Papers by Wenyue Xu
ProUIE: A Macro-to-Micro Progressive Learning Method for LLM-based Universal Information Extraction (2026.findings-acl)
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Wenda Liu, Song Zhigang, Shuai Nie, Guangyao Liu, Lisung Chen, Binyu Yang, Yaran Chen, Peng Zhou, Hongzhen Wang, Yuchen Liu, Wenyue Hu, Jiaming Xu, Runyu Shi, Ying Huang
| Challenge: | ProUIE improves universal information extraction (UIE) without external information . many LLM-based methods rely on extra schema cues, external resources or complex alignment and verification pipelines . |
| Approach: | They propose a Macro-to-Micro progressive learning approach that improves UIE without external information. |
| Outcome: | ProUIE outperforms instruction-tuned baselines on average for NER and RE while using a smaller backbone. |
UP5: Unbiased Foundation Model for Fairness-aware Recommendation (2024.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) are gaining a foothold in Recommender Systems (RS) but there is growing concern that LLMs perpetuate stereotypes and may result in unfair recommendations. |
| Approach: | They propose a counterfactually-fair-prompt method for LLM-based recommendation that is based on unbiased foundation mOdels. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves better recommendation performance with a high level of fairness on two real-world datasets. |
AdapThink: Adaptive Thinking Preferences for Reasoning Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent research has highlighted a significant inefficiency associated with the slow thinking paradigm . models often overthink simple tasks while underthinking complex challenges . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for adaptive reasoning preference control that dynamically adjusts reflection preferences based on group-level distributional statistics of reasoning length and reflection intensity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces average response length by 17.1%-21.4% while improving performance by 6.12-6.59 points under 32K token budgets. |