Papers by Shuai Xie
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. |
AntiLeakBench: Preventing Data Contamination by Automatically Constructing Benchmarks with Updated Real-World Knowledge (2025.acl-long)
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Xiaobao Wu, Liangming Pan, Yuxi Xie, Ruiwen Zhou, Shuai Zhao, Yubo Ma, Mingzhe Du, Rui Mao, Anh Tuan Luu, William Yang Wang
| Challenge: | Existing studies solve this challenge by updating benchmarks with newly collected data, but they fail to guarantee contamination-free evaluation as the newly collected knowledge may contain pre-existing knowledge. |
| Approach: | They propose an automated anti-leakage benchmarking framework that builds and updates benchmarks without human labor instead of using newly collected data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly reduces the cost of benchmark maintenance to accommodate emerging LLMs. |
GigaSpeech 2: An Evolving, Large-Scale and Multi-domain ASR Corpus for Low-Resource Languages with Automated Crawling, Transcription and Refinement (2025.acl-long)
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Yifan Yang, Zheshu Song, Jianheng Zhuo, Mingyu Cui, Jinpeng Li, Bo Yang, Yexing Du, Ziyang Ma, Xunying Liu, Ziyuan Wang, Ke Li, Shuai Fan, Kai Yu, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Guoguo Chen, Xie Chen
| Challenge: | GigaSpeech 2 is a large-scale, multi-domain, multilingual speech recognition corpus for low-resource languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale, multi-domain, multilingual speech recognition corpus for low-resource languages and an automated pipeline for data crawling, transcription, and label refinement. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus reduces the word error rate for Thai, Indonesian, and Vietnamese on a realistic YouTube test set by 25% to 40% compared to Whisper large-v3. |
Discovering Low-rank Subspaces for Language-agnostic Multilingual Representations (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies show that pre-trained ML-LMs can achieve zero-shot cross-lingual transfer without explicit cross-linguistic supervision. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to remove language-specific factors from multilingual embedding spaces by using a single value decomposition method with multiple monolingual corpora as input. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can boost language agnosticism without finetuning . Empirical results show that it consistently leads to improvements over existing models. |
Soft-Prompting with Graph-of-Thought for Multi-modal Representation Learning (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to learn multi-modal tasks are based on chain-of-thought . however, human thought processes are non-linear and employ dynamic adjustment and updating mechanisms. |
| Approach: | They propose a chain-of-thought technique that adjusts the length of the chain to improve the performance of generated prompts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves multi-modal representation learning in visual, visual, and audio-visual tasks and also has good domain generalization performance due to better reasoning. |
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. |