contextual inputs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing training-free methods on four benchmarks. |
Multi-hop Reading Comprehension across Multiple Documents by Reasoning over Heterogeneous Graphs (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing models to tackle multi-hop reading comprehension (RC) are focusing on a single document or paragraph, but they lack the ability to do reasoning across multiple documents. |
| Approach: | They propose a heterogeneous document-entity graph with different types of nodes and edges to solve multi-hop RC problem. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can do reasoning over the proposed graph with nodes representation initialized with co-attention and self-attention based context encoders. |
Evidence-Aware Inferential Text Generation with Vector Quantised Variational AutoEncoder (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches for inferential text generation ignore context that is not explicitly provided . Existing models ignore background knowledge that provides crucial evidence to generate inferences . |
| Approach: | They propose an approach that automatically finds evidence for an event from a large text corpus and leverages it to guide the generation of inferential texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model generates inferential texts from a large text corpus and uses evidence to guide it. |
Experience-driven Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning for GUI Agents (2026.acl-long)
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Zhengxi Lu, Jiabo Ye, Fei Tang, Yongliang Shen, Haiyang Xu, Ziwei Zheng, Weiming Lu, Ming Yan, Fei Huang, Jun Xiao, Yueting Zhuang
| Challenge: | GUI agents have demonstrated remarkable progress in automating complex user interface interactions . training such agents for long-horizon tasks remains challenging due to limited rewards and prohibitive costs. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that leverages expert trajectories as environment experiences for on-policy multi-turn training. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves significant gains over the base model with 1K public trajectories as RL experiences . it achieves competitive performance against strong baselines such as UI-TARS-7B and GPT-4o . |
HSUGA: LLM-Enhanced Recommendation with Hierarchical Semantic Understanding and Group-Aware Alignment (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for enhancing sequential recommendation use long interaction sequences, but they lack the ability to extract user preferences from long sequences. |
| Approach: | They propose a plugin that integrates LLMs to infer user preferences from interaction sequences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed algorithms improve user semantic embedding extraction and utilization on three benchmark datasets. |
CoSQA: 20,000+ Web Queries for Code Search and Question Answering (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Using deep neural networks to find codes is difficult . we present a dataset that includes 20,604 labels for natural language queries and codes . |
| Approach: | They introduce a contrastive learning method to enhance text-code matching . they find that CoSQA improves the accuracy of code question answering by 5.1% . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the accuracy of code question answering by 5.1% and improves by 10.5% on a CodeBERT model. |
One-for-All Pruning: A Universal Model for Customized Compression of Large Language Models (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing pruning methods for large language models (LLMs) focus on achieving high compression rates while maintaining model performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a Univeral Model for Customized Compression (UniCuCo) which introduces a StratNet that learns to map arbitrary requests to their optimal pruning strategy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is 28 times faster than baselines in processing 64 requests, while maintaining comparable accuracy to baselines. |
Question Generation from SQL Queries Improves Neural Semantic Parsing (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Using question generation, we learn a semantic parser with 30% of the supervised training data. |
| Approach: | They propose to use question generation to learn a semantic parser with less supervised training data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the state-of-the-art model with less training data. |
LEMMA: Learning from Errors for MatheMatical Advancement in LLMs (2025.findings-acl)
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Zhuoshi Pan, Yu Li, Honglin Lin, Qizhi Pei, Zinan Tang, Wei Wu, Chenlin Ming, H. Vicky Zhao, Conghui He, Lijun Wu
| Challenge: | Existing approaches focus on improving the quality of correct training data, neglecting the value contained in error data, thereby hindering the model’s reflective ability. |
| Approach: | They propose to improve LLM's reasoning ability by learning from error data and a grounded mistake augmentation method to collect representative errors. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves significant performance improvements over other strong models with less than 90k data. |
Parameter-Efficient Tuning Makes a Good Classification Head (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | In recent years, pretrained models revolutionized the paradigm of natural language understanding . but the final-layer output of the backbone, i.e. the input of the classification head, will change greatly during finetuning . |
| Approach: | They propose to append a randomly initialized classification head after the pretrained backbone and finetune the whole model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed classification head can be replaced with the randomly initialized heads for a stable performance gain. |
GLM: General Language Model Pretraining with Autoregressive Blank Infilling (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing pretraining frameworks do not perform well for all tasks of three main categories, such as natural language understanding (NLU), unconditional generation, and conditional generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a general language model based on autoregressive blank infilling to address this challenge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms BERT, T5, and GPT on a wide range of tasks across NLU, conditional and unconditional generation tasks. |
MMRC: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Understanding Multimodal Large Language Model in Real-World Conversation (2025.acl-long)
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Haochen Xue, Feilong Tang, Ming Hu, Yexin Liu, Qidong Huang, Yulong Li, Chengzhi Liu, Zhongxing Xu, Chong Zhang, Chun-Mei Feng, Yutong Xie, Imran Razzak, Zongyuan Ge, Jionglong Su, Junjun He, Yu Qiao
| Challenge: | Existing multimodal large language models lack the ability to memorize, recall, and reason in sustained interactions. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal real-world conversation benchmark for evaluating open-ended abilities of multimodal large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks show that the models perform better in open-ended conversations. |
Asking Clarification Questions in Knowledge-Based Question Answering (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing clarification datasets with limited annotated examples do not address ambiguous phenomena. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset that allows users to ask clarification questions using open-domain examples. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves better performance than strong baselines and provides new challenges. |
Logic-Driven Context Extension and Data Augmentation for Logical Reasoning of Text (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for logical reasoning of text focus on contextual semantics while struggling to explicitly model the logical inference process. |
| Approach: | They propose a logic-driven context extension framework and a data-driven augmentation algorithm that uses contrastive learning to better capture logical information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods on two benchmark datasets, ReClor and LogiQA. |
From Implicit Graph Encoding to Explicit Evidence: A Training-Free LLM Framework for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)
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Guo Tang, Ke Cheng, Huiming Fan, Heng Chang, Wenxiang Zheng, Xianhao Ou, Junjia Xiang, Ming Liu, Yujun Zhou, Li Lanyu, Bing Qin
| Challenge: | Existing Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with implicit modality alignment and suboptimal graph linearization. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free, test-time adaptive framework that reframes TKG prediction as explicit evidence-driven reasoning. |
| Outcome: | ExE-LLM outperforms fully trained graph neural networks on four benchmarks . it achieves SOTA performance in inductive settings, significantly outperforming fully trained neural networks . |
SEEKR: Selective Attention-Guided Knowledge Retention for Continual Learning of Large Language Models (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods fail to fully exploit the knowledge embedded in models from previous tasks . Existing techniques fail to exploit the information embedded in previous tasks, resulting in a large number of replay samples to achieve good results. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses attention weights to extract knowledge from previous tasks . they use a data replay strategy to extract the knowledge from the previous tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves comparable or even better performance with only 1/10 of replayed data used by other methods. |
Visual Attention Reasoning via Hierarchical Search and Self-Verification (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often hallucinate due to fragile, linear reasoning and weak visual grounding. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that reformulates reasoning as a hierarchical search with self-verification and replaces linear Chain-of-Thought with a tree-search policy capable of backtracking to correct logical errors. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on hallucination and safety benchmarks. |
Reasoning Over Semantic-Level Graph for Fact Checking (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for fact checking use string concatenation or fusing features of isolated evidence sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose a method suitable for reasoning about the semantic-level structure of evidence . they use graph convolutional network and graph attention network to exploit the structure . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves claim verification accuracy and FEVER score on a benchmark dataset. |
Efficient Transformer Parameter Reuse via Zero-Token Mechanism (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to scaling up parameter counts are impractical for users with limited computational resources. |
| Approach: | They propose a decoupled parameter cycling strategy that employs a head-tail decoupling strategy to decouple the first (head) and last (tail) layers from the parameter cycling process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves superior performance under strict parameter constraints and significantly reduces computational overhead via early exits. |
DoCIA: An Online Document-Level Context Incorporation Agent for Speech Translation (2025.findings-acl)
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Xinglin Lyu, Wei Tang, Yuang Li, Xiaofeng Zhao, Ming Zhu, Junhui Li, Yunfei Lu, Min Zhang, Daimeng Wei, Hao Yang, Min Zhang
| Challenge: | Document-level context is crucial for speech translation due to noise from ASR . incorporating document-level contextual information into ST remains a challenge . |
| Approach: | They develop an online framework that integrates document-level context into machine translation . they use document-based modules to integrate document- level context into ST . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baselines in sentence and discourse metrics . it can correct ASR transcription errors and improve translation performance . |
Towards Benchmarking Situational Awareness of Large Language Models:Comprehensive Benchmark, Evaluation and Analysis (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Situational awareness is crucial for decision-making, anticipating potential issues, and adapting to dynamic circumstances. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark that covers three tiers of situational awareness capabilities . they conduct extensive experiments on advanced LLMs including GPT-4, LLaMA3, Qwen1.5 . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark covers environment perception, situation comprehension and future projection. |
FewNLU: Benchmarking State-of-the-Art Methods for Few-Shot Natural Language Understanding (2022.acl-long)
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Yanan Zheng, Jing Zhou, Yujie Qian, Ming Ding, Chonghua Liao, Li Jian, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Jie Tang, Sebastian Ruder, Zhilin Yang
| Challenge: | Existing evaluation protocols for few-shot natural language understanding (NLU) tasks are inconsistent and hinder fair comparison and measuring progress. |
| Approach: | They propose an evaluation framework that improves previous evaluation procedures in three key aspects, i.e., test performance, dev-test correlation, and stability. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves evaluation procedures in three key aspects, i.e., performance, dev-test correlation, and stability. |
K-Adapter: Infusing Knowledge into Pre-Trained Models with Adapters (2021.findings-acl)
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Ruize Wang, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan, Zhongyu Wei, Xuanjing Huang, Jianshu Ji, Guihong Cao, Daxin Jiang, Ming Zhou
| Challenge: | Existing methods for injecting knowledge into pre-trained models are inconsistent and can flush out knowledge when multiple kinds of knowledge are injected. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that retains the original parameters of pre-trained models fixed and supports the development of versatile knowledge-infused models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework retains the original parameters of the pre-trained model fixed and supports the development of versatile knowledge-infused models. |
Grammar-Based Patches Generation for Automated Program Repair (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Automated program repair (APR) aims to find an automatic solution to program language bugs without human intervention. |
| Approach: | They propose a grammar-based rule-rule model which regards the repair process as the transformation of grammar rules and employs a tree-based self-attention approach to guarantee grammar correctness. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art models on a Java dataset in terms of generated code accuracy. |
Cognitive Graph for Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension at Scale (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | a new framework for multi-hop reading comprehension question answering is needed to cross the chasm of reading comprehension between machine and human. |
| Approach: | They propose a CogQA framework for multi-hop reading comprehension question answering in web-scale documents that builds a cognitive graph in an iterative process by coordinating an implicit extraction module and an explicit reasoning module. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the best competitor in the hotpotQA dataset in F1 . it provides explainable reasoning paths and accurate answers, while giving accurate answers . |
Large Language Models Are Poor Clinical Decision-Makers: A Comprehensive Benchmark (2024.emnlp-main)
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Fenglin Liu, Zheng Li, Hongjian Zhou, Qingyu Yin, Jingfeng Yang, Xianfeng Tang, Chen Luo, Ming Zeng, Haoming Jiang, Yifan Gao, Priyanka Nigam, Sreyashi Nag, Bing Yin, Yining Hua, Xuan Zhou, Omid Rohanian, Anshul Thakur, Lei Clifton, David Clifton
| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on evaluating large language models in close-ended QA tasks, but many clinical decisions involve answering open-ended questions without pre-set options. |
| Approach: | They construct a benchmark to better understand large language models in the clinic . they use existing datasets to evaluate LLMs in clinical situations . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms human experts in multiple medical tasks. |
CodeBERT: A Pre-Trained Model for Programming and Natural Languages (2020.findings-emnlp)
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Zhangyin Feng, Daya Guo, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan, Xiaocheng Feng, Ming Gong, Linjun Shou, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, Daxin Jiang, Ming Zhou
| Challenge: | Large pre-trained models have improved performance on a variety of natural language processing tasks. |
| Approach: | They develop a bimodal pre-trained model for programming language (PL) and natural language (NL) it incorporates a hybrid objective function that detects replaced tokens from generators. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs better on two NL-PL applications by fine-tuning model parameters. |
Semantic Parsing with Syntax- and Table-Aware SQL Generation (P18-1)
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Yibo Sun, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan, Jianshu Ji, Guihong Cao, Xiaocheng Feng, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, Ming Zhou
| Challenge: | Existing approaches generate a SQL query word-by-word but results are incorrect or not executable due to mismatch between question words and table contents. |
| Approach: | They propose a generative model to map natural language questions into SQL queries. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model significantly improves state-of-the-art execution accuracy from 69.0% to 74.4% on a large question- SQL dataset. |
Syntax-Enhanced Pre-trained Model (2021.acl-long)
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Zenan Xu, Daya Guo, Duyu Tang, Qinliang Su, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Wanjun Zhong, Xiaojun Quan, Daxin Jiang, Nan Duan
| Challenge: | Existing methods that use syntax of text in pre-training and fine-tuning suffer from discrepancy between the two stages. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that utilizes the syntactic structure of text in pre-training and fine-tuning stages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art on six public benchmark datasets. |
EmoCaps: Emotion Capsule based Model for Conversational Emotion Recognition (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on ERC focus on context modeling but ignore representation of contextual emotional tendency. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Emoformer to extract multi-modal emotion vectors from different modalities and fuse them with sentence vector to be an emotion capsule. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art models on two benchmark datasets. |
Self-Critique Guided Iterative Reasoning for Multi-hop Question Answering (2025.findings-acl)
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Zheng Chu, Huiming Fan, Jingchang Chen, Qianyu Wang, Mingda Yang, Jiafeng Liang, Zhongjie Wang, Hao Li, Guo Tang, Ming Liu, Bing Qin
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities, but they still face challenges in knowledge-intensive multi-hop reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses self-critique feedback to guide iterative reasoning by enabling iteration and self-evaluation of its intermediate reasoning steps. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method surpasses the previous SOTA by 8.6% on three multi-hop reasoning datasets. |
Coupling Retrieval and Meta-Learning for Context-Dependent Semantic Parsing (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | a context-aware retrieval model and a meta-learning paradigm are used for context-dependent semantic parsing . |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval model and a meta-learner to incorporate retrieved datapoints as context-dependent semantic parsing evidence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach performs better than retrieve-and-edit baselines on CONCODE and CSQA datasets. |
Analytical Reasoning of Text (2022.findings-naacl)
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Wanjun Zhong, Siyuan Wang, Duyu Tang, Zenan Xu, Daya Guo, Yining Chen, Jiahai Wang, Jian Yin, Ming Zhou, Nan Duan
| Challenge: | Existing models with implicit reasoning ability struggle to solve analytical reasoning of text. |
| Approach: | They propose an approach to analyze text and use it to perform reasoning over it. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms pre-trained models on an analysis of the Law School Admission Test dataset. |
Neural Deepfake Detection with Factual Structure of Text (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to deepfake detection typically represent documents with coarse-grained representations, but they struggle to capture factual structures of documents. |
| Approach: | They propose a graph-based model that captures factual structures of documents for deepfake detection. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves strong base models built with RoBERTa on two public deepfake datasets. |
LogicalFactChecker: Leveraging Logical Operations for Fact Checking with Graph Module Network (2020.acl-main)
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Wanjun Zhong, Duyu Tang, Zhangyin Feng, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou, Ming Gong, Linjun Shou, Daxin Jiang, Jiahai Wang, Jian Yin
| Challenge: | Existing methods for fact checking textual statements are not yet available. |
| Approach: | They propose a neural network approach capable of leveraging logical operations for fact checking . they use a textual statement and semi-structured tables to generate a program from it . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on TABFACT dataset . it derives a program (a.k.a. logical form) of the statement in semantic parsing manner . |
SPEAK: Spiking Neurons as an Entropy-Aware Tokenizer for Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing tokenizers fail to explicitly leverage historical tokenization results . large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness across NLP tasks . |
| Approach: | They propose a tokenizer that integrates spiking neurons to explicitly leverage historical tokenization results. |
| Outcome: | The proposed tokenizer leverages historical tokenization results, but does not selectively leverage history based on contextual relevance. |
TAGS: A Test-Time Generalist–Specialist Framework with Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning and Verification (2026.findings-acl)
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Jianghao Wu, Feilong Tang, Yulong Li, Ming Hu, Haochen Xue, Shoaib Jameel, Zongyuan Ge, Yutong Xie, Imran Razzak
| Challenge: | Existing efforts to improve medical question answering performance follow two directions. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that combines a generalist with a domain-specific specialist without any model fine-tuning or parameter updates. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework boosts GPT-4o accuracy by 13.8%, deepseek-R1 by 16.8%, and improves a vanilla 7B model from 14.1% to 23.9%. |
Towards Knowledge-Based Recommender Dialog System (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing frameworks that only provide information about user preferences can be inaccurate in e-commerce recommender systems. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework which integrates the recommender system and dialog generation system by introducing information about users’ preferences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can achieve better performance in both dialog generation and recommendation compared with baselines. |
Cracking the Code of Hallucination in LVLMs with Vision-aware Head Divergence (2025.acl-long)
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Jinghan He, Kuan Zhu, Haiyun Guo, Junfeng Fang, Zhenglin Hua, Yuheng Jia, Ming Tang, Tat-Seng Chua, Jinqiao Wang
| Challenge: | Existing methods focus on alignment training or decoding refinements but address symptoms at the generation stage without probing the underlying causes. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free approach to mitigate hallucination by enhancing the role of vision-aware attention heads. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art approaches in mitigating hallucinations while maintaining high efficiency with negligible additional time overhead. |
Towards Faithful Multi-step Reasoning through Fine-Grained Causal-aware Attribution Reasoning Distillation (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances have witnessed large language models (LLMs) achieving significant milestones across various domains of natural language processing. |
| Approach: | They introduce fine-grained attribution reasoning distillation (FARD) which incorporates grounded citations to consolidate the relationships between reasoning steps. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms CoT distillation methods on mathematical and general reasoning benchmarks. |
Compare to The Knowledge: Graph Neural Fake News Detection with External Knowledge (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for fake news detection rely on linguistic and semantic features from news content and do not exploit external knowledge. |
| Approach: | They propose a graph neural model which compares news to knowledge base through entities for fake news detection. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two benchmark datasets. |
Learning to Collaborate for Question Answering and Asking (N18-1)
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| Challenge: | Question answering (QA) and question generation (QG) are closely related tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a training algorithm that generalizes both Generative Adversarial Network and Generating Domain-Adaptive Nets under the question answering scenario. |
| Outcome: | The proposed training algorithm generalizes both Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and Generating Domain-Adaptive Nets (GDAN) under the question answering scenario. |
Leveraging Declarative Knowledge in Text and First-Order Logic for Fine-Grained Propaganda Detection (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for fine-grained propaganda detection are not based on input-output data, but instead use declarative knowledge to detect propagandistic text fragments. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to inject declarative knowledge of fine-grained propaganda techniques into training data to get better representations of propagandistic texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves superior performance on a large dataset for propaganda detection. |
Measuring Social Norms of Large Language Models (2024.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing datasets that evaluate a general understanding of social science are inadequate to understand social norms. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-agent framework to improve large language models’ ability to understand social norms by comparing them to elementary students. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves large language models to be on par with humans. |
Machine Reasoning: Technology, Dilemma and Future (2020.emnlp-tutorials)
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| Challenge: | Machine reasoning is a field of research that aims to build interpretable AI systems . Symbolic reasoning methods represent knowledge using symbolic logic, perform inference . probabilistic reasoning methods combine probability and symbolic logic into a unified model . |
| Approach: | This tutorial introduces machine reasoning frameworks and aims to define them . it will show how they can be used to build interpretable AI systems . |
| Outcome: | This tutorial aims to show how machine reasoning frameworks perform in real-world scenarios. |