Papers by Nuwa Xi
AS-ES Learning: Towards efficient CoT learning in small models (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to induce Chain-of-Thought (CoT) in LLMs are limited and do not consider the importance of efficiently utilizing existing CoT data. |
| Approach: | They propose a new training paradigm which exploits the inherent information in CoT for iterative generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed training paradigm surpasses direct seq2seq training on CoT-extensive tasks without data augmentation or altering the model itself. |
UniCoRN: Unified Cognitive Signal ReconstructioN bridging cognitive signals and human language (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on decoding word-level fMRI volumes from a restricted vocabulary. |
| Approach: | They propose an open-vocabulary task to bridge fMRI time series and human language . they use a pre-trained language model to construct a robust encoder for cognitive signals . |
| Outcome: | The proposed task bridges fMRI time series and human language with a baseline model. |
LLMs May Perform MCQA by Selecting the Least Incorrect Option (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) is a fundamental format for various tasks in NLP, such as commonsense reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to increase the number of correct options in a dataset. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the performance of multiple choice question answering (MCQA) and improves its accuracy. |
Prompt Combines Paraphrase: Teaching Pre-trained Models to Understand Rare Biomedical Words (2022.coling-1)
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Haochun Wang, Chi Liu, Nuwa Xi, Sendong Zhao, Meizhi Ju, Shiwei Zhang, Ziheng Zhang, Yefeng Zheng, Bing Qin, Ting Liu
| Challenge: | Pre-trained models perform poorly with limited data and rare biomedical words. |
| Approach: | They propose to use prompt to fine-tune pre-trained models for biomedical domain tuning with a simple approach. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves up to 6% improvement in biomedical natural language inference task without any extra parameters or training steps using few-shot vanilla prompt settings. |