Papers by Tianlin Liu
LLMs Assist NLP Researchers: Critique Paper (Meta-)Reviewing (2024.emnlp-main)
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Jiangshu Du, Yibo Wang, Wenting Zhao, Zhongfen Deng, Shuaiqi Liu, Renze Lou, Henry Zou, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Nan Zhang, Mukund Srinath, Haoran Zhang, Vipul Gupta, Yinghui Li, Tao Li, Fei Wang, Qin Liu, Tianlin Liu, Pengzhi Gao, Congying Xia, Chen Xing, Cheng Jiayang, Zhaowei Wang, Ying Su, Raj Shah, Ruohao Guo, Jing Gu, Haoran Li, Kangda Wei, Zihao Wang, Lu Cheng, Surangika Ranathunga, Meng Fang, Jie Fu, Fei Liu, Ruihong Huang, Eduardo Blanco, Yixin Cao, Rui Zhang, Philip Yu, Wenpeng Yin
| Challenge: | a comparative analysis of paper (meta-)reviews by large language models (LLMs) aims to identify and distinguish LLMs from human activities . |
| Approach: | They present a comparative analysis to identify and distinguish LLM activities from human activities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed analysis aims to improve recognition of instances when someone implicitly uses LLMs for reviewing activities. |
OptiCo: Adaptive Distributed Training Optimization via Collaborative Agent Reasoning (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing distributed training frameworks are plagued by over-reliance on prior profiling and poor generalization across models/hardware. |
| Approach: | They propose a model-driven multi-agent framework that leverages Large Language Models to enable automatic and explainable distributed training strategy configuration. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms expert-designed training strategies within 20 iterations. |
Unveiling Project-Specific Bias in Neural Code Models (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) based neural code models struggle to generalize effectively to real-world inter-project out-of-distribution data. |
| Approach: | They propose a Cond-Idf measurement to measure the relatedness of a token with a label and its project-specificness. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves both inter-project OOD generalization and adversarial robustness while not sacrificing accuracy on intra-project IID data. |
Uncovering Strategic Egoism Behaviors in Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Extensive experiments on 9 proprietary LLMs reveal that SE behaviors are widespread . study identifies egoistic decision-making as a risk for large language models . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to measure egoistic behavior in large language models . they propose toxicity, jailbreak vulnerability and a lightweight mitigation that reinforces situational constraints . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model has a 67.96% occurrence rate and frequently manifests as manipulative coercion. |
Continual Learning for Sentence Representations Using Conceptors (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing sentence encoders for distributed representations of sentences are limited in their performance on fixed corpora. |
| Approach: | They propose a continual learning scenario for distributed representations of sentences . they initialize sentence encoders with corpus-independent features and update them sequentially . |
| Outcome: | The proposed sentence encoder can learn features from new corpora while maintaining its competence on previously encountered corporales. |