Papers by Minghua Xu

6 papers
UFO: A UI-Focused Agent for Windows OS Interaction (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: UFO is a UI-Fcused agent designed to fulfill user requests tailored to Windows OS applications . it decomposes user requests using divide-and-conquer approach, enabling seamless navigation and addressing sub-tasks across multiple applications.
Approach: They propose a UI-Fcused Windows OS agent that decomposes user requests using a divide-and-conquer approach and incorporates a control interaction module tailored for Windows OS.
Outcome: The proposed agent decomposes user requests using divide-and-conquer approach, enabling seamless navigation and addressing sub-tasks across multiple applications.
Hallucination Detection in Structured Query Generation via LLM Self-Debating (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Hallucination remains a key challenge in applying large language models to structured query generation . we propose the Self-Debating framework to enhance detection performance .
Approach: They propose a framework that prompts an LLM to generate contrastive explanations from opposing perspectives . they also propose 'self-debating' framework to enhance detection performance .
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms LLM-as-a-Judge baselines in hallucination detection . the framework generates contrastive explanations from opposing perspectives .
Everything of Thoughts: Defying the Law of Penrose Triangle for Thought Generation (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have greatly advanced problem solving in diverse domains such as mathematical reasoning and knowledge reasoning.
Approach: They propose a thought prompting approach called 'Everything of Thoughts' it leverages pretrained reinforcement learning and Monte Carlo Tree Search to incorporate external domain knowledge and planning capability into thoughts.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms existing approaches on game of 24, 8-Puzzle, and Pocket Cube.
Enhancing Hyperbolic Knowledge Graph Embeddings via Lorentz Transformations (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing methods for knowledge graph embedding rely on tangent approximation and are not fully hyperbolic.
Approach: They propose a fully hyperbolic KGE method that represents entities as points in the Lorentz model and represents relations as the intrinsic transformation.
Outcome: The proposed method captures various types of relations including hierarchical structures.
Encoding Hierarchical Schema via Concept Flow for Multifaceted Ideology Detection (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Existing studies on ideology detection focus on one generic facet and ignore label semantics and explanatory descriptions of ideologies.
Approach: They propose a concept semantics-enhanced framework for multifaceted ideology detection . it enables concepts to flow across levels of the schema tree and enriches concept representations with multi-granularity semantics.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art in the cross-topic scenario and on the benchmark dataset.
Ideology Takes Multiple Looks: A High-Quality Dataset for Multifaceted Ideology Detection (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing datasets for the ID task only label a text as ideologically left- or right-leaning as a whole, regardless whether the text containing one or more different issues.
Approach: They construct an ideological schema for a multifaceted ideology detection task using MITweet and an English Twitter dataset.
Outcome: The proposed task uses a MITweet dataset with 12,594 English Twitter posts, each annotated with a Relevance and an Ideology label for all twelve facets.

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